Yes, I’m still on an Anthony Robbins kick. I’m learning a lot about myself and how my mind works. Even more importantly I’m learning how to fix problems in my brain that exist due to my past false perceptions of reality.
For example; I just realized that I have associated excitement and passion with feeling stupid and making a fool of myself. This evaluation came from my teenage years when if I got excited, my voice cracked. Since I was tall and lanky, getting excited changed my movements and I felt uncoordinated.
This is an incorrect evaluation of the truth. I’m still tall and lanky but I’m confident in my physical coordination and my voice rarely cracks anymore. I sometimes still hold back because of this past association in my brain. Knowing this, I ought to change my evaluations of excitement and passion. I ought to live every day with greater excitement and passion!
Since those days of high school I have adopted a few new rules into my life.
- Looking stupid is FUN and helps me learn new things!
- Telling stories of my past foolishness is funny. It makes me and other people laugh. It helps me to see clearly through my past false perceptions because I now recall the stories in a state of calm and understanding rather than a high emotional state.
I believe that Anthony Robbins is correct when he says, “A superior life is created by superior evaluations.”