Cancel, Cancel… Those Negative Thoughts

In my last post we talked about Stepping It To Your Goals.  Are you Now Stepping It?  Are you exercising your brain?  If not, read on…. You’ll get more practice below!

Let’s continue exercising with Brain BootCamp!  My key philosophy of Brain BootCamp is that you are in control, 100% control of your own brain.  You can control what you think! What you think matters!  You can stop those negative thoughts, those thoughts that are garbage.  How many of you can relate to thinking that you can’t do something, or thinking that someone will be angry or irritated if you do, or thinking you will be humiliated if you carry out an action?  What about those thoughts that tell you you’re afraid of heights, or that you can’t take a trip because it’s too expensive?

Believe it or not, we ALL have those little negative, nagging thoughts.  How well do you control your thoughts?  I’m here to tell you that it does take practice.  The first step… remember, we’re Stepping It To Our Goal of improving our brains… is to recognize that they occur.   So you begin paying attention, and being conscious.  Begin noticing just what it is that’s going on inside that head of yours.

I went to cold call on a Spa Owner just the other day.  I’m pretty good with people and talking and what happened that day amazed me.  I’m walking down the street to the Spa, turn to walk up a few steps towards the door, and I freeze!  My thoughts were “Oh, they look busy.  There are people congregating around the counter.  I don’t want to interrupt.”  Now if that isn’t a crock of stuff, I don’t know what is!  Those thoughts just came blaring in and I back peddled down the few steps to the safety of the sidewalk.  I shocked myself big time!

Of course they are busy… they are a successful Spa for goodness sake!  Of course there are people at the counter… those would be the customers that make it successful!  Of course I don’t need to interrupt but I can ask for permission to talk with them!  I certainly will be respectful of their time and their business.  Whew… those negative thoughts could have knocked me out of the game.   Can you relate?

So, now you’re probably asking, what can I do?  Well, that is an excellent question!  Here’s a tip… whenever you think of garbage thoughts (and only you know what those negative garbage thoughts are for you personally), say to yourself out loud “Cancel, Cancel!“  This SIMPLE and EASY step trains your brain to disregard the garbage.  Now, how cool is that?   I learned this little tip over 15 years ago and still use it today!  Why not… it works!  Next we’re going to talk a little more about what happens after “Cancel, Cancel” so be sure to practice this step and exercise your brain!

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