- "What if I can NOT make it work?"
- "What if I can NOT afford it?"
- "What if people do NOT like it?"
And so we never even get started, because we tie ourselves up with these NOT's. The more we pick at our NOT's, the tighter they bind us until, like the legendary Gordian Knot, they seem impossible to figure out and untie.
In that legend, Alexander the Great came along and showed us a simple solution. He drew his sword and slashed through the Gordian Knot in an instant. You can free yourself from your NOT's in the same simple way.
First, rephrase any nagging doubt that keeps bugging you, so that it includes the word NOT. For example, "What if people laugh at me?" could become, "What if people do NOT understand?" or "What if people do NOT agree with me?" Then simply slash the word NOT from the sentence, and keep asking the new question, over and over:
- "What if people DO agree with me?"
- "What if I CAN make it work?"
- "What if I CAN afford it?"
- "What if people DO like it?"
Keep asking yourself your new questions and it soon becomes a "no-brainer". You'll probably find that by the end of the day you have happily completed the thing you had been putting off for maybe months. At the very least, you will have taken a first step towards it. A first step will often put you right in the middle of things, and following through from there will be no problem.
This is also a good way of dealing with "nay sayers" who seem to delight in doing your negative nagging for you. You know them, those "armchair experts" who immediately piss on your parade, whatever you say. Next time they scoff, "What if your plan goes all wrong?" simply throw it back to them, "What if it works out perfectly?"
Leave them to ponder and procrastinate over their own problems. Like Alexander, you can instantly free yourself from their NOT's, and go on to achieve great things.