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Getting to Your Transformational Aha!
Posted by: | CommentsIn Dr. Alex Loyd's book, Beyond Willpower, he asks 3 key questions that most people answer incorrectly.
- What do you want right now more than anything else? (No filtering the answer!)
- If you got what you most wanted in question 1, what would that do for you and what would it change in your life?
- If you got the things that were your answers to both questions 1 and 2, how would you feel?
Question 3 is the life-changing question. The answer to that is what you really want. And it is always an internal state that is what you really want.
When I got ahold of what this actually means, it was life-changing. It is what Dr. Loyd calls "The Greatest Principle." I realized that what I wanted was "love, joy, peace, freedom, and a sense of abundance and security" THAT is what I began to pray for, to pursue.
What it all boils down to, in the end, is what he calls the Greatest Principle: