Excel By Thinking

"People fail at success and other endeavors because,

quite simply, they choose not to change themselves, their

routines, or the world around them. In other words, nothing

changes, which creates a logjam of bad habits and negative

thinking. For some, life is judged by standards of comfort,

not by the struggle to make a better life for themselves and

for others.

Out of 100 average people with the exact same education,

only a very few will succeed or accomplish things that

stand out from the rest. When people attend their high

school reunions, they are sometimes astonished to find out

that their average schoolmates with only marginal grades

somehow managed to become very successful business

owners or very prominent citizens.

Statistics show that only a few out of every 100 people

have enough drive and perseverance to succeed. The

question is, Are you willing to do more, achieve more and

go the extra mile than those who will try less hard?

In addition to doing more than others, you need to

document on paper and post pictures around you of what

you want so you visualize your goals every day. The visual

reinforcement adds greater conscious and subconscious

determination to accomplish your goals.

Also, it helps to tell relatives and friends about your

goals. Of course, those you talk to need to be supportive

and provide helpful advice. If someone is not helpful, you

need to avoid that person’s negativity.

Remember the time you promised to do something for

someone, but you did not want to do it? Nevertheless, you

went ahead and did what you promised to do for that person.

That’s the point. Promises, sometimes, motivate you to go

the extra mile and do what you thought you could not do.

That is the mindset you need to be telling yourself: “I can

do more for myself, even though I’m reluctant to start doing

it.” You can make your impossibilities possible simply by

trying harder every day.

It does not matter if the goal seems difficult or

unreachable. Just be precise in your goal and develop a plan

for achieving your goals. Spell out your goal, such as, “I plan

each morning to walk two miles at 6:00 A.M. so that I can

lose 10 pounds in one month. Then I plan on maintaining

this weight. I plan on losing the extra weight to improve my

health and appearance.”

"Continue telling close friends and relatives, your

supporters, about your new goal. By telling people and

posting the goal for open viewing, you will be imprinting

the goal and its expected outcome into your subconscious.

In return, your subconscious will send new thoughts to your

conscious mind to help you fulfill your goal."

Dorothea Brand, author of Wake Up and Live, said,

“All that is necessary to break the spell of frustration and

inertia is this, act as if it were impossible to fail. That’s the

talisman, the formula, the right about face that runs us from

failure to success.”

C-2005 John Paul Carinci from the book: The Power Of Being Different