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Three Simple Steps to Jump Start Super Thinking.

Three Simple Steps to Jump Start Super Thinking.

Superthinking is something anyone can develop. Anyone at all.

Hearing the term Superthinking though makes us believe it’s some specialised ability set out for the luckily born brilliant few. The type of thinking available only to top scientists, mathematicians like Einstein, or those born with some genetic advantage that boosts their brain power.

That’s far from the truth.

In fact, you can start Superthinking TODAY in important key, but easily achievable steps.

So, get ready to superthink by following these three mind boosters.

Step 1 – Cut out the sad sources.

Our mind is fed by two sources of belief and thinking.

The first is from our past, often our distant childhood, creating inherited hang ups and insecurities. They added imprints and influences that still run round our mentality today. We, however, are often aware that our lack of drive to achieve came from Mum’s advice not to risk too much. Or our view we are not smart enough from how we were a late developer at school and others got better marks than we did. We know why we are the way we are in relation to them.

The second is a silent damager to our psyche. Bad sources of information we access on a daily basis. These infiltrate and secretly infect our outlook on life and the world. Rolling news with their awful narratives and images. Social media with its fake presentation of who is up to what and why. Mind numbing TV series of dark thrillers, murder, violent crime, and everything with a heavier edge. They are NOT entertainment. They are like taking a mind poison day after day.

Step 1 – you have to cut out these sad sources that suck the air out of your hopes and possibilities.

Step 2 – Develop a super set.

You step up in step 2.

Nature abhors a vacuum. By removing one source of mental information, you have to replace it with another. You have to find a new fuel for your brain waves.

To do this you are going to create a new super set of thoughts.

This is simply developing a small range of higher belief thoughts and imagined results to match, that you commit to repeating day by day. Ones that can be accessed whether you are in the shower, taking a coffee break, in a traffic jam, or relaxing with a glass of wine after a long day at work or in family duties.

These must be clear, distinctive, and progressive formed of elevated thoughts. Typically they should revolve around personal aims or projects that matter to you. These are NOT affirmations that you say to convince (or con) you that you are going to have a marvellous out of the blue surprise. They represent a bigger future for yourself that represents everything you would love to be and get out of life.

A super set won’t be shallow – wanting just to be a millionaire or a mega influencer so you can feel good about yourself. They are pure personal. Mine would take the form of seeing lots of my popular selling books in the book stores. They would be accompanied by beliefs that I am an accomplished writer who creates unique, original work.

The set can end with individuality – I feel complete living life as this author. I am alive and confident that being myself is fulfilling. And I believe that’s all I ever have to be at all times as I only ever have to be myself. Dedicate some time to forming your own super set.

Step 2 – develop a super set of thinking that fills up your mind with good imagination and energy.

Step 3 – Keep doing the write thing.

How many times have you had a great idea and then forgotten it soon after?

Our minds get so heavy with everything we have to do and remember it gets lost as other required tasks take over. Many of our best notions come and go like this. What’s needed is to record them when they appear.

Any time something cool or amazing or inspiring as a concept, product, or service pops into your head, DON’T LOSE IT. Write it down. Always have a small notebook ready to lay down these out of the blue superthoughts. You don’t need to go into depth yet. Just a quick line with the idea. These can be sub divided into categories if you find you are having ideas on a frequent basis.

Those sub types can be divided by subject (product, business, self career move). They could be recorded under personal rating (such as 3 out of 3 for a option in an area that is a major interest to you, down to 1 out of 3 for a general possibility). Choose a couple for yourself.

Personalising is always the key. They are YOUR ideas from YOUR supermind designed for YOU. Always keep you as the lead soul in everything you mentally produce.

Then, every few weeks keep coming back and reading through them. One or two are going to constantly leap out at you. Even more dramatic is some will trigger your mind to light up major style. THESE are the ones to explore and start the process again. Write how they can evolve. What they or it would look like. Who it would help. What you will need and so on.

Step 3 – keep doing the write thing to get to the right stuff. The stuff of superthinking.

