Set a goal and you achieve it. Keep wishing for something and you are able to get it. Think negative thoughts and bad things happen. Think positive thoughts and good things happen. Ever wonder why?
I know from my own experience and the experiences of my clients that having a well-thought out strategy with quantifiable measure that is actively used to guide the business exponentially increases the probability of improved results. I also know if you don’t have a strategy you’ll go wherever life takes you and it may not be where you want to go. So what gives goal setting and mental message such power?
Napoleon Hill wrote about the Law of Success pointing out that some of the key ingredients are self-control, enthusiasm, commitment to self and belief in possibilities.
It is these same ingredients that make goal setting and mental messages so powerful. If the CD in your mind constantly plays positive messages about possibilities for achieving your goals, inherently your chances of success are significantly improved because you begin to see all sorts of opportunities for fulfilling those goals.
Likewise, if your mental playlist plays only negative tunes and is filled with doom and gloom you will only see barriers to your goals.
We each have the personal power to change the results we are getting because we each have the personal power to determine what we want to think and therefore what we are likely to achieve. If we don’t have influence and power over ourselves, then who can we influence? Getting what we want, succeeding rather than failing starts with a self-commitment to influence ourselves positively in order to fill our lives with possibilities and potential.
Changing our results starts with our own mental messages which are based on our belief system. My belief system is that we all have choices and that we each have to be accountable for owning our own choices. I may not like the choices others make that have adverse impact on me, but I do have choice about how I react, the mental messages I tell myself about the circumstances, and the power to influence and change my own actions as a result.
Maybe now is a good time to do a bit of self-assessment. What is the mental playlist you’ve been listening to lately? Is it affirming or disaffirming what you want in your life? What do you feel you have little control over that in fact you can begin to influence just by how you choose to think about it? Are you willing to try to change how you think about your goals and what you want or does your belief system tell you others are in control of your own thoughts and beliefs?
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Joyce Friel
Peak Performance Consulting
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