The Second of the 9 Lessons to Help Overcome Negative Situations

In my previous Blog, I wrote about the first lesson in my 9 Lessons to Help Overcome Negative Situations. That was Leave it alone and it’s gonna get worse. You may remember, I was truly afraid to go to the doctor with increasingly bad medical symptoms that I had been experiencing for about 3 years. I was afraid of what the doctor would find. Stupid, huh? When I finally went, the doctor found that I had bladder cancer and that , because I left it alone for so long, it had spread to other parts of my body. So remember, leave any negative situation alone and it’s probably going to get worse.
Today I am writing about the second lesson of the 9 Lessons to Help Overcome Negative Situations.
So, how do you get yourself to take the first step to handle the situation when you are really afraid to do that. Well, it’s simple but not easy. You need to ‘Trick Yourself Into Taking the First Step and Everything Else Will Follow Automatically (Unless you Stop It). I know it sounds a little crazy to be talking about tricking yourself but that’s what I found was the best way to get things started for me.
When my symptoms became so bad that I knew I had to do something about them, I blamed them on being overweight. I decided to see my doctor to get a diet sheet and some herbal stuff that had helped me lose weight in the past. Deep down inside, though, I knew it was something other than my weight. Even when I was sitting in his office telling him that all I needed was his diet sheet and herbal remedies, I was still afraid to tell him the real reason I was there. Just as I was walking out of his room (I was seconds away from a clean getaway), I finally turned to him and forced myself to tell him my symptoms and ask if there was a non-invasive way he could check to see what was wrong with me.
He told me that he could do a urine test, I told him that I wanted him to do it and there it was. I had tricked myself into going to see him about my weight when, in fact, I wanted to tell him my symptoms so he could tell me that there was really nothing to worry about.
Everything, after that – an operation, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and loads of other things that I’ll write about in another post, followed on automatically. The ball was rolling and it was going to continue to roll unless I stopped it.
So, my question to you is, Is there anything in your life that you know you should do something about but are just leaving it alone? Is there anything that is just getting worse and worse for you. My suggestion to you is maybe you should trick yourself into taking the first step to handling the situation. After all, once you take the first step everything will follow automatically unless you stop it.

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