It can calculate, arrange, remember, store information, direct, manage, and imagine to name but a few.
It is like a supercomputer programmed to run the most complex of tasks. And what more complex than keeping us safe, healthy, sane, aware, awake, and alive? A mega machine housed in our brain. One of the greatest ever created.
Now that should amaze and encourage us all in one.
But, and it’s a very big but, it’s becomes so mighty it starts to take over the whole show and actually run our lives.
An autopilot on a plane is useful until it won’t disengage and then the pilots feel out of control of where it’s going and what it’s doing. Our mind gets like that because we are leaving it on autopilot for too long. And then IT thinks it’s the one responsible for our whole lives.
That’s when you don’t realise that it’s started to take over your life.
Read on to discover how it’s been doing that in your life!
You are as young…. as your mind tells you that you are.
Most people know the phrase, you are as young as you feel you are.
How can it do that? Back to our autopilot above. Left to run automatically the mind will begin selecting information it decides relates to you. Unbeknown to you. So there you are merrily going about your business but like an Alexa devise the brain listens in to gather data. What people say does get collated, BUT it’s your own little quips and throw away joke comments it can’t read as just a laugh. It takes them as who you are, the identity it must protect.
All those little ‘I’m getting old’, or ”I’m not as young as I used to’ comments lock in that you are getting on and your identity is older person. If you say it often (and add some aches and pains sounds) this further ‘proves’ who you are.
Now that may sound funny, but it’s what your mind does next that is where the take over of your life accelerates.
It is convinced that this is who you are (the master it must look after), that it starts to convince you of the fact as well. So when you make that funny little ‘geriatric man/woman’ comment, it now adds sensations that feel like you are. It’s simply adding back ups that match your self definition. In a matter of months you feel old and move older, because your mind is turning the whole of you into that personailty.
Just like YouTube will record the videos you watch and then continue to present you with the same type because that’s what suggestions you gave it.
YouTube reads you and your mind reads you. And they both mirror you back.
Your mind though is the one that sets that as the person you areand arranges your life accordingly.
This is what YOU do.
Now you are old, or much older, as decided by the mind.
The mind has been with you a long time, a lifetime to be exact. It’s gathered billions of bits of info and data. Within that it has massive gen on what older people do. And don’t, or shouldn’t’ do. And it’s about to to inform you of that.
But not nicely. Slyly to be precise.
It produces reactions that match all those little ‘old person’ sayings you have uttered. Sudden aches flare up. You feel stiff more often. Your energy levels aren’t what they used to be. And you start swearing that your face has more wrinkles and your body looks less attractive. From muscles to eyesight, figure to vitality, you feel older by the day.
Soon you not only think you are aging fast, you also feel and see evidence everywhere.
But, it never actually existed. It is a mind made reality experience projected on to you. You kept saying you were old so it superimposed this person onto you to assist and protect you so you weren’t at risk. In effect the message to all of you is – this is what YOU do as a more senior citizen.
You have become old because the mind has taken over as you were not proving it wrong.
You have effectively, mind washed yourself!
The Mind is Listening.
Hopefully after reading this you have discovered one fact.
The mind is always listening. And watching and sensing. It even posts a sentry at night when you are asleep. It’s not some over controlling stalker. This is all done to record all it hears and picks up to look after you. It’s protecting you. And smothering you.
Whether you keep saying you are old or concerned at the world, the mind will read that as getting you to think and act and feel in ways that stop that harming you. Which results in not going running in case you have a stroke or travelling in case you are caught up in a terrorist attack.
Your mind takes over because you don’t order it to stand down. And on your side of things, start speaking better of yourself and your future. If you do your mind will switch sides and begin seeking opportunity and potential as it’s your new ‘best life’ dictat. You think it and speak it, to goes into search mode for it,
Mental operation 101.
So, get defining yourself better so your mind will positively take over to help you get there. That’s not just good advice, it’s a good way to live life.
No matter what they face, they keep cool and focused, and deal with everything. They look oblivious to events because their mindset is so powerful it overcomes any potential threats or challenges.
For them nothing is a problem because their mind can handle it all. They are calm, disciplined, and unflummoxed all in one in the head.
We believe they were born with a mighty mind that we could never have. That our weaker mindset could never be like theirs.
Well, think again because anyone can develop a stronger mindset when they know the route to take.
So let me open up that path and show you how.
Oh oh no rather than 007.
James Bond, the proverbial 007, has a mind of steel.
