How Curiosity Can Save Us From Sabotaging Our Success
how to stop self sabotaging your success!
Worry and fear can send us around the bend and back to the same spot again if we let it rule our roost.
There is however a simple and highly effective way to help put that fear at bay so you can reclaim your power and blossom.
Fear is usually stimulated by a repetitive inner negative voice. I call that voice Negative Nancy (no offence to any Nancy's out there, it's a lovely name).
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It usually goes something like this:
You're not good enough
What on earth are you doing with your life?
Who the heck do you think you're to go after your dreams?
What's wrong with you, why can't you get it together?
...
Yeah that one.
'Negative Nancy' will quickly get on a rant and won't let up until you've got yourself in such a funk, you don't know left from right... so you distract yourself with Netflix instead.
Well, I have the antidote to old 'Negative Nancy', that not only shifts your worry but lifts your energy and puts you back into flow, so you begin attracting more of what you want.
Let me introduce you to the life lifting technique of positive curiosity!
You see, I'm a bit of an information junkie which is great on one hand as I'm always learning but on the other hand it means I can be overly stimulated and let my thoughts get the better of me aka spiral quickly.
Using positive wonder is one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways to bring yourself back to a place of power and positivity.
It reframes your mental energy and shifts the spiral from going down to going up.
When you begin using it you'll notice the fear subsides and things in your life will begin to flow again. Better yet, once you begin making it a habit, you’ll rewire your brain so fear and worry become less and less, all of the time.
So how does this curiosity cure work? Like all of the best things in life, it's simple.
Let's say you're feeling really nervous about a job interview or maybe you're feeling stressed about your future because you're at a crossroads with your work but don't know what you want to do next.
How you would apply the curiosity technique would be to ask yourself a question of 'what if' + the outcome you desire, for example:
What if, this job interview goes absolutely perfect and I say the exact right thing at the exact right time and it's the best job interview I've ever had in my life?
or
What if this crossroads I'm at right now is in fact the turning point to the best career transition ever, better than I could have imagined?
And so on.
Once you start playing the 'what if' game, it's amazing how your brain will keep following the trajectory you've set. It will keep coming up with awesome 'what ifs' and it will surprise you how it gets more and more creative.
Before you know it, you will have pulled yourself into an entirely new story that is equally as real and possible as that negative one you'd been telling yourself.
Go ahead and try it, see how long you can play the 'what if' game every time you're doubting yourself or worrying about something.
Go on, I dare you :)
What if, this is the most amazing shift in your mindset that you've experienced?
What if, this one simple technique changes your life for the better?
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I'm Anna, a doting fur mama, believer in the Universe and dot connector.
It's my privilege to empower people to rise to the occasion of their lives, by doing what they love with purpose - so they may live an even more meaningful, fulfilling and joyful life.