Did you know that 96%-98% of your results and successes in life and business come from a massive hard drive in your mind?
Your mind is a massive information system, but you weren’t taught how to use it properly! It wasn’t taught in school. It’s not part of the school curriculum and probably never will be.
Your mind operates like a global positioning system (GPS) and the choices you make are constantly moving you toward or away from your big goals and the life of your dreams. Your mind is a specialized GPS controlled by your thoughts and emotions.
So, why do we know so little about our mind and how it works? We train and domesticate animals so carefully, yet when it comes to ourselves, the most valued of all, we let our thoughts and emotions run wild. Why?
You Are Performing and Achieving At 100% Of Your Mindset Ceiling
Maybe you’ve been trained (domesticated) to limit yourself. Maybe your parents or grandparents, or the people you looked up to when you were young, like your teachers, taught you to limit yourself.
Maybe they told you that you’ll never be somebody, or you’re too weak, or it’s really hard. And with enough reinforcement hammered into your mind, you agreed and limited yourself.
Imagine a baby elephant born in captivity and destined to perform in the circus. Circus elephants are trained at birth to be confined to a very small pen. Its trainer will tie its leg to a short rope to stake in the ground, so it remains calm and under their control.
This confines the elephant to an area that is controlled by the length of the rope. That small pen becomes the elephant’s comfort zone. It can only go as far out as the rope will allow. And though the elephant will try to break the rope, the rope is too strong. And so, the elephant accepts that it can’t break the rope. It learns that it has to stay in this confined area based on the length of the rope.
When the elephant grows up into a seven-ton mammoth that could easily break the rope, it doesn’t even try. It’s learned that, as a baby, it couldn’t break the rope, so it accepts it as a FACT. As a result, the largest elephant can be confined to the smallest space, based on this simple practice. We too can easily become domesticated and controlled like an elephant!
Maybe this describes you. Maybe you’re trapped in a comfort zone that was created by someone else. Maybe something as puny and as weak as a small rope that controls an elephant is controlling you — the little bosses in your head. But, in your case, the rope consists of limiting beliefs and the images that you received without your permission when you were young and helpless to reject them.
But here’s the good news — it’s not too late! Managing your mindset is the most important action you can take to succeed in your life and business.
Allow Your Mind To Do What It Is Capable Of Doing
Do you believe that the way you think has some effect on your life — that your thoughts are directly connected to your future, that your thoughts in some way create your reality?
Science tells us that we have fifty to seventy thousand thoughts per day, and out of those thousands of thoughts that you think, 90% are the same ones as the day before.
If you believe that your thoughts are somehow connected to your life, then the same thoughts you think always lead to the same choices. Those choices always lead to the same behaviors and the same behaviors create the same experiences.
Finally, the same experiences produce the same emotions and those same emotions recycle the same thoughts.
How you act and how you feel creates your personality, and your personality establishes your reality. What you consistently think and feel, you create in your world, and you create what you believe.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have a thought and then get the result you want immediately?
Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen because most of us haven’t learned how our mind works, so we don’t know how to control it. And because we can’t control it, we can’t focus it. And, without focus, life will happen to us and take us everywhere.
If you wanted to create a new and even better reality, a new life, then you would have to start thinking about what you have been thinking about and change it! You will have to think differently and do different things. You will have to change the way you see things in your environment so that the things you see will change. You will have to improve your perception and become aware of your thoughts.
The Solution
There are many ways to get focused and realize your goals, but the very best way to shift your mind into receptive mode is to create a tactical high-performance plan for achieving your biggest goal.
You need a system to organize your thoughts so that you can accept, allow, and attract the best people, circumstances, opportunities, and events into your life so that you’re gradually moving down the path of least resistance with momentum.
The problem with planning is that it wasn’t taught in school either. When we don’t have a plan, we lack focus. Without focus, we could end up anywhere.
Think of your super-computer mind as something apart from yourself, as an information system designed to fulfill a very specific need, as a mechanism for giving you more freedom and the life of your dreams. Think of your mind as anything but a processing system for useless information.
Go to work on proactively programming your mind rather than reacting to the what’s happening in your life, and ask yourself the following questions:
➢ How can I get my life and business to work efficiently, but without constant effort?
➢ How can I get focused, but without constant interference and distractions?
➢ How can I systemize my life and business so that it could be replicated thousands of times and run as smoothly as the first time?
➢ How can I control my mind and be free of old limitations?
➢ How can I spend my time doing what I love versus doing what I have to do?
When you ask yourself these questions, you’ll soon realize the real problem — that you don’t know the answers. And it’s been the hidden problem all along!
You just can’t get there from where you are now. You need to understand how your mind works so you can control it. You need simple systems for keeping focused so that you can concentrate on your fun and freedom.
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