In my last blog I touched on the idea that developing a "what-if" attitude could open the door to a positive mindset and help begin the journey to realizing your dreams. As I re-read it this morning I stopped on a particular line:
"What if I was wrong about tomorrow?"
What interests me about this line is the absolute certainty with which I've believed in the negative moments of my life. I've literally told myself, "I'll never make $100k a year," "I'll never have that one true loving relationship that I've imagined," and "I'll never become a professional athlete." I was so certain and negative about my future because I was in a rough spot, but what if I was wrong about tomorrow? Each one of those statements represents a dream or goal I've had and when I became certain about my inability to reach them I essentially conceded defeat.
Conceding defeat with this type of clairvoyant certainty is a nail in your coffin; it's giving up on yourself. This type of certainty comes once you knowingly decide to give up on your dream. When is the last time you spoke of a dream with positive certainty rather then wishful possibility?
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
To some extent, I believe in the law of attraction (conceive, believe, achieve). Under this ideology it is impossible to achieve your dreams unless you believe in them...and yourself. If you're certain they will never come to fruition then your certainty of failure becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Perhaps its time to flip the script you've created in your head? Release the fingers wrapped around your neck choking the life from your future. They're your fingers, my friend, no one else's. Each finger is a negative statement about the certainty of your failure or inability, and the ramifications that today's failure voids tomorrow's dreams. What if you are wrong about tomorrow? What if you are on the brink of whatever it is you desire? What harm would come to simply believe in yourself and deny the negative certainty that clouds you? The answer is none. It causes no harm...none.
"I like the scientific spirit--the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine--it always keeps the way beyond open--always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man the chance to try over again after a mistake--after a wrong guess." ~ Walt Whitman
