I\u2019m a Star Wars fan. The original Star wars that is, aka the middle three. Between Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi; I could watch these movies again and again and never get tired of them! They were on TV this weekend, and I couldn\u2019t help but watch a bit.<\/p>\n
I was watching The Empire Strikes Back and there was the scene where Yoda is training Luke and tells him to lift his ship out of the water it\u2019s stuck in and Luke says he can\u2019t. He says that Yoda is asking the impossible of him. When Yoda manages to pull the ship out the water with the power of his mind, Luke says, \u201cI don\u2019t believe it!\u201d and Yoda replies, \u201cThat\u2019s why you fail.\u201d How\u2019s that for food for thought?<\/p>\n
Okay, enough Star Wars for today \ud83d\ude09 I\u2019ve heard Wayne Dyer say that you have to believe it in order to achieve it. I used to think that you had to see it to believe it. It took me a long time to understand that my thoughts are powerful and that I really need to be mindful of where I place my focus. I can\u2019t tell you how many times I have sabotaged myself because I started working on a goal with the expectation that it was never going to work out.<\/p>\n
I used to justify it by telling myself that believing that I would be successful was just setting myself up for disappointment. I was so afraid of failure that I didn\u2019t want to get excited about the possibility of making my goals a reality because I didn\u2019t want to face the heartbreak of it not happening. It took me a long time to realize that worrying about the worst case scenario was just negative goal setting!<\/p>\n
Expecting the worst just brought it to my doorstep. It\u2019s crazy that it took so long for me to change my thinking and start to focus on what I did want and get excited about it! It was my understanding of the power of visualization that made me realize that we have to start off with the belief that we can and WILL make our goals a reality.<\/p>\n
Think about it \u2013 professional athletes don\u2019t make the winning shots by thinking about the fact that they could miss. They are focused on making the shot. I\u2019m sure if you asked, they can already hear the crowds cheering and their teammates celebrating with them. They believe that they can, and they do.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s no coincidence that the cup I\u2019m drinking my lemon tea out of shares the same message \u2013 I believed I could, so I did. <\/em> I saw the mug a couple years ago and knew it had to come home with me! I struggled with this concept of such a long time that I felt like I needed a constant reminder that I have to believe in myself and my abilities if I want to successfully accomplish my goals.<\/p>\n We have to have faith in ourselves and believe that what we want for our lives can <\/em> become a reality if we want to create the life that we want and deserve. \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m a Star Wars fan. The original Star wars that is, aka the middle three. Between Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi; I could watch these movies again and again and never get tired of them! They were on TV this weekend, and I couldn\u2019t help but watch a bit. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52,502,1580,1165,65,609,229,47,1581,487,537,1917,1579,1583,472,94,1582],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughtoftheday","tag-affirmations","tag-embrace-your-destiny","tag-empire-strikes-back","tag-energy","tag-faith","tag-focus","tag-intention","tag-law-of-attraction","tag-luke-skywalker","tag-positive-thinking","tag-sandra-dawes","tag-sandra-dawes-chatha","tag-star-wars","tag-the-power-of-the-force","tag-visualization","tag-wayne-dyer","tag-yoda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}