As a critic of personal development as it is done today I’ve come to notice that there is one universal direction that vendors in this industry all move in. They all want to change the way their clients see themselves. In other words, what they think of themselves. Their belief level.
I don’t have a problem with that.
To accomplish this change in thinking the Personal Development (PD) gurus try to give people a boost in the belief department. For a short time it almost always works. But then, just as the client has left the very positive and supportive atmosphere of the counseling room or seminar, it happens.
It starts to fall apart.
I won’t guess at the numbers but I’ll bet the recidivism rate is high. As easily as the self-belief was suggested into existence it’s wings of gossamer break like those of a bird hitting a window. Pumped up for now they go back to their lives. But the hardness of existence is far more real than the fuzzy echoing of affirmations (“you can do it”) they are encouraged to embrace.
Moods can change quickly, like a scoop of fallen hard ice cream on a sidewalk in mid July. Changes and challenges motivate. Often, though not always, the end result is a negative. The fact that external forces can cause a change in a person (for good or for ill) is the weakness that is quietly enjoyed by the whole self-help industry as it pushes its sales past the annual 5 billion dollar mark. In traditional PD customers often become repeat customers. And that means repeat sales.
Question: How is belief established?
Answer: Only two ways.
1) Through argument or
2) Through hard evidence
Let’s look at argument first.
I need to clear something up.
There are two main meanings of the word “argument”. The first means a “verbal fight or altercation”. The second means a “presentation” or an “effort to convince”.
When I refer to word argument I mean the latter not the former. In other words, most personal development materials try to “convince” you of the value of self-belief through a verbal “presentation” delivered live of in a book or other form of media.
But these days it’s just not cutting it. There’s simply too much information running counter to that which they are being taught in motivation class to accept that they should embrace their own self-belief.
Now let’s consider “hard evidence”.
Ever heard the old saying: “I’m from Missouri, You’ve got to show me.”? It was first uttered by a politician (from Missouri of course) by the name of Willard Duncan Vandiver in 1899.
It was meant to mean that Missourians were not that easily hoodwinked. They were said to often demand proof of something before believing in it. Today Missouri is known as the “show me” state. It’s on their road signs and license plates
Believing in something that presents a certain relevant proof of itself in a real embodiment is difficult to counter. After all proof is described as” factual information that verifies a conclusion”. And once it’s presented the conclusion made is inescapable.
That’s the sort of thing that you will find if you were to use the H.E.R.O. Personal Success Discover eMachine.
Proof that you have been successful many times in your past. Proof like this, which is both tactile and visual, can beat out the old methods to build belief in one’s self in a heartbeat.
This is the hard evidence that you need to quickly build an unshakeable mindset backed by a rock-solid belief in yourself.
When it comes to building belief in your self you now have a choice. You can work with the old methods, like affirmations, or you can use H.E.R.O. just once.
As usual it’s all up to you.
More power to you.
…David