Conquer This, and Conquer Anything

I’m a big fan of quotes. 

Maybe it’s the writer in me, but I appreciate when a complex idea can be simplified into a sentence or two. I came across a great one recently, and I’d like to share it with you.

“A woman asked me, ‘What are the blocks to my happiness?’ I said, ‘The belief that you have blocks.’” –Wayne Dyer

Your mind is an incredible thing. Inside your head is an infinite expanse of curiosity, exploration, fantasies and, above all, control. We only have to look at the success of the placebo effect to understand that our minds are insanely powerful, changing our attitudes and even our bodies without much effort at all. 

The powerhouse of humanity.

And yet so many people ignore this power, or worse, use it against themselves.

They create beliefs, or make up stories, about themselves and the world around them that have no basis in fact and reality, and then refuse to let those beliefs go, despite any evidence to the contrary. As if they would rather stay miserable, due to their own hell they’ve created, than have their beliefs be proven wrong.

For example, say Jane has a belief that she’s not very smart. 

Maybe someone in her childhood told her this, and she clung to the opinion (a harsh and heartless one) as truth. She grows up believing she isn’t very smart, and so she doesn’t do well in school. Until she hits college and begins taking courses she’s really interested in, and begins to excel. Even then, she chocks this up to “luck” or that her professors are changing her grades because they “feel bad” for her. And so Jane, who in reality is a smart, bright girl, even in the face of success, still finds a way to push herself down, all because she has a belief that she isn’t smart.

Drop the beliefs, and start harnessing the power of your mind for your own benefit. Reset your mindset, and what are you left with? A world that is far more open, welcoming, and unintimidating than you’ve ever seen it before.

There are no blocks.

Nothing says, “No, that’s not how it works. That’s not what you do. That’s not who you are.” Instead, it’s all just, “Sure, why not?”

Want to start your own business? Sure, why not? Want to lose some weight? Nothing is stopping you. Even smaller things, like just striking up a conversation with someone you may have previously “believed” to not like you, or be above you, are entirely possible now that you’ve torn down your own barriers.

Conquer your own mind, and you can conquer anything. 

Lift. Eat. Love. Repeat.

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