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You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.
I believed that mastering one’s future must surely start with managing one’s “self.”
You will become what you think about most; your success or failure in anything, large or small, will depend on your programming––what you accept from others, and what you say when you talk to yourself.
We are trying to force the brain to do something that it has not been programmed to do.
Those who appear to be “luckier” than the rest have actually only gotten better mental programming to begin with, or have learned how to erase their old negative programming and replace it with something better.
We now know that by an incredibly complex physiological mechanism, a joint effort of body, brain, and “mind,” we become the living result of our own thoughts.
The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice. Through
how successful you will be at anything is inexorably tied directly to the words and beliefs about yourself that you have stored in your subconscious mind.
human brain, that incredibly powerful personal biochemical computer that each of us has, is capable of doing for you anything reasonable that you’d like it to do. But you have to know how to treat it; you have to know how to wire it in the right way. If you do it right, and give it the right directions, it will do the right thing—it will work for you in the right way. But if you give your mental computer the wrong directions, it will act on those wrong directions; it will continue to respond to the negative programming that you and the rest of the world have been giving it. You have literally
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During the first eighteen years of our lives, if we grew up in fairly average, reasonably positive homes, we were told “No” or what we could not do, or what would not work, more than 148,000 times.
Leading behavioral researchers have told us that as much as seventy-seven percent of everything we think is negative, counterproductive, and works against us. At the same time, researchers have said that as much as seventy-five percent of all illnesses are self-induced.
In time, we became what we most believed about ourselves. And in so doing, we created that wall of failure and self-doubt, which for most of us will stand invisibly but powerfully between us and our unlimited future for as long as our old programming remains in force.
Unless the programming we received is erased or replaced with different programming, it will stay with us permanently and affect and direct everything we do for the rest of our lives.
If you had just the right kind of successful new mental programs, would you be doing the same thing for a living that you are doing now? Would you be doing your job in exactly the same way? What about your personal life? Would you change anything, improve anything? Would you have reached any more goals than you have reached? Would you have more money in the bank or any more financial security than you have now? What about your day-to-day life––would it be less frustrating and more rewarding? And, with different preparation or conditioning, what could your future hold? Would it be the same as
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Whatever age you are now, however many successes or failures you’ve had along the way, what if you could now change that old mental programming? What if you could rewire your brain? And what if you could do it in such a way that you could affect and improve your attitudes and your behavior quickly––not through years of difficult study or training, but easily and simply, anytime you chose to do so?
The first ingredient is: in order to work, and keep working, the new idea (or message) has to become physically wired into your brain. Unless the new messages or directions are actually wired into your brain’s neural networks, even the best of the ideas will work only temporarily.
The second ingredient for creating lasting, positive mental changes is: understanding how your brain gets wired, and the role you play in the wiring process. An understanding of how your brain gets programmed puts you in direct control of the process of creating the change and making it last.
The third ingredient for creating positive personal change––which always begins with mental change––is: a new, word-far-word set of directions, new programming to both your conscious and subconscious minds.
The only solution that includes all three of the essential ingredients that create lasting change in the brain, is “self-talk.”
Whatever you put into your mind, in one way or another, is what you will get back out, in one way or another.
Every thought we think, every conscious or unconscious thought we say to ourselves, is translated into electrical impulses in the brain, which, in turn, direct the control centers in our brains to electrically and chemically affect and control every motion, every feeling, every action we take, every moment of every day.
Whatever “thoughts” you programmed into your brain, or have allowed others to program into you, are affecting, directing, or controlling everything about you.
As long as you and I allow others to program us in a way that fits their choosing, we are, without a doubt, out of control, captive to the whims of some unknown destiny, not quite recognizing that what hangs in the balance is the fulfillment of our own futures.
Our experiences, our acceptance of what we heard from others and what we told ourselves, became the foundation for the mental programming which directs us today.
Think what you could do, beginning tomorrow, if the shackles of bad habits, old conditioning, and self-doubt were suddenly gone.
