Sometimes the reason we’re trapped in doubts about what’s possible is that we haven’t really dealt with the past. How do you feel about the last year? What went right? What went wrong? It’s only after we learn the lessons from the past year that we can begin to plan something better for the next.

By intentionally listing and considering all of the outcomes you experienced over the previous year, you literally force yourself to confront the recollection of what went well … and perhaps what didn’t go so well. The results you experience from doing this step in learning from the past, occur because when you recollect, you allow yourself to relive some, or maybe all, of the experiences – the elations, the frustrations, the disappointments, the surprises.
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Now if I had a dollar for every time I chose to doubt I could do something, then I would be a millionaire several times over. And this impossibility is the only way I could generate surplus from an attitude of deficiency. The rationale behind ‘doubting success’ as a deficient world view, is due to what it takes to choose doubt.

Doubt essentially is the ‘what if’ question surround what we perceive is a possibility. Our brains represent what our mind thinks, that when tests have been done on what our brain activity looks like when we literally frame a thought of doubt on being successful to achieve a goal we represent as successful, the electrical signals representing our physical thought activity ( our neurology ) become fractured and diluted across a wider region of our frontal lobe.

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