B. Identity or Self Image
Once a criminal, always a criminal. Once a loser, always a loser. Once a success, always a success. Once we get to be something or somebody, we seem to get stuck there. I’ve read a million “skinny” books and I’m still fat. I know exactly what to do to be skinny, but I can’t get myself to do it or at least not for very long. I get myself skinny, then gain all the weight back. The studies show most people gain it all back and some more. It’s like the diets makes us even fatter, a...
Our beliefs, about the world and about ourselves, control what habit machine we can build and what our habit machine will be allowed to do. Our beliefs are our “truths”. Truths move to new truths through marketing and sales (scary). But, whatever the belief about the world or our Identity (belief about self), our habit machine must fall in line and is governed by them. The question then: Does that leave us helpless or do we still have power? Is the truth, the truth or is there something...
If you believe (think) you can, you can, If you believe (think) you can’t, you can’t. Why stop there? Why leave it up to chance! Sell yourself that you can! Get the Marketing & Sales habit machinery! A Mom bakes the greatest cookies as they are packed with love. Let me tell you every Mom I’ve known believes that! Or I just love cookies! No, they bake the cookies and their machines know what makes the cookies good and they focus on that. When they do that special “Mom” cookie stuff...