8 How Phrases That Can Hold You Back

Say­ings, or phrases, are a daily part of lives. They become part of our psy­che and can even be words we live by. They can be used for com­fort and deal­ing with sit­u­a­tions. They are usu­ally words of wis­dom. Some are well known while oth­ers are not.

On our jour­ney towards suc­cess you will hear all kinds of say­ing and tid­bits of infor­ma­tion. Why are these phrases, old and new, such an inte­gral part of our life? It’s because they are short and catchy, easy to remem­ber. And we can relate to them and as I said, they become part of our lives and mem­o­ries. They also con­vey a les­son of some sort usually.

It’s for these rea­sons that they can even be a bad thing or hold us back. My own per­sonal expe­ri­ence of grow­ing up being sat­is­fied with the easy way out and doing what I could with what I had, really stuck in my mind. It’s taken a lot of work to change myself to the way I want to be. Even now it gets dif­fi­cult at times

But I digress a bit. The point is there some com­mon say­ings that are used quite a bit. Some­times they can have a neg­a­tive impact or can just be flat-out wrong. That has a lot to do with our per­cep­tion of the phrases as well as how they were used when we learned them.

Instead of list­ing a bunch of phrases I’m going to do some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. Here are 8 phrases and say­ing that you prob­a­bly have heard before and why they may not be entirely true or why they may hold you back from reach­ing cer­tain goals in your life.

You Can’t Teach a Old Dog New Tricks
Basi­cally it means that once some­one is set in their ways, they can’t learn any­more. I have found this to be false. It may be true to a degree, but not always. A found some­one a few months ago that just started in online mar­ket­ing for the first time. He was in his 60’s or 70’s. How cool is that?

Beg­gars Can’t Be Choosers
While I agree that you should accept what is given to you, it can also relay the mes­sage to set­tle with what’s given to you. We have the power to get what we want too. Just make a goal and do what you need to do to make it work.

You Have to Spend Money To Make Money
The online world is proof of this being wrong at times. You can start a busi­ness online at min­i­mal, if any, cost to you. But (there always is a “but” isn’t there) if you have the money to spend then you do have an advan­tage. You don’t have to spend it right away to make money though, it just takes a bit longer.

All Good Things Come To Those Who Wait
More or less a les­son about hav­ing patience. Which is great, but it can also be used for peo­ple that wait for things in their life to come to them. Per­son­ally I would rather take con­trol of my life and make things work out the way it’s needed instead of wait­ing for it. Wouldn’t you?

A Bird in Hand is Worth Two in a Bush
Basi­cally it means to keep what you have instead of risk­ing los­ing it try­ing to get some­thing else. I agree a lit­tle bit, I appre­ci­ate the things I have, but there other parts of my life I would rather make bet­ter. If I am to become a bet­ter per­son I’m going to have to take a risk of some sort. You can’t grow you and your busi­ness with­out tak­ing a small risk in the process.

Igno­rance is Bliss
This depends on who you are. This works for some peo­ple but for some­one that has a drive and moti­va­tion to get more out of life won’t work with this one. In my thirst for knowl­edge, I’ll take the pos­si­ble con­se­quences of know­ing rather then not know at all.

Money is the Root of All Evil
Again, it’s a mat­ter of per­spec­tive. I want to make money so that I can sup­port and pro­vide for my fam­ily. And so I can live a lit­tle more extrav­a­gant life. It’s not about the money itself but what I can use it for. If rocks were the cur­rent cur­rency then I guess I would want more rocks. Greed on the other hand could be the root of evil though.

You Scratch My Back and I’ll Scratch Yours
I tend to give to peo­ple with­out think­ing of myself. If it comes back and they do scratch my back then that would be awe­some. If not, oh well. Basi­cally I think it’s bet­ter to give with­out expect­ing then to give and expect some­thing back auto­mat­i­cally. I’m con­tent with just scratch­ing your back.

~Chris

What other phrases can you think of that are like this? What are you favorite quotes and phrases?

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