STEP TWO: MENTAL PREPARATION
How do you become successful? You begin by preparing yourself mentally / emotionally.
Unfortunately, much of our lives millions of us are conditioned to think and believe negatively. When we are born, the first thing we get (usually) is spanked! Then as we grow we are constantly told NO! to this and NO! to that! Always, it seems, we are told what we can’t do. Often this negativity is reinforced and strengthened entering our adult years – years when our only real limitations should be those that we accept as limitations. As a result of all this negative conditioning, our conscious mind may tell us positive things (”I can”), while our subconscious mind might be telling us something negative (”I can’t”). Even worse, most of us grow up with true and false beliefs about living in our world that are very negative and many times we will not allow (such beliefs) to be changed! Still more extreme than this are emotionally disturbed people who cannot possibly attain success because their minds are shut off to positive possibilities and therefore cannot prepare for success or even conceive of it. How sad!
So step two in the foundation of your success is to prepare yourself emotionally for attainment. You must believe that success (in whatever area) is not only possible, but that it is happening each day in your life now! You must lift yourself to success. You have to re-program your mind by erasing the negative programming, and begin thinking positively! Put another way, you must get your conscious and subconscious minds to send (the same) positive messages that realization of your goals is both possible and happening! There are many techniques available to achieve this (any one may work for you), and some are discussed below.
Often non-useful emotions such as guilt, anger, hatred, greed, etc. can stop you dead in your tracks from gaining your desires, wants and needs. It is only natural that you might choose a “path of least resistance”, just as water does as it flows to its lowest point. Unfortunately, it is often easier (least resistant) to feel guilt, anger, or whatever, in daily life rather than to focus on the positive emotions that can heal you and push you toward success. Those who are most successful in life (as a whole and not just in part), have eliminated or reduced most negative emotions to a point whereby the success path is least resistant. In short, they learn to identify what is useful to them, and reduce that which is non-useful.
Meditation, self-hypnosis, prayer, counseling, exercise, education are all wonderful techniques for mental preparation. Choose techniques that work best for you. Apply them each day, and like good exercise builds strength, they will develop a top mental / emotional conditioning. Believe in it, use it, expand on it; you’ll be truly amazed at how quickly and dramatically MENTAL PREPARATION changes your entire quality of life! The better you become at conditioning your mind, the stronger the success foundation, and the less effort it will take to succeed. Watch those cigarettes disappear or those unwanted pounds fall off! Anything is possible!
RULE: MENTAL PREPARATION is mental house cleaning. Out with the negative (the non-useful) and in with the positive (the useful). Condition for success! Remodel your mind for success!
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