5. mindset: means reprogramming your subconscious and conscious minds for a greater inclination for success putting you on an automatic path to achievement. Principles: gratitude, paradigms, believing, manifestation, law of attraction, creating your situation, declarations and affirmations, mental reprogramming, creating confidence
Hi, my name is Ben Balden. My life’s mission is to help everyone live a happier, fuller life. My intention for creating this information here is to realize my vision of a world full of happy and successful people at peace with themselves and in harmony with others. I warmly invite you to join me in this passionate cause: to help all people everywhere live a happier, fuller life. Let’s start with ourselves.
The Main Idea
The main idea of managing your mindset is that if you can design your mindset, you can determine, for the most part, the direction your life will naturally head. To put this another way, if you get your mindset right, you get the results you want.
Managing your mindset is about aligning your subconscious mind with your conscious mind. Those things you say you want and are working toward are also what your subconscious mind is working toward, expecting, and looking for.
As you will see, managing your mindset is about…
- adjusting your attitude,
- calibrating your inclinations,
- orienting your disposition,
- cleaning up your interpretations of your world, and
- clarifying your thoughts and beliefs.
In essence, managing your mindset is about reprogramming your mind.
EXPECTED TIME FOR COMPLETION: 1 hour 30 Minutes
What We Will Cover
Understanding how your mind works, how you make choices (both subconscious and conscious), and what influences those choices will give us the key to having greater control of the outcome of our lives. So, we’re going to talk about…
- Choices
- The Role of Mindset
- Programming – how your mind is programmed
- Reprogramming – how to take an active role in your mind’s responses
- Manifesting – the power of putting it all together
Choices
Choices are how we steer our lives. What we experience is determined by a collection or a series of choices we made in the past. So, it follows that to change our life, we merely need to change our choices. That is to say, make the right choices and live the life of your dreams.
Sounds easy, right? Wrong. It’s simple, but not easy. First, we must understand choices. Right now you might think you are in control of your choices and your life, but that’s not exactly true. Making decisions requires contemplation, deliberation, energy, and focus. Because making many decisions can cause decision fatigue, you want to limit the number of choices you make.1 You simply do not have the capacity, energy, or physical ability to consciously make every necessary choice in your life. It’s impossible because of the sheer number of choices you must make every day.
To function every day, you make over 35,000 choices2. Just to put that in perspective, there are only 86,400 seconds a day, so that’s about a new, distinct choice every 2 seconds. How can your body survive this!?! Automation.
Automation Needed!
Your brain will naturally automate the majority of your choices through physical reflexes, pre-made choices, and automatic steering mechanisms like your autonomic nervous system or your subconscious3.
Your subconscious mind is what we want to focus on here. The subconscious mind is your emotional and feeling mind. It controls the body and determines your mood, feelings, emotions, energy, and wellbeing. It accepts the information we put into it without question – it can’t critique or reject it. And it can’t distinguish between what is real and imagined. An example of your subconscious mind responding automatically is when someone automatically gets mad when cut-off in traffic. The way your subconscious mind reacts or responds to external stimuli is programmed by what you put into it from the moment it began to function.
Your subconscious mind…
- Emotional, feeling, mood
- Controls the body
- Accepts information without questioning it
- Can’t distinguish between real and imagined
- Automatically reacts to stimuli
Understanding Is Key
Understanding the subconscious mind is the key to automatically steering your mental ship, and automatically making decisions that will support you as you work toward your dreams. You can’t fight every decision your subconscious mind makes because you don’t have the capacity in your conscious mind to handle that many decisions and you are often not aware the decisions are being made in the first place. Your subconscious mind is responsible for the majority of decisions in your world including importantly how you feel.
Left unchecked, all the choices made by your subconscious mind can sabotage or support decisions made by your conscious mind. The trick is to put ideas, information, and programming into your subconscious mind to be in alignment with decisions you are making in your conscious mind.
The current state of your subconscious programming is commonly referred to as your mindset.
The Role of Mindset
If you can get your mindset right, your ship will naturally steer toward your goal. It’s like programming your subconscious computer with the coordinates of your destination.
What is Mindset?
mindset /ˈmīn(d)set/
noun: the established set of attitudes held by someone.
To me, this definition lacks depth. Mindset has become a “term of art” in the personal development world.
