“The 7 Step Formula To Tap Into Your Super-Power In Every Moment
Follow this 7 step formula and get ready to meet the Super-You!”
You have to be $@#KING kidding me!
I have read this same junk over and over for the last 30 years in many different forms. Whole Life Supercharger, Unleash the POWER, Super Confidence, . Blah blah blah blah…. Even though this latest message was sent from a well meaning person the message is the same. You are NOT good enough unless you become SUPER.
I don’t care if it is your favorite self-help guru, your spiritual guide, your mentor, or any of the thousands of books, tapes and seminars on the subject… It is all BS.
Why would I say such a thing? It is certainly self-help heresy. Why would I not want to be SUPER?
OK let me make this simple…. If you think you have to be super it means that you need to overpower something to get the life you want. You have something so overwhelming that only a super being can help you.
….What does that mean about you now? It means you see yourself as weak, powerless and most likely a bit lost. Naturally you think that you need to be the opposite of that so you want to be super instead.
So what will happen when you follow the SUPER advice? Well… for a short period of time you will feel super. Then you will have to constantly remind yourself how super you are. Then it will wear off AND it will just prove how WEAK you are and you will feel worse than when you started.
Then you will search out another SUPER system that will REALLY help and start the whole cycle again. Maybe this time you will find the REAL POWER that will solve all your problems. Maybe you will try super martial arts to make you invincible this time. Maybe you will work out to become freakishly strong and then you will feel better. Maybe you will become a movie star and then you will be SUPER.
Here is the trap. In order to get what you want you need to become super. So your new goal is to become super and then maybe you can get your real goal…If you don’t become super then you will not get what you want and you have failed miserably. Now you are further from getting what you want than you were before. I will go one step further and say that the advice to become super is damaging. It sets and unrealistic goal. It can lead to a delusional belief that you are some kind of super being.
There is one simple reason this will never work. It is because you never deal with the obstruction that you have to keep overpowering. It is always there waiting for you to have a weak moment or get tired of artificially pumping yourself up. People who do just push themselves to the point of exhaustion and then fall apart until they finally collapse never get where they want to go. Then they feel bad because they failed or they have to become super all over again.
So when I saw this well-intended post this morning from someone who I am sure believes everything that followed, I had to set the record straight. So here it is… brace yourself…. It might hurt a bit…
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SUPER YOU.
The good news is that now you can stop looking. You don’t need to be super at all.
So what can you do? You can identify the real problem and address it. Stop trying to overpower it. Stop trying to ignore it. When you actually deal with what gets in the way of your progress you move naturally towards your goals. Will you still need to make an effort? YES….. And it will be much easier since you are not in a constant battle with what is getting in the way.
Stop Super Silliness NOW.
