May 20, 2011

What do you store by your mind's front door?

"If you can worry, you can dream!" - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

His point: Your mind can be full of love, hope, hate or uncertainty.  It's not a function of your circumstance, it's a storage issue.  What do you choose to retain as a fresh memory and what do you deep file away? 

Too often, we swallow our victories and tuck them away deep in the stacks of our subconscious. Sometimes, we tell ourselves that we were 'lucky' or it was a fluke.  We take comfort in this false humility.  But this is a bad idea if we want to be successful and powerful in life. 

Maxwell Maltz (Psycho Cybernetics) wrote that we aren't successful, we are cognizant of our compound successes throughout our life.  That gives us a sense of momentum and makes us bold and effective.  If you don't store your success experiences at the front of your mind in high definition, you diminish your successfulness!  

Here's a technique I use to rise for the challenges in life: Recollect a success experience from my past that is similar to the situation I'm faced with.  Right before I hit the stage or the conference room for the pitch or presentation, I load into my conscious mind a previous victory, including the fear, preparation, turnaround moment and a visual emblem of the win.  Then I tell myself, "you are as good today as you were then, and this situation is no more difficult."  

The result is power, confidence and flow.  I attack situations that would otherwise require me to tread lightly until I got a few wins under my belt.  In some cases, my confidence is infectious, inspiring others on my team to rise up too.  I've never failed from tasting success.

Get more of this from Today We Are Rich, Principle 5: Prepare Your Self.

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Thank you for your encouraging words! xoxox

Posted by: Tracy Hoexter  |  May 20, 2011 at 05:51 AM

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