Your mindset is your way of thinking, interpreting the world, your attitude, or your mental inclination or disposition to think in a certain way. It is composed of your thoughts and beliefs that shape your way of understanding, interpreting, and reacting in the way you think, feel, and do to things that happen in the world.4 Your mindset is essentially the story you keep telling yourself about yourself.
- Attitude
- Inclination
- Disposition
- Interpretation
- Thoughts
- Beliefs
Personal Development Books
Many personal development books refer to your mindset and the importance of making adjustments to improve your life situation. Dr. Stephen Covey in his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, refers to the mindset as a paradigm, or way of seeing the world. In his book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker refers to the mindset at mental files stored away in your brain like a data storage system. It’s all beliefs, information, and ideas your mind uses to make choices and impose on you the world you believe you should have. Many people see it as “your beliefs” or as Tony Robbins puts it, a feeling of certainty about something5 Just to be clear, we are not talking about religious beliefs, but the way that you individually perceive reality.
Ways that books refer to mindset…
- Mindset
- Paradigms
- Mental Files
- Beliefs
- Story or Script
The Mindset Formula
Many Personal Development experts present a formula for influencing your life’s situation by adjusting your subconscious mindset.
- T > F > A = R (Thoughts lead to Feelings lead to Actions which bring about Results)6
- E + R = O (Event + Response = Outcome)7
- B > T > F > A > R (Beliefs inspire your Thoughts which influence your Feelings that lead to your Actions that determine your Results)
- S – C – R (In between Stimulus and Response, you have a Choice)8
- E>D>A>D (Emotions trigger Decisions cause Actions lead to your Destiny)9
- C+D+C+A+P+A=>R (6 Success Elements: Clarification, Deliberation, Choice, Affirmation, Planning, and Acting bring Results10
The differences between these different models are just semantics, and we could arbitrarily put any number of words together or string items in line to go from something in the subconscious to the life you are experiencing. The concept is basically the same. The information in your subconscious (your mindset) influences your feelings, which in turn control the outcome of your actions and results.
Mindset >>> Feelings >>> Actions >>> Results
While, yes, you can interject and overcome your feelings and consciously choose different actions to influence your results. Trying to fight against your subconscious would be extremely difficult and the results would not be lasting.
The change needs to happen at the subconscious belief level. It is too hard to change our mood or feelings everytime they go wrong, and it’s too much to try to change our actions every single time. It takes too much vigilance, energy and willpower to keep up with all the holes in the boat. It is much easier if we focus on the root cause of errant feelings and actions, and eliminate the cause of the holes.
The key here is to focus on refining, adjusting, and aligning your mindset, your subconscious mind, your beliefs, and those thoughts that run over and over in your mind.
Willpower Alone Is Not Reliable
One common myth or misconception is that if we just apply our willpower we can overcome or accomplish anything. This is a good short-term solution. Just think of a successful first week to your diet or making good progress on your New Year’s resolutions. But, the truth is that 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by the second week of February.11
Why? It is because most people rely on sheer willpower. That is they rely on the strength of their conscious mind to overcome the inclination of their subconscious or past habits. Tim Ferriss, a life hacker and blogger tells us that self-control is overrated and willpower is not reliable12. It just takes too much energy to keep your willpower at a high enough level to overcome your normal flow or programmed inclinations. He suggests creating systems, making less choices, physically eliminating choices, and lowering the activation energy by doing things like putting your gym clothes next to your bed. These are very good and practical ideas. They are like symptom management that deals with the reality of the here and now, but leaves the root cause unaddressed.
Sabotage or Support
You can split your mindset, your beliefs, or your mental files into two categories: (1) ones that support you, and (2) ones that sabotage you. Sometimes beliefs are not based in reality or they are nothing more than a subjective interpretation.
For example, take a phrase like, “I am healthy.” If this information is lodged in your subconscious it will likely support you even though “healthy” is relative and very subjective. Your mind will interpret what that means based on other information and beliefs you store there on “healthy.”
A belief that is aligned without a conscious vision for our life is supportive. But it’s possible to have beliefs that work against us. Like wanting to be financially strong but subconsciously believing that we are a financial mess. We want one thing and believe another. What then happens is that our subconscious gravitates our moods and actions to “create” a world that conforms to our inner beliefs, and we witness ourselves making stupid decisions and mistakes that sabotage our efforts to work toward our goals. Another word for self-sabotage is upperlimiting.
