Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Affirming the Correct Behavior, will bring Light t...

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Affirming the Correct Behavior, will bring Light t...: When helping individuals within corporations to work effectively with their affirmations. I remind them that they might sometimes feel res...

Affirming the Correct Behavior, will bring Light to the Dark

When helping individuals within corporations to work effectively with their affirmations. I remind them that they might sometimes feel resistance well up inside themselves, when they are affirming any new behavior. When anyone in your team affirms something, which challenges their comfort zone, they will initially feel resistance. Their little voice will try to keep them trapped in their comfort zone and they will try will to negate the positive change, which they are attempting to introduce. This is a completely natural, knee-jerk reaction, but they can learn to overcome it, if they are willing to keep repeating the affirmations, despite the negative response from their inner self.

That negative voice, which tries to tell them to stop as they are living in fantasy-land, is merely natural resistance to change. The negative feelings they will experience are the result of negative programming and an inert resistance to be moved out of their comfort zones. The good news is that when they feel resistance, they just need to understand that it is just a natural part of the process and they must just learn to let go and press on with the affirmations throughout the day, despite the negative feelings. Over time the clarity that comes with consistent affirmation, will allow them to eventually embrace their new affirmations and they will start to almost subconsciously carry out the new behaviors required.

Remind all your team members that when you start to affirm any new behavior or belief, it is like shining a light into a very dark part of a room, there are bound to be shadows. As they however continue to switch on the lights in the room, by continuing to repeat their affirmations, for a period of about 60 days, the room will eventually be completely lit.  They must keep shining the light of their affirmations into the room and switching on the lights by repeating their affirmations and noting the negative voices and thoughts that arise. In doing this, they are raising their automatic subconscious thought processes to the conscious level. That’s the level where they have control.

Benefits of Encouraging your Team Members to Use Affirmations Every Day

To introduce affirmations which support their individual team members, to introduce new behaviors, which are aligned with the overall vision of the team or organization. Means a leader must first get absolute clarity about what he or she wants to achieve, with their team or organization. This clarity will then have to be clearly communicated to each individual team member, so that they completely understand their individual role in delivering on the overall vision, before any affirmation work can begin. The clarity of vision which is a prerequisite, before any affirmation work can begin and the way this must be communicated to everyone in the team, is the reason utilizing affirmations is so powerful.

Yes, the affirmations encourage each team member to engage in new positive behaviors, which support the overall vision of the team, which is exactly what any leader wants from the individuals in their teams. The real power of affirmation though, is found in the work required before every team member gets to the point of understanding, where they know what new behaviors or beliefs to affirm. As they dig to discover the new behaviors, which will support the overall vision of the team or organization, they will get clarity of purpose and develop a very clear understanding of what they need to do every day to ensure their team succeeds.

Using This Clarity to Support Performance

To firmly place the affirmations, your team members want to introduce into their subconscious mind and reprogram the limiting beliefs they have gathered throughout their lives, they must make a strong commitment to repeat their affirmations with real feeling every day. They must use repetition, association (actually visualizing themselves in the action), and emotion to reprogram their mind to accept the new reality or behavior they want to introduce with affirmation.

As they introduce these new behaviors and beliefs into their lives, it will feel like they are turning the head of a horse to travel in the direction they want to go. As they change their focus, rid themselves of the negative self-talk, and reprogram their subconscious mind, their reticular activating system will help them achieve the outcomes they want, with far less effort. The clarity and focus from all team members, where everyone is pulling in the right direction and everyone knows their individual role required to deliver the vision and goals of the team, will see your teams achieve incredible outcomes. I can help you get the clarity you need and to clearly communicate this to every team member, so that you can begin to achieve the results you want.

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Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Using Affirmations to Inspire the Optimal Behavior...

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Using Affirmations to Inspire the Optimal Behavior...: The type of success you will get to enjoy in your life or business is directly affected by the clarity of your vision, how serious you are...

Using Affirmations to Inspire the Optimal Behavior in Your Team

The type of success you will get to enjoy in your life or business is directly affected by the clarity of your vision, how serious you are about what you want to achieve, the quality of your goals and plans and your daily commitment to carry out goal specific actions, which will help you to realize your dreams. You can support your success by adding vision boards, daily affirmations, visualization, mirroring, etc. into your daily routine. The secret to sustainable success though, is to ensure that these supportive routines do not become the focus of your daily success habit set.

I can most certainly say that all my clients, who have supported their business and personal successes, by including vision boards, daily goal specific affirmations and visualization techniques, into their lives and businesses, have seen remarkable improvements in the results they have enjoyed, because of the following:

·         They have had to simplify and clarify their vision and purpose into simple understandable phrases, which drive and encourage the right behavior, to support both themselves and their team members, to drive the proper daily activity.

·         This clarity makes them and their team members more focused and determined to succeed.

·         Everyone in their teams has absolute clarity about what they need to achieve.

·         Their vision is clear and everyone in their teams knows their individual role for delivering on the overall vision.

·         This clarity of vision and purpose is regularly repeated, so it is fresh in everyone’s mind throughout the day, week and month.

