Can Bill Gates be a billion times smarter than you? No, it is impossible. So if he isn’t smarter than you then what is it that accounts for his success and that of other successful people.
It is how we think.
And what we choose to focus our attention on.
How we think has enormous influence on our outcomes. All success is not in the outside world but in the inside. When you change your thoughts, what you focus on and where you place your attention, the external world changes to reflect those thoughts.
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts . With our thoughts, we make the world.” - BUDDHA
So focus on your attention. Where are you placing it? Are you allowing the media and mainstream news bombard you with negative economic news?
The latest stats show that top athletes are spending as much as 70% of their times on mental imagery, mental rehearsal and practice. Only 30% of their time is in the physical. The practical application for us in our daily professions is to do the same. Plan your and visualise your ideal week, month, and year, mentally rehearse the next meeting.
I spend an hour each morning reading my goals, vision, and planning he day. I spend an hour at the end of the day recapping what I did looking at the month ahead and planning the next day. I do this every day, which is 2 hours out of each work day, which may seem like a lot. But his process keeps me connected and on top of my goals and projects. I call it the daily scaffold.
This keeps me balanced, certain, and allows me to relax into the activity I am doing knowing that everything else is covered. In martial arts the ability to create power is from speed. And speed must be created from a relaxed balanced state. This is true in our thinking. We need to relax and balanced.
Action steps:
- Become aware of what has your attention.
- Write it down and journal what is happening for you and set up an action plan to deal with it.
- Journal, and plan your week, month, and year, and the ideal vision of each area of your life and work, review it daily.
- Set up a daily ‘scaffold’ or structure that is the same each day where you can affirm, visualise, journal and plan.