Introducing false beliefs. Sometimes even without being aware, our subconscious accepts and stores information that we know is false and uses that information to both interpret the world around us and make automatic choices by influencing our mindset, feelings, and thus our action.
Some believe that reality sometimes is only what we perceive it to be. There is only significance to what we perceive in the world when we assign significance to it.
Mindset Thermostat
Your mindset, your beliefs, or your subconscious has a thermostat that regulates the results you experience in life. If you begin to have better results than your inner programming thinks you should have, then your inner-mind will begin to make automatic decisions for you to bring your “reality” back into line with what you “believe” reality should properly be like in your subconscious mind, your mindset. Your mindset will keep bringing your reality back to your belief zone.
The same is true on the bottom of the curve. If you begin to have lower results than you believe you should have, your subconscious mind starts to influence your emotions, feelings, and make those automatic choices that will bring your reality back into line with what you feel or believe it should be.
Examples:
There are many examples of how our beliefs or mindsets limit or lift us…
- Dieting – You weigh the weight you believe you should weigh. When you are successful with a diet and lose those pounds without adjusting your thinking and beliefs, you will find that once your willpower or your diet ends, the pounds will come back on.
- Financial Ceiling – You make the amount of money you believe you should make. When you start to make more money than you really believe you are worth, your subconscious will find a way to somehow sabotage your success and even out your earnings to bring you back to the level you believe you should be at.
- Bad Relationships – You attract the partner you believe you should be with. If you believe that you only deserve a certain, “level,” of partner, you will attract that type of person. When someone better comes along, you will subconsciously sabotage the relationship by feeling, acting, or behaving in a way that ends a good thing. When you experience a bad relationship, lower than your belief zone, you will subconsciously move out of that one, too.
- Lucky – You have luck in the area of life you believe you are lucky in. When you are in a situation in life when you believe you will win a certain contest or get lucky, you subconsciously do things to improve the chances of manifesting your luck in reality.
- Magnetism – You attract people, money, opportunities in your life because you believe that’s how it works. Some people just believe they attract certain things into their life, and their subconscious goes to work to make automatic choices to bring this into reality.
Programming
So, are you just destined to be what you believe you will be? Well, yes and no. You will keep coming back to the programming unless your programming is changed. And unless it is changed, things will remain the same as they were programmed to be earlier in your life.
How Was I Programmed?
Your subconscious mind begins as a blank slate, and as you experience life, information goes in and the programming takes form. To understand how it was programmed, let’s look at the characteristics of the subconscious mind.
Your subconscious mind…
- Emotional, feeling, mood
- Controls the body
- Accepts information without questioning it
- Can’t distinguish between real and imagined
- Automatically reacts to stimuli
Our beliefs and perceptions of the world around us have formed through our environment (what we see around us), the evidence we gain that supports theories we form about the truth of how our world works, and the experiences we have and how we interpret them against information we have already collected.
For instance, if we find a coin on the ground, we may take it as evidence to support our current beliefs. If we believe we are poor, we might be upset that it was just a quarter. If we believe we are rich, we might wonder at how easily money in any form just shows up in our life.
All this evidence comes to us in three main ways:
- The words we hear ourselves and others say
- The behavior we witness others model
- The results we experience personally
All of this input we receive, even from an early age, gets put into our minds (both conscious and subconscious). Our conscious mind can analyze and eliminate thoughts we consider unsupportive, but our subconscious mind cannot. It just accepts in the information without questioning it.
When we hear words said, we program that information into our mind. Thus, when we hear someone say something like, “You’re dumb.” We think that thought, feel hurt, and our subconscious stores that and uses the thought that we are dumb to make those automatic decisions. That is to say, that if the thought is of use being dumb, our subconscious mind will make those background, automatic decisions to make being dumb a reality. We have been programmed, and the program is running.
The same thing is true for things we witness people doing (their behavior), especially our parents or people we respect. When we see them doing something, the nurture vs. nature animal instincts kick in and program us how to act when facing those similar events. Thus, when a child witnessed the behavior of parents shouting at each other to solve a problem, their subconscious mind stores that as an appropriate way to solve problems with a loved one. The program is set and without knowing, the child will use the program when he is older and faces a problem with his spouse.
