Today I need your help with everyday mental blocks.
I know that you’re always willing to help, e.g. through commenting on my posts and retweeting and sharing them. That’s awesome and I am grateful for that.
But this time I really need your help 
Let me explain.
A couple of weeks of ago, I wrote about beliefs about money – and you provided the most horrible and most awesome beliefs about the subject of money
This time I want to write about beliefs that prevent us from being successful in a broader sense, beliefs that are reflected in everyday sayings and proverbs.
We don’t think consciously about them, that’s why they’re powerful.
We disempower them if we become aware of them.
And here I need your help because these proverbs and sayings often are idiomatic expressions. They sound odd if I translate them directly word by word from German into English.
I’m pretty sure that we Europeans have the same issues like North Americans and folks from Australia and New Zealand when it comes to preventing us from being successful, regardless if it’s related to money or not.
But when writing this post, I realized that I have language issues because if I translate these sayings into English, they sound funny.
For example, in Germany we say:”Rather a sparrow in the hand than a pigeon on the roof” if we want to sell to ourselves not to be too ambitious with our goals (or are sold by others)
What is the equivalent in the UK, the US, Canada and elsewhere in the world ?
One of my wife’s great aunts sometimes said, if the kids were in good mood:”Birds that sing in the morning are caught by the cat at night.”
That’s a good one, isn’t it, if you want to suck energy and happiness out of a kid.
So I hope I drove my point home and I count and your help. Please leave me a comment and share and retweet this post, so that we get tons of ideas and we are able to get rid of that stuff.
I’m sharing a digest of your contributions in the post “Everday Mental Blocks – Thanks For Your Help”.
If you belong to those type of people wanting to stop failing in their MLM businesses, the free ebook “Success in 10 steps” is for you. It will resolve dissolve some false beliefs about MLM – and help you generate your own MLM leads.
To a prosperous life,
Oliver Tausend
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In the UK and the Caribbean it is said like this
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bushes. hope you find this saying usefull.
Kelvin
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Oliver Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 19:22
Hi Kelvin,
cool, this one is the equivalent of the German saying “Rather a sparrow in the hand than a pigeon on the roof.” Thanks for sharing.
Have a blessed weekend and take care
Oliver
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Hey Oliver,
Where I’m from we say it, “Go for it! and Don’t Quit!”
Yes, I like things very simple and easy to understand.
Have an awesome weekend!
Josh
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Oliver Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 19:21
Hi Josh,
awesome, if that is incorporated in your mindset, success is sure for you ! Thanks for sharing.
Have a blessed weekend and take care
Oliver
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Oliver,
Here’s another one: “The early bird catches the worm”. This one has to do with procrastination.
Have A BLESSED Weekend!!
Reggie
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Oliver Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 19:19
Hi Reggie,
that’s a cool one because we use that in German with exact the same words. Thanks for sharing.
Have a blessed weekend and take care
Oliver
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Hey Oliver,
My favorite is “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade” (turning a negative into a positive)
Shaylee
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Oliver Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 19:18
Hi Shaylee,
thanks for your comment. That’s a good one because – as you say it – we turn something negative into something positive.
Have a blessed weekend and take care
Oliver
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Twitter: steveshoemaker
says:
Oliver
I’m from Ga and “watch this” are famous last words according to Jeff Foxworthy but don’t use that…..
One term that was coined here was from our great GA Bulldogs a major college football team “Finish The Drill”.
Or complete the task used what you have been trained to do and get the job done.
Hope this helps.
Steve Shoemaker
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 17:02
Hi Steve,
thanks for your comment. Complete the task, that doesn’t make always sense. Sometimes it’s better to abandon a task that doesn’t make sense.
Take care
Oliver
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Twitter: prfuller
says:
Some great sayings above but they are all positive
So let’s look at sayings that we unconsciously accept
Money is the root of all evil.
or
The more money I have, the more problems I will have.
