Great Thinking

Our bodies actually have a mind of their own.
Recently I have been working with a Personal fitness trainer and it became screamingly obvious to me that our bodies are very good at giving us messages that we respond to without questioning them.
The result of responding to these signals and not questioning them is that we become essentially efficient at being lazy!
Our heart rate begins to increase and the muscles begin to feel worked and all the messages we are receiving is to STOP!
STOP running, stop expending energy, stop pushing our self past what we know as our 'comfortable'.
So, what pushes us past our "comfortable"?
Why push past our comfortable? 
What is beyond our "comfortable"?
It is our vision for what we wish to achieve!
It is our wishes, our dreams, our Goals.

Pushing beyond our "comfortable" is harder, tougher, requiring far more effort than we expect it is going to take.  So we set off to lose weight or start a business or learn a new skill or to grow and improve in all sorts of ways and when our experience is equal to our heart rate increasing or our muscles burning....

We have 2 choices...
 
So ...
1.  Take the full leap
or
2.  Take a half a leap and land in the canyon.  The canyon is known as the "valley of excuses".

Let's face it, finding all sorts or excuses for not pushing past the pain barrier and pushing our self past our 'comfortable' is less indignant than admitting defeat or worse, acknowledging that we slacked our way back to where we started.

We have our own power to achieve our own happiness.
Let's say you have power equalling 10 points. 
10 points of personal power to use to create things in your life that you desire.
For everything external from you that you blame for your lack of happiness or lack of self success you lose a point of your personal power.
You actually give your personal power to the very thing you place blame on and make it more powerful.  You feed it when you blame it.
You give your power away with lame excuses and ineffective blaming.

1. I didn't want to have children - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
2. I have never been give the opportunities other people have - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
3. My partner makes me feel incapable - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
4. I am too tired to do anything extra - Lost one of your point and gave it to that excuse
5. I had a poor upbringing - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
6. The government aren't supporting me properly - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
7. Nobody showed me how to do it - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
8. This system doesn't work - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
9. I've had no training - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
10. I don't look as good as X - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
11. I have never been trained - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse

The good news is, you can take points back from the blame you initially gave it away to.  Just decide you are going to take full responsibility of finding ways and acting on those ways to achieve what you would like to achieve.  If you got trapped in a sinking vessel you are going to instinctively find every way to get to air rather than relax and sit back
wasting time blaming what sank the ship for not preparing you for this situation.  You immediately use every thinking
mechanism to establish ways to fulfil your needs, which in this case is air.

In the sinking boat situation the threat of death is very proximate and evident by giving your power away to blame.
In most of our cases, it is more like a slow deterioration leading to death when we allow blame to get in the way of our true happiness and our true potential.