Some say, “Einstein said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
And others say, “He might have said it, but it didn’t originate from him.”
I say, “When do we notice our own pattern of doing the same thing over and over again, with an optimistic attitude and high expectations, and assuming new results, but… per the quote, we garner the same result.”
And are we assuming the result is negative?
And are we saying with our actions that we are insane??
BUT… aren’t those people we look at and idolize masters at “doing the same thing over and over again” and garnering the same result… the result we call ‘SUCCESS’???
They do the same job; the same acting character; the same joke bit; drive the same #3 car to iconic glory… all day everyday, over and over and over again.
So it must be the MINDSET… not necessarily the action of doing something over and over and over again.
How do we learn; adopt; or train our mindset to be one of ‘success’, defined as… “doing the same thing over and over and over again to try and attain the exact same successful results????
My oldest granddaughter will be four years old this spring, and so for awhile now we’ve been helping her to get ready for 4 yr old pre-K classes… and now we are into card games, trying to help her learn how to ‘MATCH’ and ‘PATTERN’ playing games like, ‘Go Fish’ and ‘Old Maid’… I’m old school so I play ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ with her!
After my “Brush With Mortality” recently, and definitely after my paychecks were processed incorrectly, it was evident that if I succumb to an early demise my wife would have a heck of a time making ends meet, even with my life insurance and 401k kicking in.
So I rounded up my Bible, and other business books, that I have acquired over the years, and started knocking the rust off of the part of my brain that is supposed to be thinking about finances and income streams.
That is a lot of rust!
I suffer from what is called “A Poverty Stricken Mindset”… due to my early years and our family being below the poverty line. Think food stamps and government cheese, and you are sent to the store as an 11 year old, and are exposed to shame by the store staff and older customers.
Among other things.
But… I know that. I discovered that mindset during my self healing and self help years, it was one of the first things that came to light.
But… it must not be “fixed” because I have been noticing (a what?) a pattern of behavior, that produces the same result for me.
It has manifested itself to me recently on a couple of house projects.
The “behavior”… I need construction supplies for a project, I go to buy the supplies, BUT what I really need is (what I believe to be) a little too expensive, SO I go with the next size down and figure, “It’s not that big of a job this should be enough.”
Now… the funny thing is… it is enough, to do the very necessary part of the job, but IS NOT enough to do the job to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye, I say, “It works, it’s doing what it’s supposed to do,” but it doesn’t look the best.
My behavior is the same, over and over and over again, and my result is the same, over and over and over again… which is subpar… I wouldn’t do that at work; or at my writing desk; I want to do well… but when it comes to myself, or my wife asking me to fix something, I fall short.
(Here is a “stop and think” note: I never did that with a brake job on my kids, or wife’s, cars… I always purchased good parts, did the work myself, and made sure that they stopped… like… right now!)
(Here’s another “stop and think” note: My vehicles, the ones I drove, were sketchy as all get out, I didn’t fix them until absolutely necessary, and depending how important the part was would determine if I got “good parts” or not… insane?… I know.)
(One more quick one: And with my grand kids… everything is padded, gated, constrained, high quality toys, I don’t even let them play with the dogs too much for crying out loud… and my kids say, “We didn’t get treated like that.”)
So now I think I have a bead on the exact pattern of behavior, and recognize the same result that I’m getting… but HOW TO adopt a new mindset, matching a pattern of success… when sometimes… the money truly, for real, isn’t there?
I recognize I need another income stream… BUT HOW TO go about that is requiring some more rust to be knocked off of the old grey matter to try and figure this out!
What does your mindset, match and pattern after?
What aspect of your life do you keep doing the same thing over and over and over again hoping for different results, but come up with the same ‘negative’ results every time?????
The Emerging Man… writing to ENCOURAGE, EQUIP & ENGAGE!
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