A glance in any book shop today is bound to reveal a ton of autobiographies. Successful people explaining how they made it in life. From footballers to business magnates, their stories have a common theme. They overcame the problems that came their way by maintaining an optimistic outlook. To be achievers we must nurture helpful, optimistic thoughts, and drown out negative excuses of why we can’t do something. This is the way life works.
For people who are on a slimming diet, this attitude to weight loss is the key. To successfully complete a weight reduction program, an optimistic mindset is the biggest tool in a dieter’s workbox. An optimistic approach brings about all sorts of opportunities to achieve. It throws up possibilities we might not previously have thought of. On the other hand, a negative outlook blocks us and numbs our ‘can-do’ receptors.
This is because we have an automatic mechanism in our brain that tells us what to focus on. It’s normal for things that were once pressing thoughts to move to the back of our minds – as we store all our previous experiences in the sub conscious bit, or the back so to speak.
When we consciously attempt to do anything, our Reticular Activation System (RAS) will search the sub-conscious mind for any relevant information it holds, and bring it to our attention. If we’re walking down a street, we’re only made aware of things that have meaning to us – the rest is just background noise.
As a result, when we’ve fed our sub conscious with buoyant, optimistic communications, we can expect those to be reciprocated. But if our sub-conscious has been given loads of downbeat messages, then that’s equally what will be sent back.
We have an element of control over this. Successful people have generally worked on their attitude and restricted the amount of negative being stored. This makes it an essential instrument for achieving goals, as the sub-conscious mind can’t distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t.
In other words, as it believes what it’s told, we need to create a very specific picture of our goal in our conscious mind. Unquestioningly, our Reticular Activation System will move that positive vision into our ‘mental storage section’, which is then poised to help us with goal achievement. This is done by bringing to our notice all the meaningful information which might otherwise have just been ‘background noise’.
Napoleon Hill said that we can achieve any (realistic) goal if we keep on thinking of that goal, and don’t think any negative thoughts about it. Conversely, our subconscious will help us not to achieve a goal if we keep having pessimistic thoughts about it.
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