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The Super Success of the Late Starting Mind.

The Super Success of the Late Starting Mind.

Ideas don’t stop and some of the best arrive after years of experience of living. The later mind knows this.

Regular belief has it that younger people are the ones who have the energy and drive to gain success. Older folks have done more of their living and are slowing down. They have less to want or chase, and live in a past world rather than looking to evolve a newer one. Younger men and women see how things can be plus they are in touch with current trends and interests.

Now, that could be true for some more mature minds, but certainly not all. They are still very much in the game. Older heads, for one, are shrewder. They are more patient, more measured. And they have plenty of previous failures and learning in droves to call on. In short, they carry wisdom and understanding.

Match that with a great idea, and pure gold is what a late starting mind can hold.

You are 60 years old and your business has been thrown a curve ball.

Your living has been taken from under your feet, what are you going to do? Well, at that age, most would say to shut up shop and enjoy retirement. Not for one old timer.

Harland had been serving travellers his own brand of food since he was 37. At first it didn’t go down well. Despite losing all his money when his venture folded, he refused to give up and worked on perfecting his own unique recipe. Strife then came again when his next restaurant burnt down. Undaunted he rebuilt it but decided to focus instead on faster cooking time to be able to sell quicker by frying his food.

As he reached his mid-60’s he was doing reasonably well financially. Then came the final big hit. A new highway was built bypassing his service station cafe and all but destroying trade. He was down, but not out. He never lost faith in his own recipe and food. When visiting a friend’s burger joint in Salt Lake City, he cooked his special spiced dish for him. His friend loved it and put it on the menu. It went down a storm.

Buoyed by this Sanders got on the road and starting selling his spicy blend and how to add it into the food. He cut deals where he got a small payment for each one sold. Within 5 years he was represented in over 600 locations including Canada, Mexico, and even Jamaica and the UK.

Harland was Colonel Sanders. That spiced food recipe is the heart of KFC!

Finger licking fame came when an old head wouldn’t quit!!

Think of a top entrepreneur and the likes of a young Mark Zuckerberg (19 when FB started) or Bill Gates (23 years old when Microsoft launched) tend to be our first thought.

But, research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that a 50 year old business founder was twice as likely to exit their enterprise a successful person (wealthy, left a legacy etc). This data came from an analysis of 2.7 MILLION founders between 2007 and 2014!

This is true across many fields.

Love superhero comics? Stan Lee created The Fantastic Four on his 39th birthday (hardly a cartoon age) and developed the now stellar Marvel Universe world in his 40’s. Legendary Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson was a small time bit part player before landing the award winning role in Jungle Fever at the age of 43. He went on to play his most memorable roles as he neared 50 and beyond.

Most famous of all, Ray Kroc was 52 when he bought the basic McDonalds name and turned in into the global food chain it is today from his own vision way back in 1954. And the first iconic everyday brand of the motoring era was started by a 45 year old….Henry Ford, when cars were viewed as pointless contraptions that would never catch any mass appeal. He sold it to the world.

History holds true for this too. Charles Darwin was 50 when he published The Origin of the Species. An activist in his 40’s Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa at the age of 76. And James Bond never came alive as a character until Ian Fleming created him when he began writing when he was 44.

You see, slower starters can become fast and big finishers!

The best could yet be to come. If you keep your mind alive.

As the years pass ideas don’t die. It’s us that dismiss them and no longer look to have them. Especially long held ones that haven’t come to fruition. But our long standing desires and goals were Colonel Sanders chicken recipe or Nelson Mandela’s wish to lead his nation. One kept losing again and again, the other languished in jail.

Neither gave up. Instead their slow burning minds continued to fan the flames. Mental flames that one day fired up in real life. They were one of many who saw age as no barrier to achieving their vision. They kept the dream burning bright in their heads. Ensure you do the same.

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Is Your Mind a Portal?

Is Your Mind a Portal?

One minute they are not there, the next they appear in full colour in your mind. A never existing before concept or visionary future, for instance, coming out of nowhere, and arriving in your head. Something, you are convinced, that you could not have thought up yourself.

If you are not aware of conceiving them in the first place, where on Earth, or some other world, have they come from?

Is your mind merely a portal to receive suggestions from a higher place? A kind of window into another dimension or existence inside your mentality?

Well,……yes and no.

Let me explain – there IS a somewhere that delivers them.

Firstly, let me tell you this. You are more than only one mind. You are two. Two together.

A joint mentality. And this is where the belief of portals comes from. The regular view is the mind is a mortal fixed brain and finite to many and therefore any super visions have to have another source. Typically this is read as a message from a spirit world or some alternative universe that flows through the portal into the mind. As the individual had no prior knowledge of the idea/information, it can’t have come from them. It’s supernatural in nature arriving through a portal the mind is connected to.

