The Breeding Ground For Success | Mindset Monday

July 27th, 2009, Author: Nathan Hulls, Categories: Mindset Mondays

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Welcome to another episode of Mindset Monday - if you hadn’t guessed I’m very passionate about working with people to build the right mindset for them to succeed as the mind is often the only thing which stands between an individual and their success. We often fall short of our goals, but fail to see the blockages which exist in our mind.

Long before Arnie was voted in a governor he said this:

“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent. ”

“I don’t mind.” - is a common phrase in society today, but there are too many people who don’t mind. As the scriptures say “A man who is double minded is unstable in all his ways.”

A person who ‘doesn’t mind’ doesn’t dream, and people who don’t dream will find themself drifting along with the crowd. To follow the crowd may mean to miss the mark for your own life. You cannot live out the dreams of another, and similarly no one else can live out the success of your life. If you don’t, no one else will. No one else can be you, so be you to the best of your ability.

When you start believing in yourself then you will begin to hit your straps and find the groove in your own life success. Your life wasn’t destined to be mediocre. Mediocrity is accepted as the norm in society today and anyone who succeeds is considered special. Let me tell you, ‘you are special.’ You were not created for a life of mediocrity, nor to simply sit back on the lilo of life floating on a river or mediocrity. Your life was created with a purpose. More than to be guided by society, but you have the opportunity to rise up and guide society.

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

-Vincent T. Lombardi

The mind is the powerhouse for success.

Your mind can be the difference between a potential success and a success.

Each and every person is unique. Not another person who has, does or will live on this planet is the same. Therefore you have unique dreams and desires, unique ideas that lead to a unique life. However the extent to which your life is unique and inturn a success is determined by your mind. While you are unique its still possible for you to choose to follow the crowd with your actions, the way you dress, the music you listen to, the words you speak, and the success you achieve in your life. Alternatively should you choose to follow those desires and dreams, planted in your heart, you have the opportunity to be the causal factor of a dramatic change to the world.

“Where there’s a will there’s a way, but without a will, you wont!”

The Matrix - Break Free and Create Your Own Success

I love the movie ‘The Matrix’, you may have seen it, let’s look at the Matrix for a second as an analogy for you living out your life of succes.

In ‘The Matrix’, Artificial Intelligence created a computer construct (The Matrix) of OUR present day world and, through a hardwire directly into the brain, fed it to us humans who were, in reality, kept in incubators and used for their energy output as a power source for the Artificial Intelligence. In other words “reality” existed ONLY in our minds. Everything we “experience”; everything we “do” - it’s all just a dream!

Neo was presented with the opportunity to break out of the Matrix. An opportunity to reject what everyone knew as being normal, and step into his own reality, a destiny that was determined by his own desires and dreams.

As long as you believe in yourself, as long as you have faith in yourself, as long as you can dream the dream, then you have the ability to live out your dreams.

We are all faced with the exact same opportunity as we continue to ‘choose our own adventure.’ We all have the opportunity now to determine in our mind that we will no longer go along with the crowd. No longer follow the ways of society and accept mediocrity as our level of life, but rise above, take the action that needs to be taken in order to see our dreams become a reality.

It all begins in the mind. The piece of meat between your ears that has the ability to think, make decisions, and retain knowledge. That’s where the rest of your life begins, in your mind! Just as ‘Arnie’ so aptly put it, as long as you can ‘envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent.’ As long as you believe in yourself, as long as you have faith in yourself, as long as you can dream the dream then you have the ability to live the dream.

Make A Conscious Decision

It takes a conscious decision. Neo had to decide in his mind if he would continue to live in a world where no one questioned why things were the way they were, much like a world without dreams. His other option was to break out of the matrix and live in a world where he was in control of his own destiny and the destiny of others around him. He chose his ‘own adventure.’

Do you see things as they are and ask why?

Or;

Do you see things as they could be and ask why not?

