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Is that really what your  heard?

Years ago, as owner and manager of DAR Tile Company, in a staff meeting, I called attention  to the fact that our new sales goal had not been met.  

When confronted with the responsibility for this deficiency, my Sales Manager blamed the problem on an assumed shortage of production people to do the work. He said he  was afraid of the increase in sales, because he believed our production department couldn't handle the increased volume. 

My Production Manager defended his department with what he considered a logical response. He said it made no sense to hire more people until we had the sales to support the need for additional men. 

So, I called a separate meeting, that day with just the two of them with the intention of convincing them that their doubts and lack of trust in each other was the barrier to the increase we all said we wanted. Pleased with myself that I had given what I considered  an inspired and convincing talk that had each of them shaking their heads in agreement, I closed the meeting.

But then I had second thoughts, and on a hunch, I asked each of them to repeat in their own words exactly what I had just said. I found no similarity in their two very different versions of my meaning.

I walked away from that meeting speechless, shaking my head in dismay and disgust. What I had said to them in that meeting, and what they each heard was so far from what I intended, I might as well have been speaking to the blank walls in that room for all the good my talk did!  

Why hadn't they heard me? Each had heard my talk through a filtering device based on what they each came into the meeting already believing.  

Such is the power of the ego to twist and turn all input to fit our current concept of reality.  Ego takes everything we read, hear or see, and runs it through a filtering process so that the new information looks and feels like what we already believe. It's either that or it rejects the input entirely.

Anything that doesn’t fit the current reality concept of  gets rejected. And therein, lies the problem with my attempt to make a difference in your life.

That's why you may not hear me

If what I’m sharing with you here, each week, were not contrary to what you already believe, it could not possibly make even the slightest difference in the quality of your life, could it? And if you sift everything I tell you through a filtering device, there's no hope that you'll ever be able to use this information to change the quality of your life, is there?

Actually, that's not true! There is hope. You do have the power to choose out of your box at any time, but will you? And if so, when?

Your only real barrier to having the life you want is your very own self-limiting concept of reality. That and your self-concept create the box in which you live. What you want from life that you don't already have is always outside that box, saying “Here I am, come get me!” 

So, if you're unhappy with current circumstances and know you want life to get better, what will it take to get YOU out of that box?

• When that old box becomes so uncomfortable you can no longer stand it

• When you want something outside the box so bad you can taste it

• When your current reality no longer serves you

Until then, you won't be hearing what I have to say because it doesn't fit the current reality concept.

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Article by Darel Rutherford, Permission to reprint this article is hereby granted provided the following contact information is included: darel@richbits.com or http://www.1money-solutions.com/ ========================================
 

 If you're ready to choose out of your box for any of the above reasons, I’m offering to take you by the hand and lead you past that ego resistance to that new life of financial freedom, better health and happier relationships.

That’s what we do in our Online BEING Workshops. The next one starts Oct 14 if you can find the courage to deal with your ego’s powerful intention to keep you in that box.

 You'll find your way out of that box in The Online Being Workshop

If you're fed up with a life of insufficient income, poor health, or unhappy relationships, and are ready to choose a better way to live your life, you'll find the answer to your problem in the BEING Workshop.

If you feel you have a self-worth issue to solve, call me, Darel Rutherford, for a free half-hour consultation. I'd be pleased to set up an appointment to talk with you about your problem and perhaps see if I can set you on the path toward raising the bar on your self-worth so you can have what you want from life.

Call  me toll free between the hours of 6 am and 6pm Mountain Standard Time.  Ph 1 877 884

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