A successful Entrepreneur shared his story about how a mistake changed his behavior and led him to a totally different destiny.
He was failing out of High School by his junior year when a friend convinced him to take the SAT.
The best you can achieve on this test is a score of 1600, and this young man scored 1480!
Everyone, including his Mom, thought he cheated, but he swore that he did not.
This junior in High School started to believe he was Smart, and he changed his behavior and started doing things that the smart kids were doing.
He went to class, studied, asked questions, did extra credit, and even changed who he was hanging around with.
These changes in his behavior led him to college, an advanced degree at an Ivy League college, to finally becoming a hugely successful entrepreneur.
If this were the end of the story, it would still be an excellent lesson for all of us.
Twelve years after getting 1480 on the SAT score, he received a letter stating they had done a review and found he was given the wrong SAT score.
His actual score was 740, NOT 1480.
The high score that was sent to him by mistake did NOT change his feelings that he was not smart.
His BEHAVIOR changed his FEELINGS because Motion Creates Emotion!
Once he started Acting like he was smart, it changed how he FELT about himself.
Behavior change can be extremely difficult.
You Must Act to create the Feelings you want.
Most of us have it backward. We wait for the Feeling to decide to take action.
Motion Creates Emotion.
This means that instead of waiting to feel a certain way before acting, you can ACT as a way of creating that feeling.
Motion Creates Emotion
Your behavior has a direct impact on your feelings. When you do something, you feel different for having done it.
Simply taking action CREATES the feeling you thought you needed to act in the first place.
You can Change Your Lazy, Depressed, Frustrating, and Discontent Feelings by drastically changing your actions right now!
Motion Creates Emotion.
Any action, even wrong action, is better than no action!
Stop waiting for your Feelings to line up with your Goals.
Ask yourself this question every time you face not wanting to what needs to be done:
What Would Future Me Do?
Now do it.
Find Your Passion…Find Your Life!