Why would anyone ever close their minds in the first place?
I was talking with a few people the other day about H2MC and was asked, “Why would you want to create something like this? You can’t tell people they can do something you haven’t even done yourself. You’re not rich, so why talk others into thinking they can be”. My answer to them was, “Opportunities are all around us, just because I may not be in the right place to see certain ones, does not mean others aren’t either”. We created H2MC to encourage this option to those that are willing to keep an open mind, to help train them to see what others don’t.
How can you “train” yourself to see opportunities?
You train to see opportunities by asking the right questions of course. Stay away from negativity and doubt. Don’t end your thoughts with statements such as:
I can’t do that. It wasn’t meant to be. It’s impossible. I can’t afford those kinds of things. I don’t have that kind of luck.
Those are close ended statements that leads nowhere. In fact, they bring down any positivity and replace them with more negative thoughts down the line. These are what I would call the lazy mentality. It’s much easier to just say or think these thoughts than to put some efforts into your thinking.
But let me ask this, would you rather be rich than poor if all in your way was some effort?
Why is it most people wake up every morning, bright and early, moaning and dreading the day to come, only to go into work, sit their set given hours, make the employer, which they will most likely never meet, rich? But yet when it comes to placing some effort in the day to help them succeed, they get lazy and push it off?
If effort was what was truly stopping people from being successful, they wouldn’t go into work; they would sleep in, stay at home, go do whatever they wanted. But most people place so much more effort in sustaining their job, doing what they have to, just to make that income, which is just a mere fraction of what their employers actually take home. Yet the difference is the employer is living their life the way they want, all because they put that effort into them self, rather than waste it away each day.
So why is it most of us place more effort to help someone else and then complain they have no time in the day for himself?
Effort is not stopping us from success, if it were; we wouldn’t have placed effort to go to work either. What’s stopping us is how we have trained our mind. We’ve been so accustomed to being an employee, rather than an employer. What stands the two apart is the questions we ask, the way we have trained our minds.
Instead of the previous statements, next time ask yourself questions such as:
How can I get that? What can I do to achieve this? What can I do?
Notice that these are questions rather than statements. It’s because by asking questions, positive ones, allows your mind to think. The more we think of answers, the more we are training our minds to deal with road blocks in our life. When you see something you really like in a store that you can’t afford, instead of saying “I can’t afford this”, or “I guess it’s just not for me”, Ask yourself, “How can I afford this?”. With this simple question, you have removed the option to give up.
Don’t give up!
This works to the keeping an open mind. Once we can train ourselves to be problem solvers, then we allow our eyes to see opportunities. By being trained to ask questions, we will be able to see a need or opportunity around us, and instead of believing that it’s just the way things are, we learn to ask why there is that need in the first place. Our minds will be trained to reject defeat and instead, find a solution, find a way to resolve it. This opens the possibilities that others whom are not trained in the mind for it could see. It opens the ability to think of options and possibilities.
This is the ability of having an open mind. To see what others can’t.
When you can achieve having an open mind, why would you ever want to close it?
