Do It Today: Overcome Procrastination, Improve Productivity, and Achieve More Meaningful Things

You can achieve anything (as long as you believe
in it).
What’s something you once believed in but stopped
believing because of fear? I think we’ve all been there. If
you’re not careful, you’ll always stay there.
For me, it wasn’t until two or three years ago that I figured
out belief is an instrument that can help you to achieve your
goals. Somehow I started reading about 
pragmatism
(which
is a way of thinking). And it completely changed my own
way of thinking. I realized that not believing in yourself is
useless. So I 
decided
to believe that I 
could
live the life I
wanted.
Granted, I’m not fully paying the bills by writing yet. I run a
business and do consulting. But I 
do
make some money with
my blog. And that’s pretty good to know for the seventeen-
year-old version of me. Believing in yourself is very simple.
You can do it too. Just understand that belief is an
instrument. That idea is not new or anything. It’s been
around for hundreds of years. People just have different
names for it.
I don’t care how you call it. But guess what happened since
I’ve been using belief as an instrument? Most things I
believed are facts now. And the other stuff I believe will one
day become a fact.
How am I so certain? Because my mind can conceive it. And
if your mind can conceive it, you can achieve it. That’s not a
motivational quote. That’s a fact. Do you believe it?

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Don’t Compete. Create!
If you think that you have to 
compete
for better jobs or
more market share, you’re as wrong as I was. The idea of
competition is engraved in our minds. We believe that we
have to compete for the same jobs with others. If someone
has a job, that means you can’t have the same job. And if a
company has a certain market share, that means you have
to compete with that company to “win” a piece of their
share.
At least, that’s what conventional advice says. It’s also what
I learned in business school. My entire education was based
on 
competing
with other businesses. And almost every
business book that I’ve read, also assumes that business is
competition.
They couldn’t be more wrong. When you assume that you
have to compete with other businesses or people for money,
jobs or attention, you’re engaged in limited thinking.
Instead, we must adopt an abundance mindset. Wallace D.
Wattles, one of the first famed personal development
authors, said it best:
“You get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create,
not to compete for what is already created. You do not have
to take anything away from any one.”
The biggest mistake that conventional business thinkers
make is that they believe supply is limited. But that’s not
always the case. But even if it was the case, it’s harmful to
adopt that mindset. I think that most people, entrepreneurs
and those who are employed, are afraid that someone else
beats them to “it.”

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Right? We fear that we lose our clients, business, contracts,
attention—and that we lose everything we worked so hard
for as a result. But that’s exactly the problem. Fear begets
fear. When you’re afraid that you won’t be able to grow,
what will happen? Exactly, you won’t grow!