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Mind Power – How to Train Your Subconscious Mind to Achieve the Impossible

Finally identified by the most widely known figure of psychology and father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, in 1893, the subconscious is the silent partner that weighs in on our every act, thought or belief. Freud thought that it was a repository for repressed memories or socially undesirable ideas or desires and that it could not be controlled or known.

Since then, Freud’s serious-faced academic brethren have continued to label, define and incorporate the subconscious into their theories, changing its official, scientific understanding. However, aside from their debates, it is important for us to note that all of them agree that the conscious mind – critical, rational thinking that we are aware of – is only a fraction of what goes on in our minds. More than that, it is not even the dominant part.

This has led many people to believe that the human brain has extraordinary possibilities that we are not yet able to tap into. The brain, and subsequently the mind, has been portrayed as an iceberg. While the top side is massive, it is only a fraction of the entire iceberg. Neuroscience has taken up the task of studying the matter from a biological point of view. Nevertheless, the unreachable and unknowable subconscious, which largely conditions our behavior, can be trained and our mind power harnessed.

Mind Power – How to Train Your Subconscious Mind to Achieve the Impossible

 

Stimuli and Success

If, by definition, conscious efforts cannot provide passage to the subconscious, subliminal stimuli can. Going under our conscious level of perception, which can only translate them into senseless flashes without processing them completely, these messages activate specific areas of the brain. Stimuli that reach our subconscious have great action-priming potential, meaning they can get us to do things even without realizing it.

While this sounds dangerous, when we do it ourselves it can only have beneficial effects. The subconscious can thus be transformed into a powerful director-tool that can be put to serve our own goals. What was once an impossible feat that required efforts beyond our capacity can be overcome through mind power and proper stimulation.

Methods to Channel Your Mind Power

We have shown that the subconscious is a reality, known both to the scientific domain and to each and every one of us personally, and that it can be used to make our lives better. While external stimuli make up one way to provoke a response in the subconscious, other ways are not so invasive.

1. Meditate

Meditation, aside from being healthy for mind and body, is one of the first ways to try when tapping into your subconscious. Put in an MRI machine while under meditation. Buddhist monks that have mastered the art during decades of practice have shown extreme brain activation. One of the most visible changes regarded neuroplasticity, or the brain’s ability to alter its structure and functioning according to new experiences. This means a virtual reorganization of the neural connections of the brain.
Moreover, the same study showed that mediation can expand your capacity for happiness, increase your empathy and lead toward achieving a state of oneness. Extraordinary changes in the brain entail changes in the conscious and unconscious realms of thought. One example is the monks’ ability to use the extrinsic (or outward-oriented) network of their brain together with their intrinsic (which deals in self-reflection and emotion) network. Meditation is no doubt a gateway to the mind power needed to live a happy, peaceful life, and a step toward achieving the impossible. If modern science is just discovering that, Buddhist monks have known it for thousands of years.

2. Use the tools

Even though the subconscious does not communicate directly with us, it can be made to respond to certain stimuli. Autosuggestion and affirmations are great ways to do this. While the first requires repetition and conditioning, the second works through positive thinking. Positive thinking is much simpler and therefore accessible to anyone at any time. To make it easier, you can start off with its negative form – the absence of constant worrying and negativity.

The fact is that no one can look at the upside of everything, all the time. Freud would probably call this psychosis. Instead, try to refrain from falling into the pit of depressive thoughts. Don’t dwell on sad moments of the past. Slowly but surely, you’ll start to feel better about yourself and your life as a whole. Boosting your self-esteem and happiness is one of the best advantages to tapping into your mind power. It is another step toward achieving the impossible.

3. Educate your subconscious

People evolve and mature through life lessons. Even though we might not be aware of the values our parents instilled into us, the subconscious does. Storing passion, grief, suffering, joy, jealousy or even hatred conditions our behavior. It also conditions the way we relate to others or think about certain subjects. Feelings are bottled up and repressed. They can can be translated by the subconscious into irrational fears, moments of depression or in explicable aggressive actions when confronted with certain triggers.

Aside from keeping you from reaching your true potential, these outbursts also damage your relationships and your state of mind. In order to get rid of them, you must explain them. For example, fear of the dark can be kept well into adulthood if it is connected to a traumatizing childhood experience. Similarly, certain words can be subconsciously connected to a lost love, throwing you in a downward spiral of sadness.

If you cannot tackle the weight of your subconscious alone, professional help is always recommendable. Once explained, these experiences that lived on in your subconscious lose their power. In their place, fixate goals, emotions and beliefs that are beneficial to you as a person. The inspiration needed to change your perspective in life can be found almost anywhere. Meanwhile, the  forces that previously kept you down can be re-purposed to help you.

A Dreaming Species

We, as a species, have left behind the powerful and resilient bodies that were needed to survive harsh external conditions. Even then, man was not the fastest nor the strongest creature in the world. We survived through creativity and community, both in body and in spirit.

