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My career started 28 years ago when I was a legal secretary. I was a bright and ambitious person with some gullible and naive tendencies. I was so anxious to prove myself as a competent “adult” at age 17, that I sometimes acted too serious and took things in a way that wasn’t intended.
“A problem cannot be solved with the same consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein
Most of the problems that we have today, we probably had — in a different degree–last week, last year or ten years ago. Einstein said it best: stop trying to figure out how to solve your own problems… it ain’t working!
Any successful person has a team of people around him or her: consultants, employees, coaches, friends, family, psychologists, doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc. It is a rarity to find a wildly successful (and generally happy) person alone. Any time that we find ourselves in a [small or large] heap of a mess: in work, in our homes, with our friends… it is an opportunity to find a solution.
“It is a psychological law that whatever we wish to accomplish we must impress on the subjective or subconscious mind.” – Dr.Orison Swett Marden, physician, writer
I was first introduced to “subconscious mind” in the early 1970’s while attending a massive convention, featuring motivational speakers and platform notables like the great W. Clement Stone, Zig Ziglar, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and a host of other preachers of positive thinking.
I was totally entranced because, on a very deep level, the whole idea of positive thinking, affirmations and programming the subconscious made sense to me. Having become a student of clinical hypnosis, psychology and neurology, these speakers fueled my curiosity.
“If you’re going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.” – Dennis Quaid, Academy Award winning actor
Reinvention is a tricky word. What does it really mean? Do you throw everything away and start from the beginning? Do you remold what is already there? Do you create something totally different than before? Depending on the circumstances, the answer is “yes.”
Life is a marathon, not a sprint; however, there are times — even in a marathon — when sprinting is required.
Most of us here in the 21st Century have very complex professional and personal lives. Our ancestors often went to work and did one thing at a set pace all day. Then they went home to enjoy their families only to go back to work and do the same thing the following day.
Homeostasis is used in biology to describe the tendency of a system towards equilibrium. When it is hot our body sweats. When is cold we shiver. But that force is not only biological. Believe it or not, there is a mental homeostasis that is at work on your mind. Your body and mind want to stay the way they are. It’s a physiological phenomenon.
Think about times when you are overflowing with confidence and motivation. We can agree that this is a good thing. But compared to the state your mind was in yesterday, this an abnormal state.
Are you like me and you want your dream to be manifested now?
Do you find yourself creating drama, struggle and doubt when your goals aren’t realized fast enough?
The Universal Truth about achievement is “Success is a Process”.
Period. Get that in your thick skull and receive it in your heart. The sooner you accept this truth, the more powerful you will be in your service to others, the more fun you will have, and ironically, the “quicker” you’ll attract results.
You often hear it said that people are afraid of change (no one likes change but a wet baby!), but that’s not true. People love change – as it comes with a guarantee that it’s going to be a positive change.
To prove this to yourself, imagine a change that entails a zero being added to the dollar figure on your paycheck, no strings attached. Most people dream of such changes! This is, of course, a hypothetical example.
People are not afraid of change per se – what they are afraid of is the uncertainty that goes with change. That is why so many people never venture very far from their own little box.
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge
I have worked with many successful people; people who have achieved the kinds of lives they have dreamed about. I have also worked with many people who are not anywhere near where they want to be in life. Many times those who are not successful resent those who are and believe that somehow success was handed to those who have achieved much.
Even if your body and mind are ready, willing, and able to learn and do whatever is necessary to get the job done, a negative self-image may stop you.
Although we create many outward images of ourselves-so we can interact with or impress others and sell our ideas or services-we only have one self-image. The way we view ourselves determines the level of success we attain in anything. To achieve more success, some parts of our sense of self will have to change.
One of the most frequent questions I’m asked focuses on the issue of confidence, self-esteem, and self worth.