I watched the video by Bob Proctor about perception on the Six Minutes to Success site. I had heard of or read about the topic before, regarding paradigms and the need to be aware of different points of view and how to change them. And felt I got it and was doing fine. Good presentation! I knew it related well to something I have to do today! I accepted that and found five very different unique points of view which I was not accepting, as I was focused on only one. Wow! What and eye opener!
Later I was going through Bob’s articles and I saw one that caught my attention. “It isn’t easy to make money”. Curious, I opened it and started to read. Very good content about the wrong beliefs regarding making money. The funny thing is, that actually, by the end of the article it seemed easy to make money. “What’s wrong with the title”, I thought. I looked again. Whoa, it’s actually titled “It’s easy to make money”. Alarm bells went off!
I realized how little self-awareness I have on the topic of perception. I’ve prided myself in being a very perceptive person, very open and able to see the bigger picture easily. But here I was, I had a very narrow focus obstructing my ability to see anything else, literally. Going back in time a little, I’d been in a thought pattern of lack and concerned about mounting bills and expenses, and not being able to pull out or get on top. I was trying a couple of new ideas to make more money and it was just not happening. So my perception was being influenced by these thoughts and I read words that weren’t even there. Difficulty and lack were my paradigm, my limiting belief.
How many times I must have done this in my life! I’m happy that I stayed with the article long enough to get a different perspective. I could have just spotted the title I thought I saw, agreed with what I thought I read and moved on. But I stayed, looked at the topic a bit more, and by taking time to read and pay attention to what was being said in the article, my perception changed. What’s more important is, that not only did my perception change regarding the article, but I was made aware of how I was filtering things through and negative, limiting belief, which I believe in turn was affecting the results I was getting, and would have continued getting, had I not made this adjustment.
Life is now great and full of opportunities. I’m looking forward to my day and going into it with a new perception. A new belief. A new paradigm. I know things will be different because I’m not holding on to the limitations I was insisting were so real.
