Negative thought in?
Positive action out.
Now.
Example from my life: I was broke. Paycheck to paycheck life. Economic fear: how would I provide for my family? The kind of thoughts that don’t let you sleep. Despair.
I don’t know how I got the idea (probably someone told me or I read about it somewhere) but this is what I started doing.
I opened up an online savings account, not at my normal bank. Every time I started thinking a negative financial thought I would grab my phone and move $5 from the household checking account to the savings account.
Fear? Take $5 away from the bank account that was the source of fear and put it away, far away. Power. Think of it. This action told my fearful brain that if we could survive today, we could survive with $5 less.
The amount was not the point. The action was the point.
The day came when I moved $50,000 to the savings account. I wasn’t afraid. I wanted to show my brain how much progress I had made.
I live a different life now.