Your self-image is the very foundation by which the entire quality of your life will be ultimately determined. How others see (and treat) you, how frequently you will attract abundance (as well as how deserving you'll feel once you have it), your ability to thrive in your career, health, finances ... believe it or not - is all completely contingent upon your self-image.

The power of Identity

Psychologists have known for nearly a century that the strongest force within the human psyche lies within the need to find - and then stay consistent with - one's identity. That means that once the unconscious mind has a clearly defined sense of identity, it will go to any length to maintain and protect it.

As the late, great Earl Nightengale so elequontly expounds upon in the video above (if you haven't listened yet, you will now listen to the most essential secret of life), the opposite of courage is not fear, but conformity. The choice to conform is always made unconsciously and with no logical reason ...

It goes like this: "I got married because that's just what you're supposed to do."
Or "I became a doctor because that's just what my family expected me to do."
Or "I had kids because that's what everyone does."

(or in my case, I spent more than half of my life doing things and being someone that I never wanted to do/be, because I was too fearful not to ...)

When we conform out of fear, we give up our power to become who we want to become. That power then gets placed squarely into the hands of a society - A victim culture where external circumstances; people, events, genetic limitations, medical diagnoses, etc - all control the outcomes of our lives. Our potential is then limited to only what others believe we can do, be, create or deserve.

The Self image & Identity link

Your self-image defines your identity - and your identity defines the limits of your potential.

Until we consciously let go of our old, designed-by-social-conformity self-image (along with the limiting beliefs, fear-based scarcity and convoluted misperceptions that were attached to it), any changes we make on the outside will conflict - and contradict - the image we hold on the inside. When that happens, the result is unconscious self-sabotage.

You see friends, your unconscious mind will always make sure that "you" stay consistent on the outside with the self-image you're holding on the inside (Remember - the most powerful human need is the need for identity).

Time to take back your power

Now that you've been exposed to this collective of knowledge - what Mr. Nightengale refers to as "The Strangest Secret" above - can you make the conscious decision to depart the comfort of conformity and reclaim your power? Because it is only by doing so that you can become the person and create the life that you've always dreamed of and deserve.

When you reclaim the power to change that old image of yourself you hold on the inside, everything on the outside will almost magically change right along with it.

We alone determine our value. We either decide for ourselves, or society, circumstances, events and our past will make the decision for us through the process of conformity.


Be high value.

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