Reset Yourself When Needed

This is a very useful tool for if you hit a bad stretch that leaves you dumbfounded and confused. Most of your thoughts may be oriented towards keeping you in a position where you are lacking in control. Thoughts like this in such a time do very little to pull you out of the problem. One way to move forward when stuck in this loop is to create a reset point. This is a point where you tell yourself that you are now situated at a new level, and can only work from that level onward.

Is This A Defense Mechanism?

It certainly is, but it is based on a concept that has nothing to do with being a defense mechanism. You are at a point called “now”. Even with whatever has brought you to your current situation at “now”, you are in control of where you go from “now”. You can disregard a mistake you made yesterday, because reliving your mistake is more foolish than having made it in the first place, as you are now adding time lost to the error.

The Battle: You Against Your Habits

The usage of a reset point tends to be propitious after a lull in your activities. If you have been doing something the same way for two weeks, and have been getting disappointed by the lack of results, there are helpful guides out there that will tell you to remain persistent, and there are helpful guides out there that will tell you to start in a new direction. For the first one, it is said that doing the same thing and expecting different results is not reasonable. However, for either persisting or starting in a new direction, you want to make it a choice that you definitively made. It should not be the case that you persist on because you are too lazy to change course, or that you change course because you are too lazy to persist. At that point is the opportunity to look at what you are doing from a distance, and make a decision now. Regardless of the outcome, you will then feel empowered by your taking hold of your habits, as opposed to your habits dragging you along with them.

Who’s In Control?

There is a huge difference between someone that lets a mistake occur, and a person that makes a mistake as part of their larger plan. The person that lets a mistake occur, and continues to go about their day as though it was a part of it to ignore, has that response as a part of their routine. They are victims of mistakes, and when that point is reached, it is time to stand back and become a dominating force in your activities. Successful people don’t see problems. There isn’t anything that can bring a successful person down, because they run the show. If anything goes wrong, it can be attributed to someone who didn’t run the show. Getting to a point of success requires creating a stoppage point when you aren’t running your own show, and then setting a definitive path in a direction.

An Added Note/Diatribe About Successful Individuals

Here is an ancillary list of ways in which successful individuals view events. If you have something that you have let bring you down, remember that successful people wouldn’t do that in any case. This list can put things into perspective for you, to make it likely that you reset and take charge sooner.

-a successful leader of a 350-member group will not have a bad day.

-successful people thrive from tragedy as well, as they can use it for motivation or leverage.

-they love good times, because their success can double during them.

-any social problem that you might think a successful person has is actually a small blip on their radar, and they are probably using it to seem to have more humility.

-a successful person loves their flaws, because they can loudly present their flaws to others to distract them from their successful overtaking of a competitor’s business or a new achievement. A writer that doesn’t write well in English can use that as a tool for years, so that people think he is more innocent or new to English, while he is out-competing other writers in his genre.

-when you see a successful person talking about something new that is bothering them, instead focus your eyes on their main success that is certainly continuing to thrive, and then remember that the item that they say is bothering them is related to another success they want to add to their collection.

-competition makes successful people get even more, and if their product doesn’t do well against others, they will either use that as motivation to work harder, or will tell everyone about their attempt, in order to show that they are hard workers, and then will regroup to attack again.

-if you are in competition with a successful person, waiting for them to fall below your position before taking control will be the longest wait you ever go through, as it will not occur. Successful people are indirectly saying “you can try to catch up to me, but I won’t let that happen.” The only way to pass them is to out-succeed them, and that can be very difficult when they are already ahead and receiving exponential gains.

Use That Information About Successful Individuals To Motivate A Reset

When you have that fire in your mind, there is no occurrence that can actually cause you to fail. If you don’t have that fire yet, standing back from your situation, resetting yourself, and setting yourself as the decider of what you are doing creates that fire.

Vocabulary Used In This Article

propitious – Presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success

“The economic conditions now seem propitious for an enormous further expansion of migration.”

diatribe – Thunderous verbal attack

“This was all she could point to as it related to civic involvement in her unending diatribe about vicious dogs…”

ancillary – Furnishing added support

“In practice, they have been focused mainly on a relatively limited range of ancillary services related to new buildings and their subsequent operation.”

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