Become a Visionary!
The human mind loves the status quo, and if not trained otherwise, it will feed you a constant repetition of old ideas. Those old thoughts, like an automatic pilot, will steer your life in the same direction it has always gone.
Become a visionary with your life! Become someone who can sense things as they could be rather than just as they are. This is a vital skill in short supply, and when you master it, you can create opportunities for yourself and for others that most people won’t even accept as a possibility.
Consider some part of your life that you’d like to improve. It could be a personal quality, a habit, an attitude, a financial problem, a challenge with your weight, or any other area of dissatisfaction.
Since this area is below your standards, imagine yourself to be down in a hole, far beneath your potential. It doesn’t matter so much how you got in the hole–just that you’re aware that you’re in the hole. To get out, you’re going to have to think up, look up, speak up, and ultimately climb up.
Most people have difficulty climbing out of the hole in their lives simply because they focus more on the hole (which represents their current circumstance) than on where they want to climb (which is the goal or solution). They are bogged down in the reality of today, and as a result, they’ll keep getting more of what they already have. Remember this as the first rule of holes: If you’re in one, stop digging!
You must make the shift from reactive thinking to proactive thinking. You must stop working for your mind and instead enlist your mind to work for you.
read moreMental Principles that Support Self-Talk
Among the most powerful influences on your character, personality, and attitude is what you say to yourself and believe.
This inner dialog, or self-talk, can and must be effectively harnessed if you are to maximize your full potential. Harnessing your self-talk doesn’t require magic, just a deliberate effort to align your thought life with God’s best plans for your life.
To fully benefit from self-talk though, you must first understand some mental principles that support it. These mental laws are timeless and are in effect for everyone, everywhere, twenty-four hours a day.
1. Cause and effect. If you want to produce a specific result in your life, you must trace back from that result and identify the cause. The most important application of this principle is that your thoughts are causes and your circumstances are effects.
2. Belief. The principle of belief says that whatever you believe about yourself long enough and deeply enough becomes true for you. You do not believe what you see so much as you see what you have already decided to believe. For the most part, your beliefs produce your life experiences, not the other way around.
3. Subconscious activity. Any emotionally charged thought or idea that is repeatedly held in your conscious mind is interpreted by your subconscious mind as a command. Since the subconscious mind cannot distinguish between truth and fantasy, it accepts verbal input without regard to present reality. It always agrees with and complies with what the conscious mind tells it. Your job is to convince the subconscious that the condition you desire already exists. Once you do that, your subconscious then arouses your awareness to the opportunities around you that are consistent with your goals.
4. Substitution. The conscious mind can hold only one thought at a time, either positive or negative. This means you are always free to choose a better thought than your current thought. Be aware that you cannot eliminate a thought directly. You can do so only by substituting another one for it.
5. Mental equivalency. This principle states that before physical creation, there must first be mental creation. This means that you must develop a vivid mental picture of any goal you hope to achieve in advance of its actual accomplishment.
6. Concentration. The principle of concentration states that whatever you focus on grows and expands. This works for good or for bad, so be careful where you place your mental priorities.
7. Relaxation. Trying too hard mentally actually becomes counterproductive. When you try to force things mentally, your mind freezes up and stops working creatively. Your subconscious absorbs positive self-talk fastest when you are relaxed and unhurried.
Finding More About Your God-given Genius
Almost everyone has experienced brief glimpses of their Genius. This is the specific point where what you love to do the most merges with what you do the best. This is where you will spend your life in your own way, making the difference that you are uniquely equipped to make. Here are seven clues that will help you identify your Genius.
Passion. Your area of Genius will always be characterized by enthusiasm, intense interest, and pure fun. This passion will be difficult to turn off, even when you’re away from work.
Rapid and Continuous Learning. In your area of Genius, new concepts are easily visualized and quickly integrated into your existing knowledge base. The learning process is fun, and never-ending improvement comes naturally.
Strong Memory. Facts, figures, dates, names, conversations, and key points related to your Genius activities are effortlessly recalled when needed.
Flow. When you ‘re operating in your Genius, you’ll tend to get totally immersed in what you’re doing. Sometimes this is referred to being “in the zone.”
Using Intuition. In your Genius, you’ll naturally tap into and be inclined to follow your intuitive hunches, and most importantly, you will be right.
Absence of Burnout. Since you’ll be doing what you do best and most love to do, you will get more done in less time and be happier, healthier, and much more balanced.
Yearning. When you experience a deep desire that just won’t go away, it’s a strong sign that you may be approaching your Genius.
The “Wing-It” Factor. Have you ever attempted something, completed it with very little effort or preparation, and then received tremendous feedback and praise? This means you “winged it” and got away with it. This can be a great clue to your Genius. Just don’t stop there. One of the biggest performance mistakes people make is continuing to wing it because they can, rather than investing the effort and time to develop their Genius to reach even greater levels.
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