There you have it. The magic 1-2-3. The same three steps that led me to writing my book and creating this site. And what keeps me unfolding even more potential for the supermind thinking future brand. This effectively acts as your proof of life. Your mental proof of how it can all evolve. Because, you don’t need to be an official genius to start superthinking like the best.

You just need to jump in to these three steps to opening up your supermind today.

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SuperMind Saturday – Judgement.

SuperMind Saturday – Judgement.

Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.

This week – Judgement.

In a world filled with social media we have been given a voice. And many want to express that voice with their opinion of everything. That view has become increasingly critical. It’s become judgemental. Judgemental by people of all ages and backgrounds. SuperMind Saturday dives in to ask what can be done.

  1. Quote by famous actress Kate Winslet, who said, ‘It’s very easy to be judgemental until you know someone’s truth’. How true this is. Why then do we NOT want to find out another person’s truth but prefer to judge instead?
  2. As a race humanity has progressively fallen into judgemental behaviour. This is less human. It’s unkind and uncaring. Why have we fell to such a level?
  3. The enhanced level of judgement in the modern era is connected to the current mentality. Forming speed need, quick wants, fast demands etc means the mind responds accordingly. It decides in an instant. What has lead to this ‘superfast’ reaction in our mentality and where is it taking us?
  4. BIG POINT – Judgement is typified often in bigotry, abuse, racism, warped opinions. These are more triggered by visual feeds – online, social media, rolling news. Constant imagery sharing footage designed to show one angle, one story, one point. And they hit home. Truth is our children are being corrupted by this and no-one is clearly doing anything about it. Lots of talk but so far, after years and years, no action at all.
  5. I want to ask a question of us all to finish. Courts used to judge crime and wrongdoings. Now we individually judge everything and everyone ourselves. Judge for anything no matter how small. Judge just because we don’t like it or them. Are we happy being these type of people? Are we achieving anything good for the world and each other acting this way? Are we proud of ourselves???

There we have it for another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!

See you next time for more super thinking.

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How Simple Ideas Can be Super Successful.

How Simple Ideas Can be Super Successful.

Ideas are free. We all have them.

Most ideas we have are basic. They are not massive world shifters or life changers for everyone in humanity. They are everyday and simple. But, it’s these very same ideas that can be the most successful and useful that has ever been seen. And ones that are so obvious that it’s amazing they haven’t been spotted and used before!

Swan Vestas were the iconic match company in the British Isles. Founded in 1883 the company was a stalwart of high street shops. The public from all backgrounds used their matches for everything from boiling a kettle for tea to lighting candles on a birthday cake.

But their chief fame was that they were the go-to brand for pipe and cigarette users, giving them the moniker of ‘the smoker’s match’. So much so that estimates calculate the number of matches ever used to be in the billions.

It was a hyper successful company and highly profitable. Creating greater revenue became difficult because most people already used them for every type of daily activity.

But, as legend has it, one pipe smoker employee saw otherwise.

A simple strike.

One day in the 1970’s this nameless pipe enjoying fellow turned up at Bryant and May’s (the owner and manufacturer) stating he could save the company millions with one simple idea. As the company had researched every avenue before to achieve this, they seriously doubted his claim. He persisted and they agreed to pay him £1m if he could, indeed, match his statement.

Swan Vesta boxes had two strips of glass paper on either side of the box that matches were struck across to ignite them. He noted generally people favoured one side to the other (most likely to being either left or right handed). He provided a number of boxes he had collected that showed this to be true.

Bryant and May had double the cost in providing a striking zone that was effectively rarely used. His idea was to have only one on one side, halving that cost instantly.

They did further checks. The pipe genius was right. His keen eye and simple suggestion proved to be a winner. Swan Vesta matches began being produced in one edge only boxes. The public barely noticed and few complaints were received. Bryant and May made millions, and our simple genius walked away with a million of it.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!!

Scoot to success.

Dominic McVey was 15 when hit started making it simple….and big!

When misspelling on an internet search he discovered collapsible metal scooters. They were cool, simply cool, and he wanted one. In fact he believed other teens would too. Unable to afford one he cut a deal with the American manufacturers to buy five (through clever fundraising – disco events, trading on the stock markets with his Dad’s credit card etc) and get one free.

