The Devils' Wedge

Daily Success Motivation & Positive Thinking

In an old fable called The Devil's Best Tool, the Devil is going out of business and selling off his trade tools. As the story goes, the highest priced tool was a worn out and harmless-looking wedge. The Devil's response to questions about why this wedge was of such higher price was to say that it was his most powerful tool of all and he called it the wedge of doubt. The Devil related that when all of his other tools failed him, he could always rely on doubt and discouragement to break the heart and will of a person. The truth of the fable is that we should never underestimate or undervalue the powerful influence of doubt in keeping us from becoming your very best.

Doubt Your Doubts
Franklin Delano Roosevelt said:

"The only limit of our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

Doubt is a dream stealer or dream killer. It starts out small and appears rational. And that is the insidious nature of doubt. I appears to be a friend with your best interest at hand. It uses fear as it's companion with claims that it only wants to protect you and keep you safe from failure and change. Doubt speaks to your weaknesses and it desires to educate you on how to build up strong weaknesses. Doubt never plays up your strengths while seeking to keep you in the safe zone at all times. Doubt also desires that you think short about your abilities or your possibilities or both. To convince you of why you either cannot do something or cannot achieve something, your doubt will make a case of your past and present failures as the basis for why you cannot change or should not change.

The good news is that doubt is simple conditioning. If doubt is the Devil's wedge then it is simply a matter of disallowing a single wedge of doubt to take up residence in your mind. The longer you consider your doubt the more real your doubt becomes. What you focus on most of the time ultimately becomes your reality. You literally begin to build up confidence and belief in doubt. So it's now time for you to doubt your doubts.

The trick with positive thinking is understanding that you don't have to own every thought that enters your mind. So when doubt rears its ugly head with suggestions of what you can't do, just doubt that it's true. For every doubt that enters your mind, determine to doubt that doubt. Say to yourself that I doubt that it's true that I cannot change. Say to yourself that I doubt that it's true that I cannot win! Then focus on the opposite of your doubt which is belief!

Belief Delivers Success To The Bold In Thought
Let me tell you now that building belief is a deliberate effort. Everything you want is on the other side of fear. No one escapes facing fear, doubt and unbelief about something that hasn't been tried by them before. We all don't experience doubt to the same degree about the same things be we all must at some point make the leap.

You have to make a conscious decision to believe in yourself and in your possibilities and then take specific action. The only way to fully silence doubt and inner critic is through action. Action produces experience and experience produces confidence. Confidence trumps doubt. The absence of doubt yields belief.

The is very important because how you start plays a big part in how you finish. For example, if you start out thinking BIG then you are setting yourself up for big results and big wins. If you start out thinking small then you can only expect small results and small wins. You have to be BOLD and audacious. You have to think big even if you've never seen what you want to accomplish done by anyone else. Even if you don't have anyone to support you. Even if you have a habit of thinking that you cannot achieve a single thing. You can change your life if you believe you can.

Life favors the bold! Be crazy enough to believe and you will achieve. You will find that all that you need to achieve will come to you when you choose to believe...and take action. The support, love and results are just within your reach. There is a quote from Mike Murdock that says that God places the grapes within our reach and not within our grasp." The realization is that it is your duty to reach for your best life now. You must stretch yourself and grow into greatness. You must develop your mind and take ownership of your life. You must unleash our greatness.

You are one thought away from change, one idea away from breakthrough! Your life is what you think of it. If you think you can...you will. When you start out with big belief and big thinking, you will take big action yeilding big satisfying results. You will begin to think that the world is conspiring to do you good all the time. You will establish the habit of thinking the best about yourself all of the time.

I believe in the power of YOU. Do me a favor will you? Always, always doubt that you will fail at your goals and believe that you can do, be and have all of your hearts desires.

© 2005 T. L. Pakii Pierce - Upgrade Your Mind
The Mindset Motivator
"Think Well & Finish Strong!"
Daily Success Motivation and Positive Thinking for Powerful Life Change

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