Do, Do Again

This is a mini podcast about stick-to-itiveness  and a remedy of how to stick with it.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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• How to stay in the present moment
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Transcript

Do, Do Again

Question: Did you ever notice that resumes are not filled with things you tried to to?

You may not have put together a thumbnail sketch of your life yet, but when you do, what you tried will be on the cutting room floor.

If I want to annoy myself, it’s easy. All I have to do is react to hearing myself or someone else say: “I tried that.” In my experience, in 99% of the cases that phrase translates to, “I didn’t stick with that.”

The notable exception that doesn’t upset me is: “I tried New Tide.”

In the overwhelming majority of the cases, if you'd stuck with the thing you tried, you would have gotten the results you were after.

Just listen to the everyday examples we all use. “I tried to save money.” “I tried Weight Watchers.” “I tried to stop (fill in your trying verb here).”

We're not a culture of stickers. Stick-to-itiveness is a habit we don’t stick with and we always get stuck with the bill. We pay for our lack of sustained effort and we attempt to ease that pain by assuring ourselves that we tried.

Here’s a secret no one else will tell you: When you offer up your list of tries, no one's listening, not even your therapist.

I’m not going "Yoda” on you here; I just want to point out that trying has to be removed from your list of accomplishments because that list doesn’t impress anyone.

The next time you catch yourself about to say or write, “I tried that,” have the courage to say, “I didn’t stick with that.” Saying that instantly accomplishes two things:

1. It establishes your honesty.
2. It brings responsibility for your success, or lack of it, where it belongs – back to you.

We have to participate in our own success. It requires sustained effort on our part. If you continue to ignore this universal truth, I guarantee you’ll have a "trying" existence.

All the best,

John