The truth becomes the truth when you hear it or say it repeatedly over time. At first, it might not have made sense to you, but since you have heard it again and again, it became true. Could your career be in better shape than you think it's in? Could your beliefs be the reason that you are up at night worrying about what you will do?

I know that some of you believe there are no jobs out there, and many of you will angrily write to tell me why this is true. I know you believe that your company is not making money and you may be the next one to go if you don't turn things around. I know you believe that you have to take a pay cut in order to survive. But just because you believe it, doesn't make it accurate. Or, maybe because your believe it, it became accurate.

I am not saying that changing your thinking will solve all of your problems, but it is a great place to start. You still have to do the work and take the actions necessary to get where you want to go, but at least you will be headed in the right direction with a good attitude. Isn't this better than what you are doing to yourself now?

People ask me how to change their beliefs. The answer is you just do. You get tired of telling yourself that you cannot have what you really want. You realize that if you can say "I CAN'T" then you can just as easily say "I CAN." If everything in life works out for the best (and it usually does), then what you are saying and doing to yourself on a daily basis is a waste of your precious time and energy. And, it is keeping you from focusing on the task at hand, which is going after what you really want to do.

Success really can be that simple. Unless, you don't like simple. Many people are on a never-ending quest for answers. Maybe you have them already; you just need to get out of your own way so you can listen to them.

So, what do you say? You only have one life to live, so it might as well be a life you love!

II. TOP REASONS NOT TO BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY

1. "What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?" ~The Quarterly Review, England, March 1825

2. "The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it....Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient." ~Dr. Alfred Velpeau, 1839, French surgeon

3. "Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean." ~Dr. Dionysus Lardner, 1838, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College, London

4. "[W]hen the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close with it and no more be heard of." ~Erasmus Wilson, 1878, Professor at Oxford University

5. "Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value." ~Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865

6. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." ~Lord Kelvin, 1895, Britisn mathematician and physicist

7. "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little dreaming." ~Lee DeForest, 1926, American radio pioneer

8. "There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." ~Albert Einstein, 1932

9. "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons." ~Popular Mechanics, March 1949

10. "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." ~The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

About the Author: This piece was complied by Susan Dunn, M.A., Clinical Psychology, Momentum Coaching, who can be reached at sdunn@susandunn.cc or at http://www.susandunn.cc The original source is: Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation, by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky.

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