Practice #23 - Don't Get Caught in the Transurfing Trap

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,800 For the longest time, I thought that the way you see success is to impeccably follow the 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,720 principles of Transurfing. 3 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:20,000 And I haven't studied Transurfing in a few months now, but if I remember correctly, my 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,440 interpretation of it at the time was the majority of the progress that you're going to make 5 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,520 towards your goal is all mental. 6 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:36,720 And yes, there are some truths to that in my opinion, but from my standpoint, where 7 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:42,760 I'm at right now, not really having achieved much, I really believe that it's the action 8 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:52,160 that you take in the physical world that is really going to get you towards your goals. 9 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:58,440 And for the longest time, I would just practice the Transurfing principles impeccably, or at 10 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,400 least that's what I thought at the time. 11 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:04,760 And maybe in the future, when I read the book again, I realized that I've been wrong this 12 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:09,120 whole time and that I just completely misinterpreted the book. 13 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,640 But the point is that I got caught into the Transurfing trap. 14 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:20,480 I thought that all that I had to do was make sure that my mental was perfectly clear. 15 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:25,960 And in hindsight, maybe that was all I had to do because I realized that if you change 16 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:29,520 your thoughts, then eventually action will come later, which is what happened. 17 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:36,720 I spent a long time concentrating on my thoughts and I spent many months really just focusing 18 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,320 on improving my thoughts. 19 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:42,300 And then eventually I did start taking action. 20 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:47,320 So maybe that was a required step and maybe I'm getting it wrong this whole time. 21 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:53,200 But I really think that in order to actually see success, you must take action. 22 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,840 And action will be the main thing that will get you towards your goal. 23 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:05,240 And the kind of booster to that, the boost, the thing that will help push you along is 24 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,040 the mental thought control. 25 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:15,200 Because in Napoleon Hill's The Law of Success in 16 Lesson, one of the laws of success was 26 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:21,240 self-control, which self-control, as Napoleon Hill said, is solely a matter of thought control. 27 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:28,040 So yes, it is important to control your thoughts, but I really think that you must take persistent 28 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,600 action in order to actually achieve your goals. 29 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:36,880 Because in that book, The Law of Success in 16 Lessons, he talked about action, like you 30 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:38,520 must take action a lot. 31 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,920 It was not just about the mental side of things. 32 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:45,640 There was a lot of action, determination, leadership and initiative. 33 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:51,200 All of these things, physical action, habit of saving is definitely, I don't know if 34 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,840 it's action or mental, but it's definitely something that you can't just think your 35 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:56,980 way through. 36 00:02:56,980 --> 00:03:01,960 You can't just think, oh, actually maybe, I don't even know. 37 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:07,800 But the point is, don't get caught into the trap of thinking that you can just think your 38 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,840 way into to your goal, like I did. 39 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:17,600 Yeah, there may be a period where you're just focusing on your thoughts, which that may 40 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,640 have been really beneficial for me. 41 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:21,640 And I believe it was beneficial for me. 42 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:25,640 And I'm not sure if it would have been better if I took action as well or not. 43 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:27,440 I don't know. 44 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:53,680 But just make sure you, once you reach a certain point, make sure you actually take action.