What Does It Say on Your Label?
“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.” - Wayne Dyer
One frustration I’ve had over the past few months has been the image I’ve had of myself and the overall satisfaction-level of the results from my efforts. It has been lacking — partly because of the fear of losing money — partly because of the stresses and time factors involved in relocating geographically — and partly because of not creating sufficient productive time in my business pursuits.
In the past two days I’ve had the wonderful experience of being shown a great book, “Internet Business Manifesto” by Rich Schefren. (This was shown to me by my partner here at TLI, Bentley — Thanks Bentley!) Here’s the link that I got from Bentley … http://www.strategicprofits.com/manifesto/
Anyway, the reading, and rereading of this book has set me on the path to some serious changes.
Then, this morning, I had this wonderful article in my email. The following is reprinted with permission from Kickstart Today by Martin Avis www.kickstartdaily.com
I hope you enjoy it ….
~~~ DBL-R
Each and every one of us goes through life with a big label pinned to our back. We don’t see it, but everyone else does. And the way other people respond and react to us is determined by what they read on that invisible label.
Every action you take in life serves to make certain comments on your label bigger and bolder or smaller and harder to read. It is like having your whole personality laid bare.
But sometimes the words on our labels are not the words we would like the world to judge us by.
How many times have you bristled because somebody has prejudged your responses?
It could be simple things like:
‘I KNOW you won’t do the washing up.’ ‘I KNOW you won’t be polite to my mother.’ ‘I KNOW that you’ll spend more than you earn.’
Or important things like:
‘We KNOW he won’t be up to the job.’ ‘I’m SURE he isn’t trustworthy.’ ‘He NEVER tells the truth.’
None of those things may be true. You may have deserved them once or twice, but on the whole you are not that person. But what matters is what the other person reads on your label, not what you would like them to see.
The more people do see these attributes in you, the more likely you are to live down to them. It is human nature to subconsciously adapt our behavior to make ourselves fit into whatever mold other people establish for us.
And that way leads to mediocrity.
Success, on the other hand, is reached by tearing off the label that has grown on your back and taking control of the pen that writes the new one.
Success is about becoming the person YOU want to be and showing the world that negative images don’t fit you at all.
Everything currently on your label is about the past. Tom Hopkins writes, ‘The past is a bucket of ashes - throw them out instead of trying to reburn them.’
Make your label about who you really are now. And who you intend to become. We all have to have labels, so live UP to your ones. Show the world that you are even better than they think.
If you make a decision right now to change your labels for the better and do one thing every single day to live up to them, success will find you - you’ll never need to go looking again.
