ONE BELIEF TRUMPS ALL

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PART I - SIMPLE APPLICATION 

2 - LIFE IS BELIEFS

What is life


My dad would question it often whilst under the influence. “What is life?” he would say contemplating what it was all about having succeeded, in his mind, in business. My friend Adam and I often used to joke about what life is as I recited my Dad’s question in his thick Indian accent “What is life?”. More precisely “Vhat is life?”. It's such a deep question that it really can't be answered properly as life is simply made up of too many components. But then it hit me.


Whilst I was waking up in the morning the following concept was presented to me:


BAD BELIEFS leads to BAD THOUGHTS leads to BAD FEELINGS leads to BAD ACTIONS leads to BAD RESULTS


and conversely


GOOD BELIEFS leads to GOOD THOUGHTS leads to GOOD FEELINGS leads to GOOD ACTIONS leads to GOOD RESULTS


Just as NIGHT leads to DAY.


I later realised it wasn’t my concept after all. My subconscious had just absorbed what I was reading and watching the days (or maybe years!) before. However I had simplified it and made it much easier for me to understand.


Now if we can agree that all results start with your beliefs then our good and bad results in life are due to the actions taken because of what we felt as a result of what we were thinking due to our beliefs! Good beliefs lead to good results eventually. Bad beliefs lead to bad results eventually. So be VERY careful what you believe as they determine your results. And these results help feed your current beliefs. Self fulfilling philosophy spring to mind?!


Take Joe. A fictional two dimensional character. He is two dimensional for the purpose of explaining this concept. He believes money is easy to make and people don’t like him. So two beliefs.


Now it's safe to say this:


“Money is easy to make” is a GOOD BELIEF and

“people don't like me” is a BAD BELIEF


Agreed? Now what do you think Joe's results will look like? He will probably be comfortable, rich or even wealthy. But he will probably have a small circle of friends or just one good friend or even none. He will believe he is good at making money as he has proved to himself so and people don't like him as he has proved this also.


Now I know we are more than two dimensional people. It's hard to say how many. The psychologists say it's in the thousands but who knows. You will die not knowing all of yours. But this concept shows you how important beliefs are when it comes to results.


But what's even scarier about this concept is that you can look at people you know and the results they have achieved and you can probably guess their beliefs! Whatever you do, I suggest you do NOT point out to a person their bad beliefs. Everyone is on their own journey. They do not need your helping hand.


So do you like spreadsheets? No problem if you don’t as I am going to create one (the only one you need to understand!) for our two dimensional friend Joe right now. Life is a spreadsheet. Take a look:

 

BELIEF

GOOD / BAD

THOUGHT

FEELINGS

ACTIONS

RESULTS

1

Money is easy to make

good

I’m going to smash it

Let’s get going. What do I need to do first

Research competitors to see what they are doing

I’ve spotted what all the competitors are not doing. Next I’m going to properly check no one is doing what I’ve discovered

2

people don't like me

bad

I’m boring, no one will be interested in what I’ve got to say

I want to go home. I will sort my head tomorrow.

Call me a cab!

Home alone.

It’s a domino effect. It starts with the belief and the thoughts, feelings, actions and results manifest like magic. An unstoppable force. In this example the result of “I’ve spotted what all the competitors are not doing” reinforces the belief that “money is easy to make” as Joe has already found a corner of the market which no one is targeting. Also the result of being “home alone” reinforces the belief “people don’t like me” because otherwise he would be out with friends.


In the above example we only have two rows in the above spreadsheet. There are thousands (maybe millions!) of rows in this spreadsheet for a normal human being. Some you will know, most you won’t. For some of the ones you know you won’t even know if it’s good or bad as you haven't fully evaluated the results. Your spreadsheet will be thousands of rows, some fully complete, some partially complete and some with only one entry in it.


So life is about having thousands (maybe millions) of beliefs, thoughts and feelings which we may or may not even know about, generating actions and results that are good and bad for us. Wow. No wonder life is complicated!


Now you may or may not know that spreadsheets are excellent for adding up the contents of a spreadsheet. Now imagine your spreadsheet of your life with the thousands of rows representing the thousands of beliefs you hold to be true.


If you were to sum the contents of all your beliefs, thoughts, feelings, actions and results then this would equal your life.


So take our example character Joe. The sum of all his columns would like this:

 

BELIEF

GOOD / BAD

THOUGHT

FEELINGS

ACTIONS

RESULTS

1

Money is easy to make

good

I’m going to smash it

Let’s get going. What do I need to do first

Research competitors to see what they are doing

I’ve spotted what all the competitors are not doing. Next I’m going to properly check no one is doing what I’ve discovered

2

people don't like me

bad

I’m boring, no one will be interested in what I’ve got to say

I want to go home. I will sort my head tomorrow.

Call me a cab!

Home alone.

YOU

Money is easy to make and people don’t like me.

Good and bad

I’m going to be rich. People don’t like me.

Mixed feelings.

At home working.

Successful but lonely.

I would assert that the:


  • sum of your beliefs equals your subconscious
  • sum of your thoughts equals your consciousness
  • sum of your feelings equals your mood
  • sum of your actions equals what you do day to day
  • sum of your results equals your life


Subconscious + Consciousness + Mood + What You Do + Your Life = YOU


I will explain what your subconscious and consciousness are later on in the book; however all your results have originated from your beliefs. The sum of your results is your life. But all results start with your beliefs. So what you believe is the most important part of your life. Change your beliefs, change your life.


So there we have it. You are a spreadsheet. Life is a spreadsheet. Life is Excel(lent).


Now I hope you can see now what you’re supposed to do with your life. You should be identifying the rows that are bad under the “Good Or Bad” column and either deleting them or changing them to good beliefs.


Well to do that we need to install a new belief. The one belief that trumps all. And this belief has to be where it rightly belongs….row 1. 

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