He sold those five (including his) in days. Then next week he sold ten more. He knew he was onto something. This portable, lightweight, fun transport was the perfect toy/transport in one. With further bravado he won the European distribution rights and two years later his sales topped 11 million units! Even the Queen called him a pioneer in entrepreneurism.

Today he’s worth over £7 million. A millionaire from a few pieces of metal and a lightweight frame.

Don’t think simple is vital? Just take a look at You Tube and see how many people view videos on how to make an omelette, wire a plug, teach a dog to sit or wallpaper a room that has unusual angles.

So used have we become to using technology to solve complexities and do advanced things, we’ve stopped using simple as the tool for making life work.

How simple can you be?

Some of the greatest ideas ever have been simple.

Simple because they make it easy for us to live our lives well or efficiently or enjoyably.

The three point seatbelt, sliding doors, the solar light bulb, and of course one of my all time favourites, The Post-It note, to mention but a few. They simplify, streamline, and work.

So, what’s your simple?

Your simple need that you find an answer for could be the one EVERYONE wants the answer for. Or, like the metal scooter, knows it’s something they would love.

If you have an idea for a product or service (who ever thought dog walking for other people would take off!!), don’t dismiss it because it seems too basic. In this mega busy, fast paced 21st Century, there are more and more things that would support our living. Simple things.

Keep it simple and you can be super successful.

References – aestheticons.wordpress.com – Swan Vestas Matches.

https://inspireip.com – A simple idea that made millions.

https://uk.finance.yahoo – Just how did Dominic McVey make his money?

Photo attribution under free content license – https://pixabay.com/photos/women-idea-university-students-1687853/ by melyserna.

Do You Suffer From Self-Sabotage?

Do You Suffer From Self-Sabotage?

Did you know you may have an undiagnosed condition?

It’s one that tens of millions of other people the world over suffer from too. It’s not diabetes. Nor is it high blood pressure. Or any stress related maladies. It’s repetitive self-sabotage syndrome.

You’ve not heard of it before? Well before you go checking out symptoms on Google there’s a reason you’ve not have come across it previously. I made it up! The name that is, not the actual ‘condition’.

Self-sabotage shows up when we reach a point of attempting to be better or happier, richer or re-visiting a scenario that we failed at or upset us before. Rather than soar and excel, we unconsciously (i.e. we’re not fully aware that we do it) trip ourselves up. This can be through poor self talk telling us not to bother. It can be through reminding ourselves how badly it went before. Or the classic sign of self-sabotage -procrastination. Ah, got it now??

Yep, we’ve all put the blocks on ourselves at one time of other. Even Tom Cruise has. Well kinda.

A trickle to a flood.

Cole Trickle is an up and fast coming young NASCAR driver. His career is on the up until one day at Daytona he is involved in a serious racing crash. When his racing adversary and now friend Rowdy Burns is then also found to need brain surgery Cole re-evaluates his racing.

He is given a chance to get in a car again but he’s a shadow of the old fearless kid who won races such a short time before. After one race where he retired the car, his chief car builder Harry sees that Trickle deliberately blew the engine. His accident and his pal’s health worry got in his head. He self-sabotaged himself.

But you see, as in this film, life often makes us face ourselves again. In his final chance race at the Daytona 500, Cole is trailing last. His short career seems over. Then there is a big smash on a turn, exactly like the time he was hospitalised in the same such incident. Cole slows down, the self-sabotage begins. But Harry breaks into his head space and tells him he can do it, he can get through this.

Cole listens and trusts, and powers up and through the wreckage, and defeats his demons. He goes on to take victory. I know it was only acting from Tom Cruise, but the manner in how he played that character, I’m sure he has suffered from self-sabotage himself in the past. Yes, really!!!

Maybe you are beginning to recognise it in yourself now?

In your mind how the past keeps coming back to haunt you in certain situations? Or that your business ideas or big plans never seem to get off the drawing board again and again?

It feels like a mountain to climb to get anywhere. But YOU are that mountain!!

The Mountain is you.

The art of self-sabotage is one many of us have perfected.

