Has anyone told you you are lazy? Perhaps you've told yourself that many times. You can use positive affirmations to move yourself past your reluctance or inability to take action. But first, let's look at what might be behind the supposedly laziness.
How Fear Impedes Action
Most people others call lazy actually have deep-seated fears. Some of the most common ones are fear of:
- responsibility
- failure
- success (which often is related to responsibility)
- being different
- being separated from friends and family
Any fear you have is based upon the belief that what you are contemplating doing is unsafe. You acquired these beliefs when you were very young. Almost all of them originated before you were the age of five.
How Not Knowing Impedes Action
Many people appear to have a lack of ambition simply because they don't know what they would like to do with their life. They haven't found their passion yet. They haven't discovered what it is that will motivate them to do something more than they are doing now.
If someone appears to be a dedicated couch potato, you can be sure that if there is a fire they will get moving. Having passion calls for having an activity which ignites the fire within to find a goal and follow through with it.
Usually fear of making the wrong choice interferes with discovering something the person is passionate about. Those who have always been excited about something in life or who have always known what they wanted to do when they were adults have a difficult time understanding anyone who can't find themselves.
How Affirmations Help
People who appear lazy often repeat the same statements, "I don't want to," "I can't," "I'm not interested," or other self-limiting beliefs. Each time a limiting belief is repeated, it reinforces the limitation. When you use positive affirmations, positive statements, you are counteracting the limiting belief. You are also beginning to construct a new pathway in your brain which will open you to different possibilities.
Suggestions to Move You Forward
If you want to change, you have to take action. This begins by changing the messages you give yourself.
Change the "I can't" to "I can." Follow that up with doing something different that you know you can do. It can be as simple as walking around the block.
You might want to replace "I don't want to" with "I want to find out what I enjoy." Follow that with the action of listing three things you enjoy doing. Then repeat to yourself, "I am discovering what I truly want to do with my life."
If the difficulty is that you are afraid, take a deep breath, hold it for a count of four, and then exhale as much as you can. Follow that with the positive affirmation, "I have the necessary courage to overcome my fears."
Jumped Starting the Subconscious
Every time you use a positive statement rather than a limiting one, you are opening your subconscious mind to a different possibility in life. When you use limiting words, your subconscious mind wants to support those words. When you use words opening you to possibility, your subconscious mind wants to support you in that area.
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