Breakthroughs To Success

Written by Jeffery Combs

Isn’t it time you broke through the invisible barriers that keep you struggling? I believe that we are all created brilliant, artistic, creative, and loving. It is our past, or our emotions connected to our past, that keep us stuck. A “Breakthrough” is the ability to create a rapid change, a shift in thought, a synchronistic event, an ‘Ah-ha’ moment that allows us to let go, to move through an invisible barrier, and to radically change at any given moment. Can change be easy or is change hard? Isn’t that the question?

I have been through a lot of changes in my life. I spent fourteen years of my life from ages 18 to 32 as a practicing addict and alcoholic. My addictions took me to a place of struggle, despair, incarceration, and to living with my parents at age 31. I had suicidal thoughts, believing that I could not end my insane behaviors. I felt unlovable, unemployable, and unworthy, with my self-esteem so low that I was consuming a gallon of vodka a day just to dull my pain. I did not believe that I could change.

Right before my thirty-second birthday I started having delirium tremors, otherwise known as DT’s, a physical state where your body convulses. I went to a doctor believing that I was having a heart attack. He immediately called an ambulance and I was taken to a detox center. The center I was taken to was a four day detox center, followed by a twenty-six day treatment program, and I decided to stay the first night. I made a decision that night that I would never take a drink again. I have been able to keep that commitment one day at a time for 365 days for almost fifteen years.

Was this decision hard or was it easy? For me, it was very hard to get to the point of reaching that one major decision. However, once I made that decision, I found it was easy to stick with my commitment. That one simple decision has been the most important decision of my life. You see, at the point in my life when I made that particular decision to never drink again, “the pain was great enough” for me to change. This is no typically the best way to make Breakthroughs, but is typically the way most of society changes.

I have had the privilege of personally coaching well over 1,000 clients in the last few years and I have found that most members of society make the decisions that have the most impact on their lives when “their back is against the wall,” when they are destitute, when they have failed over and over, or as I stated, “when the pain is great enough.” As an entrepreneur, I ended up $65,000 upside down in credit card debt and also borrowed $11,000 from two sources. I reached a point where the only way out of my dilemma was massive success. Once again, I went to the well that never fails me, and made a simple decision that I committed to. I decided I would not be denied my success, peace, freedom, and self-love.

The real payoff has been the fifteen year process in the journey, not just the financial reward. I believe it is not what you get but what you become that matters most in life. What you become or what you are is what you will attract. You will get what you expect. I refer to this as the law of attraction. Breakthroughs are not nearly as difficult as we as a society perceive. I have found through my coaching that the average person fears success far more than failing.

In order to succeed we let go of struggle, but if struggle is all we know, then what will become of our ego? People fear success (change) because it is the unknown, even though it is what they desire. People begin to express fears such as, “Success might feel uncomfortable, it might upset a loved one, and it might show up my family. I might out-earn my parents or friends. What will the neighbors think? I won’t be able to handle success. The IRS or government will take all my money. I can’t lead people. I don’t want to be responsible.” These are all emotional reasons people struggle and avoid change.

Knowing and understanding how to change becomes the key, and now I am talking about why, not just how. Why we do what we do becomes the beginning of change. This is about cause and effect. If you only address the effect, then you never really get to the cause.

I created a 2-1/2 day workshop, “Breakthroughs To Success,” for thirty people that takes place seven times a year to specifically teaches the participants how to have “Breakthroughs” in the moment. This workshop has become my signature product and is what I am most passionate about – assisting people to change, now. During this event, an environment is created that is so safe that the participants are able to take off their egos for 2-1/2 days. A trust is formed where thirty people come together and connect from a deeper level than they ever have connected before. I call this connecting from the heart.

We do exercises with “getting money right” where people start to address their subconscious emotional resistance to money. Barriers about trust and love start to come down and the participants start to connect from their hearts and their souls – not from their heads. The participants start to heal themselves and each other “in the moment” without stopping to think what is and is not possible. Emotional weight is released and old pain and repressed anger is addressed in this environment. In this workshop I have seen and witnessed many, many examples of people changing in the moment. I call this “changing without trying.”

Is changing hard or is it easy? This is a matter of perception. Resisting change and continuing a pattern of self-sabotage can last a lifetime, or at any given moment we can choose to make decisions in the moment that allow us to change right now. It is not the physical act of change that is so difficult. It is the decision that most people have the greatest challenge with. You can choose to be a “struggleaholic” or you can choose to be an “E.Z.ologist.” The choice is yours. Are you ready to “Breakthrough” your own invisible barriers and discover the power of belief?

Jeffery Combs is an internationally recognized speaker, trainer, and author committed to assisting people with personal growth and development. He can be contacted online at http://www.GoldenMastermind.com or toll free 800-595-6632.

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