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 17:01
Hi Peter,
you are right: I asked for negative ones, mental blocks. On the other hand, it might be good sign that most of my readers ignore. They are positive !
Yours are classics that are related to the subject. By the way, I love it to have problems with more than enough money
Take care
Oliver
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Twitter: AnaTrafficCafe
says:
Here are my 2 cents, Oliver:
We say in Russia: “When a lobster whistles on the mountain”, and the American equivalent is “When pigs fly”.
Ana Hoffman
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 16:59
Hi Ana,
these ones rather hold you down than lift you up, am I right ?
Thanks for sharing.
Take care
Oliver
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Hi Oliver,
I have this one as a signature on one of my emails. It related to growth as an individual.
“Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never become wider, bigger or deeper”
Sherman
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 16:58
Hi Sherman,
awesome. Never heard of that one so far, but it makes sense, absolutely.
Thanks for sharing.
Take care
Oliver
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Hy Oliver,
It´s always a pleasure reading your great insightful posts, my german friend. I could give you some austrian examples haha – you know that my native language is german haha that´s funny.
“Wenn du nicht für deine jetzige Position bezahlt hast, dann hat es dein Vorfahre gemacht. Irgendwer hat dafür bezahlt wo du jetzt stehst!
Have an amazing and productive weekend,
Gerald
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 16:56
Hi Gerald,
thanks for your comment. That can be a positive or a negative one – right ? How do you understand it ? I myself feel negative emotions arising when reading it.
Take care
Oliver
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Oliver,
Another great post and one that inspires so much thought.
My personal variation of Shaylee’s is “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then figure out how to sell it for $5 a glass”
My own motto has always been “A wise man knows not everything, but merely where to find the information”
And alas my favorite in the German tongue “Hilft der selbst, so hilft der Gött”
John
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 16:54
Hi John,
these are good ones, absolutely. And yes, I also like this German one.
Thanks for your comment and take care
Oliver
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Hi Oliver i like this style of wry observation of some of our crazy social interactions and in particular some of the old wives tales that constitute wisdom for so many!
Not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for but here are two:
‘everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die!’
‘The early bird gets the early worm but the second mouse gets the cheese’
Good if you’re a bird but not for the worm!
Cheers kiaran
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 16:49
Hi Kiaran,
it’s not always the best to be the first, that is true. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Take care
Oliver
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Twitter: MavisNong
says:
Hi Oliver,
Interesting post and comments!
I like this one: ‘When one door closes, another opens” – Don’t cry over spilled milk, move on and explore other opportunities.
Thanks for sharing.
All the best,
Mavis Nong
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 16:48
Hi Mavis,
these are good ones, too. The first one is the same in German language. Thanks for sharing.
Take care
Oliver
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Twitter: stephensheather
says:
Oliver, I’m not sure if this will help, but I found lots of phrases and their meanings and origins by doing a google search of: where did that phrase come from? Maybe there will be some things that come up that will help you!
Heather
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 16:47
Hi Heather,
Google search is always a good idea
Thanks for sharing. Karen has a good link: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/proverbs.html
Take care
Oliver
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Hi Oliver,
One that comes to the mind and one I truly live by, getting up every single day at 5:00 am to work on myself.
“The early bird gets the worm.”
What a great reminder you shared here…
Jerome Ratliff
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 16:46
Hi Jerome,
that’s interesting: This one has exactly the same wording in German. Thanks for sharing.
Take care
Oliver
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Oliver,
I found an awesome list of English proverbs here:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/proverbs.html
Enjoy!
Karen
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Oliver Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 16:45
Hi Karen,
now that is a cool list. I already had that suspicion:”A bit of armchair psychology leads to the conclusion that, if proverbs really do reflect belief, then the English are (or at least were when these proverbs were coined) inclined to be virtuous but negative – not so far from the truth perhaps?” Virtuous but negative…at the end of the day I think it isn’t an exclusivity of the English, Germans proverbs aren’t more positive.
Thanks for sharing.
Oliver
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