·         It is easier to track their team’s performance and to see if the actions they are taking are aligned with the outcome they want, as they have refined their vision into daily affirmed success behaviors.

Yes affirmations, vision boards and visualization techniques do help improve the outcomes everyone within my clients teams enjoy. They are however never a substitute for daily goal specific activity on the part of your team members.

Making Affirmations Work for You and Your Team

The first step, when creating affirmations for you and your team, is to ensure that you have a crystal clear vision of exactly what you want your team to achieve. This must then be converted into goals, which stretch your team, but must still feel achievable to them. Break these back into projects or smaller bite size chunks, which your team can tackle and achieve in no more than 30 days. These projects must then be broken back even further into action lists, which contain the individual actions, which must be performed by each team member. Explore these individual actions and discover the type of behavior, which will support each team member to achieve their individual projects and goals.

For example: If you are leading a team of sales people. The overall vision may be to become the leading supplier of a particular product or service, in the financial services industry. To achieve this, one of the goals the team may need to achieve, would be a sales growth of 15 % for the year. The overall goal for the team of sales people would thus be to grow sales by a specific monetary value, within the next twelve months. This goal can then easily be broken back, into individual goals for each sales person in the team.

These individual goals are then broken back further, into smaller projects, which each sales person can achieve within the next 30 days. Breaking the individual sales person’s goal back into smaller bite size chunks does two things. It firstly makes the overall goal for each individual, feel more achievable and makes it far easier to track the performance of each team member. This helps to regularly test the results of each team member. If after 30 days someone has not achieved a project, you as their leader can take timeously take action to see why. Each project is then broken back into individual actions. Each sales person would design an action list, which they would take action on daily.

This is where visualization and affirmation now come into play. You as the leader of the team or the individual sales person would develop an affirmation to encourage the behavior; they need to perform daily, to support the outcome they need to achieve. If for example they need to make minimum of 10 telephone calls and meet with at least five prospects every day. They would develop an affirmation, which they would repeat throughout the day, which could be something as simple as “I am making ten phone calls a day, meeting with 5 prospects, who know like and trust me enough to partner with me and buy what I have to sell”

These simple affirmations help inspire the exact behavior needed by the sales person and have the added benefit of also helping them feel more positive when they meet with their prospects. As you know sales is not about selling at all, it is about developing mutually beneficial relationships with people, who can get to know, like and trust you and your product and service. The more positive the sales person is and the more believable and trustworthy they are, the more likely the prospect will be to choose to utilize their product or service to satisfy their specific need.

How Does my Team Use Affirmations?

They must add the expression of their affirmations to their daily routine; it should become an integral part of their new success habit set. They can repeat their affirmations as many times as they want throughout the day. The challenge with this random approach is that it does not easily allow the formation of a daily habit. I have seen the best success in my client’s team members, when they say and feel them at least three times a day. It’s a good habit to encourage your team members to say them when they first awake in the morning, at mid-day, and again as they prepare for sleep. Introducing this new routine will take willpower at first. They should help themselves to develop this new success habit set, by setting reminders in their phones to remind them to carry out the affirmations three times a day.

To successfully turn this new routine into their new success habit set, they must repeat this behavior, using alarms to remind them, for about 60 days. Research has shown that daily routines, when repeated for 60 days, become entrenched habits.   

“Start Your Day with a Positive Push in the Right Direction”

When they say their affirmations in the morning, before their day even starts, they are setting the tone for their performance throughout the day. They are reminded about the activity they need to carry out that day, they feel more confident, focused and driven. This allows them to start their day feeling more inspired, and determined to achieve their goals each day. They will also be programming that portion of their brain, which filters what they notice, to be on the lookout for any hidden opportunities.

Re-Focus Throughout the Day

Encourage your team to also say their affirmations whenever they have time. If they are waiting for a document to print, stuck in traffic, or performing a tedious, repetitive task, they should repeat their affirmations, either out loud or silently. Saying their goal-specific affirmations in the middle of the day helps them to re-focus. Any time they find that they are being hard on themselves or they feel down, because of the challenges of the day, they must just relax and repeat their affirmations. They can teach themselves to turn the default, pre-programmed negative self-talk, they engage in all day, into a conversation with themselves, which is supportive and inspiring.

If they want to accelerate their growth and their ability to achieve their goals, it is very helpful to write down their affirmations on piece of paper frequently throughout the day. This can be repeated at least 10 or 20 times each day.  The more often they repeat their affirmations, the faster they will reprogram their mind and eliminate any self-negating talk and limitations that linger within them.

The Last 45 Minutes before Bed are Key

At night, as they prepare for bed, repeating their affirmations is a great way to prepare their subconscious mind to align itself with their conscious thinking. The last 15 minutes before they sleep is extremely valuable. What they pay attention to during the last 15 minutes; just prior to going to sleep has a greater influence on your subconscious mind than what you focus on during the rest of the day. This is why it is an ideal time to meditate, visualize, and repeat your affirmations.

And remember, your subconscious mind can’t tell the difference between what is real or imagined, and so will spend a great portion of the night focusing on what the conscious mind told it before it went to sleep.