Also, we dreamed of being the fastest and of being able to reach the clouds – and we made it so. We dreamed that our will could shape continents, alter the course of rivers, defeat mountains and flatten hills. The track record of human mind power is impressive. What was once impossible, we made possible. Now masters and creators of our own environment, the challenges of our outside world can best be handled by first tackling those posed by our own minds. Through meditation, positive thinking, autosuggestion and a deeper understanding of ourselves, we can tap into our subconscious. Once explained and tamed, the demons that haunt us can be turned into powerful tools that shape our behavior for the better.

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Tony Robbins - What they dont teach you about FEAR

9 Important Questions Successful People Ask Themselves (Because They Work)

The quality of our questions determines the quality of our lives.

A few years ago, before I started my company, I was in a dreary situation that I didn’t know how to get out of. I wasn’t passionate about the work that I was doing, I wasn’t surrounding myself with the right people, and I felt like a hamster running in circles.

I didn’t realize it back then, but this was largely because I wasn’t asking myself the right questions. Instead of asking, “How can I improve this situation?”—I was asking “Why is this happening to me?” You can probably see that this only left me with more issues to deal with, rather than solutions.
I finally got around to understanding that the common trait of successful people in all walks of life is that they master the skill of asking really good questions.

The following nine have dramatically changed my life (and a few are even asked by some of the most successful leaders today).

1. What Would This Look Like if it Were Easy?

This is a question I got from Tim Ferriss, who’s the bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. As humans, we have this natural tendency to over-complicate situations or problems when they don’t need to be.

The question I’ve been training myself to always ask is, “How can we simplify this?” This question alone has saved me hundreds of wasted hours hiring new staff.

2. If This Was My Last Day on Earth, Would I Be Proud of This?

This question isn’t meant to bring me down, but to be used as a reality check. I leverage it as a motivator to push myself to do my best work every day, and to treat people with the respect they deserve.

3. What’s On the Other Side of Fear?

This question poses two different outlooks for me. The first is that we usually exaggerate our fears to be bigger than they actually are. When we fear going on stage to speak in front of a crowd, or tell someone how we really feel, the likelihood of something going terribly wrong is nearly 0%.

The second way I use this question is to remind myself that whenever I feel stressed or fearful of doing something, it’s usually the most important thing I need to do. Whenever I feel uncomfortable taking on a task, conversation, or decision, it’s a trigger that I should actually get it done right away.

4. Is This a “Hell Yeah?”

One of Derek Sivers’ most popular articles to date is about what he calls, “hell yeah or no.”
The idea of this phrase is that when you’re feeling overstretched or spread too thin, it’s because you’re saying “yes” to too many things. The result is that we overcommit to a lot of “good” opportunities without leaving room to focus on the “great” ones. Asking yourself this question will force you to say “no” to nearly everything, and will open up new opportunities that really excite you.

5. What’s the One Thing I Could Do That, If Completed, Everything Else Becomes Easier or Unnecessary?

This idea comes from the book, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, which has drastically changed the way I manage my time. In simple terms, the one thing refers to identifying your lead domino in whatever you’re trying to accomplish.

As Sivers’ question points out, it’s often more important to choose what not to do, so we can focus on what’s truly important.

6. If Not Now, When?

This question has been used by several thought leaders, but it was popularized by Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment.

I ask myself this question whenever I find myself putting off an important decision or task. By asking “when” at the end, it forces me to come up with a specific time that I will complete something instead of telling myself “someday” (which may never come).

7. How Do I Protect the Downside?

When you observe many of the most successful entrepreneurs, they’re not big risk-takers that believe in “going big or going home.” They’re quite risk-averse in fact, and are always trying to protect the downside whenever they can. In your career and in life, the best way I’ve found to mitigate your risk is to prepare for them before they arise. Creating a habit of asking this question has helped us plan for worst-case scenarios and frankly, it helps our team sleep better at night.

8. Is This What Actually Happened, or Is This My Own Story?

Much of what we think is not actually what happened, but it’s a story we’ve crafted in our own minds.

It’s not our fault necessarily, because all we have is our previous experiences to refer to. I would find myself stuck in my limiting beliefs when things didn’t go my way, and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It’s important in our careers to do our best to remove emotional decision-making as much as possible, and rely on the data and information at hand instead.

9. What if I Did the Opposite?

This is one of my favorite questions ever. It’s a constant reminder that in order to truly do anything that’s impactful, it needs to be different than what anyone else is doing or has done.

It’s always worth questioning whether the traditional approach is actually the best way, or if it appears that way because everyone else is doing it. I’ve found that more times than not, it’s the latter.

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The One Thing Rich People Know About Time That You Should Too

 

How much are you willing to invest in free time?

I’ve always been a big fan of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. According to Maslow, all human beings start with the basic physiological needs—that is needs to survive, such as food, water, clothing, and shelter. From there, things ladder up to safety, love and belonging, esteem, and finally, self-actualization.

For Maslow, self-actualization was becoming the best of your potential, to be what you could be. Many of us long for those, though few achieve it. And you could argue that those who reach the level of self-actualization are constantly creating new areas of achievement.

The fact is that the most successful people in the world are those who excel at living at the level of self-actualization. But there is a key to achieving this level of need that may not be readily apparent—it is, literally, making time.

