Overcoming The Sixteen Obstacles To Success: Part 4

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This is the second post on Obstacle #2: Destructive Thinking in this series on Obstacles To Success.

In this post, you get the final two parts of your Daily Mind Maintenance System!

First,  your Morning Mind Workout: A Visualization and an Affirmation Exercise.

Secondly, your Evening Ritual: A Daily Performance Review and a Gratitude Minute!

Your Morning Visualization

This is where you mentally rehearse your life going smoothly in your mind’s eye.

You do this by seeing a picture in your mind.  You can imagine that you are taking a video of yourself performing perfectly!

You repeat this exercise for 5 to 10 minutes.

The Instructions:

• Get some inspiring music that you can play whilst you go through this exercise before you start work
• Settle in a comfortable chair, close your eyes and relax
• Now simply imagine yourself performing superbly in a work situation, at the gym, in a social situation, in a ‘performance’ situation – like giving a speech or an audition.  In other words, any area that you care about or is important to you right now.
• Replay the scene/s of your superb performance in your mind again and again and again, until it becomes super easy to see yourself performing at the level you’ve always dreamed of achieving.  Now you are truly believing in yourself!

How It Works

This is really cool!  If you rehearse something repeatedly in your mind, say hitting the perfect tennis shot or saying your lines in a script with knock-out emotion and conviction, your subconscious doesn’t realize that this is a rehearsal in your mind.  To your subconscious, this is the real deal!

So if you keep doing this, after a few weeks you will in all probability hit that perfect shot or give that perfect performance when you actually do it in real life!  After all, according to your subconscious, you have been out there doing this repeatedly for weeks!

Secondly, the concept of neuroplasticity has changed our thinking about the brain’s ability to create new neural pathways.  We now know that our neurons are constantly laying down new pathways for neural communication and rearranging those that already exist.

In other words, we now have scientific proof that we can learn something new, change our thinking and behavior, take a different approach and create new neural pathways any darn time we please!  There is no age limit on this!

So when we continually practice doing the same thing, even if only in our mind, the pathway gets stronger and, as Siimon says,  ‘you tend to get better at it’.  We change the structure of our brains!

The end  result is that you will gradually start feeling happier, more motivated and confident that you will achieve your goals!

Your Morning Affirmation

This is a very simple technique that you can perform for five minutes whilst traveling to work.

Your Instructions:

• Simply repeat your choice of the following phrases (or ones of your own choice) three times each:

I enjoy every day; I am a master of my mind; I am clear and focused; I am highly organized; I love what I do; I am a champion; I have great health and a great body; I maintain my exercise routine every week; I am highly effective; I  am always happy and relaxed; I am always grateful; I enjoy financial abundance, I uplift others.

This is an exercise used by great champions, so do give it a go!

Your 2-Minute Daily Review

This review is done just before you go to sleep.

Your Instructions:

Part One: One Minute Daily Performance Review (DPR)

Ask yourself:

• What did I do well?
• What could I have done better?

In this exercise you are acknowledging to yourself what you did well and you will quickly become aware of what might need to be adjusted, changed or fixed.  Awareness precedes clarity and clarity precedes results!

Part Two: Your Gratitude Minute

• Spend 60 seconds or so thinking about the good things that happened during the day and list some of the things you are grateful for in your life.  These can be small or big things.
• Once in the swing of it, you will love this exercise because it makes you feel so good inside.  You will go to sleep with a smile on your lips, having uplifted your mind and your heart!

Recapping Your Daily Mind Makeover

Your Daily Ritual:

Morning Visualization: 5 minutes

Morning Affirmation: 5 minutes

5 x SCORE routine: 2 minutes

5 x Breath Release: 2 minutes

Evening Review: 1 minute

Evening Gratitude: 1 minute

So there you have it, a 16-Minute daily routine that will have you being happier, more focused, more committed, more confident, more relaxed, more self-aware, more appreciative!

No more mental weeds spreading through your mind and pulling you down!

Rather, your mind will be performing diligently, lifting the quality of your work and your entire life!

Previous Posts In This Series

Here is the first post on Overcoming the  Destructive Thinking Obstacle To Success (Part 3 – S.C.O.R.E. & Breath Release)

Here is the first post on Overcoming the Unclear Purpose Obstacle To Success (Part 1 – Your Life, Job & Weekly Purpose)

Here is the second post on Overcoming the Unclear Purpose Obstacle To Success (Part 2 – Life Partner, Ideal Person, Friendship)

Coming Attractions!

In my next post, we will explore Siimon’s third Obstacle To Success – Low Productivity.

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