Anything we experience things personally, that information is subconsciously stored to be recalled later for our benefit. And this happens without us even thinking of it. We might have been bitten by a snake in the grass when we were young. And the deep trauma and feelings of that experience strongly embeds this information in our mind. We might decide the grass is bad. We might store it as a bad interaction with animals, and then no longer care to experience animals.
How we interpret these things is just as important as experiencing them. Then without us even realizing it, our subconscious is running that program in the back of our mind, and we suddenly don’t feel physically well, on in a good mood when it comes time to participate in an activity that is to take place on the grass. We don’t even know why. It’s because, unknown to your conscious mind which made peace with the situation, our subconscious mind is using the information to automatically steer us to a better life of not getting bitten by snakes again. The program is set and running.
Reprogramming
Unhappy with your current program? Well, humans have this unique and awesome quality: we can by exercising our intelligence and power of choice greatly influence our program to the extent that we can reprogram ourselves. It’s easy to rewrite the information stored in our conscious mind. We just analyze if that information is supporting our ultimate life goals and if it isn’t, we choose to consciously ignore it.
Our subconscious mind works differently, however. It cannot analyze the information coming it. It just accepts it and acts on it. Our subconscious mind will need to be reprogrammed in the same way: putting in more information. Being consistent with the information we put into the subconscious will eventually establish that the information is reliable, consistent, and therefore true. A new program is in place.
So, how do we do this?
Now that we understand how our mind was programmed in the first place, we can reprogram it in the same way – using the same concepts. Once we are aware of an unsupportive belief or view of the world, we can seek to understand it and change it. This is a conscious process.
In his book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker refers to 4 fundamental elements of change:
- Awareness – You must first be aware of the section of programming that needs to be changed, or be aware that you simply need to change.
- Understanding – You need to understand at some level why the program is the way it is, such as where the false belief came from.
- Dissociation – You need to remove your need for that false or unsupportive memory file, belief, or programming.
- Reconditioning – Now you begin, using the same methods above to rewrite the new programming through words, behavior, and results.
Let’s discuss each step in turn…
Step 1) Awareness
This step is very important. You can’t fix something you are not aware of. So, how do we become aware of it? Pay attention.
Now that you know how your subconscious mind works and about non-supportive programming, beliefs, and perceptions, you can look for them.
The next time you are frustrated with a result you experience, ask yourself:
- What did I do to contribute to or cause that result?
- What is the programming going on here?
- What event or stimuli triggered my response?
- Why did I respond or react this way?
This might take some pondering, but working on one bit of the program at a time will eventually get you there.
Step 2) Understanding
Once we know something is there and is not right, we need to understand it a little better. You can ask yourself…
- What belief might be behind this?
- When was the first time in my life I felt like that?
- What caused me to think or believe that way?
- What is the true or supportive believe or perception I need to adopt?
Step 3) Dissociation
Make a decision to let it go and leave behind the old unsupportive way of thinking. Sometimes old beliefs just need to simply be acknowledged and your conscious mind will begin the reprogramming process on its own. Every time that thought comes up, you will say to yourself, “No, actually we decided that wasn’t true anymore. Here is the truth.”
But there will be very stubborn thoughts that will take a more concerted conscious effort to reprogram.
Step 4) Reconditioning
Part of permanently removing the old unsupportive programming is putting in the new supportive programming.
How do you do that? The same way the previous programming was put in. For a while there, two conflicting programs will exist together, side-by-side. Remember, the subconscious can’t analyze and throw one out. The only way to get it out is to continually dilute the old one by no longer strengthening it and continually strengthen the new one by consistently sending the same message to your brain as strongly as possible.
When your subconscious mind continually gets the same message and it is strengthened by evidence from many areas, the newness and consistent presence will overwrite and replace the old programming. Expect some pain and discomfort going through this process. The old programming will continue to reassert itself until the new program is put in enough.
So how do we get it in? Put in the new program through human-input methods: words we hear, the behavior we witness (modeling), and personal experiences we feel.
Words We Hear
The words we hear are so powerful. They can scar us for years or boost and encourage us even in the most trying circumstances.
Solution: feed your mind with good supportive words.
These words can come from you or from others.
