Evolution Two – week eight
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Hello Folks,
Today I am thinking about habit versus willpower. The unconscious mind is connected to habits and apparently it controls a very large percentage of what we do each day. The conscious mind is connected to our will or desires (what we want). But what we want and what we think we want may be two different things. So how do we put the two together? Form new habits....consciously through our willpower and intense “emotional” desires - tell our unconscious mind over and over again what we want to do. How do we do this?
1. Set goals: short term and long term
2. Set achievable goals ( who can believe in a goal that sounds impossible to achieve), make it a real goal, but don’t short change yourself either, make it a step up from where you are.
3. Imagine yourself achieving those goals (in the early morning or evening is best) studies have shown that the mind does not know the difference between real or imagined – Brain plasticity will aid in this process.
4. Do it for 30 days (it takes that long to form a new habit)
5. Remind yourself why you are doing it over and over again
6. Focus on what you can achieve not what you think you can’t achieve – remember your mind believes what you tell it –
7. Use every failure as a way to point you to success.
8. Positive thinking may be annoying, but it works - use it.
If you take a brief look at your life and ask yourself about times when you got what you wanted and really studied how you got it, you will find that you got it because you had an emotional reason for wanting it; your mind was focused intensely on getting it and you took the steps to get it.
For example: I remember a time when I really wanted a job that was better paying than my previous jobs, a job that gave me more responsibility. I had been reading and listening to stuff by Tony Robbins, a well-known motivational speaker, and I was pretty certain that I had to overcome my fear of responsibility in order to get that job. I had turned down many jobs that offered me more pay and more responsibility in the past.
Four years before I read and listened to his works, I had imagined myself working for a certain company when I returned to New York. And when I did return I went right to that company and put in my resume. They said they weren’t hiring at that time. I told them to keep my resume if something came up. A week later I got offered a position as a manager and was also offered what I was hoping to make in wages. I knew it meant more responsibility, but I wasn’t afraid of that any more. I also learned from that job how much I really enjoyed having more creative “control” over my role as an employee, it was very liberating. And, truth be told, Initially I saw responsibility as loss of freedom.
I think it is interesting to look at your past to see how it can be a teacher.
Exercise: Interval (run 30 min., bike 25 min.), Continuous training
Hello Folks,
Today I am thinking about habit versus willpower. The unconscious mind is connected to habits and apparently it controls a very large percentage of what we do each day. The conscious mind is connected to our will or desires (what we want). But what we want and what we think we want may be two different things. So how do we put the two together? Form new habits....consciously through our willpower and intense “emotional” desires - tell our unconscious mind over and over again what we want to do. How do we do this?
1. Set goals: short term and long term
2. Set achievable goals ( who can believe in a goal that sounds impossible to achieve), make it a real goal, but don’t short change yourself either, make it a step up from where you are.
3. Imagine yourself achieving those goals (in the early morning or evening is best) studies have shown that the mind does not know the difference between real or imagined – Brain plasticity will aid in this process.
4. Do it for 30 days (it takes that long to form a new habit)
5. Remind yourself why you are doing it over and over again
6. Focus on what you can achieve not what you think you can’t achieve – remember your mind believes what you tell it –
7. Use every failure as a way to point you to success.
8. Positive thinking may be annoying, but it works - use it.
If you take a brief look at your life and ask yourself about times when you got what you wanted and really studied how you got it, you will find that you got it because you had an emotional reason for wanting it; your mind was focused intensely on getting it and you took the steps to get it.
For example: I remember a time when I really wanted a job that was better paying than my previous jobs, a job that gave me more responsibility. I had been reading and listening to stuff by Tony Robbins, a well-known motivational speaker, and I was pretty certain that I had to overcome my fear of responsibility in order to get that job. I had turned down many jobs that offered me more pay and more responsibility in the past.
Four years before I read and listened to his works, I had imagined myself working for a certain company when I returned to New York. And when I did return I went right to that company and put in my resume. They said they weren’t hiring at that time. I told them to keep my resume if something came up. A week later I got offered a position as a manager and was also offered what I was hoping to make in wages. I knew it meant more responsibility, but I wasn’t afraid of that any more. I also learned from that job how much I really enjoyed having more creative “control” over my role as an employee, it was very liberating. And, truth be told, Initially I saw responsibility as loss of freedom.
I think it is interesting to look at your past to see how it can be a teacher.
Exercise: Interval (run 30 min., bike 25 min.), Continuous training
Menu: Raw food experiment
Until next time…
Think, Believe, Act, Achieve
Dakota
Today’s Mantra: Fake it until you make it!
