written by Drew | 2010.32 Tue 02 Feb
Yes folks, the bearer of positivity and all things wonderful has yet another rant. But there is a purpose behind this particular rant: it’s in anticipation of the upcoming V Day – my least favourite day of the year, for reasons that should be obvious by now. If you’re going to be single by next Sunday, my thoughts are with you.
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written by Drew | 2010.27 Thu 28 Jan
For the first time in a long time, I genuinely thought I was going insane. It wasn’t the first time that I thought I’d eventually end up in a padded cell or solitary confinement, but somehow it felt like it’s the closest I’ve been. (Mental note: watching almost four seasons of Oz back to back doesn’t seem to have helped matters.)
But if I have appeared to be insane, or at least mentally deranged this week, it’s because I’m angry with myself. I’m angry because I chose to go against my instinct – my gut feeling – and it backfired, because my instinct had been absolutely right.
written by Drew | 2010.25 Tue 26 Jan
At the Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar last year, I took what was at the time a rather suicidal plunge into the final activity: breaking an arrow using only your neck. (It’s not quite as scary as it sounds.)
The idea of the exercise was to use the arrow as a metaphor for a held “limiting belief” – when the arrow was broken, the limiting belief would be shattered. Each person who took part wrote down their limiting belief on the arrow before starting.
I hinted at this exercise in my Insight #3, where I mentioned the lesson of hesitation being painful; that one has to take the chance and do something before it’s too late. The key to the arrow-breaking exercise was to move quickly into the arrow, so that the person would not feel pain in their neck.
I didn’t die from the exercise, and although I moved slowly and hesitantly into the arrow, I managed to break it into two pieces and one splinter. What a rush.
But while others’ arrows splintered into several pieces, when I examined the pieces of my arrow, the words of the limiting belief I’d written on it had remained intact.
Those words were:
NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
written by Drew | 2010.20 Thu 21 Jan
At some point, you’ll have heard someone dispense the age-old classic sentence solution:
Be yourself.
Basically I’m here to tell you that – in my humble opinion – “be yourself” is both the most empowering and arguably the biggest bunch of bullshit concept that ever existed.
written by Drew | 2010.16 Sun 17 Jan
Before I started writing this post, I had to think of a convenient name, or acronym, for what I call “so-called positive people”, or “delusional negative people”. Wayne Dyer once used the acronym NLP for what he called a “no limit person”, and women have the convenient term “weirdo” or “freak” for anyone who has a personality they don’t agree with. (Men have all kinds of terms for certain kinds of women.) So to clarify who I am talking about, I have to have some kind of definitive term.
In the end, I opted for the slightly longer acronym SCPP, for so-called positive person. It doesn’t do as good a job as getting across what these people really are, but it’s a little easier on the eyes and ears than something like DNP (delusional negative person).
So-called positive people, or SCPPs, are poisonous and toxic people: they are actually negative people in disguise. They are basically people who go around labelling others as either “positive” or “negative”, and usually claim to be “positive” people – while saying and doing arguably “negative” things. They differ from vanilla negative people (and negative thinkers) in that they have an unhealthily high regard for themselves, and a generally low regard for at least certain kinds of other people, if not everybody else.
SCPPs share exactly the same traits as negative people, but from my experience with being around these kinds of people, here are some common traits that I’ve identified as being common among SCPPs.