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Here’s to your Success!
It is now common knowledge that our lives will always only appreciate to the degree of our dominant thoughts. Therefore, the most important thing you do to remain positive is to take control of the suggestive elements in your environment. Be sure that what you are seeing and listening to is consistent with the goals and dreams you want to achieve in life.
Listen to Success
You are what you hear. A good way to start is to yourself to listenening to educational audio programs in your car. Research has revealed that the average person drives 12,000 to 25,000 miles per year which works out to between 500 and 1,000 hours per year that the average person spends in his or her car. You can become an expert in your field by simply listening to educational audio programs as you drive from place to place. And even if you are not driving or in a cab, I am sure you would rather listen to uplifting and soul insightful things than the naggings from the bus conductors.
Develop Your Capacity
You need to attend seminars given by experts in your field. Take additional courses and learn everything you possibly can. Learn from the experts who possess the results you desire. Ask them questions, write them letters (if you are anything like me- you might want to go anonymous), read their books (aka read their hearts-put-on-paper), read their articles and listen to people with proven track records in the area in which you want to be successful. Basically, learn, unlearn and relearn.
Associate Right
I once read that only two things determines how far we go in life; the books we read and the people with whom we associate. Associate only with positive, success-oriented people. Get around winners. As we say, fly with the eagles. You can’t fly with the eagles if you keep scratching with the turkeys (or fowls!). Get away from the go-nowhere types and above all, get away from negative people (by the way, I can almost say I have a PhD in this!). Get away from negative coworkers. If you’ve got a negative boss, seriously consider changing jobs (or better still, try to infuse positivity into the atmosphere without being forceful about it). Associating on a regular basis with negative people is enough in itself to condemn you to a life of underachievement, frustration and failure forever! Associate only with positive people. Get around winners.
See Possibilities
Cultivate the great habit of thinking about and visualizing your goals as realities, last thing before you sleep and the first thing in the morning. Visualize your goal as though it already existed. Your subconscious mind is only activated by affirmations and pictures that are received in the present tense. See your goal vividly just before you go to sleep. See yourself performing at your best. See the situations that you’re facing working out exactly the way you want them to. There’s this powerful tool called a Vision Board, you might want to consider having one.
Live in Your Dream World
Without limitations, visualize yourself living the kind of life that you want to live. See yourself with the kind of relationships, the kind of health, the kind of wealth, the kind of car, the kind of home you really want. Visualize just before you fall asleep at night. The first thing you do when you get up in the morning is to feed yourself mental pictures. Those are the two times of the day when your subconscious mind is most receptive to new programming, when you fall asleep and when you wake up.
Change Your Reality
In conclusion, remember to listen to audio programs in your car and when you travel around. Continue feeding your mind with a stream of high-quality, educational, motivational material that move you toward your goal. Second, resolve to associate with positive, optimistic people most of the time. Get around winners and get away from negative people who criticize, condemn and complain. This can change your life as much as any other factor.
So, here’s to your success!
Boluwatife Oladipupo.