The Art of Powerful Thinking.
What does creating a successful life entail?
It is a straightforward process if you incorporate powerful thinking. You are the only one to ensure the end result and the key ingredient necessary to maximise ‘creating’ opportunities is Attitude.
Attitude is a state of mind and operates within the parameters of what I’ll term ‘Laws of Mind’. Attitude is often described as that ‘little’ thing that makes a big difference.
Napolean Hill once stated ‘What the mind of man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.” I fully adhere to this simple philosophy. Your own attitude will determine your direction in life.
All actions are preceded by our thoughts. If our thoughts are inhibited, fearful and limited this thinking translates across to create those very states and conditions of fear and limitation in our reality.
The major focus of all business’ has been financial. After all, we are in business to make money, however successful business’ aren’t limited to creating just money – they are investing in futures. Their own future livelihoods and those of their staff, future goodwill, future products and future personal and professional development.
A powerful holistic attitude is now permeating the workplace meaning that at the end of the day we want more from our careers than just a pay cheque. We want inclusion, personal responsibility and personal pride. Funnily enough business becomes personal therefore successful business is about successful people.
For many in the workplace this new attitude of creating successful people is empowering. Powerful thinking embraces personal power and maintains a supportive environment of ‘what one can do – you too can do!’
Think of our successful athletes, they create a success mind and empowering attitude of ‘I can’ through persisting in tackling their challenges head on, with full support in training, techniques and most importantly how to use their mind to gain that ‘edge’.
Attitude is the edge and being a state of mind is created by deliberate intention.
We’ve all heard of people with positive attitudes who seem to always see the sunnier side of life. They experience greater benefits than just being pleasant to be around. Biology now endorses their attitude in creating and maintaining healthier physical states as a result. Are you aware that 20 minutes exposure to what makes you feel good automatically doubles your T cells otherwise known as your immunity. Conversely, 20 minutes exposure to what makes you feel sad, depressed or stressed automatically halves your immunity. Toxins in the mind manifest as dis-ease in the body. Attitude is a powerful director of destiny. Just like being a little bit pregnant – you can’t be a little bit negative, you either are or your not!
Success is about self mastery and faith is its by product. Challenging an attitude of defeat, anger and loss requires conscious effort. Things don’t just happen, they are created consciously or unconsciously. Your future success’ won’t just happen no matter how much you wish for changes. We can look to our achievements or current circumstances and we will see the effects of our past attitudes and beliefs.
Are the results you presently have, what you want? If you keep on doing what you’ve always been doing then you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always been getting. However the past is not a predictor of the future, unless of course if nothing changes.
My own unwillingness to change was identified by the ultimate copout word, ‘But’. Whenever I gave the word validation, I found that I was always striving with great difficulty to be and to get what ever I perceived that I did not already possess.
After a challenging and interesting childhood I determined that I would rule my world. I felt that I’d been controlled, manipulated and at the mercy of circumstances for long enough. Talk about sitting pretty on the pity pot! After 16 years in male dominated fields including being a Policewoman, Private Investigator and Security Specialist Trainer, I developed a kick ‘But’ mentality. Interestingly it empowered me to move from survivor to thriver and today as an independent business woman I am a passionate believer in the powerful use of a positive mind and in doing Until! Now that’s attitude- Time to Kick ‘BUT’ attitude.
Life is a creative thinking process whereby if you don’t like the results that you currently have, you always have the power to make changes. Just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, you have had the red shoes – the power all along, you just need to learn to consciously and deliberately activate it to work for you.
Create a success mind! Every small consistent action accumulates over time to an obvious end result. Recall every time you excelled or did better than you anticipated. Remind yourself of all the times that you feared the worst but experienced a better result than expected. Think on the best and expect nothing less. Get used to thinking on how easily you draw to yourself all that you need to succeed. No matter what form or shape that success takes. Make your attitude of success consistent and all encompassing. You can’t think good for you and bad for others and expect your brain to differentiate – it won’t. So think only on all those conditions that you’d like to see realised and evident in your reality.
‘Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.’ Dale Carnegie
Don’t let your perceived handicaps hold you back or limit you. Remember that what other people think of you is none of your business however what you think of you will determine your success in life.
Set the stage for your success. The law of mind to follow is
“Find more ways to feel good and less ways to feel bad!”
Rosemary Pekar