- Self: Affirmations – Affirmations are words you speak to yourself in your head or out loud. They affirm a belief or desired result in the world. An example of this would be, “I accept myself, and deeply believe that I am smart enough and good enough.”
- Self: Declarations – Declarations are simply positive statements you emphatically make out loud.13 An example of this would be, “I am smart. People tell me I’m smart. I do smart things.”
- Self: Mantra – A mantra is a sound or idea that you use as a focal point in meditation. One of the differences is that usually you only have one mantra to think on or repeat throughout the day or intensely during meditation as opposed to several declarations or affirmations you repeat to yourself. The main mantra used in the book The Big Leap by PhD Hendricks Gay is, “I expand in abundance, success, and love every day, as I inspire those around me to do the same.” You can personalize this or develop one for yourself.
- Others: Supportive words – Seek out supportive words from friends. Remove yourself from situations and people that feed you with negative words. You need and deserve to hear good and supportive words from people who care about you. Seek it out. Have a talk to them, and ask them to cheer you on with positive supportive words. An example something you would say would be, “Fred, I’m really motivated by praise and appreciation. Can you tell me again how well you liked my presentation?”
TIPS: For Affirmations and Declarations you speak to yourself
- They are most powerful accompanied by feelings.
- For best results speak them out loud.
- Speak them to yourself in the mirror.
What We See – Modeling Behavior
Witnessing other people behave or misbehave has had a lot of influence on us. It’s now time to turn that in our favor by consciously choosing what we witness.
WYSIWYG
What We See Is What We Get (W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G) works not only with computer programs but also for real life14. Many people are familiar with the nature vs. nurture philosophical question whether our behavior comes from our genetic (chemical) makeup or from how we were raised. As it turns out much of what how we learn to act comes from observing other people acting, especially our parents.
Conscious Choice
Start by making a conscious choice to see more supportive behavior in your life. So you will need to surround yourself with good people who do good things. You will need to pay more attention to these good things and chose to interpret the world in a way that supports your new programming.
Good Friends
Surrounding yourself with good friends will help you in a number of ways. Not the least of which is that you can see and model their supportive behavior. Some say that you are the average of your 5 closest friends. If your friends are not people you want to end up being like, you need to make some choices in who you build and maintain relationships with.
You don’t need to ruthlessly eliminate people from your life, you just focus on building relationships with people you like and want to be like.
Reduce harmful, unsupportive relationships down to 3-minute relations. You don’t spend much time with them or interacting with them. You don’t go out of your way to build or maintain that relationship.
Increase supportive relationships with people who support you and set a good example for you and are people you would like to be more like. These are people you will seek to spend time with, and you will focus on building those relationships with.
Good Books
There are people you may want to be with, but they are not in your life. Fortunately, many of these successful people left clues for us. And many of them wrote those down in great books. Filling your mind with inspirational thoughts and principles of success and growth is one way we can model successful behavior.
Many books would be very helpful in this regard. Read autobiographies of people you admire. Let go of novels or stories (and even movies) of people who act and behave in a way that is not supportive of your goals. Seek out self-help and personal growth books that will fill your life with information to solve problems.
Re-Interpretation
Sometimes when you think of the behavior you witnessed in the past, looking at it in a new light or interpreting it differently presents a wonderful opportunity to witness behavior all over again.
Much of the behavior we learned came from when we were young and is still there because we automatically reinforce currently held beliefs. Most people find there is a majority of behavior we learned from our parents. Reinterpreting what we witnessed serves us in two ways: it honors and respects those relationships, and repolarizes those past memories coloring them with positive emotions rather than burying or rejecting them.
One way to reinterpret behavior we have witnessed in the past is through forgiveness and understanding. “My parents did this to me. It was not good. But, they were young and they were doing the best they knew how. I understand that now and realize that what motivated them was a love for me. I love them, too. But, now I’m blessed to know something they did not know. I am choosing a different path. I will act differently. They will be proud of me for acting on this new knowledge.”
What We Feel & Experience
One of the strongest evidence we can present to our mind is our past experience. When we experience something in life, it can have unintended and unsupportive consequences.
Like the scientific method, we learn by trying things out and observing the results. While the scientific method has served humanity well, it occasionally fails the individual who takes a sample size of one and bases his knowledge of the world on the rare outcome of a bad experience.
The solution: create good, positive experiences.
