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Are you the smartest person you know?  Do you make more money than all of your friends?  If the answers to these questions are yes, it is time for you to make some new friends.

There is truth in the saying you are who you hang out with.  If the people who you associate with make an average of about $30,000. per year in income, it is safe to say that you make about the same.  If the people you hang around with are negative people who complain all the time, you probably do the same.

We are easily influenced.  You have probably already noticed that you talk the same and even use the same slang as the people you spend the most time with.  It is safe to even go so far as to say that you think the same way they do.

It is so important that we take a good hard look at our associations.  Do these people challenge my thinking in a positive way?  Are they supportive of my big goals and dreams?  Are they positive minded and forward looking?  Are they continuously making improvements in their own life, or are they content to be stuck in the same rut they have been in for years?

If you do have toxic people in your life, get rid of them.  If they are family members, you can at least limit the amount of time you spend with them.

Look to associate and build relationships with people who are doing what you want to do, successful people who you can learn from.  Become friends with people who are making the kind of money you want to make, or who are at least working towards the kind of success that you are working towards.

 You are who your friends are, so pick your friends very carefully. 

When we start to go through and create our daily routine of affirmations and new beliefs, we must be careful to add emotion to the mix.  It is easy to get caught up in simply reciting a list and creating this mundane daily experience which ends up meaning nothing to us. 

A great way to add emotion is to remember back to a positive and empowering experience in your life.  Recite your affirmation or new belief at the height of the feeling of the positive emotion from that experience.  This will allow you to link that great feeling to your new belief or affirmation. 

There are probably certain sights, sounds, scents, or feelings which your mind already links with that memory.  You can use these sensations to bring about the empowering emotions from that experience. 

We have all had great experiences of triumph and success, why not use these past experiences to help create new ones?  Relive the emotions that you experienced during these successful events, then link these powerful feelings to the affirmations and new beliefs you are imprinting in your mind.

Reciting your affirmations and beliefs will soon become a powerful emotional experience instead of an ineffective, mundane routine.

Do you always blame other people when things go wrong?  It seems to be the automatic thing to do.  We are programmed to see others mistakes as opposed to our own. 

But what is really happening when we blame others all the time?

 First, we are opening ourselves up to be blamed by others for their problems.  If you just got passed up for yet another promotion, you may want to blame the boss.  What happens when one day you are the boss?  Will you accept the blame from your employees for their lack of results?  If you are always blaming others for your problems, you will have to accept the blame from them for their problems. 

Second, if you are always placing the blame on other people, you are probably not very popular.  You may have even lost a friend or two because of arguments over whose fault it is.  Wouldn’t you be better served to take your share of the responsibility and work together to fix the problem?

Last but definitely not least, if you are always blaming everyone else,  you are giving up your control.  If someone else is creating your problems, then they are the only ones who can fix your problems.  Wouldn’t it be better if you had that power yourself?  The sooner you can acknowledge that you had a part in creating the mess, the sooner you can begin to fix it.

Although it may seem easier at the time to blame someone else for your problems, you are better off in the long run if you face up to them yourself.  Keep your integrity, keep your friends, keep your power and take your responsibility!

For many, and unfortunately this is an overwhelming majority, setting goals is as unfathomable to them as horses walking on their hind legs.  Why is that?  Highly successful motivational speaker Jim Rohn shed some light on the answer when he said, “I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps it’s because escape is easier than change.”

There have been many studies done on the relationship between success/wealth and goal setting.  In one such study, it was found that 95%-97% of the people do NOT have their goals written down - and they fail; 3%-5% have written their goals down and they succeed.  Given these statistics, doesn’t it make just plain good old-fashioned sense to write down your goals?!

So, what sets you apart?  Setting Goals!

Become bigger than your circumstances.
 

With all the research into goal-setting, success, wealth and yes, the Law of Attraction, there’s more information now than ever in history on how to reach your goals quicker and easier than you ever thought possible.

ACCELERATE YOUR RESULTS

The subconscious mind is your most powerful tool in achieving success in any area of your life. Everything you are and will be is a result of your thoughts.  Your thoughts become your feelings.  Your feelings become your results.  In order to change your life, you’ve got to change the way you think.  This is where current research in Quantum Physics comes into play.  I won’t bore you with the details, but trust that these proven techniques will accelerate your results:

 ○ Write your goals out and read them daily
 ○ Visualize yourself having already achieved your goal - again daily
 ○ Create a vision board featuring pictures and words that represent you reaching your goal - review it daily
 ○ Repeat affirmations of success - take a negative belief about your success and turn it around into a statement of belief - repeat this several times a day
 ○ Inspire yourself by reading biographies of successful people, personal development books, audio and programs
 ○ Surround yourself with a powerful support network - this means limiting the amount of time you spend around negative people, environments and information - consider turning off the news
When you do what the successful do, you too will be successful.

