The Power of Faith Part 2
What we need is an easy and enjoyable way of developing the kind of rock-solid faith that enables us to create good things makes things happen. A strategy, if you will, which we can follow again and again to get the faith we need and achieve the goals we want to achieve every single time. Well, I have a strategy which fits the bill perfectly. It is easy to follow, fun to use and – most importantly – it works!
I call this strategy ‘Conviction Emulation’, but the name is more complex than the method itself. Basically, conviction emulation is the strategy of pretending to have total faith until total faith is actually generated. Let me explain how this works in practice….
Let’s imagine that you have a goal to do something that you have never done before. For example, imagine that you want to write a book. At present, you might not have faith in yourself or your abilities. You might constantly tell yourself how foolish such an idea is, how difficult it is to write a book and how small the chances of success are. This lack of faith actually prevents you from taking action and getting the book written because you don’t want to waste your time chasing empty dreams. Thus your lack of faith becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The book never gets published because you never get around to writing it.
The strategy of conviction emulation simply says this: Pretend that you have what it takes to succeed. Pretend that your success is assured. Pretend that you have already got all the talent, discipline and skill it takes to write a book.
So you do. You spend some time ‘getting into character’ and then you act as if your success as an author is assured. You put the hours in, write the pages and send them off to a publisher. Not because you had genuine unswerving faith, but simply because you emulated that kind of faith. Your emulated conviction allowed you to take action and get the job done.
This is a very practical application of the conviction emulation strategy, and the power of faith is always practical. If you want to get a better job, just have faith that a better job is out there, then go out and find it. If you can’t muster the faith, pretend that you already have the faith and act on that emulation. Similarly, if you want to increase your income by ten per cent, don’t wait until you feel genuinely convinced of your ability to earn more. Simply pretend that you are convinced and act on that pretence.