So adept are we at it that we put ourselves in situations that look like mountains to get out of. We end up stuck, blocked, isolated, alone, or trapped and blame it on these very mountains holding us where and how we are. But, WE are the mountains. We are the very thing in our way.

In her ground breaking book about this, ‘The Mountain is You’, Brianna Wiest reveals all the schemes and thoughts we construct to then pretend we would move forwards, upwards, into money, into love, and into freedom if we didn’t have too much to climb to get there.

She magnificently wrote, ‘ The mountain is often less a challenge in front of us as a problem within us’, and that, ‘There is nothing holding you back in life more than yourself’.

Where Cole Trickle destroyed the engine to avoid facing an old fear, we do the same through inner beliefs and insecurities that rise up like Everest.

  1. We start a business idea but leave it sitting there because we think we are not good enough to make it work. Or that being successful means things can only go downhill from there.

2. We don’t have any true committed relationships because once we get close to a partner they will see we are flawed and not worth loving.

3. We don’t allow ourselves to ever explore having more money because we have the warped idea that wealthy people are hated and users.

Recognise some of these echoed in your repeat struggles? Now you can perhaps start to see that the only thing keeping you from you desire is your self-sabotage hijacking it.

No rock, no hard place.

In each occasion of our own just like those above (read Brianna’s book to discover yours!!), we open up our inner mountain and stick it slap bang in our face. We can no longer walk our path, or win our race be that to be an artist or to win Daytona. I’m asking you now to face your self-sabotage skills and finally see when and where you have always used it. Your missing career, life partner, financial success etc will be where to find it. Where you always put it when a shining life can be won. Your mountain instead of your mojo!

Just make sure you don’t end up like Cole with a glittering future ahead of him but so held back by what’s in his head he says, ‘You got me here, now what?’ Don’t be someone who blames everything and everyone else any more. Don’t look up at mountains that are not there.

It’s time to no longer be stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Photo attribution – Pixabay.com – https://pixabay.com/illustrations/ai-generated-man-stress-mistake-8993806/ by Graphixmade under free use content license.

References – Days of Thunder – Paramount Pictures 1990.

The Mountain is You – Brianna Wiest – Thought Catalog Books.

SuperMind Saturday – Corporal Punishment.

SuperMind Saturday – Corporal Punishment.

Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. OUR SuperMinds.

This week – Corporal Punishment.

Corporal punishment was the means of harsh physical punishment for those guilty of serious crimes. A kind of repayment for their actions. In our modern society it has become viewed as rather barbaric. Yet without it all types of crimes are on the rise in all parts of the world. But, it’s a delicate subject. SuperMind Saturday asks whether it could have a part to play in the future to help dissuade would-be offenders or has its time come and gone.

  1. Corporal punishment has existed from Early man. It was the way to control tribe members and citizens behaviours and from breaking group laws or for serious crimes. Today it is frowned on as inhuman. But it was an integral part of the civilised world for centuries. With the world an increasingly violent place, could it make a comeback to deter the out of control criminals/attackers? And in what form?
  2. Corporal punishment typically was a public event. This was to show the people what the price to pay for bad deeds would be. It also acted as a form of justice that all could witness. In the USA offenders have to work in public in special coloured overalls that signal who they are. Could this be expanded so that that had to wear such clothing for a set time when released?
  3. I’ve saved the controversial question for the middle. Common views are that CP is NOT the answer to discipline dangerous law breakers. But with every type of serious, violent, and sexual crime on the rise…what is?
  4. Very few realise that a form of corporal punishment has been spanking children at home by parents and in school giving naughty pupils the cane. Such practices have been outlawed now. Therefore pretty much most forms of CP have been legally abolished. Are we therefore ‘civilised’ if we eradicate any form of physical CP even in the lightest form?
  5. On 21st Century Earth everyone’s feelings are a key component. Society, TV, laws etc focus on people not being offended or upset by something they see, hear, or read. Corporal punishment would be a traumatic experience for the modern offender. Are we moving TOWARDS justice in this way for the future or AWAY from it and why?

That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!

See you next time for more super thinking.

Picture attribution under free content license – https://pixabay.com/photos/woman-dark-lonely-freedom-iran-9145401/ by shimabdinzde.