Imagine losing, even for one day, all of the extra weight of self-doubt and disbelief we carry with us. Think how fast you could run.
Think what you could do, beginning tomorrow, if the shackles of bad habits, old conditioning, and self-doubt were suddenly gone.
You already have all of the necessary equipment. You were born with everything you needed to live your life in a most exceptional and worthwhile way. It makes no difference what you have thought or what you have done in the past. From this day on, you can, if you choose, change a little to gain a lot.
that as much as seventy-five percent or more of everything that is recorded and stored in our subconscious minds is counter-productive and works against us––in
say that I called you this evening and told you that I had just chartered an airplane to fly to Europe, and I was inviting you and your family or friends to join me. We are all going to go to Europe for a fabulous two-week vacation (all expenses paid, of course). But now, let’s say that just as we are boarding the plane, we overhear the navigator talking to the captain. We hear him tell the captain that the airplane’s on-board computer––the computer that flies the plane––is programmed wrong. It has been programmed so that seventy-five percent of the directions that will control the plane are
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Rewire. Erase and replace. And it all starts with learning
The more you think about yourself in a certain way, the more you will think about yourself in that same certain way.
The more you think about anything in a certain way, the more you will believe that that is how it really is.
something, the harder it is to change that belief. The longer you have bought the thought, the “truer” it is.
That’s exactly what we do to our brain. No wonder things go wrong. No wonder things don’t work out right! If your mental computer––the one that flies your plane––is programmed with the wrong directions, you cannot possibly be as successful as you would like to be; you cannot get where you want to go.
The human brain will do anything possible you tell it to do if you tell it often enough and strongly enough. If you tell it the wrong thing about yourself, that is what it will accept––and act upon.
The subconscious mind does not see the difference between the statement that we are clumsy and the statement that we are graceful, well-coordinated, and in control. It does not know the difference between being told that we are poor, and the statement that we are wealthy. It accepts our programming just as we give it.
Think for a moment of the dreams you know you could have accomplished in your own life; think of the talents and skills already within you that could have been developed into lasting achievements, if you’d just had the right amount of self-belief––the belief that you could instead of the belief that you could not.
We have learned that what we put into our brains is what we will get back out. We also have learned that the subconscious mind is a sponge; it will believe anything you tell it––it will even believe a lie––if you tell it often enough and strongly enough. That part of the brain makes no moral judgments; it simply accepts what you tell it.
It just accepts and acts upon whatever you program into it.
And as with that computer, it makes no difference whether the things you have told yourself or believed about yourself in the past were true or not. The brain doesn’t care.
Your subconscious mind is working right now. It is working day and night, to make sure that you become precisely the person you have unconsciously described yourself to be. If your programs picture you as having trouble earning enough income, your subconscious mind is doing everything it can, right now, to make sure that you have trouble earning more money. If you have conditioned yourself to believe that you can’t stick to a diet, you can be sure that your subconscious mind will make sure that no diet will work for you––at least not for long.
most of our average, habit-formed, everyday self-talk is the kind that we don’t even notice. It is the kind that we say to ourselves silently, often without words. Much of our self-talk is made up of the quiet nudges of self-doubt, the unspoken fears of little (or grand) failures, and the nagging discomfort of knowing that things aren’t right.
By the time most of us reach adulthood, we are so conditioned to think in a certain way that our pattern of self-talk becomes habit that is physically wired into our brain. It is fixed. And for most, it remains that way.
But there are those who would argue that nothing ever happens by accident––that everything which occurs in our lives does so because of what we mentally “create” to happen.
Most of what seems to happen to you, happens because of you––something you created, directed, influenced, or allowed to happen.
Something you did (or did not do) was the cause of that success or failure.
Behavior means our actions. How we act, what we do, each moment of each day will determine whether or not we will be successful that moment or that day in anything that we do.
most cases, if you do the right thing, you’re going to achieve the right results.
if your actions are those which work for you instead of against you, the likelihood is that things around you will have a better chance of working for you instead of against you.
