Last part of the HGM…. ACTIONS/RESULTS.. can’t live with ‘em can’t live without ‘em
So how do ACTIONS & RESULTS tie into the Holy Grail of Momentum? Well, first let’s recap what I have posted so far…
- The cycle starts with what you BELIEVE in yourself, your company and your success.
- Your belief causes you to set a mental bar of your POTENTIAL. This is where you truly see yourself being successful or unsuccessful.
- Once you see your own POTENTIAL, that gives you permission to ACT and do something.
- Those RESULTS will reinforce your BELIEF, justifying your POTENTIAL, fueling more ACTIONS and causing more RESULTS…. which will reinforce your BELIEF, justifying your POTENTIAL, fueling more ACTIONS and causing more RESULTS…. you get the idea.
Actions and results go hand in hand. Some people say you cannot have actions without reactions, or consequences. Same thing.
A friend of mine has been smoking cigarettes for years. She tried over and over to quit. She has bought the patch, taken the nasty gum, even tried hypnosis. She would quit for a bit then start up. She finally gave up trying… I asked her why and she said “I’m just meant to be a smoker”. What a cop out! “I’m just addicted, nothing I can do about it”. Garbage! If she was completely honest with herself, she would realize that maybe she smokes because she WANTS too, or she doesn’t quit because she believes smoking isn’t that bad for her, perhaps she believes she is too weak to quit and break the habit. Whatever she believes, it fuels her potential. Let’s say she believes she is too weak to stop smoking. But she says she wants to quit. So she goes spends money on the patch, slaps it on. She may even be excited at the possibility of quitting. But because she believes she is too weak, she is cautious to try the patch because doesn’t’ think she has the potential to quit. Her self worth is low, her self esteem is down. She feels weak. She puts on the patch anyways. She walks around the house, she waits for the patch to kick in and work. It works for so many others, why should it not work for her???? She pushes through the first craving, sweating palms, her stomach in knots. She heard it get’s better…. she has hope. She wakes the next day and looks at her patch and go through the pain of cravings again. She tries to work through them. She blames the addiction, she blames the pain, she blames the patch…. then she picks up the cigarettes and lights one up… and declares to herself… “See I tried to quite, the patch didn’t work. See I told you so!” and she reaffirms her true belief, she realized her potential which sets up her actions and have the reactions to be a smoker.
I have another friend whose sister makes 25,000 a month in network marketing selling some travel deal. She makes it look so easy! Sure, he has tried those things in the past but they never worked. His bills are piling up and he just looks at his sister in wonderment… how did she do it? She must be lucky! He believes that network marketing only works for the lucky. He isn’t worth the success since he isn’t one of the lucky ones (his potential)… so why bother joining his sister at Tuesday’s event (the action), and he will just continue doing what he is doing and the bills will continue piling up (the reaction). And because he was unsuccessful and she was lucky, it just reinforces his belief.
These are examples of how the HGM works against you. But what if this powerful law works in your favor?
One day, she sits at the doctors office and he tells her that the years of cigarette smoking has caught up to her. She has the beginning phases of some dreadful disease. She is not shocked, she believed one day it would happen. She goes home. She has a choice to make…. live with it or try to improve her lifestyle and change the predicted outcome. Something snaps inside of her. Something changes. She wants to live, she decides for whatever reason to fight it and change her lifestyle, she believes life is worth more… she is worth more. Just like that. She puts the cigarettes down. She quits. She doesn’t start back up and she is on her way to a healthier lifestyle. A week, a month, a year later, she is still smoke free. She feels great and accomplished. She knew she could do it!
He finally goes to the Tuesday event with his sister. He is scared, honestly that this won’t work either. None of the others did. But how did it work for her? He sits there and looks around, he hears from others that were just like him. They were not “special”…. and he believes. He believes he can make it work, he believes that it wasn’t luck after all. He believes that he can do it… and he believes, honestly, that he can be successful. He leaves that meeting, follows the training, and go on to build a heck of a business. Others are calling him lucky and he smiles because he knows luck had nothing to do with it…he knows it started within… he knows he needed to change his belief first.
So there you go. If you are struggling, check yourself before you blame others. Seek to be honest with your belief first, then go on to change it and set into motion the HGM theory. Remember it is always moving, so wouldn’t you rather have working in your benefit rather than against you?
