C is for Courage

“You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”

-Renee Ahdieh

The “C” in the MAGIC formula is “Courage” or “Conviction.” Courage to act and believe. To have faith. Conviction to believe that you CAN and SHOULD take the actions, that doing so will bring more pleasure than pain.

How do you know when you’ve reached that point? YOU ACT. 100% of the time. If you AREN’T acting, on some level you associate more PAIN than pleasure to the actions or result. If you ARE acting…you associate more pleasure than pain.

Yes. Its that simple. So in your FIVE MINUTE MIRACLE, you can spend sixty seconds per hour moving, breathing, smiling, and performing incantations that associate pleasure with your goals/actions, and PAIN to NOT performing them.

You could literally visualize yourself at a crossroads, with the left-handed path, continuing the negative behaviors (not writing or submitting, not working out, not connecting with loved ones or releasing negative emotions toward those who have harmed you) lead to negative consequences: failure in career, lack of energy and aliveness, a fear of relationships and intimacy. Loss of love.

FEEL IT, even if just for a moment. Then shake yourself. Perhaps you are doing a Tibetan as you do this. You could pause, shake yourself, and then continue.

NOW you think about the right-hand path. See yourself following your mentor down that road. See yourself meeting challenges with courage, walking the…