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Taking responsibility is in my opinion one of the best measures of a person’s power and maturity.
If you don’t believe in failure, if you know you’ll achieve your outcome, you have
nothing to lose and everything to gain by taking responsibility. If you’re in control, you’ll succeed.
Those who take responsibility are in power. Those who avoid it are disempowered.
Belief #4: It’s not necessary to understand everything to be able to use everything.
Belief #5: People are your greatest resource.
We have to constantly remain alert, readjust our behavior, and recalibrate our actions to make sure we’re going where we want to go.
Belief #6: Work is play.
Belief #7: There’s no abiding success without commitment.
W.I.T.—Whatever It Takes. Successful people are willing to do whatever it takes to succeed.*
Basically, you can live your life one of two ways. You can let your
brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash you any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog responding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself.
Understanding strategy is absolutely essential to success in sales.
state is the juice that gets the circuits going.
Knowing the love strategy of your partner or your child can be one of the most powerful understandings you develop in supporting your relationship.
If you adopt a vital, dynamic, excited physiology, you automatically adopt the same kind of state. The biggest leverage we have in any situation is physiology—because it works so fast, and it works without fail. Physiology and internal representations are totally linked.
If you change your physiology—that is, your posture, your breathing patterns, your muscle tension, your tonality—you instantly change your internal representations and your state.
you can’t have an emotion without a corresponding change in physiology. And you can’t have a change in physiology without a corresponding change in state. There are two ways to change state, by changing internal representations or by changing physiology. So if you want to change your state in an instant—what do you do? Zap\ You change your
physiology—that is, your breathing, your posture, your facial expression, the quality of your movement, and so on.
Everything that scientists are finding today emphasizes one thing: sickness and health, vitality and depression are often decisions. They’re things we can decide to do with our physiology.
The same technique can be practiced whenever we feel we can’t do something—we can’t approach that woman or man, we can’t talk to the boss, and so on. We can change our states and empower ourselves to take action
either by changing the pictures and dialogues in our minds or by changing how we are standing, how we are breathing, and the tone of voice we are using. The ideal is to change both physiology and tone. Having done this, we can immediately feel resourceful and be able to follow through with the actions necessary to produce the results we desire.
smiling and laughing set off biological processes that, in fact, make us feel good. They increase the flow of blood to the brain and change the level of oxygen, the level of stimulation of the neurotransmitters.
We’re learning so much now about mind/body correlations that some people teach that all you really have to do is take good care of your body. If your body is working at peak levels, your brain will work more effectively as well. The better you use your body, the better your brain is going to work.
Congruence is power. People who consistently succeed are those who can commit all of their resources, mental and physical, to work together toward achieving a task.
Let’s start with the first key to living health—the power of breath.
One count inhale, four counts hold, two counts exhale.
There is no food or vitamin pill in the world that can do for you what excellent breathing patterns can do.
The second key is the principle of eating water-rich foods.
The third key to living health is the principle of effective food combining.
“Take care of your stomach for the first fifty years, and it will take care of you for the next fifty.”
Let’s go on the fourth key, the law of controlled consumption.
The fifth key to the living health program is the principle of effective fruit consumption.
You must always eat fruit on an empty stomach.
The sixth key to living health is the protein myth.
What if you started your day by taking ten deep, clean, powerful breaths that invigorated your whole system? What if you began every day feeling alert and joyful and in control of your body? What if you started eating healthy, cleansing, water-content foods and stopped eating the meat and dairy products that were stressing and clogging up your system? What if you began combining foods properly so your energy was available for the things that really mattered? What if you went to bed every night feeling you had experienced the total vibrancy that allowed
you to be all you could be? What if you felt as if you were living health—and you had energy you never dreamed was possible?
“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals—that is, goals that do not inspire them.“
Why to do something is much more important than how to do it. If you get a big-enough why, you can always figure out the how. If you have enough reasons, you can do virtually anything in this world.
One of the reasons most people don’t do well in life is because success is usually disguised behind hard work.
It’s been said that there are only two pains in life, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret, and that discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
If your life is worth living,
it’s worth recording.
Having a clear, precise target, my powerful unconscious mind guided my thoughts and actions to produce the results I desired.
No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you’ll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.
They know they have to change their language, their tonality, their breathing patterns, their gestures, until they discover an approach that is successful in achieving their outcome.
A lot of very smart people spend their careers totally frustrated because they’re doing jobs that don’t make the best use of their inherent capabilities.
Another metaprogram is possibility versus necessity.
Someone motivated by possibility would probably be bored stiff in a job like that, while someone motivated by necessity would feel perfectly attuned to it.
A person motivated by possibilities is always looking for new options, new enterprises, new challenges. If he finds another job that seems to offer more potential, there’s a good chance he’ll leave.
