Negative Thoughts and Your Business
Its been a few years since I’ve started in the payday loan business, and along the way I’ve met a good bit of people. Now for those who know me personally, you would know that I’m pretty young compared to my own business experience. It hasn’t taken me long, but I started to realize two categories of people - Negatively and Positively inspired people. I know both these categories WELL because I’ve been in both these categories at some point in my life. Its a little embarrassing to admit that I was in the Negative Inspired group for a long time.
The reason why I decided to cover this subject is because in the payday loan business you encounter a lot of these type of people. And why shouldn’t you? You’re in a business where 99% of the time your most loyal customers will end up screwing you over and stealing your money - and that’s the god honest truth to it. Now I was raised in a family where the mind set could be summarized in this thought: “If you want to be successful in your life, you have to be CAREFUL. Never be unprepared for the worst.” Now how negative is that statement? If you were to follow that kind of general ruling through your life, you would be scared to “mess up” and constantly preparing for the worst. With that in mind, I’m going to lay out what I believe is the foundation of Negatively Inspired minds:
- Your scared, worried, or always concerned about messing up, or making mistakes
- You’re ALWAYS preparing exit strategies for everything you do in life - just in case things go sour
- You criticize before you analyze
- You generally don’t trust people in general
- You ask yourself ill relevant questions like: “Why do I always have such bad luck?!”
- On any unlucky event or incident, you only see the negative
- They are always the first to argue and give someone a “piece of their mind”
Met someone like that before? I know I have. Ever notice that awful out of the blue things always happen to them on a continuous basis? Its called Law of Attraction - you always get exactly what you emotionally fixate yourself on. This very basis of functioning was brought to my attention by a great friend of mine named Jerry Ayles. I don’t want to get into too much details on this blog here (because honestly im just procrastinating from working on the new CSR Journal Functionality) but the basic guideline is: If your afraid of failure it will come regardless, but if you dream about success all day that will inevitably come to you as well. Maybe your thinking: “No way. You can’t just get everything you want out of life simply by dreaming it.” Its a valid thought.
To understand how law of attraction works, you have to understand the thought processes at which your brain is cascading when you start to dream about great things. Sure - just dreaming of success alone isn’t going to bring you success, but its what those thoughts invoke you to do. I believe that the brain is like any other organ in your body, it has a function to carry out and it will execute its function regardless of whether or not its good for you. Ask it “Why do I have such bad luck?” and it will answer “Because your just an awful person”. Ask it “How can I build an awesome business” and it will lay out the entire road map to success. Your brain is an organ, and its placed there to not only remember things, and give you personality, but also to help you figure things out - regardless of how worthless the question or problem is. Good questions lead to good answers, good answers lead to good actions, good actions lead to good results. Get it?
Asking yourself positive questions is only one trait of a Positively Inspired person. I’ll list a few more, but honestly im pretty new at this myself so if you have some pearls of wisdom, add to this blog by commenting!
- You plan more for success than you do failure. You have exit strategies, but you always focus on winning
- You could care less about making a mistake. All mistakes can be fixed in due time anyway
- Your open to listening about everything
- When something bad happens, you find ways to exploit it for opportunity
- You always have a positive attitude towards everyone because you know if your negative to anyone you just end up regretting it
Anyways. Id love to hear more from you guys. I frequently moderate a payday loan industry forum as well. Come by it and chat sometime!