The mind is where your dreams begin. You must know and understand that your mind is the breeding ground for the adventure you choose to take on. The ability to cultivate, feed and allow your dreams to grow is imperative. A narrow mind will suffocate your dreams. The dream is only the beginning, but the ability to dream is essential.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

Have you heard of the GIGO principle? It’s a well-known principle in the IT world where programming is concerned. It’s simple; the principle states “Garbage In, Garbage Out.” It’s the same with your life. To be successful, and to have a successful mind you must feed it with success. Think successful thoughts, feeding the faith within you.

Your future is determined by … what you see it can be … what you want it to be … and what you make it to be.

Field of Dreams - Your Mind

Consider your mind to be like an empty field, where you have the opportunity to plant any seeds that you want. Plant seeds of success and you will reap a harvest of success. Plant seeds of failure, doubt and fear and that’s what you will reap.

Your mind is where you develop your beliefs and your world view.

Just for a minute do some soul searching, ask yourself a few questions:

What do you believe about yourself?
Do you believe that you deserve to be successful?
Do you believe that you have what it takes to be successful?
Do you believe that people around you are committed to your success?
What do you believe about success?
How will you know when you achieve success?
What is your greatest fear?
Where does that fear come from?

As we journey through life, often seeds which we have not planted ourselves take root and rather than producing a harvest which creates success, we end up growing weeds which attempt to choke out our success. When we have negative words spoken over us which we take on and rather than ripping them out before they take root, we allow them to take hold by meditating on them, and giving them our attention.

Things such as fear, doubt and negativity are all examples of weeds which just have no place in our mind, but unless we understand that we have the ability to remove them and replace them with new positive beliefs and empowering thoughts we often just let them grow until they overpower the success we’re trying to harvest.

Really quickly as I finish, here are three simple steps to ensuring that your Mind, the breeding ground for success, is producing the right harvest:

1. Take Ownership Of Your Mind and Your Success

Mind your own business! Your success is your business! Your attitude is your business! Your life and where you take it is your business…

So take ownership of where you are at with your life and where you are headed.

If you are not where you want to be, identify the reasons you are where you are, and work out what you need to do to begin the journey to where you want to be.

If your field of dreams is full of weeds and not producing the desired harvest, begin some heavy digging, remove any undesirables and start over, but dont you dare play the blame game, you are in control, and although there may have been circumstances which were out of your control, which can be attributed to your current circumstances, its now up to you to take ownership, take control and begin to journey to your desired destination.

Take ownership!

2. Be Very Protective About The Seeds You Allow To Be Planted

You have the power to choose which seeds are planted and take root in your own mind.

While we dont have the power to stop certain seeds from being thrown out and scattered, such as other peoples opinions which they so graciously share with us, negative words spoken over us etc, we do not have to allow them to take root. As simply as dismissing them from our mind and not dwelling on the thoughts, as well as replacing negative thoughts or words with positive thoughts and the opposite we can take control over the seeds which are planted in our mind.

Your voice is the most powerful voice in your life, so start using it. Dont allow other people to have the most dominant voice in your world.

As well, be very careful about the seeds you allow to be sown in your mind through what you watch, and what you listen to… the media, newspapers, television, music etc.

Be deliberate about the seeds which are sown and take root in your mind.

3. Be Quick To Pull Out And Replace Disempowering Thoughts And Beliefs Which Try To Take Root

Just a you need to be careful abut the seeds you allow to be scattered or planted, if you have any disempowering beliefs or negative beliefs about yourself, about your ability to create success in your life, be very quick to remove them before they become hardwired into your belief system.

I have written about the power of confession and empowering thoughts before, but very breifly, your confession has the ability to create and cement beliefs in your mind and your heart.

On a physiological level, words you speak, must begin as a thought in your mind. You cannot speak without first thinking about those words. And after you speak, you hear those words you have just spoken, therefor you again are forced to think about what you have just said. Double Whammy!

To create new empowering thoughts and beliefs begin to speak out positive confessions.

If you follow these 3 simple steps you will be well on your way to a harvest of success!

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