Monday, April 23, 2007
Find a strong reason WHY
Often people are better at coming up with excuses for not doing things than with ideas on how to do things.
Could you one of those?
Jim Rohn said: "When your WHY is big enough the how becomes easy."
This means when your reasons why you need to do something are bigger than your excuses, you will make progress toward your goals. Logical, isn't it?
It also means you have to come up with the reasons why you really should accomplish something before there is time to come up with the excuses that will be holding you back.
You see, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious logical mind and it will work on achieveing whatever you give it to work on. In most cases we give it doubt, fear, scarcity, and other negative thoughts.
Let me give you an example. I was offered to buy a block of apartments for an excellent price last week. What made me doubt the uniqueness of the offer were the people it came from. I had gone through some bad experiences with them so instead of jumping at the opportunity I was very sceptical and doubtful for several days. In the end my business sense won but there was still a small nagging voice in my head even though I did very thorough research on the project. Of course in cases like this doubt and sceptism makes sense but it must not get to a stage where it immobilizes you.
If you give yourself great positive reasons why you want to achieve a specific goal, your subconscious will immediately take you at your word and begin working toward that goal. And it will keep working on that goal until instructed to do otherwise (and "otherwise" means those negative excuses sneak back into your thinking).
That is why you need to feed your subconscious carefully.
No matter what you feed your mind on it works incessantly on getting you the results it believes you want, and those are the thoughts that you planted into it. So take a minute, right now, and write down what it is you really want.
Write down all the reasons why you should have it and who and how it would benefit you and others.
If you go through these steps you've imprinted your positive thoughts on
your subconscious mind. But don't write out your excuses, they will come up by themselves more often than is good for you. Just focus on your positive reasons why and write those down to internalize them into your subconscious.
And then - Take action right now.
Take one first small step and experience how good it feels to move forward, to move towards your goal, without worrying about excuses or other roadblocks.
Did you take your first action? GREAT - you got your first result.
If you didn't - why not?
I will leave some space here so you can fill in your excuses...
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Move in the right direction! As always, the choice is yours!
Wishing you a fantastic WHY
Barbara Hofmeister
http://www.trainingvisions.com
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Could you one of those?
Jim Rohn said: "When your WHY is big enough the how becomes easy."
This means when your reasons why you need to do something are bigger than your excuses, you will make progress toward your goals. Logical, isn't it?
It also means you have to come up with the reasons why you really should accomplish something before there is time to come up with the excuses that will be holding you back.
You see, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious logical mind and it will work on achieveing whatever you give it to work on. In most cases we give it doubt, fear, scarcity, and other negative thoughts.
Let me give you an example. I was offered to buy a block of apartments for an excellent price last week. What made me doubt the uniqueness of the offer were the people it came from. I had gone through some bad experiences with them so instead of jumping at the opportunity I was very sceptical and doubtful for several days. In the end my business sense won but there was still a small nagging voice in my head even though I did very thorough research on the project. Of course in cases like this doubt and sceptism makes sense but it must not get to a stage where it immobilizes you.
If you give yourself great positive reasons why you want to achieve a specific goal, your subconscious will immediately take you at your word and begin working toward that goal. And it will keep working on that goal until instructed to do otherwise (and "otherwise" means those negative excuses sneak back into your thinking).
That is why you need to feed your subconscious carefully.
No matter what you feed your mind on it works incessantly on getting you the results it believes you want, and those are the thoughts that you planted into it. So take a minute, right now, and write down what it is you really want.
Write down all the reasons why you should have it and who and how it would benefit you and others.
If you go through these steps you've imprinted your positive thoughts on
your subconscious mind. But don't write out your excuses, they will come up by themselves more often than is good for you. Just focus on your positive reasons why and write those down to internalize them into your subconscious.
And then - Take action right now.
Take one first small step and experience how good it feels to move forward, to move towards your goal, without worrying about excuses or other roadblocks.
Did you take your first action? GREAT - you got your first result.
If you didn't - why not?
I will leave some space here so you can fill in your excuses...
...
...
...
Move in the right direction! As always, the choice is yours!
Wishing you a fantastic WHY
Barbara Hofmeister
http://www.trainingvisions.com
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Do you still have Dreams?
And do you want to make them come true? If you do, start by writing your dreams down – the clearer the better and please don’t judge on the possibility or probability, just write whatever comes to your mind. Remember, what the human mind can conceive it can achieve!
Let me use Dr. Robert Schuler as an example. He dreamt of a Crystal Cathedral in Anaheim, California which is an earthquake area. In the 80th he invited a famous architect to plan the Cathedral for him. The architect said that it would be very difficult to build such a large glass structure in this area and if at all possible, would cost an incredible amount of money. “Do you have that type of money”, he asked Dr. Schuler. “No” was the answer. “Well, then it is absolutely impossible” the architect retorted. Dr. Schuler took him to his study and showed him his dictionary. The word impossible was cut out, as it was in all his literature. For him impossible did not exist and a few years later the Crystal Cathedral was built and his ‘Hour of Power’ is broadcast from there to the world every Sunday (http://www.crystalcathedral.org/).
Be outrageous! Think big! You can do it – if you really want to.
We have so much unused potential that needs to get out but in many cases does not "dare" to because it would take us out of our comfort zone. What if...? is the question we need to ask us sometimes. What is the worse thing that could happen to me? is a question I ask myself when I am afraid to take the next step and I always find the answer is not as scary as not moving forward would be.
Dare to take that next step and dare to do it NOW! If you need support get yourself a a good coach. If it works for our top athlets, if it works for a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, it will work for you too.
Happy growing,
Barbara Hofmeister
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Labels: doubt, fear, personal growth, success
