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Archive for 22/01/2012
Does your Ego rule your World?
22/01/2012 by Ann.
When it comes to new opportunities, which of the following best describes you?
A) I love it – new opportunities mean I can grow my business and/or myself.
B) I consider the options and if it is going to benefit me and then decide.
C) I prefer to stick with what I know.
If you answered ‘C’ you may really be missing out on reaching your goals and achieving a life you love.
Seth Godin has written on his blog about the Lizard Brain, which is really another word for the Ego. The Ego loves to keep you safe and secure and it constantly seeks reassurance. Seth uses a great example of constantly checking for your plane ticket when you leave for the airport, even though you know you have it in your pocket.
The thing is, often new opportunities don’t come with any guaranteed reassurance any more than life does. Just because the sun has risen every day of your life, it doesn’t mean that it will tomorrow. It is highly likely, but, there are never any guarantees and this is where the biggest challenges come for all of us. As children we are reassured by our parents and, as parents, we tell our kids that ‘everything is going to be fine’. We cannot guarantee that: it is a great statement of hope, which is wonderful, but relying on guarantees like this just feeds our Lizard Brain, which constantly questions things.
The Ego is desperate to keep us safe, so doesn’t like change at all: why else do people stay in abusive relationships? The Ego wants to stick with what it knows, because it can deal with that as it has done it in the past. A new future is far more scary for the Ego, even if it means that things could get so much better.
The majority of us are not in abusive relationships, but the Ego is great at keeping us in jobs that we hate and bodies that are ailing because we don’t take time to look after them, and it is easier to sit watching TV than to get up and do some exercise.
The Ego may try to convince you that it has your best interests at heart, but all it wants to do is sabotage new opportunities and stay in a place where it doesn’t feel threatened.
The next time an opportunity comes up for you ignore the Ego and what it is whispering to you and, instead, ask yourself David Neagle’s four questions:
- Is this something I want to be, do or have?
- Will being, doing or having this bring me closer to my goal?
- Is being, doing or having this in line with Universal Law? (More life to all)
- Does being, doing or having this violate the rights of others?
You want to answer ‘Yes’ to the first three questions and ‘No’ to the fourth in order to go ahead.
Use the four questions whenever new opportunities come up and to stop your Ego getting its way and keeping you stuck where you are and see what happens!
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