Reason#1:
Thinking:.....Have you ever gone to tha airport for a long anticipated trip and tha ticket agent tells you that you cannot board tha flight because you have too many bags? As a dad, it’s no different in tha spiritual and mental world. You’re too busy thinking ‘can’t language’ and erecting mental justifications to support your conclusion....You have an amazing child. A whole new world awaits you if you take tha first step toward your destiny as a Father.What’s holding you back is erroneous thinking. You are mentally customizing all of the reasons you can’t or won’t take that first step instead of all of the reasons you should
Fix:......Correct your thinking. Get rid of tha bags of depression, low self-esteem, anger and low aim that are keeping you grounded in wrong thinking.We are out of sync with our true nature when we choose to remain on tha circumference of our children’s lives. Invest in your power to reverse wrong-thinking. Remember this a man can change himself, improve himself, recreate himself, control his environment and master his own destiny if the conclusion of every mind wide awake to tha power of right thinking.
Reason#2:
You Have Accepted the Lies of Others
The second reason you aren’t in your child’s life is you’ve accepted what others have told you or you have heard of the plight of other dads and wish to avoid their fate. This reason is no less justifiable than the first. It happens all too often when we begin a new relationship and all of sudden think our child becomes less important. Someone may have talked you into accepting this. Personally, the most pitiful dad is the one who has been talked out of the life of his own child by the lies and propaganda others.
Fix:
Do not accept the low aim and lies of others. Do not base your intentions on the results others have not achieved. Apply yourself with a proper spirit. I challenge you to declare your own truth and initiate your own emancipation proclamation. Do not subscribe to the fate of other dads; believe and embrace your own. Expect the best from your effort. Brian Tracy said it best: Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Reason#3:
You Don’t Realize You Were Born to Soar
The final reason you are not in your child’s life is because you do not realize just how powerful you are. Because of this, you are afraid of consequences. You are afraid to show up in family court and timid to answer the summons. In short, you are thinking like a captive rather than a conqueror and thusly you are disconnected from your personal power.
J.Z. Colby once wrote, Personal power is the ability to stand on your own two feet with a smile on your face in the middle of a universe that contains a million ways to crush you.
Fix:
Les Brown shares the story of the young man who was bullied on a bus. Every time the young man would get up, the bullies would knock him back down over and over. He got up again but this time he was pinned down. The young man looked up at his tormentors and yelled, “You may hold me down but I’m standing up inside myself!”
Stand up inside yourself! Assume responsibility. Do not become paralyzed by your own self-limiting thinking in relation to your ability to achieve your mission as a dad.