I will believe it when I see it

I have heard this statement so many times: "I will believe it when I see it"

Now my intent here is not to criticize anyone who has ever said this before (I know I have said it as well), but rather to better understand what it means, and what it does for our mindset when we say it. 

You see, when we use the phrase "I will believe it when I see it", what we in essence are doing is convincing our minds that the only way we can truly believe the things that we want to have happen in our life, is for something in our external world to validate its truth. In other words, the only way for what you want to happen is to "see it", and if you don't "see it" then you won't "believe it". The problem with that is when we rely on our external world we are dependent upon things outside of our control. 

This has the power to create a negative mindset because when we don't see the things we want manifest into our lives quick enough, we have a habit of saying "I told you so..." to prove that we were right in not believing it in the first place. 

Now call me a positive thinker, overly optimistic, the glass half full guy, but I know there is a better way to say the same phrase, using the same words, but in a different order. Instead, how about saying: "I will see it when I believe it"

When you say the words in this order, you are presupposing that what you want to manifest into your life is going to happen, and the way you will know it, is when you "see it". But the way you are going to manifest it into your life is by doing the most important thing first, which is "BELIEVE IT". The biggest difference here is that in thinking this way, we use our internal world (our heart and mind) to validate the truth of what we want before it appears in our external world when we see it. 

This is how powerful words are in creating the life we lead. The words we say to ourselves are so important, but the order in which we say them are just as important. So which person do you want to be:

"I will BELIEVE it when I SEE it"

or

"I will SEE it when I BELIEVE it"

Speaking of believe...I BELIEVE IN YOU!

Choose to make today a GREAT day and always choose to Live Life 2 The Max!