Personal Mastery
Self-Improvement Tips Successful People Use For
Personal Mastery
One of the best things you can do for personal development is to create a self-improvement plan.
One of the best things you can do for personal development is to create a self-improvement plan.
That self-improvement plan
should include a whole bunch of smart strategies: ways you can continually
improve yourself.
Here are some ideas.
1. Control your Dopamine
Dopamine is the chemical that creates motivation in the brain.
1. Control your Dopamine
Dopamine is the chemical that creates motivation in the brain.
Successful people know that
managing dopamine is key.
2. Control your mood, master your mind
Another key difference between us people at the top and everyone else is this:
We know how to control moods.
3. Control fear
Fear is the enemy of success and happiness.
One of the very best self-improvement
tips is to get rid of all fear from your mind.
But it’s not that easy, is it?
4. Self Esteem
When you have lots of self-esteem and confidence life feels easy, doesn’t it? But what do you do when your self-esteem drops, and you don’t have enough confidence?
When you have lots of self-esteem and confidence life feels easy, doesn’t it? But what do you do when your self-esteem drops, and you don’t have enough confidence?
The Subconscious Mind
We all know we have a
subconscious, but for most of us, our knowledge of it ends there. Your
subconscious mind is a second, hidden mind that exists within you. It
interprets and acts upon the predominating thoughts that reside within your
conscious mind, and its goal is to attract circumstances and situations that
match the images you have within.
We reap what we sow.
Think of your subconscious
mind as incredibly fertile soil that will grow any seed you plant in it. Your
habitual thoughts and beliefs are seeds that are being constantly sown. Just as
corn kernels produce corn and wheat seeds produce wheat, the contents of your
thoughts will have an effect in your life. You will reap what you sow; this is
a law.
Your conscious mind is like
the gardener that tends to the soil. It’s your responsibility to be aware of
how this process works, choosing wisely what reaches the inner garden — your
subconscious. For most, our role as gardener has never been explained. By not
knowing this role, we have allowed seeds of all types – good and bad – to enter
our subconscious.
The subconscious doesn’t
discriminate, judge, or censor. It will manifest success, abundance, and health
just as easily as failure, ill health, and misfortune. Your subconscious
accepts what is impressed upon it with feeling and repetition, whether these
thoughts are positive or negative. It does not evaluate things like your
conscious mind does. Therefore it is so important to be aware of what you are
thinking.
Synchronicity
Once you understand that your
subconscious will bring you what you need or desire, and you begin working
daily to project thoughts and images of what you want, seemingly chance-events
will start happening to you. To the untrained mind, synchronicity appears to to
be coincidence or luck, but it is neither. It is simply the operation of the
forces you have set into motion with your thoughts. This powerful inner
collaborator, working with your conscious mind, will bring to you the people
and circumstances you require to achieve your goals.
We are all part of the greater whole.
Modern physics sees the
universe as a vast, inseparable web of dynamic activity. Not only is the
universe alive and constantly changing, but everything in the universe affects
everything else. At its most primary level, the universe seems to be whole and
undifferentiated, a fathomless sea of energy that permeates every object and
every act. It is all one. Scientists are now confirming what mystics and seers
have been telling us for thousands of years: we are not separate from, but part
of one greater whole.
We now know that everything in
the universe is made up of energy. Everything from the items in your home, to
the events that happen to you, and even our thoughts are made up of vibrations
of energy. This means our thoughts are made of the exact same substance as the
building blocks of the universe. Knowing this, we can use it to our advantage.
In the past, it might have seemed unbelievable that
we could create our reality through this process. But now we know how to do it,
and why it works. Since our thoughts are energy, it only makes sense that
repeated images, affirmations, deeply held beliefs, fears and desires would influence
our own reality by vibrating within the larger web of reality. In fact, if we are
all connected, how could it be otherwise?
Affirmations
Affirmations are statements
that you say either out loud, or quietly to yourself. By doing this, you affirm
to yourself whatever it is that you desire. For example, if you have an
important interview coming up, you could affirm to yourself that you will have
“a great interview”.
