L=Lies

​Every good football team knows you have to memorize and practice a lot of PLAYS in order to be prepared to play your very best in every game. When I help my clients make significant changes in their lives, I encourage them to create their own PLAYS for predictable circumstances that they will find themselves in over and over again.
 
The four steps to creating an effecting PLAY include:
 
P - Prepare
L - Identify the lies
A – Action
Y - Yardstick

How to Create an effective play: LIES

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​Today, we’re learning about the second step in building an effective play, and that is using our “L”, which stands for “lies.” What are the lies, or limiting beliefs that you tend to believe in that situation that make it difficult for you to follow through on your goals.
 
For example, maybe Sunday dinner at Mom’s house is difficult because she makes all of your childhood favorites, complete with dessert, and you usually end up eating way past full and leaving with regrets.
 
Some of the lies you might be buying into could be:

• “If I don’t eat this all right now, I’ll never get it again…or at least for a long time.”
• “The more of this ‘comfort’ food I can get in me, the more ‘comfort’ I will feel.
• “Mom worked so hard to make this, it would be rude to not eat it all.”

Once we examine the lies floating around our heads, it’s important to take a second and challenge those lies, and identify the truths associated with each one:

• “Mom has been making this for 30 years. I’m pretty sure she’ll make it again sometime, or I could ask her to teach me how to make it.”
• “Eating past full is never ‘comfortable’, no matter what kind of food it is.”
• “Mom worked so hard to make all of this, but my stomach has a limited capacity. I can take a little of everything, or even ask her to send something home with me to have later when I’m hungry again.”

 
Simply examining our own thoughts and challenging them creates space in our minds for the next step of creating an effective PLAY, which is identifying the actions we will take.  We’ll learn more about that next week.
 
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