Nothing fazes this super spy even in dramatic moments of life or death. We are usually the opposite being fazed by anything from a traffic jam to our workload building up at the office. More oh oh no rather than 007.
Our minds have become weakened over time by life, by wrong thinking, by challenges, by us. Not in one dramatic leap, but cemented in via a gradual creep into a less lean state. And this means that we convince ourselves that we don’t control this, life and destiny are the masters. If time has destroyed that power, we won’t be able to get it back.
Well don’t be shaken nor stirred to borrow a line from Mr Bond.
You STILL have all the capabilities to regenerate your mental muscle and in a fraction of the time you lost it.
Why? Because before you didn’t know it was slipping away. You never noticed that your mindset wasn’t working at a prime level until you couldn’t get it fired up anymore. That is going to change. This time you will be fully aware and directing how it’s coming back. And what’s the way to accomplishing that?
The new simple mental path you are about to take.
Short steps with growing gains.
You’ve heard of growing pains, well you are going to experience growing gains.
Being powerful mentally looks good…in time, but not in the beginning.
This is what will arise from the mental progress you will instill as the weeks go by. So, let’s get down to your first steps on your new mental road.
If you want to run a marathon, to start you won’t be able to run very far. You have to build up to that distance so your body gets used to it. Now take the same but for your mind. You are going to need to introduce periods of mindset power exercise so that mental resilience can embed in. Any regular practice of a skill or task ensures the brain will form new pathways and connections to boost it’s development further.
So to get that going put into your phone diary – ’15 minutes power thinking’.
Put it on a schedule if possible but certainly on a repeat up to 5 times a day. Examples could be – first thing in the morning, coffee break time, lunchtime, straight after work (or as near to) and before bed. Not too close together, not long periods apart.
You can’t override your lower thinking with the odd session here and there at random.
And this is what you will do in those 15 minutes.
Progress to Power.
I’m sure you have heard of the power nap.
This is the mental power up version – the Power Snap.
Short periods of higher mental activity to snap you out of your weaker mental patterns.
In your Power Snap you need to find a quiet or much quieter place. You can lie down or sit. Anywhere where your senses are not bothered. Set an alarm and spend the 15 minutes on these three specifics –
Powerful thoughts – thinking the best and highest possible thoughts regarding your life. Ones that believe everything is unfolding in your favour. That you, your body, and your mind are at the peak and ultimate level. And that your best months and years are just about to happen. Bigger self believing.
Powerful imagery – add to this with solid, clear, exciting visions of yourself succeeding. Make them for something that matters to you and see yourself smiling, healthy, and full of energy. Back it up with the each whole scene being jammed with colour and great sounds.
Powerful feelings – link it altogether with choosing positive, vibrant feelings as it all happens. Connect yourself to feeling content, assured, masterful, dynamic, alive and such similar emotions.
Complete this exercise by fighting any old negatives that want to creep in. Reaffirm that these 3 are what your mind is only accepting FROM NOW ON.
And then you grow it!
Practice your power.
We are back to that running training again.
You complete the race because you keep repeating the training and expanding it. It’s the same here.
Firstly, you have to commit to 4 or 5 sittings per day doing the above.
Secondly, you have to lengthen the time 5 minutes per Power Snap week after week.
Finally, you have to continue and continue. Like you do every day scrolling on your phone or watching NetFlix or any other menial entertainment habit. You MUST work this into a habit in your schedule. Hook it in as a BEST habit you must never stop (like you insist you have fruit every day or an espresso at home). Just imagine what you could achieve if you could keep this up for a whole morning or weekend???
If you can complete this, your mind will become fused with very powerful new neural network patterns.
Ones that will not just feed your mind but send feel good enriching endorphins round your whole body again and again. You will, in effect, be rejuvenating every part of you.
And the final fabulous result?
No, not just a fired up mindset and spirit of life.
You will end up actually doing something WITH this new powerful mentality.
That’s when you will become most powerful of all!!
Have you ever had a date with someone gorgeous but somehow you are not into them?
Or gone for a job at the in-thing company with superb pay but it just didn’t work for you?
Or maybe when your friends go to the hippest joint in town you don’t go as it’s not your thing?
In these situations, and other similar ones you may have experienced, other people didn’t understand why you reacted the way you did. And perhaps you even told them that you agree as you couldn’t explain either.
In some cases many are still scratching their heads years later attempting to figure out why.