Making time to succeed

If you’ve ever had the nagging feeling that you weren’t living up to your full potential, you’ve felt the tug of self-actualization. For most people, that’s where it stops, at the tug. After all, we’re all very good at making excuses as to why something we long to accomplish is impractical or impossible to accomplish. Sure, it sounds nice in theory, but who’s got the time?

If you think about it, if there’s one thing extremely successful people seem to have, it’s lots of time. You may have asked this at one time, “How do they get so much done?” It seems like successful people have an unnatural ability to do more than the average person.

You may be tempted to think this is because of a harder work ethic, or because they put in the hours. And while that can be true for a few, the reality is that most successful people understand the value of time—and of creating by delegating tasks that suck time up.

A waste of money?

When I was growing up, I always admired rich people who could hire maids and butlers to do their housework for them.

My poor dad felt that at best it was a waste money to hire people who could do the work you could do yourself. At worst, he felt that it was showing off your wealth.

My rich dad, on the other hand, had no problem hiring people to help him do menial tasks. “Your most important asset is time,” said rich dad. “The difference between a poor person and a rich person is how they use their time—and what they’re willing to pay for when it comes to time.” Plus, he knew that by hiring people to help him cook, clean, and do chores around the house, he was helping them feed their own families.

My poor dad always did his own menial tasks and would never dream of hiring someone to do them for him. But he also complained that there was never enough time to do all the things he wanted to do. For some reason, he never saw the connection.

My rich dad, on the other hand, often paid people to do time-consuming tasks for him, and seemed to have unlimited time to accomplish great things. He understood that his time was valuable and that a small investment in a house cleaner and cook afforded him the opportunity to do high-value tasks with his time that only he could do.

This is, of course, the principle upon which every successful business is built: hire employees to do specialized tasks so that the business owner can focus his or her time on building and growing the business. Many rich people are rich because they understand this concept and apply it both to business and to life.

Buying time = buying happiness

And there is another upside to this approach to life: happiness. It’s often said that money can’t buy you happiness, and while that may be true, what money can buy you can make you happy.

As Harvard Business School reports, “New research finds that we’d all be much happier and healthier campers if we eased up on the cooking, scrubbing, and grocery shopping and instead threw a little money at these problems.”

Professor Ashley V. Whileans, who helped conducted the study, points out that many people have no problem saving “for vacations, personal experiences, going out for nice meals, and health care,” but don’t seem to feel free to save up and pay for services that would free up time.

Yet, according to her study, after receiving $40 to spend over a weekend on either a material item like a bottle of wine or on time-saving purchases, “people reported that spending money on time-saving purchases left them in a better mood than spending money on material goods.”

And when you’re in a better mood, you’re more pre-disposed to do your best work on things you care about—like build that side business. Ideas flow, productivity increases, and barriers are broken.

It’s time to take back your time

If you continue to fight that nagging feeling that you could be doing more, don’t push it away. Instead, I encourage you to take a look at how you can invest in creating more time to focus on the passions and goals you have for yourself. Rather than look at a housekeeper as an expense, view it as an investment so that you can achieve your goals and dreams. The key, of course, is to use your free time to do something constructive that moves you toward self-actualization, not just sit on the couch and binge-watch Netflix.

Today, start thinking like the rich when it comes to your time…and just maybe you’ll be rich in no time.

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One Life, No Regrets

Monday Morning Motivation from Gary Vaynerchuk

What problem do you solve?

What problem do you solve? The answer to this question will bring you joy, satisfaction, and purpose.

I learned this simple concept from Rabbi Daniel Lapin: “God is never happier with His children than when they are solving the problems of His other children.”

Let me share with you a little bit about me and the problems that I solve. This will help you answer the question for yourself.

I love speaking, writing, and coaching. Rick Roussin, one of our Ziglar Legacy Certified trainers, calls me an “intellectual engineer” because I love the why behind the WHY so much.

When I work with people, either from the front of the room as a speaker before thousands, or one-on-one in Executive Coaching, there are three problems that I love to help solve.

Engage - Success
Equip - Significance
Transfer - Legacy

Engage. Far too many people are passively coasting through life. Their belief is that the good things in life are meant for other people. I love igniting hope and passion in people! When you Engage in life and understand that you have what it takes if you will only believe in yourself and develop the qualities of success that are within you, everything changes. YOU are designed for Success.

Equip. My personal mission statement is “To help you become significant by equipping you to help others become significant.” Success is fantastic. Significance is even better! Significance is when you help someone else Be, Do, and Have more than they thought possible. My heart sings when I equip you to help others become significant. YOU are engineered for Significance.

Transfer. Legacy is when you teach and transfer the habits that build character, integrity, and wisdom that will ripple through eternity. “Legacy is a transference of habit.” – Tom Ziglar. All of us are going to leave a legacy. I love helping people intentionally transfer their legacy. Transfer your legacy by design, not by chance. YOU are purposed for Legacy.

Now you know what problems I solve. What problems do you solve?

You are Born To Win, so go ahead and Live To Win!
 
Tom Ziglar

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