Doubt’s biggest fear
Doubt’s biggest fear is that you might act upon your inner calling.
It’s greatest victory is holding you captive in the comfort of a well-worn recliner, conversations about weather, and familiar TV reruns.
Doubt has its origin in programming received from early childhood. These self-limiting messages grow into beliefs that act as your daily operating system.
Ongoing self-doubt is nourished through a steady diet of negativity. What you read, listen to, and watch is often filled with scandal, death, and destruction. Continue to ingest this programming and you operate from distorted beliefs.
It’s virtually impossible to imagine yourself in terms of your highest calling with thoughts flooded by an endless barrage of negativity and hopelessness.
There’s good news. As an adult, you’re in charge of the messages you consume. Instead of enabling doubt by programming your belief system with negativity, opt into optimism.
You are the gatekeeper of the information you ingest and the thoughts you embrace.
When first learning how to do this, I listened to Earl Nightingale’s, The Strangest Secret on repeat to help release negativity in my thought life.
Give it a listen.
Here are some phrases that have stuck with me through the years:
“We become what we think about.” Earl Nightingale
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind.” William James
“If you think in negative terms, you will get negative results, if you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results. That is a simple fact.” Norman Vincent Peal
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by failing to attempt.” William Shakespeare
“Every one of us is the sum total of our thoughts. We are where we are because that’s exactly where we really want to be. Each of us lives off the fruit of our thoughts. We are guided by our minds.” Earl Nightingale
“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things…and the God of peace will be with you.” Philippians 3:8-9
“If your view is basic badness, you see it wherever you go. If your view is basic goodness, you see it wherever you go.” Pema Chodron