We all have a set point in our minds which keeps us within our normal range or our comfort zone.  If you make a change in your life which takes you out of that comfort zone, this will send a signal out to your nervous system which your brain interprets as potential danger.  It will then prompt you to make the course corrections necessary to return you to your normal state. 

This works in a very similar way to the thermostat in your home, you set the temperature to whatever you want.  The heat or air conditioning will come on as needed to keep the temperature at the set point. 

So, how then do you change your temperature, or rather change your comfort zone? 

You can send messages to your subconscious mind to change your set point.  This is done by visualizing with the use of emotions what you want your new reality to be.  Your subconscious mind cannot decipher between reality and an imagined reality. 

With consistent and persistent daily visualizations, you will soon have a new set point/comfort zone which will move you closer to achieving your goals.

It’s okay to have big goals. In fact, dreaming big is far better than thinking small.  It takes you out of your comfort zone and develops the confidence and self-esteem required to actually live your dreams.

However, big goals can often make you think it’s impossible.  Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will your dreams.  Chunk your goal down into smaller, shorter-term goals.  If your goal is to run a marathon and you’ve never even made it one lap around the track, well, that marathon may seem way out of reach.  Make a smaller goal to run 10 laps around the track by a specific date.  That’s more believable and achievable to your subconscious mind.

Once you’ve reached your first shorter-term goal, take another chunk out of the bigger goal.  By breaking down your goal in this way you’ll gain momentum through continual success.

Any dream worth dreaming is worth working for.

Have you ever spent time learning about the amazing power of your mind?  One of the incredible tools you possess is called your Reticular Activating System. 

Simply put, your Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a filter that sorts through the four hundred billion bits of information that your brain processes every second.  You are only consciously aware of two thousand bits of this information each second, so your RAS decides which bits of information to present to your conscious mind.

The RAS sorts based on matching the information presented with information already established in your mind, this is the information that it assumes is important to you. 

The exiting part of this, is that you can reprogram your mind to sort the information based on what you want to achieve.  If you spend consistent and persistent time each day visualizing your goal and feeling the feelings of having already achieved your goal, it will start to become familiar to your subconscious mind. 

Your RAS will then start to sort the information presented based on your goal.  Soon, you will start to receive information on how to go about reaching your goal, and be on your way to achieving success.

Ever hear the expression in sports that the best defense is a great offense?  All of the really good sports coaches understand, and so do Life Coaches.  What it boils down to, is simply taking on the challenges, the issues, problems and concerns head on.  It is simply then a case of ensuring that you are consistently living a win win life. 

Expressing gratitude for what you have, for the loved ones in your life, for the warmth of the love and endearment you are experiencing on a daily basis are the goals, home runs and touchdowns of life.  Once you develop the ability to challenge your adversity with wins you have a simple formula:

Adversity combined with action and the tools taught through your studies of Personal Development will always equal one of two things, if not both:

1.  Success, or

2.  Gratitude.

Living your life with a win win philosophy, regardless of the challenges, trial or tribulations will always empower you to create a win.  Feel free to join us for a free tele-event where we will be sharing the philosophies of overcoming adversity and developing a successful future.

For many, goal setting is a way of life.  For many more others, it doesn’t even enter onto their radar.  Regardless if this is because they haven’t learned the powerful impact goal setting can have on their lives, or they just couldn’t be bothered, we’re going to talk to the 3%-5% of people that DO set goals.

There are many tips, tools and strategies that you can use to be successful in reaching your goals.  Many of those can be found right here.  But there is one specific thing you can do that will ensure your belief in yourself while venturing into new and exciting territory.

FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTHS

Doubt and fear will rear their ugly heads on the road to success.  By focusing on your strengths, you’re telling your subconscious mind that you’ve been successful before and now isn’t any different.  You’re more likely to push through adversity and be successful when you constantly remind yourself of your past successes and areas of strength. 

This works even when you’re doing something new.  Many skills are transferable to different occupations, relationships and projects.  You likely won’t have to dig too deep to recognize what your strengths are.

Success breeds success.