Create Experiences
First of all, we need to create good experiences. If we are afraid of public speaking because of a bad experience we had as a child, we need to create good experiences of public speaking. This can be easily done with practice and a bit of work. You may need the encouragement of friends or a bit of old-fashioned courage.
Supportive Evidence
We need to seek out the positive. Look for evidence in our experiences that we can interpret in our favor. How can we see our past and current experiences as evidence that supports good supportive beliefs
Manifesting
What is manifesting? Manifesting is consciously taking part in the creation of who you are and what your future will be.
man·i·fest /ˈmanəˌfest/
verb 1. display or show (a quality or feeling) by one’s acts or appearance; demonstrate.
You are intelligently tapping into the mindset formula, adjusting your autopilot settings, and charting a course to bliss.
Mindset >>> Feelings >>> Actions >>> Results
Manifesting is making it happen. You can do this in a few ways:
- Visualize your Purpose and Vision – this gets your mind in gear thinking about strategies and solutions to work toward these goals.
- Being grateful for all the good – causes you to focus on the good and supportive things in life. You will be in a better position to notice more good that comes along and even take advantage of what is already there.
- Reprogram – Follow the steps above to make sure that your ship is headed in the right direction, and the auto-pilot is aligned with your goals.
- Move forward – Put your plan into action.
Conclusion / Recap
In conclusion, managing your mind is about creating the mindset that will propel you to the results you want.
It’s about aligning your conscious mind (what you have chosen) with your subconscious mind (what automatic programming exists for you).
Managing your mindset is about making those adjustments to your automatic responses to get your bearings facing your dream life.
Application in Your Life
What’s to be done? There is a lot here to think about. What is the first step?
Part of what we discussed today is just understanding your mind and how it works, which lays the foundation for taking the necessary action to realize effective results. The other part is a methodology. Here are four steps to begin to apply that methodology:
- Step 1) Pick a program to rewrite (awareness)
- Step 2) Understand the current program (understanding)
- Step 3) Choose to change this one (dissociation)
- Step 4) Recondition your mind (reconditioning – declaration, observation, and experimentation)
Here the steps are broken down (download the worksheet for more):
- Step 1) Pick a program to rewrite – how do you find one or identify it? Think of something you did recently that you didn’t understand why you did it. Like eating too much, making a bad money decision, losing your temper with a loved one, etc. Or you can think of a result in your life that you are not happy with.
- What did I do to contribute or to cause that result?
- What event or stimuli triggered my response?
- Why did I respond or react this way?
- What is the programming going on here?
- Step 2) Understand the current program – Ponder and ask yourself questions about this issue to try and understand the unsupportive belief behind it.
- What belief might be behind this?
- When was the first time in my life I felt like that?
- What caused me to think or believe that way?
- What is the true or supportive believe or perception I need to adopt?
- Step 3) Choose to change this one – Once you have identified and learned more about the automatic programming in your subconscious, make a conscious decision to fix this. Muster up the courage to let this unsupportive belief go. You may need to reassure yourself. You must decide to let all or even just a part of this issue go. Acknowledge these thoughts are only thoughts or beliefs you have learned – they can be unlearned. They are not who you are. You can change. If you still can’t release or let this belief or though go, return to step one and choose another. Don’t force or fake it. Do it for real and forever.
- Step 4) Recondition your mind – This has three parts to it and must be repeated over time until it feels no longer necessary.
- Declaration – Use your intelligence to create a declaration you can speak out loud to yourself right now.
- Observation – Think of something you have observed that will reinforce this new thought or belief. It may be big or small. Anything.
- Experimentation – Plan and carry out some physical action that supports your new belief. Make sure it has a positive result.
The Oil Advantage
Essential oils can help unlock your mind, get your moving, and bring courage and conviction in times of doubt and hesitation. They can help give you the extra boost to get you where you want to go. Here are some blends to try.
About The MINDSET Blend
Mindset. That’s where things start and where some things end. This blend is designed to help people build beliefs, change thinking, discard old ways and take on new ways of thinking. To improve, adapt, and lift your mindset to serve you and drive you toward a happier, fuller life.
Learn How To Make The MINDSET Blend Here
About The GRATITUDE Blend
I designed this blend to foster genuine feelings of appreciation and gratitude for your life as it is right now, for your blessings and opportunities.
