Saturday, December 21, 2013

Believe it is possible


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Napoleon Hill once said, "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." In fact, the mind is such a powerful instrument, it can deliver to you literally everything you want. But you have to believe that what you want is possible.

Scientist used to believe that humans responded to information flowing into the brain from the outside world.But today, they're learning instead that we respond to what the brain, on the basis of previous experience expects to happen next.

Doctors in Texas, for example-studying the effect of arthoscopic knee surgery-assigned patients with sore, worn-out knees to one of three surgical procedures: scraping out the knee joints, washing out the joint, or doing nothi pretend surgery reported the same amount of relief from pain and smelling as those who had received the actual treatments. The brain expected the "surgery" to improve the knee, and it did.
Why does the brain work this way? Nero-psychologist who study expectancy theory say it's because we spend our whole lives becoming conditioned. Through a lifetime's worth of events, our brain actually learns what to expect next-whether it eventually happens that way or not. And because our brain expects something will happen a certain way, we often achieve exactly what we anticipate.

This is why it's so important to hold positive expectations in your mind. When you replace your old negative expectations with more positive ones-when you begin to believe that what you want is possible-your brain will actually take over the job of accomplishing that possibility for you. Better than, your brain will actually expect to achieve that outcome.

Believe in yourself and go for it
Sooner or letter, those who win, are those who think they can.    -Richard Bach
Tim Ferriss believed in himself. In fact, he believed so strongly in his abilities that he won the national San Shou Kickboxing title just 6 months after being introduced to the sport. As a prior all-American and Judo team captain at Princeton, Tim had always dreamed of winning a national title. He had worked hard. He was good at his sport. But repeated injuries over multiple seasons had continually denied him his dream.

So when a friend called one day to invite Tim to watch him in the national Chinese kickboxing championships 6 weeks away. Tim instantly decided to join him at the competition. He traveled to a tough neighborhood in Trenton, New Jersey, to learn from boxing coaches who had trained gold medalists. And after 4 grueling hours a day in the ring, he put in more time conditioning in the weight room. To make up for his lack of time in the sport, Tim's trainers focused on exploiting his strengths instead of making up for his weaknesses.

Tim didn't want to merely complete. He wanted to win. When the competition day at last arrived. Tim defeated three highly acclaimed opponents before making it to the final.

Later, Tim told that most people fail not because they lack the skills or aptitude to reach their goal but because they simply don't believe they can reach it. Tim believed. And won.

It's amazing what happens to your self-confidence, when you get eyeball to eyeball with yourself and you forcefully tell yourself what you're going to do. Whatever your dream is, look at yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it-no matter what the price.
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Decide what you want


Once you have decide what you want to do, be, and have. What do you want to accomplish? What do you want to experience? And what possessions do you want to acquire? You have to decide where you want to be and what does look like to you?
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One of the main reasons why most people don't get what they want is they haven't decide what they want. They haven't defined their desires in clear and compelling detail.

Don't live someone Else's dreams. If you are going to re own your power and get what you really want out of life, you will have to stop saying, "I don't know. I don't care; it doesn't matter to me". When you are confronting with a choice, no matter how small or insignificant act as if you have a preference. Ask yourself, if I did know, what would it be? If I did care, which would I prefer? If it did matter, what would I rather do? One of the easiest ways to begin clarifying what you truly want is to make a list of 30 things you want to do, 30 things you want to have, and 30 things you want to be before you die. This is a great way to get the ball rolling.

Make a list of 20 things you love to do, and then think of ways you can make a living doing some of these things. If you love sports, you could play sports, be a sports writer or photographer, or work in sports managements as an agent or in the front office of a professional team, you could be a couch, a manager, or scout. You could be a broadcaster, a camera operator or team publicist. There are myriad ways to make money in any field that you love. For now just decide what you would like to do.

Clarify your vision of your ideal life.

