This is a common phrase which can be applied to our lives on many different levels. If you want to make a change in any part of your life: physical, mental or spiritual, first you have to get rid of the old. If you attempt to bring in the new before ridding yourself of the old, either there is no room or the two just don’t work together well.
I had a teacher many years ago who used the phrase “the rain barrel is full”. In order for the students to retain the new information she was pumping into us, we had to delete and or re-work some of the information we already had. Past learning and habits, just like everything else, can become old or stale dated. How many of you have used a typewriter? The information and skills for the operation of the typewriter had to be deleted and updated in order to move on to using a computer. If you and I had kept attempting to apply the typewriter habits to the computer we would have frustrated ourselves over and over again. Instead we deleted that programming in our brains and inserted the new. Thank goodness the keyboards are basically the same; at least one piece of the old works well with the new.
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." Dr. Maxwell Maltz
When you develop a new health habit you have to delete your old habits and/or ways of thinking. A personal example comes from when we first adopted a dog. One of my responsibilities was to take the dog for a walk in the morning before I went off to slave camp. A brisk half hour walk first thing in the morning is a great health habit to develop. What did I have to give up in order to be able to do that? First and foremost for me was the idea that "it did not need to be done", because I would much rather have slept in a little bit longer. However, I knew that in order to have a healthy dog she needed to be walked a couple of times per day. That dog Snorkel, is now 11 years old and I have missed very few of the early morning walks. I am very well trained; get up, breakfast smoothie and walk the dogs!!
Your habits predict your future.
When a baby dirties their diaper we do not put on a new one on top of the old one, we take the old dirty one off first, clean up the mess and then put on the new one. In the same way, when you and I are able to recognize our non-productive habits we will have more success developing the new habits. The world has changed in many ways and the speed of change is accelerating. We need to watch our ways of doing and thinking to keep up with the times. Hanging on to old habits and old ways of thinking can be our biggest downfall. Can you imagine what your life would be like if you were still listening to music and motivational information the same way we did in 1930?
People today walk around with their MP3 players in just about every area of life. Four years ago when my husband convinced me that owning and using an iPod would be a benefit in my life I was very skeptical, today I do not go anywhere without my iPod. I thank him for assisting me in realizing that being ablt to have access to all my motivational information everywhere that I go has really changed my life. That one small habit change has enabled me to bombard myself with information about my home based business and take my life to a totally different level. Now I realize that the success mindset that is required to retire a millionaire in two to five years really is possible.
If it was just about information, everyone who is knowledgeable would be a millionaire – are they?
Question to ask yourself: If this was not true what would I really do?
"Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad." Denis Waitley
Your beliefs are simply what you have learned; experience, information and memories, you can learn new information, have different experiences and create more empowering memories. Take action and go for it! I would love to hear how you are “outing the old”, send me an email and share your success stories.
