Week 2: Lesson 6: Getting Rid of Ants

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Getting Rid of ANTs and Gratitude

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What Are ANTS
• Ants are automatic negative thoughts
• Going back to the first lesson
• We spoke briefly about fears coming to your
thoughts

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The Man in the Wheelchair
• A man on a wheelchair was once asked by a
negative minded human, what do you think
about having a wheelchair? Bad right?
• What would you think about having a
wheelchair?
• He said it’s amazing, if I didn’t have the
wheelchair, I would be stuck in bed and not be
able to move

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6 Causes of Ants
• “All or Nothing Thinking”
• Labeling
• Thinking with Your Feelings
• The Blame Game
• Fortune Telling
• Mind Reading

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1. All Or Nothing Thinking
• This gets wannabe entrepreneurs ALL the time
– They think that they have to reach someone’s chapter 100,
while they are in their own chapter 1
– So when they go out and try and reach Chapter 2, instead of
100, they think very negatively
– But, in reality, you can’t reach chapter 100 without chapter 2
• 99% of success in life are not all or nothing
• So enjoy the chapter 1,2,3 and stop looking for people’s
chapter 100

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All or Nothing Cues
• Facebook and Instagram is all showing, most of the time un-
genuinely, showing people’s chapter 100
• You train your brain to want things now, without the work.
• Your thoughts will always be negative this way

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2. Negative Labeling
• Saying to yourself
– “I’m a loser”
– “I’m a failure”
• At the end, you’re not even a loser
• But you become one when you think it too
often

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3. Thinking With Feelings
• “I feel stupid”
• “I feel horrible”
• You are putting more emphasis on your
negative feelings and lesson the positive
– Again, mind will go looking for the negative

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4. The Blame Game
• When you deflect responsibility to other
people
• This is big one with business owners
– Your business is a reflection of you and your life
– Not your vendors
– Not your customers

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5. Fortune Telling
• When you think you know what the future will
be
– I’m never going to win
– Customers won’t buy
– It will be too hard

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6. Mind Reading
• Worried about what others are thinking
• Mind-reading, when unstopped, can lead to
isolation because you have concluded that no
one is ever going to be kind to you.
– My boss hates me
– These people don’t want me to succeed

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What is the Cure to Ants?

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Gratitude is The Key
• To all success
– When you get ANTS, you have to be grateful

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The Truth Is…
• ANTs are bad
• Your life is a reflection of your thoughts and
questions
• If they are negative, your brain will be
scanning for negative

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If You Are Thinking…
• What is wrong with me?
• Why am I stupid?
• No one likes me…
– After doing this thousands of times a day, for
years.
– Your subconscious mind starts to believe it

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In the First Week
• We mentioned that prayers have to be
focused on
• And mind exercises where you are controlling
your thoughts for 5-10 minutes are essential
in controlling negativity

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But Putting Out the ANTs Takes…
• Constant gratitude

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As Muslims…
• We are told to always be thankful
• But once life gives a little challenge, we tend
to forget that – All of us

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Gratitude is the Key for Everything
• There is no personal development speaker
that DOES NOT talk about gratitude
• And even in Islam there is the Aya…

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So How To Give Gratitude
• When things happen bad/good, it’s important
to stay grounded and say “Alhamdullilah”
– But it will only happen when you are building this
muscle
– There is always ways to be grateful to Allah

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To Do
• Identify the 6 ants that get you no where
• How can you identify ways to have gratitude
instead of those ANTs?