Well, scratch no more because it’s not some weird mind you’ve got. Or that you are a weirdo yourself who turned up his or her nose at a good thing. Nor sir or maam.
It was that deep down underneath it all subtly was another voice that was influencing your mind. A deeply personal voice.
The voice of your own standards and values.
When it feels wrong.
Everybody gets chances to do things, go places, and meet people.
Probably over a lifetime that will add up to many thousands of opportunities. But which ones we accept are less about the event or who is going, and more about our inner viewpoint of it. Going to one concert ‘feels right;, while another is ‘not for me’.
Now it must be said that the vast majority we end up doing and going. We may not quite think we’ll enjoy it or aren’t really interested, but we go along anyway because it’s neither something awesome or awful inside. That’s the same for you, for me, for your best mates, and even your boss or barista guy at the coffee shop.
It’s the certain few that feels wrong emotionally we never show up at even if everyone else believes we will.
Where to them it’s cool, to us it’s kinda sleazy or overpriced or immature. Or any other inner reason that objects to attending. A wrong feeling that we can’t fight, so we don’t in the end. It may take us a few years to say ‘No’, but sooner or later we won’t fight what’s not right within us.
Now this can leave us confused, never mind others. Until we know why we refuse to go somewhere that looks the same on paper as somewhere else we loved last month, we can remain puzzled. Have you been like that? Have no idea why you seem to say ‘yes’ and ‘no’ at random?
Well read on for the good news.
You aren’t going mad, you are honouring your standards and values.
They know you, but do you know them?
Sounds silly doesn’t it?
Yet it’s most likely true. The very standards and values that guide our decisions are more subconscious if anything. They know and power us, but we don’t actively know them.
Only because we’ve never thought about what they actually are. They have accumulated over our years of life and they act as a kind of ‘right behaviour manual’ in our ethical emotional and mental centre. We put them there but don’t know what we put.
They kick in when situations show up that flag one of our ‘don’t do’s or ‘right ways’ to live. In an instant they try to block what we will do next, or encourage it if fits well within the inner S & V catalog. We are not aware of this, we just respond even if we aren’t sure why we did so.
On one level it’s easy and we ‘get it’ – smoking isn’t cool to us; it’s an unhealthy and unsociable habit. Or that eating fast food and takeaways is bad for our weight and not good for us. They are noticeable.
It’s the ‘other’ ones that are less obvious.
Why did we turn down the hot girl/guy? – it was because we knew their reputation and we didn’t approve of such activities.
Not sure why a lucrative career in a certain industry did not appeal – money isn’t your priority and that’s all they were focused on.
Maybe you are now spotting other scenarios where the ‘other you’ made the ruling of ‘I will’, or, ‘I won’t’. Looking back and working out the something else that drove your responses.
Let’s see EXACTLY what they are!
Write what’s right.
Ok, time to find out what matters.
Time to bring your standards and values into the light of day. They already exist in you but you can’t see them. To do that it’s the old fashioned piece of paper and a pen (in this case it’s the perfect tool!).
You are going to keep it simple. Take the chief areas that are important to you – relationships, family, money, career, whatever are your main factors.
On the paper list each one separately on the left hand side. Next, a few minutes to reflect about each zone. When you’ve considered them enough (no, 10 seconds is NOT enough), write words by each area that reflect how you feel they should be lived.
For example – Relationships – loyalty, intimacy, trust, connection, respect.
Carry on for the other ones you have listed such as – career – dedication, fulfillment, progress, peer respect.
Finally you will have a list of your standards and values where they impact you most. A list that you have always applied to them in your life. Standards and values that have ruled because they are your rules.
Now. take these and look at anywhere in your life where something/most things are badly missing. See the standards and values you have to honour for yourself in what you have to do or say or act in improving them.
Once you know the ‘real you’ they represent, the real life for you can begin to develop.
Because standards and values say everything about you to a life that needs to match them.
That your whole life has been a series of labels you have applied to yourself?
Applied by your mind!!
Labels are part of our lives even if we don’t ever notice them. After all aren’t you a parent, wife, son or daughter, colleague, boss and so on. They may just seem unavoidable society titles but they can stick. Get glued in when descriptions are added before them – supportive husband, good son, hard working colleague.
And then we begin living that label as it also attaches to our mind.
The trouble is some labels come with life, but others are fostered on us whether we want them or not. And it’s these that are often the ones hardest to remove from our own minds and the minds of others.
As one famous singer found out.
Tagged as a troublemaker.
