Habits - Kill the Monster When It's a Baby

I'm going to teach you about killing babies -have in the jar you have to give away - either to
monster babies that is. Let me explain. I wascharity or the beggar on the street or anybody -
thinking about the idea that we don't perform anyyou must give it away.
act or do anything without thinking about it first. ASet a Goal
thought has to enter our mind before we ever doSo you set yourself a goal, a small goal at first,
anything. Sometimes we purposely think thoughtssay thirty days. You want to go thirty days and
and other times we could be minding our ownevery time that you complete a day without
business and a thought will just pop into our headdwelling on the negative thought then you add a
without our invitation. But the point being that youdollar to your jar. Then after thirty days you can
don't act without first thinking about it. So if wetake that money and reward yourself and splurge
can eliminate the thought in the first place thenand buy yourself anything you want. Now that's
we will never perform the action.not a lot of money but then the next goal will be
Our negative or bad thoughts are like monsters.sixty days. So you keep increasing your goal like
They begin small but tend to grow until they canthat. The idea is to train your mind so that
nearly destroy us. It's much easier to kill thesewhenever the bad thoughts come into your mind,
monsters when they are babies than when theyfrom whatever source, you immediately remove
are fully grown.it, get rid of it.
The PlanThe beauty of all of this is this: most people
So here's the plan. Think about the negativedecide to stop a certain negative behavior or
action or habit you want to get rid of. Thenaction when they're almost in the middle of it and
determine what negative thought or thoughtsat that point it's usually too late. It's like you've slid
precede that action or habit. Then you take somedown a slippery slope and your are sliding so fast
money, say $50 or $100 and you go to the bankand the slope is getting steeper that it's almost
and you exchange it for one-dollar bills. Every dayimpossible to stop and turn and climb back up.
that you go the entire day without dwelling uponThe idea is to stop yourself before you even get
the negative thought - meaning every time theclose to the edge of that slope - to deal with the
thought comes to you, and you immediately getproblem when it's easy. So the beauty of all this is
rid of it, you take one dollar and put it into a jarthat you never have to deal with this great and
or a bank or envelope. So, you have a stack ofterrible temptation because you never even get
$1 bills and every day that you are successfulto that point. I have seen this work with myself
you take one dollar and put it in your jar. The ideaand it's almost like magic.
is that after five days of not dwelling on theYou might say to yourself, "This could cost me a
chosen negative or bad thought then you shouldlot of money!" Yes, it could. But its much cheaper
have five one-dollar bills in your jar.than going to counseling. Ask yourself how much
Now, if you mess up one day and actually dwellits worth to you to be rid of this habit. I
upon the thought then you must give the moneyguarantee that if you put this plan in place you will
away. I'm not even talking about performing thebe amazed at the results. It really does train your
negative act itself. I'm just talking about dwellingbrain. So, go out and kill some babies - monster
upon the thought. If you do that then you havebabies.
failed for that day and then all the money youThank you.