As Soon As I can
It’s lethal to any great idea. When I hear my mind state the words “as soon as,” I should place a bet with real money that it will not happen. The proverbial call to the future stays dangling there because I haven’t committed to anything. I am musing at best and providing an excuse at worst.
Lose ten pounds
I literally call this my lose ten pounds strategy. It can also be applied to getting that new job, folding the laundry, breaking up with toxic people and eating healthier. It creates a loop that never has to happen and becomes the basis for failure of other perfectly wonderful changes that should occur.
Speaking Truth to Me
The basis of this continuing saga is my ongoing habit to want more. It includes good scenarios for change and improvement. Unfortunately, it does not take into account how to define the actual procedures to the initial statement that must happen for the next part of the equation. It is not rocket science; it is math. Pure and simple. The formula I am not using is keeping me from having to accomplish anything else. You can’t skip over the work in math.
Using a Calculator
The lowly processor of today that used to be the high-tech machine of the past can help. My mind can identify when it makes these statements of wishful thinking. But it must subtract the future thought and identify the first thing that has to happen and finish that work to start the ball rolling. Actually, the real beauty of the “as soon as” statements is the fact that they provide me with the actual thought of what I really want to do first. Those pronouncements are truthful but you have to understand they have to be done first according to your mind. That’s a true gift.
Are you putting off what you really want to do by hiding it behind something else? Can you pay enough attention to your brain phrases to catch your own devious thoughts? Can you use “as soon as” to help really change something?