We all had one great friend at school our parents didn’t approve of.
They didn’t know them but labelled them as a trouble maker. From that point they could never see them as anything else. It’s far worse when you are someone famous and the media tags you as someone you are not.
That is what happened to Paul McCartney in 1972.
That year an infamous and shocking event occurred in the British controlled Northern Ireland. At a civil rights march in Derry in January 72, British troops opened fire on unarmed civilians killing 13 of them. It’s a horror that is still argued over to this day. Paul McCartney also felt that horror due to his Irish heritage through his mother.
Believing that such events would happen again and the violence would escalate as a result, his peacemaking side thought it should be better if the issue over the territory was sorted. He penned the protest song, ‘Give Ireland Back to The Irish’.
Instantly he was labelled a political activist, pro-IRA, and a trouble maker so the song was banned from radio playlists. His stance through his music added labels to him that persist to this day and many have never forgotten, or forgiven, him for the song.
And that’s what labels do…..they stick!
Long time labels.
For Paul McCartney the song was released over 50 years ago but the labels remain.
Most of these were generated, and continue to be promoted, by the media.
Our mind is like the media in this way. It accepts a label, often from long ago that was never correct or fair, and keeps running it like a story that the newspapers always dig up and re-use. One we were usually given that seeped into our consciousness.
Let’s say you were called insensitive in the past. Or a selfish lover. Maybe it was lazy worker or poor with money. Some throw away comment made by someone who normally didn’t fully know the whole story.
But, the comment stung or hurt or bothered you and so you held onto it. You didn’t let it go.
And so, like the media who likes to dig up the dirt, you kept the story on file in your mind as some definition of yourself.
You actually began to behave the way the label stated.
You got lazy in your work or spent money foolishly. Effectively you lived how the label classified you. Yes, you told yourself that this proves the label someone gave you was completely correct rather than noticing that is was simply you acting it out.
The ultimate tag before Facebook ever came along.
Labels are simply outdated self-beliefs that you never questioned that hang around you still today.
And because you don’t realise, you don’t even think about it.
What labels to lose?
So what labels you have about yourself do you need to lose to improve your life?
Labels are everywhere. They are part of life and society. All of us are defined by being single or middle class or qualified instructor and the like. We use, and need them, to help define levels of authority, relationships and connections, and understanding who’s who in relation to others.
Most of them are innocent everyday tags.
The ones you need to work out and remove from your psyche are the personal ones ‘about you’ that caused negative emotional reactions in your actions and behaviours. Past labels that made some personal observation or prediction about you that lingers still today. Examples being told you will ‘never have any money as you are too irresponsible’, or ‘no one likes you’. If it hurt then you kept hold of it in your mind and allowed it to limit you.
Life is often held back by old untrue labels.
Your job to rid yourself of them is to revisit them. Take time and think back (as you may have buried them as you felt shame or guilt after hearing them). Remind yourself of situations when an upsetting definition was made about you. It may not take that long.
Write down each label you recall – and yes it may be uncomfortable.
Then face them. Know they’re not right. Tell them they are wrong. See yourself as not that person. Then cut them up into shreds or burn them. Release them from your mind and feelings.
Unleash your unlabelling and be free.
Because the only label you ever need is the one that says, ‘This is me!!’.
References – Wikipedia – Give Ireland Back to the Irish.
Photo attributions – free to use under Pixabay Content License by geralt and kinkate and Maklay62.
Have you ever heard of someone being in a ‘real state’?
Typically this means that their state of mind has become distressed or confused and this has spread to their emotions and actions.
We often use the phrase but don’t understand the full underlying mentality that creates it. The reason is that the vast majority of us never get that far down the mental road to arrive there. Sure we have the odd upset, but we never become so worked up that it spills intensely over.
But, there IS one mental state that millions of us around the world experience every single day that is equally dramatic. The trouble is it’s less an outburst that requires immediate attention. It’s more of a lurking influence in the background that takes over our life.
That state is one of negative expectancy.
And it is one I know well.
The wrong ‘what happens next’.
Our minds are our security system.
Not only do they think, remember, direct, and hold information for us. They also act as our defence mechanism. A mechanism that can become over alerted and predicting threats if life puts stresses on it. Pressures that lead us to expecting negative events to happen.
Prolonged periods of challenges can tip our mental state from balanced to increasingly pessimistic.
A pessimism that sets in and determines our outlook.
One that I never realised I had developed until a recent trip to St Louis in America.
