“Ask questions. Become curious! Examine your own judgments and try to determine from where they arise. Do you base your opinions on something you saw or heard, are these from your past? Did you learn them from someone? Who else specifically that you know thinks or believes as you do? Who is it that believes these ideas to be true?

Ask Yourself Directed Questions™ Direct your mind to positive things you can think about. Wonder in your mind how it might be better. Look for how you might enjoy the different possibilities. Ask questions that lead you into the behaviors you want to acquire or do more reliably. It is not about answers!! Get this. It’s about the directions you travel. Get this!

How delighted will I be to discover I am able to entertain new ideas that I otherwise might have resisted? In how many ways am I easily and naturally able to stay open and enjoy new ideas? How soon can I begin to enjoy the benefits of keeping an open mind and entertaining new viewpoints? How much fun can I have exploring new ideas?

LEARN TO LIVE LIFE ON YOUR TERMS!

Challenge your own thoughts. Why do this? Because so often we are wrong about what we think and what we think we think. We’re so used to our habitual repetitive thinking we don’t even notice when we are off base or repeating the very patterns and habits that hold us back or keep us down. If you can’t tell, if you can’t notice, You’re held hostage by yourself.

You can boot strap it and challenge your own thoughts. You can ask questions such as who specifically says this is true? What makes it true? How is that possible? How might it be otherwise? Who holds other contrary views? What realistic reasons may they have for holding their point of view?

What might I be missing? Do I know everything about everything? Who died and left me god? In other words, be willing to look for and find other authorities who may have very valid reasons for holding these new ideas. The ideas may be ancient. They may only be new to you OR they may be brand new ideas. Challenge your own infallibility.

LIVE LIFE ON YOUR TERMS: LEARN TO CREATE THE LIFE YOU WANT

This is important. Be willing to be wrong about yourself, others and the world. Also, be willing to be correct. Understand it’s not about right or wrong, it’s about your ability to become aware and transcend that notion. Stop perpetuating the problems to keep you stuck. What is the biggest problem? You repeat the same thought habits without realizing it.

Others can tell but you can’t. Until you discover this you will always have difficulty. Manage your thinking or it manages you. Manage your emotions or they manage you. Renew yourself by the transforming of your mind. Become as a little child. Get curious? Get open. Understand none of us have a monopoly on truth. Stop acting as if you know everything.

Be willing to not know. Become fascinated. Become captivated. Become curious. Delight in the unknown. Realize sometimes your prison is what you think the solution to your problem is. The problem is you think you know what will fix things. Instead of being obstinate about things, realize life is a mystery and it’s okay to not know everything. Let the mystery be a mystery. Let it unfold. Stop forcing. Stop insisting. Instead, be open and celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes