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Jim Murphy
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May 12 - June 5, 2025
There’s just one way to radically change your behavior: radically change your environment.
We’ve all been able to reject some desires because they were out of the question in relation to our values.
“Those dominated by the ego believe their feelings must be satisfied.”
Jim Carrey said he wishes everyone could become rich and famous and have everything they could ever want so they’d see it’s not going to make them happy.
How you feel comes almost entirely from what you think.
you choose which moments of life have meaning and how meaningful they are.
It’s these thoughts, and how they get directed, that determine the course of your life.
The main element on which the success of that kick hinges is your belief about your abilities and whether or not you’re the type of person who—in this case—kicks game-winning field goals in Super Bowls. Which type of person are you?
It’s not about what you deserve, it’s about what you believe, and I believe in love. —Wonder Woman,
never finding out how good they could be if they challenged their limiting belief.
you can unlearn what you learned. (Chapter 9 will show you how.)
homeostasis—the effort of the subconscious mind to maintain a certain level of skill or achievement, whatever the individual believes is right for him or her.
beliefs are created by everything you think, say and feel, but especially what you feel.
Speak the truth about the past to create possibilities in the future.
what’s most important is to see and feel your goals and dreams every day, even if for only a second.
Snap yourself back to the present.
What’s really powerful is to learn how to change your state (as discussed in Chapter 6) so you’re not controlled by your emotions. Then you can stay on course to achieve your goals and dreams, continuing to expand what you believe is possible.
Affirmations are statements about yourself regarding how you’d like to be in the future, as if it were true today.
You don’t have to believe your affirmation when you begin.
The reason you are affirming it is to make it into a part of your consciousness, and this effort requires a planned attack, working on it daily, just as if you were training your body.
Something incredible is happening.
I’m here to serve, not be served.
act as if you are.
In order to expand your beliefs, it’s important to make sure your goals and dreams align with your true self
“act as if” they believe they could become caring, productive citizens.
take responsibility for their actions.
The reality you create in your mind is all that matters, in performance and in your daily life.
Your beliefs come from your repeated thoughts and feelings;
Learning to recognize negative thoughts and immediately replacing them with what’s true and possible is a powerful way to help change your beliefs.
Get out of your head—and into your heart—and soul. Focus on your routines and only what you can control. Be grateful. Focus on a mantra. Ruthlessly eliminate hurry.
To be fully present is to have a mind that is not thinking about the past or future.
To be fully present is to reach a higher level of consciousness, a more powerful vibration of energy.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or in defeat.
what could I remove from my life to make my life simpler.
surrendering control is the key to gaining control.
the mind can process only one thought at a time.
You can’t be anxious and grateful at the same time.
Gratitude is next to love, wisdom, and courage,
entitlement is next to anxiety, self-consciousness, and fear.
The more grateful you are, the more beauty you will find.
We cannot control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to it and how we perceive the situation.
Humility sees more of the big picture,
The mantra took his mind off what could go wrong and the enormity of the situation, and onto a positive thought.
You are far more powerful than you think you are. Get out of your head. Stop analyzing and judging. Your conscious mind doesn’t know what’s possible in your life.
hurry sickness
It’s a behavior pattern characterized by continual rushing and anxiousness; it’s the feeling of being chronically short of time, always trying to get ahead, and getting flustered when encountering any kind of delay. Sound familiar?
Hurrying comes from the belief that you are going to miss out somehow if you don’t scramble. It shows a lack of faith.
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”
you need to take time-outs in your life in order to be present.
ideally every ninety minutes throughout the day, and one full day every seven days—no work, projects, shopping, or anything on the to-do list. And one full year every seven years (I’m overdue).
