Lessons You Can Learn From A Baby Elephant

Baby Elephant Syndrome (very similar to learned helplessness) is where a baby
elephant is tied to a strong rope or chain at a young age and is unable to break free
of the constraint. 
 
When the elephant matures, the elephant has grown strong enough to uproot trees
and surely break the rope, but the elephant has been conditioned to accept this
constraint.
 
In the elephant’s mind it believes that it cannot be done.
 
And therefore it doesn’t even try.
 
Are you the same?
 
Do your thoughts serve you?
 
Or hold you back?
 
Science states that we all have anywhere between 60’000 – 80’000 thoughts per
day!!!
 
Your thoughts affect your feelings.
 
Your feelings affect your behaviours.
 
Your behaviours affect your actions.

Therefore your thoughts directly affect your actions.
 
And you must work on them.
 
You have to confront your fears and limiting beliefs instead of hiding away from them.
 
You have to challenge the way you are thinking.
 
Is this thought based on facts?
 
Or is it your brain making things seem worse than they really are, in order to keep
you safe?
 
You have all developed tonnes of positive thoughts and mental skills along the
journey of this thing called life.
 
I’m certain of that.
 
However I suspect you may have also picked up a few bumps and bruises along the
way.
 
A bit like getting bigger muscles in the gym, you must work on your thoughts each
and every day.
 
Because learned helplessness can be a huge problem.
 
But if you can identify the thoughts that no longer serve you.
 
You can break away from them.
 
It will change your feelings.
 
Change your behaviours.
 
Change your actions.
 
Which will change your outcomes.
 
And will set you free.