Your vision is a detailed description of where you want to get to. It describes in detail what your destination looks like and feels like. To create a balanced and successful life, your vision needs to include the following seven areas: work and career, finances, recreation and free time, health and fitness, relationships, personal goals, and contribution to the larger community.

At this stage in the journey, it is not necessary to know exactly how you are going to get there. As that is important is that you figure out there is. If you get clear on the what the how will be taken care of.

The process of getting from where you are to where you want to be is like using the navigational system with GPS technology. For the system to work, it simply needs to know where you are and where you want to go. The navigation system figures out where you are by the use of an on board. Computer that receives signals from three satellites and calculates your exact position. When you type in your destination, the navigational system plots a perfect cause for you. All you have to do is follow the instruction.

Success in life works the same way. All you have to do is decide where you want to go by clarifying your vision, lock in the destination through goal-setting affirmations and visualization, and start moving in the right direction. You continue to move forward. In other words, once you clarify and stay focused on your vision, the exact steps will keep appearing along the way.

High achievers have bigger visions
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.    - Michelangelo
Always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people. It is a very few differences between the super- achievers and the rest of the world is that the super achievers simply dream bigger. John Kennedy dreamed of putting a man on the moon. Martin Luther King jr. dreamed of a country free of prejudice and injustice. Bill Gates dreams of a world in which every home has a computer that is connected to the internet. Buck-minister Fuller dreamed of a world where everybody had access to electrical power.

These high achievers see the world from a whole different perspective-as a place where amazing things can happen, where billions of lives can be improved, where new technology can change the way we live, and where the world's resources can be leveraged for the greatest possible mutual gain. They believe anything is possible, and they believe they have an integral part in creating it.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.   - Robert Fritz
Create your future from your future, not your past.  -Warner Erhard


Saturday, December 14, 2013

Take 100% responsibility for your life


You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons or the wind, but you can change yourself.
One of the most pervasive myths in the American culture today is that we are entitled to a great life that somehow, somewhere, someone is responsible for filling our lives with continual happiness, exciting career options, nurturing family time, and blissful personal relationships similarly because we exist.

But the real truth- and the one lesson is that there is only one person responsible for the quality of the life you live.
  
That person is you.

If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life. This includes the level of your achievements, the results you produce. the quality of your relationships, the state of your health and physical fitness, your income, your debts, your feelings-everything!

In fact, most of us have been conditioned to blame something outside of ourselves for the parts of our life we don't like. We blame our parents, our bosses, our friends, the media, our coworkers, our clients, our spouse, the weather, the economy, our astrological chart, our lack of money-anyone or anything we can pin the blame on. We never want to look at where the real problem is- ourselves.

There is wonderful story told about a man who is out walking one night and comes upon another man down on his knees looking for something under a street lamp. The passerby inquires as to what the other man is looking for. He answers that he is looking for his lost key. The passerby offers to help and gets down on his knees and helps him search for the key. After an hour of fruitless searching, he says, "we've looked everywhere for it and we haven't found it. Are you sure that you lost it here?"

The other man replies," NO, I lost it in my house, but there is more light out here under the street lamp."

It is time to stop looking yourself for the answers to why you haven't created the life and results you want it, for it is you who creates the quality of the life you lead and the results you produce.
         
          You- no one else!

To achieve major success in life-to achieve those things that one most important to you-you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

100% responsibility for everything.

Have you ever blamed anyone for any circumstances in your life? Have you ever complained about anything?

          Don't guess think. 

That means you don't take 100% responsibility for your life. Taking 100% responsibility means you acknowledge that you create everything that happens to you. It means you understand that you are the cause of all of your experience. If you want to be really successful. Then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life- that means all your results, both your successs and your failure. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success. It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

If you realize that you have created your current conditions, then you can uncreate them and recreate them at will. Do you understand that?

          Are you willing to take 100% responsibility for your life? 

99% of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.- George Washington Carver