She told me she wasn't going to go because she'd been to those kind of events throughout her career and she'd had enough of them. To give you another example, the other day, a good friend of mine who is retired was invited to a 'dinner & dance' evening. Now, I'm sure that you can think of such examples in your life. So the door was open, and I slammed it shut not even bothering to consider what wondrous gift/experience might be waiting for me. The Universe had arranged a wonderful treat for me, and I said, ' thanks, but no thanks'. And then about a week later, it hit me! I'd been handed a gift, and I turned it down because of my preconceived ideas about what I 'like' and 'don't like'. A concert close to home just as I've discovered this singer whose songs I like', I instead went with my limiting beliefs and 'preconceived judgments' and did not go. So rather than say ' Wow, look what the Universe has arranged for me. I don't like crowds, I'd have to drive sixty miles to get home at night after a concert and I'd be tired, my husband probably wouldn't want to go, country and western music isn't my style, yada, yada, yada. Why? Well, all my preconceived notions popped up.

And I've noticed, in myself and others, a tendency to discount anything that falls outside of what we've decided we 'like'.įor example, when I discovered a country and western singer whose songs I liked, I found on his website that he was giving a concert about 60 miles from my house that very weekend. We all have opinions, beliefs, preconceived notions, etc.

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