Are You Held Captive by Your Circumstances?... Learn the 3 Tools in Finding Clarity While Navigating through Your Circumstances!
Robert (Bob) Reish, Award-Winning Exec/Biz Coach and Consultant
Empowering Today’s Leaders: Driving Exponential Growth with Value-Based Ideas and Proven Systems for Enhanced Productivity, Greater Margins, and Work-Life Balance.
"I never thought I would be in the position I am in today!"
"I never thought I would be in the position I am in today!" How often have people uttered these words over the centuries. When a person allows these words to enter their thoughts and exit through their mouths, it could be describing a positive or negative situation. The bottom line is they are in a position in life they never expected to be in.
I recall when I was a young student in school, I had great aspirations. From a young age, I aspired to be a firefighter, police officer, doctor, racecar driver, professional athlete of most popular sports, military commando, and yes even a veterinarian. With every year, circumstance, situation, and what direction life moved me in, I aspired to become something. With passion and excitement, I pursued the latest endeavor. As I know am much older and possibly wiser, I can honestly say, "I never thought I would be in the position I am in today!"
As I have the privilege of doing what I believe I was born to do, when I was in school as a child, I refused to get up in front of a crowd. Stage fright was crippling to the point of accepting the consequence of a 0%. Today, I thrive on the public stage. As a business coach, corporate trainer, and keynote speaker, I spend countless hours speaking my passion. What a turn of events. Who would have ever guessed this would be my passion... NOT ME!
Responding to emotion is a decision we make resulting in unclear, unfocused, and undisciplined movement.
As you read this up to this point, I have no doubt you have returned to your memories of aspirations in your life. The reason people often do not end up in the situation they were originally confident in becoming is because decisions begin with a reaction to an emotional experience, stimulus, or moment. Because of the reaction to the emotion, a journey is often begun without a goal, direction, or purpose. Responding to emotion is a decision we make resulting in unclear, unfocused, and undisciplined movement.
Emotions do not respond to reality, they react to given stimulus.
The key is not to react, but to respond to emotional situations. Emotions do not respond to reality, they react to given stimulus. To illustrate this point is to take yourself back to the movies you watch. Although your logical mind knows the movie is a group of actors portraying a situation based on a prepared script, your emotional mind reacts to the emotional goals designed to cause your reaction of tears, fear, laughter, anger, nostalgic, and many other reactions we will experience.
As we learn to respond to emotional situations, the key is to understand 3 simple actions. These actions will discipline your mind to focus on becoming clear, focused, and disciplined and not unclear, unfocused, and undisciplined.
Let's discuss the 3 tools which will illicit action creating clarity and concise movement in the right direction.
1. Preparing your thoughts before action. Before we act, it is important to understand that actions are a result of our belief system. Actions will always follow the path of what you believe is moral and ethical. When you prepare your thoughts before action, you are responding to a situation and not reacting to the emotion. Knowing your thoughts form your beliefs, your actions will be in align with what you believe.
2. Develop the ability to navigate thoughts. The most effective strategy to navigate thoughts is to develop discipline of result. When you allow your thoughts to guide you down a negative path, your beliefs will follow. Your actions will follow the same path. Discipline your thoughts to remain in the arena that allows you to remain positive. What we think about is what we do. Discipline is doing what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. Being disciplined in your thought life is essential in responding with actions that is in accordance with your goals.
3. Intentional persistence of thought control. Intention removes the arrival of excuses to influence your thoughts and prevents the loss of accountability. Excuses allow you to blame the situation and not hold yourself accountable. Intentional persistence is discipline in action. When persistence is the habit, the probability of excuses infiltrating your thoughts fade away. When a negative thought or excuse enter your mind, your thought process takes it captive and removes it.
Controlling your thoughts allow you to respond with clarity through circumstances.
Controlling your thoughts allow you to respond with clarity through circumstances. You are no longer dependent on allowing your circumstances to control your actions but controlling how you respond to your circumstances. This allows you to rise above them and experience a successful outcome. This is not easy; however, it is simple. It is often said, " Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results." I believe that " Success is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting the same result."
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Business Coach Bob Reish
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Coach Bob Reish is the President and Certified Business Coach of Bob Reish Business Coaching LLC and partnered with FocalPoint Business Coaching International powered by Brian Tracy. He has a wealth of experience in business coaching and corporate training, amassing more than 12,000 hours of coaching and training with over 7,000 professionals and business owners. He is the author of,
“If You Are Selling Cookies, I’m Interested!”
Throughout his career, Coach Bob has established and maintained strong relationships with professionals from a wide variety of companies, including Bankers Life, Farmers Insurance, LegalShield, Holiday Inn, WFG Financial, Realty One Executives, and Edward Jones Financial. The principle that governs his work is when we change the way we think, we will change our world.
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6 年Bob, although I have heard this information before, the concise way you put it, prompted me to print this information out and show my 19 year old son, as well as read it over and over. I didn't learn until 50 that what your thinking, really matters, manifests into what happens outside of your body... so to speak.?? For example, I walked in the house after a long day selling mortgage protection life insurance, the wife asks me if I put two bags of black beans in a pot on the stove, last night. The way she said it, sort of put me on guard, even though I thought at the time, I was doing her a favor.. Turns out when she cooked them up, it was way to much... I didn't know, I never cooked black beans in a pot, I always bought them in the can.? Anyway, she had been stewing over that all day, while I was out working happily, when I walked in the house... no hello, how was your day...... I get blasted for doing what I thought was a good thing. (I told her I put in two bags and had to listen for the next 24 minutes why that wasn't wise and I should have know etc.... I ended up putting my new ear buds in :-)? ?? This point high lights that where you place your mind, (she was thinking about it, most of the day, no doubt.) be it negative or positive, will manifest the energy into your surroundings... (I had just come in from a long meeting with a client that wanted so much more insurance than I originally had even hoped for or considered, I was full of "joy" and anticipation! all that was drained out of me in a matter of minutes. Keep teaching what you teach Bob! We will keep listening!