Nonfiction / Self-Help
Date Published: 10-20-2022
Publisher: Success In 100 Pages
You want to make a change. Write a book, make more money, lose that extra weight, whatever…
You vow to yourself that tomorrow you are going to make it happen! This time it will be different.
But tomorrow comes and you don’t get started.
And even if you do get started, some hidden force keeps you from committing to the changes you made.
In short, you sabotage yourself.
In this fast, engaging read, you will learn why you are sabotaging yourself from getting what you want but more importantly, exactly what to do about it.
Excerpt
When I was about 12 years old, my father took me on a two-night
overnight stay in Mexico. He was a commercial pilot for
one of the big airlines and treated me to the trip. The airplane we were on was
a typical commercial jet. To make things even more exciting, I got to sit in
the cockpit.
It was an uneventful flight and so much fun just
sitting in the jump seat staring at the big blue sky and beautiful clouds. It
came time for us to begin our approach. Suddenly, an alarm went off, along with
a computerized female voice I will never forget:
“Pull up, pull up. Terrain ahead, terrain ahead.”
My dad spoke to me calmly but firmly: “JJ, do NOT
speak.”
I sat there, quiet as a mouse. I was at that age
where I believed in my dad so completely, that I wasn’t really scared. He
was larger than life and could fix anything. But still, the alarm would not
turn off.
“PULL UP, PULL UP. TERRAIN AHEAD, TERRAIN AHEAD.”
As I peered out the window of the cockpit at miles of
empty sky before us, it was clear there was nothing ahead—but the plane was on
autopilot—it was a glitch, a malfunction—and they could not shut off the
alarm.
Suddenly, my dad announced: “We are going manual!”
With that, he shut down the computer and he and his
co-pilot flew the plane “old school,” which meant they had complete control of
the aircraft without the computer. My dad had thousands of hours of experience
on every kind of airplane you can think of. He did what we are going to talk
about in the coming sections. He had to turn everything off and find another
way.
The truth is that many of us have been flying on
autopilot for a very long time. We’re in the same patterns, same setpoints,
same thoughts, same flight path, same destination, same unprocessed emotions…
in a way, it’s the same day, over and over. When we try and do something out of
the routine our alarm goes off. It’s a malfunction. It’s a glitch. A false
alarm.
But it goes off nevertheless, and we adhere. The
usual program requires much less energy than the “detour” we
want to take.
Frankly, the original destination was probably picked
a long, long time ago by your 7-to-12-year-old-self, and you have been headed
there ever since.
This includes:
• I’m
not worthy of success
• I’m
not smart enough
• I’ll
never be happy
• I’ll
never fit in
• I’m
not wanted
• I’m
not special
• I
better dim my light—when I shine, I hurt others
• Wanting
money is bad
• I’ll
never be forgiven
• There’s
not enough time
• I’ll
never be organized
• I’m always
late
• I’m
destined for failure
And on and on.
As you dive into this book, you may notice that you
have to reset the autopilot to a destination more desirable—one that your adult
self has decided on. You may find you have to identify and release some of the
unprocessed emotions you never dealt with.
You are going to have to delete those sabotaging
beliefs that are constantly “auto-correcting” your direction. We will have a
look at your setpoints, too. Are you stuck at a certain financial setpoint?
Relationship setpoint? How’s your “having it all” set point?
In the following sections, we will identify the
hidden glitches, including unprocessed emotions, sabotage beliefs, and sabotage
setpoints that might be holding you back and causing difficulties. We are going
to shut it all down and manually bank right, moving with ease towards a new
destination, a destination with intention, a destination of your choosing, a
destination of your dreams.
About the Author
Jennie Potter is a Future-Self Coach for entrepreneurs, speaker, and author of two books.
In addition to having a background as an entrepreneur, Jennie has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, earned a diploma at counseling college, and is a certified John Maxwell coach.
She has invested thousands of hours in reading, coursework, study, and practice in the areas in which she teaches and helps clients today.
Jennie is obsessed with helping people identify and remove the hidden emotional blocks that hold people back from living their best lives. She is passionate about identifying tangible ways to release and move through limiting beliefs, emotions, fear, and negative mindsets. She thrives on helping others achieve through faith, vision, release, manifestation, exploration, and powerful daily habits—empowering others in applying actionable ways to break through, use their God-given gifts and shine fully as the light they were made to be in this world.
She lives on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia with her husband Dave, their kids, and two furbabies.
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