It may sound very “cliché” to talk about the mind being powerful. But it is an almost tangible idea that our thoughts can have a great influence on our actions when we decide to carry out a project. It can be a small and daily goal, or it can be a great vital project, the reality is that both the external factors that we do not control and our own confidence and security can play for or against the fulfillment of our objectives.
Nor is it a matter of saying that our mind is "almighty" and that only with the power of our will we can achieve everything. External factors also affect the possibility of reaching our goals. But it is true that we can sabotage ourselves with insecurities, lack of confidence, and imposing obstacles that sometimes only exist in our imagination..
Let's take a simple example. Many people dream of "traveling" and assign this action a price, strategic difficulty and a series of associated problems that gradually make it more inaccessible, complex and almost impossible to carry out. But in reality, traveling is not only equivalent to taking a luxurious cruise in the Caribbean, which is undoubtedly quite difficult to do in economic and organizational terms..
Traveling is also going out and taking a train to visit the nearest town and authentically go through it. It is visiting other cities in our same community or near it. It is marveling at the museums already visited and the avenues already walked once more. There is always something new to see, whether visiting our own city, touring the Spanish Mediterranean coast, another European country or a distant country on another continent..
In addition, we can usually find cheap transport, not very expensive accommodation and accessible, pre-designed routes or new spaces to discover… so is it really impossible to travel or are we the ones who, by having exorbitantly high goals, are boycotting our own dreams? Actually to travel we only need to really propose and take the first step.
This example can be applied to many things and in different dimensions. We wish to study, but we will only give validity to this plan at a certain stage of our life and in a certain type of institution. We want to carry out a business venture but "never" have enough time, money, resources ...
What psychological processes They are behind this self-blocking in the achievement of goals? Is it more dangerous than always maintaining a positive spirit and then crashing head-on against the wall that represents reality??
In reality, both can be logical traps set unintentionally by our own thought process, and a somewhat outdated tendency that we tend to have: to live in the future rather than in the present. Focus on meeting achievable and achievable goals, both in everyday life and in larger, long-term projects rather than worrying about whether or not we will be able to achieve and achieve them.
There is an adage that it is better to "take care" than to "pre-care" and it may not be too far from the truth. Setting goals that we can achieve does not mean belittling our capabilities or not believing that we can achieve broader and more complex goals, it is simply not using them to prevent us from taking the first step towards achieving them. It is in a way, pushing ourselves to achieve them, taking small firm and solid steps instead of locking ourselves in a feeling of perpetual helplessness.
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