You will only ever achieve the level
of success you believe you deserve and that you believe you have the skill and
ability to achieve. The reason for this is that your beliefs are what
ultimately drive your behaviour and the actions you take or fail to take each
day. What you believe to be true about your potential, abilities and level of
skill, sends powerful messages to your brain, which either positively or
negatively affects your actions and obviously the results you are able to
achieve.
Your beliefs will cause you to act in
one of two ways:
You will either believe in your
capabilities and have the drive and determination to take goal specific action
daily or you will feel insecure, unsure about yourself and even feel fearful
about what you can achieve, resulting in you retreating or remaining trapped
and immobile, where you do nothing.
What are your Beliefs about Risk
Taking, Failure and Success?
Your beliefs about how capable you are
and how likely you are to succeed will drive you daily actions or lack thereof.
If you believe you are very skilled and capable of achieving greatness, it is
very likely that you will be driven to take action daily. On the other hand if
you are filled with doubt and unsure about any outcome, you will procrastinate
and avoid taking the action you need to take to succeed. Your beliefs about
what you are capable of achieving will obviously make you more or less likely
to take risks and will either cause you to repel or attract success.
Belief and Time are the Ingredients
for Success
The greater the belief you hold about
your ability to succeed, the shorter will be the time required to achieve that
level of success. Remember that the more you believe in yourself, the more
likely it is that you will take goal specific action daily, as your positive
belief in yourself, will drive your behaviour and encourage you to take the
action you need to take to achieve the outcome you want.
Attracting Success
Create a set of positive affirmations,
to help you to replace those negative dream killing beliefs, which are
restricting your performance and holding you away from your dreams. Every time
you start to think any negative thoughts, repeat one of your positive
affirmations, until the negative thought goes away. When you repeat your
positive affirmations every time you have a negative thought about what you are
capable of achieving, you will eventually replace the negative belief, with a
more positive one.
Explore the
negative thoughts, which are restricting you and try to create affirmations
which are the exact opposite of the negative thoughts you have.
Create Positive affirmations like
these below:
·
I am a genius and use my wisdom daily.
·
Each Day in every way I am better and
better.
·
I have a perfect memory and can recall
things as and when I need them.
I have
developed a positive affirmation CD. It is a recording, which repeats different
positive affirmations for seven minutes. By listening to this CD daily, you
gradually start to become more positive and to believe in yourself. Focus on
thinking empowering thoughts and beliefs about the success you can enjoy and
over time you will retrain your mind and you will start to believe far more in
yourself and your abilities.
Filter the
Information you Expose yourself to Daily
Start to
filter the information you allow into your world. The less you are exposed to
the negative information contained in newspapers, songs, TV etc. The easier it
will be for you remain positive and for you to believe in yourself.
Competence = Confidence
Commit to lifelong learning and
growth. As you grow your knowledge and abilities, you will gradually feel more
competent too. With competence, comes confidence. As you grow and you knowledge
and abilities expand, so too will your belief in what you are capable of
achieving.
Create a Crystal Clear Picture of
Possibility
Allow yourself to walk into the future
and bring back a crystal clear picture of what you want to achieve. Use this
picture of possibility, which you have borrowed from the future and to craft a
vision for where you want your life to go. Write this vision down on a card,
which you carry around with you. Read it as often as possible throughout your
day. The habit of reading your vision and reminding yourself about what you
will achieve will put a smile on your face and will drive you to take goal
specific action daily.
Your vision can be thought of as
potential energy
Remember when you conducted
experiments in your physical science class at school. You would place an object
on an incline. Whilst it was at rest and you did not take any action, nothing
would happen. It only had the potential to roll down the slope, where it would turn
its potential energy into movement or kinetic energy. Potential energy is saved
up energy, waiting to happen or in other words it is energy, which is waiting
to be converted into motion or action. So whilst you are observing the object,
about to roll down the slope, nothing happens. It is only once you take action
and give it a gentle push, that you observe potential energy, being converted
into movement or kinetic energy.
The same is true for your vision. It
is only a picture of what is possible. Only once you start to take action and
act on it will it eventually change from possibility to probability and finally
your reality. You create possibility or potential energy with your thoughts and
beliefs and then you convert these into reality or kinetic energy with your
actions. Change your beliefs and thoughts about what is possible for you and
you will change your behaviour. Once you positively change your behaviour, you
will over time change your life.
Author: Andrew Horton Motivational
Speakers in South Africa
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