Transcript Thinking Positively

Thinking Positively - INTRO
"Discovery consists of seeing
what everybody has seen and
thinking what nobody else has
thought."
Jonathan Swift: English author and
satirist
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Setting goals
Keeping focused
Why do we set goals?
What are your goals?
Where will you be in 5 years time?
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Let’s look “behind the scenes”
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How do we “set goals”?
What informs the process?
Where does the information come
from?
Where does emotional well being fit in?
How do emotions influence our goals?
What is the biggest thing that stops us?
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 Belief systems – paradigms! These all have their roots
in the subconscious programming that occurs from the
moment that life begins in the human psyche.
(Culture is a group habit).
 People – which leg of your pants do you put on first?
Parental programming!
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 If you always do what you always do, you will always
get what you always get!
 If you do nothing, then the results will continue to be
the same and add to the fuel.
 Changing the way you think is the only way to
make positive changes in your life
 Making choices - experimenting
 Where do thoughts come from and how can we change
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 Fears impact goals in a negative way – where do they
come from?
 What are paradigms?
“To ignore the power of paradigms to influence your
judgement is to put yourself at risk when exploring the
future” – Joel Barker (Author of “Paradigms”)
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What are paradigms?
 Paradigms are a multitude of habits – often they are
other people’s habits!
 Negative paradigms typically manifest as negative
results in life
 Positive paradigms typically manifest as positive
results in life
 Paradigms are belief systems
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 How do we think?
 Think about your car, your sweetheart,
your home, your favourite food...
 What goes on in your mind?
 So, let’s ask the question again... How
do we think?
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We think in pictures
 You know what things look like
 You watch the pictures change as you go through life –
you adjust your paradigm
 Can you picture a broken leg?
 Can you picture a “broken” mind?
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 Can you picture a mind?
 What does your mind look like?
 If you don’t know what your mind looks like, how can
you change it?
 What can we use to paint a picture of the mind?
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Paint a picture with your own
understanding
Only then can you change your
beliefs
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The conscious mind
• Cognitive senses
• Intellectual senses
• Imagination
The subconscious mind
• Emotions
• Feelings
• Paradigms (behaviour patterns)
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What’s the single biggest
difference between the
conscious mind and the
subconscious mind?
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The subconscious mind can’t tell
the difference between what is
imagined and what is real.
(It’s why simulators work!)
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The Auto-pilot (subconscious
mind)
 Learning to ride a bike
 Learning to drive
 Learning to fly
 Learning to swim
 Getting dressed
 Eating... Etc... Etc...
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 To create a picture of the mind
 First create a picture in the conscious mind
 Then imprint it on our subconscious mind
 Programme the subconscious “auto-pilot”
 Thought – emotion – chemical response in body –
action or reaction in outer world
 Mentally build a better self image – the rest will follow
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PARADIGMS
 Imagine you earn £10,000pa
 Now try thinking you earn £100,000pa
 The autopilot rejects the idea
 It doesn’t “fit”
 Belief system reinforced
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To change the way you think you have to go
back and understand how you learned...
 To drive a car
 To walk
 To swim
You had to establish a paradigm so your
subconscious could take over (auto-pilot)
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It is the conscious mind that created the
paradigm in the first place.
What influences the conscious mind?
• Seeing
• Hearing
• Taste
• Touch
• Smell
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 External stimuli impacts on all the senses
 These stimuli create paradigms
 In turn produce automatic responses
 Responses produce a chemical reaction in
the body
 The body reacts in the outer world
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What other factors influence the conscious
mind?
Reason
Will – concentration and focus
Memory – a mental muscle
Imagination
Perception
Intuition – pick up energy from others
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Imagination is the most powerful force in
the world – if you can imagine it, you can
make it happen!
Everything in the world today is the result of
someone’s imagination – every invention in
the world began with just a single
imaginative thought!
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Negatively charged paradigms:
 Low self-esteem
 Low self-confidence
 Self doubts
 Fears
 Anxiety and worry
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They are all life denying: Fear becomes internalised
Fear
Anxiety
Suppression of desire
Depression
Dis-ease
Disintegration
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Positively charged paradigms
 Knowledge
 Understanding
 Faith
 Gratitude and Thankfulness
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They are life affirming: Sources of creation
 Well Being
 Anticipation
 Accelerated Desire
 At-ease
 Creation
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Questions:
1. What is the most powerful force in
the world?
2. What is the nature of the
subconscious mind?
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Answers
The imagination
2. The subconscious mind can’t tell the difference
between what is imagined and what is real
Who can think of implications for this in sport, for
example?
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 The subconscious mind is an emotional mind
 Thoughts cause feelings
 Everything just “is” until we decide to make it what it is
(one person’s pleasure is another person’s poison)
 It’s all about our paradigm perceptions
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PARADIGMS
 What is their nature?
 How are we going to change them?
 How do we convince the subconscious mind that what
we now think is “real”?
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Thoughts – Feelings – Actions – Reactions
Reactions cause changes – altering conditions,
circumstances and the environment of your outer
world
 You think about a goal
 You get emotionally involved – excited, motivated
 You carry out your plan successfully
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 You get the rewards (increased income, for example)
 Never change the goal – change the plan!
 Keep experimenting
 Analyse all your resources so you learn “what works”
Do you think the greatest inventors ever got it right the
first time?
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SUCCESS:
Success comes from good judgement
Good judgement comes from
experience
Experience comes from mistakes
Mistakes come from bad judgement
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People Look at goals in 3 ways:
1. What they know – repeat performances and stay in
the same paradigm
2. What they think they can do
3. In terms of what they want
Which of these has emotional content?
Which of these stand a better chance of being
successful?
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Goals are about increasing your aspirations – they are
about growth
Three stages to creation:
 Fantasy – ideas, thoughts, mental images, motivation
 Theory – using your conscious faculties; setting a goal
and making a plan
 Fact – successful resolution; achieving the goal
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Steps to Success
• Picture a goal
• Feel what it is like to have achieved the goal
• Own the goal as if it has already happened
• Feel the emotional response in your body as you “own”
the goal
• Make a plan
• Change the plan
• Achieve the goal
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 Until you make an image of your goal you cannot
challenge your paradigm within.
 Get excited – get enthusiastic – think positive!
 Success leaves a trail! All the most successful people in
the world create goals
 Some create goals daily
 What goal will you set to reach each day?
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 Setting mini-goals
 First have the prime goal in mind
 Then work towards it in easy steps
This leads us into the “planning” stage...
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Planning
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Set a goal – decide where you want to go
Plan a way of getting there
Take action
Review the plan
Take action
Repeat 4 and 5 then reach the goal
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Before you do anything:
 Understand yourself and what barriers you
subconsciously put in the way
 Understand paradigms
 If you focus on the doubts and fears, you won’t get
there
 Focus on the goal and doors will open for you
 Then recognise the doors when they open
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“Financial success has a lot to do with being in the right
place at the right time” - is quoted frequently – but
there is another factor:
You have to be AWARE that you are in the right place at
the right time!
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JFK: “What will it take to take
someone to the moon, land
them there and safely return
them to Earth?”
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NASA (Dr Werner von Braun):
“The will to do it”
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“There is a difference between WISHING for a thing
and being READY to receive it. No-one is ready for
anything until they believe they can acquire it. The
state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.
Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds
do not inspire faith, courage or belief.”
“Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in
life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is
required to accept misery and poverty.” Think & Grow
Rich - Napoleon Hill
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“There is only one corner of the
universe you can be certain of
improving and that is yourself.”
Aldus Huxley
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