My last decade has seen challenging home and work circumstances, financial demands, and health scenarios that led me to being less than an hour from potential death. Rather than looking on the bright side, my mind read this as a growing sense of danger.
It began to live in a state of negative expectancy though I put down my feeling listless, unenthusiastic, edgy, and frustrated to a heavy schedule.
A trip to the USA would sort that to see family. All went smoothly, very smoothly, until the second day of my break. Out of the blue being treated to a fabulous meal in a plush restaurant, I felt nausea, a bit dizzy, and very hot. In short, a panic attack. An experience I had not had for decades.
But, this time I was in reverse. My mind was so concerned that I had a few days of everything being great, it got spooked that a bad happening was bound to occur based upon my previous few years of life. It went into full negative expectancy and formed a subconscious worse ‘what happens next’.
Because when it’s like that, good is just as often going to set it off as bad.
What we expect, we get.
The mind does not know reality.
It can be easily convinced or fooled into believing that what you think (and then imagine), is 100% true. Through regular repetition it becomes sure and set that the views it holds are absolutely how things are and nothing else.
Examples will be someone who fully believes their partner is cheating on them (when they’re not) will see evidence everywhere. Or an insecure person who becomes certain that all their work colleagues are talking behind their back every day.
When our mind gets locked into a specific belief pattern, it won’t let go.
What we expect, in our minds, we get.
I think we all know this well and have gone through some form of this in our lives. Maybe like me though, you haven’t noticed it creeping back in or starting in the first place. That’s because it’s subtle and in the background. Until a very simple situation triggers it like my high quality night out in Missouri.
If we have it long enough a basic event can trip us up. Even a happy one!
But you may not have got that far yet. It may already be affecting your mindset and you haven’t picked up on it. You feel it’s merely that you are being dragged down by life’s ups and downs. Or you make some excuse why you don’t want to go out with friends anymore or do the activities you used to enjoy.
Well, it’s less ‘you’ and more that negative expectancy has formed in your mind. An expectancy that’s shutting down all the good that is on offer in life to protect you in case things turn out wrong.
So, let me show how to change that round in your favour.
Scale it up not down.
Negative expectancy is an automatic response in silence.
Without realising it becomes our fixed attitude as we don’t challenge it. It simply defaults to it. Let’s see if you have this mental habit.
Think ahead about an event or situation or even how life will turn out in general.. On a scale of one to ten in either direction (feeling great/positive v feeling anxious/negative) on which side would you put your thoughts and what score? You can even be specific to see if it’s a certain subject that floors you. So repeat this exercise about finances, health, relationships, work….anything most people will have in the mind almost daily.
So, how did you score it? Where were you on that negative/positive scale?
If you were brutally honest then you were on the negative side of things with scores 5 plus on that scale.
When you have a negative expectancy set in you will be at least 5 on most, if not all matters, you think about but DEFINITELY if you look at life ahead generally and mark that over 5. Overall thinking that is low or pessimistic or even lapsed into fear develops into a firm negative expectancy. And that mental trait is what is robbing you of joy in life.
Time to reverse it.
Short term super thinking.
You are not going to crack positive future thinking in the short term.
Well, not long term positive expectation. You CAN easily begin to change it in the short term. Like training for a running race and needing to steadily get fit, you can build up your better mental levels.
Begin thinking about an event (a work day you always worry over/always on edge awaiting the credit car bill etc) a week before the date. Start small and simply keep repeating that it’s going to turn out really well. Just that for a few days. Two or three days in continue with that thought (or you can even say it to yourself) but add a couple of images of how it will turn out.
Keep them bright, happy and again short. You want a few seconds of you smiling or laughing or people around you pleased you are there. Again, nothing more.
The day before be brave and ramp it up. Keep the previous two mentioned above but throw in some sounds now (good sounds such as someone saying ‘Yes’ or clapping). Then add them all together in one picture. Finally, on the morning of that day get up and do 10 minutes of this and make it bigger and full of colour in your mind like a huge advert by the highway.
This has to be a regular part of your schedule (like your breakfast or latte from Rockys Coffee Stop). A week of upping the mental expectancy that finishes with a big boom image in your mind. An image that will erode your old negative expectancy until it takes over as the weeks and months pass by. OH YES THIS WORKS!
So, welcome to the good thinking side of life now. You’ve got what you need to walk down a new mental road. A better, more confident road. From one state to another.
A state of positive imagination and mental excitement I expect you will find there.