Why Mind Power
affirmations work:
When you verbalize something,
and repeat it to yourself, it will influence your thoughts. Therefore
affirmations are successful. If you say to yourself, “I will have a great
interview”, you will automatically begin thinking about your upcoming interview
as a great interview. What you focus on, you attract so begin using affirmations
to focus on what you desire.
There are three rules to
remember when using affirmations:
1. Always affirm the
positive.
Avoid asking yourself, “What
if it’s a terrible interview?” or thinking things like, “I’m so nervous”. These
statements focus on the opposite of what you want. Be positive, and use words
that reflect what you want to happen. If you want to be confident, use that
word in your affirmation.
2. Make your
affirmations short and simple.
Use a short phrase, or one
sentence at the most. Your affirmation should be like a simple mantra that you
can repeat repeatedly, without thinking.
3. Don’t force yourself
to believe it. Just say it.
You don’t need to force
yourself to believe your affirmation, simply repeat it over and over and it
will naturally influence you. Repeating the statement many times will cause it
to work for you.
Affirmations are simple, easy to use, and very
powerful. Many professional athletes use them to perform well. Successful
business people use them to close deals and run their businesses, and artists
use them to be creative and come up with innovative ideas. You can use them
too, in any area of your life.
Visualizations
We live in an immense quantum
sea of vibrating energy that is responsive to how and what we think. Our
thoughts are creative forces and are constantly expressing themselves in our
lives. Once we realize this, we can begin designing our lives with clarity and
purpose.
So how can we use this reality
in our lives? By focusing daily on what you desire. The Mind Power system
consists of easily learned techniques that help you focus and direct your
thoughts, and the first technique you’ll learn is visualization.
What is visualization?
Visualization is simply a
mental rehearsal. You create images in your mind of having or doing whatever it
is that you want. You then repeat these images repeatedly, daily for about five
minutes a day. In your five-minute practice, use your imagination to see
yourself being successful in whatever goal you may have.
What you focus on, you
attract.
The key to visualizing is to
always visualize that you already have what you desire. This is a mental trick.
Rather than hoping you will achieve it, or building confidence that one day it
will happen, live and feel it as if it is happening to you now. On one level
you know this is just a mental trick, but the subconscious mind cannot
distinguish between what is real and what is imagined. Your subconscious will
act upon the images you create within, whether they reflect your current
reality or not.
John Kehoe has taught this
skill to millions of people worldwide who have seen results. It’s not magic,
and it doesn’t happen overnight, but if you persist in your vision, you will be
successful.
Whatever your definition of success is, you can
achieve it. You can achieve anything you put your mind to, once you
understand Mind Power.
Eliminating Negative Thinking
We already know that what you
focus on you attract. Worry, fear, and negative thinking allow the mind to
focus on things you don’t want, so Mind Power teaches you to eliminate negative
thinking. Train your mind to think about what you want in life, and avoid
thinking about what you don’t want. Negative thinking drains your energy and is
counterproductive; that is why fear is so destructive and why despair and
hopelessness must be avoided. They work in the opposite way that Mind Power
does.
So how do we eliminate this
negative thinking? The first step is to recognize the importance of eliminating
negative thoughts, and the second step is to be aware when negatives are
happening to us.
You can’t avoid negative
thinking entirely. Sometimes negative thoughts just pop into our mind. When
this happens, we must be aware, so that we immediately recognize when we are
thinking negatively. When we catch ourselves thinking negative thoughts we can
use any of these techniques:
Change the negative
thought into a positive one.
If you’re worried and focusing
on what could go wrong in a situation, change your thoughts to what could go
right. Your mind can only think one thought at a time, so changing the negative
into a positive eliminates the negative.
Remind yourself: a
negative thought is just a negative thought.
A thought has no power other
than what you give it. Negative thoughts gain momentum when you think them repeatedly.
So, stop thinking them.
The key is to catch the negatives before they have
time to become entrenched. With practice you will notice right away when you
are thinking negatives, and you then can take the appropriate actions. The mind
is a creature of habit, so encourage positive thoughts and eliminate negative
ones.