T. Harv Eker explains how the mind defaults to fear and worry as a survival mechanism, then tricks you into thinking it is you. This confusion keeps you stuck talking about goals instead of pursuing them. Separating yourself from your fearful thoughts is what actually lets you act.
Your mind is a survival mechanism, that's all. That's its only real function. Its primary function is not to make you successful or peaceful or loving. It's to keep you alive. Because your mind is a survival mechanism. What's its main job? Protection. What's the word? Protection. And that's why you tend to focus on the problems in everything and everyone. In short, your mind is based in problems and fear in all of its forms, including worry and doubt and overwhelm and all feelings of anxiety. Let me just say this right now. Basically all anxiety boils down to fear. I'll repeat it. All anxiety every time you feel a little anxious. It boils down to what? Fear. Your protective mind. Well, it's very good at its job, isn't it? In fact, it's too good. So instead of having a quiet bodyguard available to you if and when you need it, it's constantly on hyper alert. It's like an over worried mother. You know, it might have wonderful intentions, but if you keep listening to it, it will drive you crazy and you'll never do anything. Well, guess what? It gets worse. This over worried bodyguard believes that the only way it can truly protect you, protect you is by fully controlling you. And so to control you, your mind begins to take over your entire life. How? Here it is. By having you believe that it is your life and that you and it are the same. Most people, they have not created that separation. The separation between the fear based voice and themselves. It's always interesting to me that so many people, they will, they talk about making a big difference in the world and in other people's lives. But you know what? That's as far as it goes. They talk about it, but they can't do it. Why? Because to make a real difference, you have to take real action in the real world. And the same goes for success. And you cannot do that if your life is based in fear and your mind is stuck in worry and you constantly have doubts. In short, you just cannot do what you want to do. You cannot have what you want to have. And you cannot live the way you want to live if you cannot conquer yourself and get to a place where that fear based, problem based mind doesn't run you anymore.
