Thinking Positively - INTRO

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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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• Lets look behind the scenes
• 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
  them?

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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 peoples 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, lets 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 dont 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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• Whats the single biggest difference between
  the conscious mind and the subconscious mind?

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• The subconscious mind cant tell the difference
  between what is imagined and what is real.
• (Its 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 doesnt 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
  someones 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
• What is the most powerful force in the world?
• What is the nature of the subconscious mind?

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• Answers
• The imagination
• The subconscious mind cant 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 persons pleasure is another
  persons poison)
• Its 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
• What they know repeat performances and stay in
  the same paradigm
• What they think they can do
• 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
• 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 wont
  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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