Why do you suppose farmers plough the soil in a field before planting seeds? To improve the soil so their crops will grow better.
If you think of your goals as the seeds, then you need to improve the condition of the soil [your mind] before your goals will materialise.
Your goals need to be firmly embedded into a part of your mind called the subconscious before your brain can work out how to achieve them for you.
Sometimes you set a goal and take action but nothing ever comes of it. Something is stopping your achievement.
Often the reason goals fail is because there is a civil war raging in your mind, and it goes like this:
You have a positive thought:
‘I have £10,000,000 in my bank account.’
But straightaway you get a negative thought that blocks the positive one.
‘No one in my family ever had any money. This is never going to happen for me.’
The civil war going on in your head is one thought fighting or being cancelled out by another.
The positive thought is being sabotaged by the negative thought.
This is an important point to grasp because through understanding this, you can finally get your goals working.
The key to imprinting or ploughing your goal into your mind is to get rid of any opposing thoughts like the one above which says that getting any amount of money will never happen.
There are a couple of ways you can achieve this:
- Use my stress-busting video to improve your ability to focus on your goal with little or no opposition.
[If you haven’t seen it, contact me and I’ll send it to you].
Practice this one-minute exercise from the video several times through the day.
Over a period of time you will have built up your ability to focus easily on your goals without a negative thought coming into your head.
Learning to focus is like ploughing a field before you plant the seeds, without which your goal will not come about.
- Every night before you sleep – read the goal out loud before closing your eyes.
- When waking up in the morning, run the goal through your head before you pop out of bed.
The time of day is important because your mind will put up little to no resistance to the goals that you want.
This works because once you are able to hold your goal in your mind without a negative thought popping in your head, your mind will course correct until you hit your goal.
We owe our thanks to MAXWELL MALTZ, a plastic surgeon who discovered that the human brain is like cybernetic machinery.
Cybernetics is the study of self-correcting, goal-seeking mechanisms such as heat-seeking missiles or self-guided torpedoes. When you aim a missile at a target, it starts moving towards the target, but it almost immediately begins to drift off course. The purpose of cybernetic machinery is to detect this drift and make adjustments – correcting the course – aiming the missile back to the target, where it begins to drift off course again, etc.
Maltz says that humans have what amounts to a ‘cybernetic mechanism’ in our brains. The brain only needs a goal and the motivation to take action, and it will help you continually correct your course until you achieve the goal.
Leave a Reply