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place in your brain, but when you take it
from thought to “Experience” you breathe
air into that thought and create corrosive
rust in your life.
The sixth E stands for “Excuse.” Now that
you’ve decided to continue back to that
negative behavior, you begin to make
excuses for why you can’t be a finisher. You
begin to duck responsibility and blame
everything else. Your circumstances are to
blame. Your upbringing is to blame. Your
past mistakes are the reason. We say things
like “I really have a challenge with school
work” or, “Coach, I was going to get into
shape this off season, but I was just so busy.”
Or, “my family has always had weight issues.”
Do we really need to go through the litany
of excuses that we humans come up with
it? We can’t let our minds get to the place
where we are mired in excuses.
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The seventh E stands for “Enveloped.”
This means that you are completely
covered, surrounded and wrapped in the
excuses you’ve created for yourself. This
is the point where change becomes very
difficult because everywhere you look,
you see a reason why you can’t achieve.
Everywhere you go, you’re reminded of
why you can’t move forward. Every time
you stand up you’re looking for the first
opportunity to sit back down.
Entrance. Entertain. Examine. Enjoy.
Experience. Excuse. Enveloped. These are
the 7 E’s that progress through our minds as
negative thoughts attempt to take hold of
us. In Part 2 of this lesson we are going delve
deeper into the 7 E’s and teach you more
tools that will allow you to take back control
of your thoughts and emotions so that you
can move closer to becoming a finisher and
achieving a trans-formative life.
LESSON 4: PART 2
E TO THE 7 POWER
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In the first part of this lesson we learned
the dangers of negative thoughts. We
learned that it’s inevitable that negative
thoughts will enter our mind, but it’s what
we do with those negative thoughts that
gives them power to set us back, make
us stumble, keep us complacent or even
destroy us. We learned that entertaining and
verbalizing those negative thoughts may
seem inconsequential at first, but can lead to
the gradual deterioration of our will to make
positive change in our lives. There is a phrase
which states, “What you accept, you teach.”
If you accept negative, defeatist thoughts
you will eventually be teaching yourself how
to speak those thoughts and ultimately live
them out. But if you begin to accept
positive, victorious thoughts then you will
be another step closer to becoming the
finisher you want to be.
Today we are going to learn how to use “E to
the 7 Power” to push you toward your goal
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of seeing total transformation.
Just as negative thoughts enter your mind,
so do positive thoughts. But do you entertain
“I can do it” thoughts? Do you speak positive
things to yourself? Instead of thinking, “I’ll
never finish this schoolwork” start thinking
to yourself, “I WILL finish this schoolwork.”
Instead of thinking, “I’m overweight and
out of shape,” start thinking to yourself, “I
WILL lose weight and get in shape.” Instead
of thinking, “I’ll never get ahead in life,”
start applying the motivation formula and
thinking, “Yes, I WILL get ahead in life!” Start
thinking, “Yes, I CAN do the hard work that is
necessary to increase my odds of success!”
Lesson 4: Part 2
“I WILL do the hard work that is necessary
to become a finisher!”
There are lots of books that teach amazing
information about the value of positive
thinking, but they don’t teach you how to
actually transform the way you think. As
you know, even the most optimistic people
struggle with negative thoughts. So how do
champion’s battle and triumph over negative
thinking? They use tools like E to the 7
th
Power. It’s simply a mental formula in which
you use the 7 E’s we talked about in Part 1
of this lesson, to turn positive thoughts into
positive words and ultimately into positive
actions. This is not like the bird analogy, we
talked about in Part 1 of this lesson, that you
want to swat away. This is the bird that you
want to keep and nurture.
The first step is the entrance of the positive
thought you had in lesson one about
breaking the bad habit you’re working on
throughout this Starter Program.
Now entertain and think of your plan and
how you’re going to accomplish it.
Think of the positive results that will come
of this transformation. Now continue to
entertain the positive “I can do it” thoughts
over and over.
Then start examining what life would be
like if you actually moved from this mental
exercise to actually doing this thing. Would
you do better in school? Would you be a
more valuable employee? Might you even
dare to start your own company? Would you
be getting in shape and seeing that person
in the mirror you always wanted to be?
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