Vishen Lakhiani breaks down how your beliefs shape your reaction to failure, which changes your actions and results. Negative beliefs create a downward spiral; positive ones create an upward spiral. The shift happens when you consciously choose and rewire what you believe.
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Ask yourself, have you mostly been spiraling up or have you been spiraling down? And you can't do this from judgment. You must do this from awareness, from curiosity, and it's from this curious self reflection that you'll be able to shift this. People are missing this very important piece which changes everything, and that is rewiring their belief system. Just imagine that you're skiing for the very first time and you head up the mountain. And as you do, you get a call from your friend. And your friend says, what are you doing? You say, you know what? I'm excited. I'm going skiing for the first time. And your friend says, oh, you know, I tried skiing. It's really, really, really hard. I hurt myself a lot. Be careful. And already from hearing this information, your belief system, if you're unconscious to it, starts going, oh, no, skiing is hard. I might not be good at it. It's going to take a lot of work. So you start heading up the mountain, you start trying to ski. You fall over like everyone does when they first start learning how to ski. You fall over. And then your belief system goes, oh, yeah, this is hard. I'm not good at this. So your beliefs drop, which shifts the action that you take, which spirals your result down. And all of a sudden you start going in this downward spiral. You start spiraling down with your manifestations. I want you to think about this. If you started off differently, let's say you're heading up the mountain and you're telling yourself, okay, you know what? I'm going to choose to believe that skiing is easy. I'm going to choose to believe that actually I'm going to be really, really, really good at skiing. I'm going to choose to believe that. I'm going to pick this up fast. You go on with that mindset and that belief system, and you start taking action and you fall over. But you say, oh, it's okay, everyone falls over in the beginning. Let me get up. That was my first fall. Let me try again. I know I'm going to be good at this one day. And your results start to shift. Now all of a sudden, what happens is with the manifestation spiral, your manifestations are spiraling up, your results are spiraling up. Your belief system gets stronger and stronger. And then from this place, you start shifting the action that you're taking. The frequency of the action is from a different place. And then from this place, your results start to shift. So what happens to most people is because they're unaware of this formula, they're unaware of the ultimate manifestation success formula. They're constantly in a downward spiral with their manifestations. And even if they're taking action, and even if they're trying really hard, they end up spiraling down. Now, this requires a choice point. Are you going to be someone that spirals up or are you going to be someone that spirals down in your life? And it's as simple as choosing. You know what? I'm going to work on my belief system and allow that to positively affect the action that I take and allow that to positively affect my results, which means I get some good results, which means my belief automatically goes stronger, which means I start getting better and better results and everything keeps spiraling. Who do you now get to be? Are you someone who spirals up with your manifestations or are you going to be someone that spirals down? This starts with a conscious choice. This is an invitation to make your choice. Sam.