Photo attributions – free to use under Pixabay Content Licence by Smiln32 and Vilkasss and Nika_Akin.
What is your vision for how things will turn out and your future?
Very few people can avoid this. It’s an element of the mind’s workings that it pictures likely and possible events so that it can help keep us safe and alive.
Vision and imagination are core elements of our mental process.
The trouble is that most people don’t realise that this is occurring automatically as we go about our daily lives. Operating based upon the views and considerations we put in there. And most of them aren’t very positive at all.
And so we end up seeing our once hoped for good future slowly disappear in front of our eyes.
So, here is how and why a strong vision is the key to lifelong lasting achievement.
The Future from the past.
Many people predict the future.
Most of these however are basing it on how today will turn out. In other words, adding some extra developments to build from current times. It’s perhaps less a vision for the future as a plan for next steps.
It’s far more impressive to see a future that in no way looks anything like today.
That’s what Jules Verne accomplished. You hear or read his name and old fashioned tales of trips to the Moon that have featured in films come to mind. Victorians travelling on basic boneshaker rockets to the stars as if it was that easy.
But, he was far more accomplished than that actively predicting where science and technology would end up. End up from the fairly limited understandings they possessed at the time.
He spent long hours in the BNF (France’s home of all published works) fuelling his mind with scientific journals. This led him to expanding his own ideas and publishing them, these visions and concepts at the time seeming far fetched, even crazy.
Not to him. He clearly saw submarines, helicopters, air conditioning, skyscrapers, and most famous of all, moon trips on advanced space ships that could break the Earth’s orbit. His books have been translated into 150 languages, far more than Shakespeare can claim!
He was revolutionary in vision. A strong vision that improved his life until the end.
The Beginning not the end.
Strong, powerful vision sees the end result, not the current situation.
It’s one very ill people often utilise. And Bob Champion was one such person.
He was a successful National Hunt jockey riding hundreds of winners. Then in 1979 he was struck down with cancer and given only a 30% chance of survival at best. The treatment was invasive and debilitating and nearly killed him then and there. At the same time his beloved mount, Aldaniti, had suffered a terrible injury in a race and the vets recommended he should be put down as it was his 4th bad injury.
Both were in dire straits.
But Champion always believed that the horse would win England’s prestigious Grand National race with him on board. And while in bed seriously unwell he began to imagine just that. Something that appeared to have about 0% chance of ever coming about.
His vision got him fighting. It gave him a goal and dream to pursue.
He did recover and back to health and immediately went to see his pal Aldaniti, who was now amazingly doing the same. He told the racehorse’s trainer his belief about the race and luckily he also thought it could be possible.
In April 1981 both Bob and Aldaniti lined up in the race and powered to victory. Bob is still alive and going strong himself 45 years later! His story was even made into a successful movie called, naturally, Champions.
Everything he saw in his vision came true.
A champion vision in every sense.
Have the vision, hold the vision.
It’s easy to have a big vision.
We can all conceive some dream scenario for ourselves. One where our life is rosy or stunning outcomes have manifested. But, two factors are a MUST in ensuring these imaginations turn out as conceived.
You have a crystal clear vision of what you seek to bring about and keep holding it no matter the challenges (hold ’em, don’t fold ’em as they say in cards). If you truly believe in your final aim, don’t drop the ball in your mind if things get tough and
The initial vision must be founded on strong ground not fantasy. If you aren’t very good at football, seeing yourself as the world’s best player is setting yourself up for a fall.
Bob Champion WAS a jockey and Jules Verne WAS a writer when they set out on their quest to personal achievement. Both lifted themselves up from a sold platform underneath them that was there already.
The basis of strong vision is found in a strong individual with a strong awareness of who they are and what that person can accomplish.
Only Picasso knew he was Picasso. Which is why many pretenders try to copy the original and never get near. The same in business, music and life as well as art. Mastery is often being the only one doing what only you sought to do that your mind kept showing you.
Personal individuality expressed via a vivid mental picture is the key to a pinnacle life achievement. That and abiding by the two factors above. Whether you want to create a new hot drink or form of clothing.
Be yourself, be fully clear what this you wishes to create, keep that image alive in the mind, and stay the course to your own mountain top. History proves this – Picasso couldn’t ride racehorses. Verne could not paint Cubist style art. And Champion could not pen about futuristic machines.
What they could do and chose to do, their own strong vision helped take them somewhere memorable.
And if you use this too, you could follow them to lifelong triumph.