Learn How To Make The GRATITUDE Blend Here
I only use doTERRA essential oils. The best way to buy doTERRA oils is through a wholesale account where you can save 50%-80% when you buy.
Open a Wholesale Account Today
Thank You
Thank you for joining me on this Personal Development journey.
Books Mentioned in This Post
Steve Jobs Hardcover by Walter Isaacson
Buy “Steve Jobs” HereThe Success Principles by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer
Buy “The Success Principles” HereStress Free for Good by Frederic Luskin and Dr. Ken Pelletier
Buy “Stress Free for Good” HereSecrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker
Buy “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” Here
Footnotes and References
- “The downside of this decision fatigue is two-fold: when we get tired of making decisions, we either (1) start avoiding making decisions and (2) worse we don’t make the right decisions. But high-achievers selectively choose to avoid decisions, which are not worthy of their precious time. Former President Barack Obama was once asked generally about how he makes decisions. He said, ‘You’ll see, I wear only gray or blue suits. I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing, because I have too many other decisions to make.’ Also, look at Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg — they all wore pretty much the same outfits every day giving themselves one less decision to think about.” See source here.
- “Various internet sources estimate that an adult makes about 35,000 remotely conscious decisions each day (in contrast a child makes about 3,000) (Sahakian & Labuzetta, 2013). This number may sound absurd, but in fact, we make 226.7 decisions each day on just food alone according to researchers at Cornell University (Wansink and Sobal, 2007). As your level of responsibility increases, so does the smorgasbord of choices you are faced with.” quote from “35,000 Decisions: The Great Choices of Strategic Leaders” by Dr. Joel Hoomans on Roberts Wesleyan College. Thank you, Dr. Hoomans.
- I’m not fully versed on how the autonomic nervous system and the subconscious mind relate, but here are some sources from Wikipedia that will function as good primers Autonomic Nervous System and the Subconscious
- For an in-depth review of the word, “mindset” check out this post by JD
- According to Tony Robbins, a belief is simply a feeling of certainty about something. For example, if you believe that you’re intelligent, all you’re really saying is, “I feel certain that I’m intelligent.” What is Mindset by JD on Sources of Insight website http://sourcesofinsight.com/what-is-mindset/
- In his book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker refers this as the process of manifestation
- Jack Canfield calls this the responsibility formula in his book The Success Principles by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer
- Dr. Stephen Covey in his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, refers to this as your opportunity to direct your life
- Tony Robbins in his programs and books Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins and Ultimate Edge
- “A well-known Italian psychiatrist, Dr. Rudolph Assagioli, found that successful people use specific steps that include clarification, deliberation, choice, affirmation, planning, and acting on the plan. Assagioli found that people who have trouble acting effectively tend to have a weakness in one or another of these steps. Some people struggle because they aren’t clear on what they want to do; others, because they can’t think of enough options; and still others, because they have difficulty choosing a path of action.” Stress Free for Good by Frederic Luskin and Dr. Ken Pelletier; CH6 (get this book on Amazon http://amzn.to/2oNa6rb)
- “Come the first of January, the hoards of enthusiastic resolutions-ers account for the swelling number of gym, yoga and Pilates memberships as the diet books fly off the book store shelves. By the second week of February, some 80 percent of those resolution-ers are back home with a new kind of remorse staring back at them in the mirror – the remorse of disappointment.” Why 80 Percent of New Year’s Resolutions Fail by Joseph Luciani U.S. News and World Report; last accessed Nov 15 https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2015-12-29/why-80-percent-of-new-years-resolutions-fail
- https://medium.com/the-mission/willpower-is-limited-here-s-one-way-to-work-without-it-59e8b630ea28
- “What’s a declaration? It’s simply a positive statement that you make emphatically, out loud. … The difference between a declaration and an affirmation is slight, but in my mind, powerful. The definition of an affirmation is a positive statement asserting that a goal you wish to achieve is already happening. The definition of a declaration is “to state an official intention to undertake a particular course of action or adopt a particular status. An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I’m not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something that is not yet real, the little voice in our head usually responds with ‘This isn’t true, this is BS.’” Part One: Your Money Blueprint, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker
- This is a computing term to refer to features in desktop software which makes the user interface closely resemble the finished product or document See Wikipedia for more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG
View Contents
1 Comment
Leave your reply.