The Master Key to Influence

As the final third of the fall cycle approaches, many of us find ourselves very motivated by our programs and some have even started to voluntarily expand past our initial expectations. Our 10-minute journaling sessions have spilled over into 30 minutes in the blink of an eye. Our 30-minute walk around the neighborhood has sprung into signing up for our first 5K. It’s a great feeling!

However, some of us are finding our program, or certain aspects of it, to be a shlog. What may have begun as a world of exciting possibilities has now become a cage we can’t wait to break free from. This is a dangerous place to be in and puts us in danger of tanking, going into the wilderness, or even being asked to leave the cycle.

Listen to gifted speaker and businessman, Dr. Myron Golden, explain how we can have more faith and overcome the procrastination we may be struggling against.

Key Takeaways

• Procrastination is never the problem; it’s always the symptom of a problem - anxiety
• People are singularly motivated - we only do what we feel like doing
• If you have the right attitude, the facts don’t matter
• When we observe a fact, we frame it and that framing becomes our focus
• All facts have a negative side and a positive side
• How we frame a fact creates a belief and that belief manifests itself as either faith or doubt
• We are constantly manufacturing beliefs about the circumstances going on around us, but it’s our belief about those circumstances that makes us either happy or sad
• Our beliefs and our focus travel into our hearts and create feelings and we act from there
• When our feelings are driven by faith, they create a sense of anticipation
• Anticipation is the energy that we get when the outcome we expect is desirable
• When our feelings are driven by doubt, they create anxiety
• Anxiety is wasting present energy on a future outcome that is undesirable to us
• Anxiety is the thief of our dreams
• Worrying about something makes it happen
• Our feelings send energy to our hands to function
• When driven by anticipation, that energy is called power
• When driven by anxiety, that energy is called powerlessness