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Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Visualization will Support you on your Success Jou...

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Visualization will Support you on your Success Jou...: Visualization is a really powerful supplemental tool, which you can utilize on your success journey, to support you to build belief, encou...

Visualization will Support you on your Success Journey

Visualization is a really powerful supplemental tool, which you can utilize on your success journey, to support you to build belief, encourage activity and help you to stay focused on achieving your vision. It is by no means a standalone process, which on its own, is going to deliver the meaning and fulfillment you want in your life. Visualization without clarity of vision, meaningful goals, workable action plans and daily goal specific activity is merely delusion. Once you have mastered the art of visualization, you will have discovered a powerful success tool to support, uplift and encourage you as you traverse the path towards the success you desire, no more and no less.

Learn the Skills of Visualization

Visualization is one of the most important supplemental success tools in any success seekers toolbox. It can and will support you, as you inexorably move towards the meaning and fulfillment you want to invite into your life. Science is proving that the mind cannot tell the difference between an experience, which is imagined and one that is real. An event which is imagined or recalled in vivid detail will evoke similar emotions and an identical physical response, to those experienced, when actually experiencing the event in real time.

Using visualization techniques, you can completely immerse yourself in any experience, past or future, as frequently or as often as you want. When visualizing any experience, which you want to have in the future, your subconscious mind, will not know that it is not real and as such you can actually experience what it will be like to live that life of meaning and fulfillment at any time of your choosing. This is a really powerful tool, which you can use to help you internalize any future possibility, which you want to. Vivid internalized pictures of the future success you want to live will make that truth both believable and achievable and eventually with consistent focus and activity, it will become your new truth.

Remember that we are made up of nothing more than vibrational specks of energy. When you look at anything in the universe under an electron microscope, all you will see are flashes of energy and huge expanses of open space. So allow yourself to you have an open mind, for the rest of this article. One that is willing to allow it to walk into the realm of quantum physics.

Now imagine your thoughts as merely a vibration of energy in the quantum field. So when you visualize a future truth, which you internalize and as stated before your subconscious mind is unable tell whether it is real or not, you are creating a thought with a particular frequency, at which it will vibrate. The vibrational energy that this internal truth, your visualized affirmation, sends out, will then correspond with a similar vibration of energy in the quantum field and the physical manifestation of that thought, which matches that vibrational frequency, will be drawn toward you.

Or put more simply you have created an intention, which vibrates at a certain frequency, internalized it and projected it into the quantum field, where the power of that intention, will drive and inspire you to do what it takes to bring that physical manifestation into your experience.

Experience Required

Visualization is similar to daydreaming, except it is more focused and done for a specific purpose. When daydreaming you imagine a pleasant experience (usually to avoid dealing with an unpleasant one).  When using visualization as a powerful tool to create a vivid picture in your mind, where you actually experience your future goals and dreams as achieved. You will create as much realistic detail as possible about the success you desire. Visualizing, as opposed to daydreaming, activates each of your senses so that you see, feel, hear, taste and smell the reality of the experience.

For Example: if one of your stated goals is to own Holiday home in Balito Bay. In your visualization, you would actually see yourself walking around in the house. Visualize yourself actually walking into each room, check out what you see, in each of the rooms, explore the views outside of the windows, smell the fresh earth outside or the perfume of the geraniums in the lush flower garden, which you have planted outside, hear the sounds of the waves lapping on the beach and feel the soft evening breeze off the sea, against your skin. You might even walk the property, inspect the beach, picnic on the beach, enjoying the serenity as you gaze out to sea, even see yourself kick-start your scooter as you embark on a casual ride into town to buy an ice cream.

Put Yourself in the Picture

The key to utilizing visualization as a powerful success tool is to see yourself as being as active as possible, within the visualization. It isn’t simply a holiday home at the coast; it’s your holiday home and you’re living in it. Don’t see everything as though it is being recorded on a camera, actually allow yourself to be there. Move as though you are moving around the house in the flesh. It is important to view everything around you through your eyes, feel everything as though it is happening to you in that moment. The more you can actually see, feel, hear and even touch things in the holiday home, the greater the power of the intention you are able to create.

Actually see the carpet and furnishings, feel the furniture as you relax on the leather sofa, and smell the nourishing soup cooking on the stove. As you visualize the perfect future, which you want in your life, allow yourself to experience all the positive emotions, which would go with living that life. Feel the joy of accomplishment knowing that you have earned it and it that it is exactly as you thought it would be.

For Example: if your goal is to ski in Switzerland. In your visualization, actually see your ski tips as they push through the powder, feel the edges bite, and perhaps even bounce in your chair slightly as you gracefully navigate the mogul field. Because your mind thinks it is real, your body will react as if it actually is taking place.  And it is precisely those strong feelings or vibrations, which will be sent out as your intention into the quantum field.

You are responsible for all the thoughts you have and the images you create in your mind, ensure that you only create images and thoughts, which support the success you want to invite into your life.

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Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Sustainable Success Starts with Self-Belief

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