For years people have been telling us to think outside of the box. Or maybe you got excited the first time someone said \”It\’s time to move beyond the box,â well I say, âlet\’s burn the box altogether and experience exponential growth and success in life!â
  As a success coach and national speaker, I often find myself challenging my clients to diminish their ability to stifle their success by getting out of their own way. A very important point that I share with clients is that expansion creates exposure. If you expand your mind, it should not ever return to its former way of thinking and you should stop meandering through life. If your mindset reverts back, you have not truly expanded your mind. Moreover, once your mind has been expanded, exposure to the possibilities of dreams realized and success achieved becomes a definite awareness for those who so endeavor.Â
   Itâs no mystery that life is about 95% attitude and 5 % skill. Attitude is the way you look at the box on the floor. Do you get into it each day? Or maybe you just walk around it hoping that it wonât be there when you return? Or better still, may you move it so that it is not in your peripheral vision and immediate view.  But if your box is anything like the one I use to be in, it somehow always finds its way back to my side.  I hope that one day soon, you will just burn in and never have to worry about it again.
   When you allow your mind to be boxed in, you prevent your ability to move and change. Think about it. Pretend you are physically in a box. You are able to stand but that is it. When you are in the proverbial box, you cannot move. Not only can you not move, but your situation cannot change. No one can come to your aid and rescue you because there is no run for anything to change in that box; all activity is stifled.  But I want you to get excited because once you burn the box, you can move, you can spread your wings, you can fly. The possibilities are endless because there is no longer any evidence except ashes that the box ever existed.Â
   You may be saying, \”that\’s sounds good but it is easier said than done.\” I beg to differ. The Incredible You will flourish when you change your mindset and the way that you look at the issues and obstacles plaguing your life. It has been said that the only difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how it is used. Inside of the box, it is surely a stumbling block preventing you from achieving anything that would give your heart delight. A burnt box is a stepping stone which you will use to catapult you to supernatural success.
   For all intents and purposes, the box is whatever issue, problem, challenge, person and/or obstacle that is holding you back from defining and becoming the Incredible you.
   To aid in the development of individuals and groups, I have indicated my five steps to burning the box below:
1. Inspect the Incredible: Complete a self- assessment and evaluate your associations. What is your life like now? What do you want it to be like? Remember, if you have 9 broke friends, you are # 10! The self-assessment if done with honesty and integrity should lead you to defining the challenges that you are currently facing. Once your assessment has been completed with a list that identifies what you like about your life and what you want to change…as yourself this all important question. Is there anything that would keep me from burning the box?
2. Speak the Incredible: Create an affirmation or power statement that speaks to who you are, what you want out of life and what about you will make it happen. Your power statement should also include your plans for life once the ashes have been scattered. If you want to live, you must learn to speak life over your life. It is absolutely essential to the Incredible You.
3. See the Incredible: Make a vision board…what does your life look like? Who does it include? You must be able to begin with the end in mind if you want to burn the box. What will change when there is no longer a box? What will you work toward for yourself, your family, your life? Your vision board must be all inclusive all what you want. Remember, what we think and speak about we bring about. Speak the Incredible and follow it up with a visual representation on your board.
4. Do the Incredible: Make a non-negotiable decision that the box has got to go. You cannot and will not renege on your decision. When you permit yourself to let it go and get rid of any evidence that it once existed, everything will change. Finish the Incredible by buying some matches and go ahead light it up. If it makes you feel better, go ahead sing the âgood-byeâ song as it burns! Let it Burn!
5. Dream the Incredible: now that the box is no longer a hindrance, the sky is the limit and you can have anything you want in your life. Decide now to dream so big that only God can make it happen and watch your lifeâs plan, dreams, and goals replace the ashes that are still smoldering as you remember how you burn your box!
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