At this point I fully admit to having been very interested in all things spiritual for many years. I explored many aspects of spiritual matters. Something didn’t quite fit. No matter how much I loved to believe in higher beings intervening to assist us, I also knew that our mind exists as a higher mechanism in itself that has ample power to pull previously unconsidered options seemingly from out of nowhere.

Well not quite nowhere.

From our subconscious. If there is anything mystical at work here, it’s in this mysterious zone. It’s a kind of secret compartment that stores everything we have ever heard, seen, been told, learnt about, felt, understood etc. But here’s the beautiful thing. It’s also the location where our own personal insights/viewpoints/awarenesses and individual mind elements are kept deep in reserve. Our bigger unique blueprint.

And it’s in precise moments when current known thinking stands down, our second mind releases a suggestion from those back up reserves.

And that’s where the unknown becomes known.

In addition to your conscious mind, in the background you have a second mind.

A super mind in effect.

Your first mind is the one you would recognise you use day in, day out. The task driven, work mode for life mind. The mind that helps you function to complete your day. To survive, shall we say. What I shall call, the human mind, or Mind Number One.

Then there is Mind Number Two. The highly creative, innovative, supremely and powerfully original subconscious mind that keeps all the fun stuff while the other mind deals with the boring everyday. Plus it holds your own personal destiny potential (more of this in a sec).

Trouble is pretty much most of us stay in boring everyday mode. We rarely, or only briefly, open up the fun mind. Therefore we only operate in a ‘need-to-do’ and ‘need-to-think-about’ type setting plus some fear worrying thrown in. Our mega mechanism for higher evolution we all carry in our brain sits there twiddling its thumbs. Which is why when you are having a long soak in the bath or away for a few days mini-break, human mind No.1 powers down. Then the super idea stuff gets its chance. Boom! A sudden flash of inspiration hits your mind.

It IS supernatural….well, super natural really i.e. massively natural.

Could our minds be hooked into the Universe? Or part of our own special future world in our head?

I can’t be 100% sure, but I’d land on the side of the second option overall. I think there is something beyond our awareness, but it seems that the Gods are tormenting us if we are at the end of their portals. That being true means we must await their permission or clemency to put some life help in our mind. We would be their puppets.

I would suggest there has been imprinted in each of us, when we were created, an advanced instruction manual. In that exact fusion at conception each human to be was given a unique and amazing mindset in SuperMind No.2 that contains a special embryonic set of ideas, concepts, visions, and evolutionary potential. When we learn to access that field, a whole array of possibilities fire up. Not when in the traffic queue or supermarket, but when our front human mind is on an extended tea break.

Now when you suddenly imagine an awesome business idea or envision how you could change your future, you will know what is occurring. The portal isn’t open, your own SupermInd is. And it’s showing you some of the phenomenal stuff that was put there when your incredible life was instigated. So you can instigate a higher life here for yourself today. It’s an eternal echo.

Photo attribution – free to use under the Pixabay content licence by Ambroo.

The Secret Untapped Power of the Mind.

The Secret Untapped Power of the Mind.

It’s a power we are rarely aware of. That’s because that power only shows itself in unexpected ways and situations. Unexpected and decidedly unplanned.

One famous voice is a first class example of this.

Anyone over the age of 45 has grown up with Bugs Bunny. A large as life cartoon rabbit with prominent teeth…..and an unforgettable voice. That voice was spoken by Mel Blanc. He was an American radio personality and voice artist who was responsible for hundreds of character voices and vocal sound effects in a career that spanned six decades. But, it was Bugs Bunny that became his unmistakable fame and fortune.

In 1961 though Mel was involved in a serious head on car accident. This resulted in a coma which lasted 21 days. There were few signs of consciousness and, despite everything doctors tried, he remained in his stupor. With hope about gone, one day a doctor tried talking to Blanc in Bugs Bunny style and asked, ‘Hey Bugs Bunny, are you there? How are you?’.

Then, out of the blue, a weak voice called back from the bed in Bugs’ voice, ‘Just fine doc, how are you?’. (See Mel Blanc explain in his own words).

From this point he began to gradually waken and returned to full health. Something deep in the mind was still working and powered up his return to life. Some connection was made to Bugs Bunny that drew life back into his whole body. The mind that seemed dead, was still very much alive. He would go on to live for nearly another 30 years until his eighties.

The unknown power of the mind showed doctors what it could do.

We have power beyond our awareness. A power of pure force in the mind that transfers to the body.

In 2006 Lydia Angiyou was at home in Ivujivik, her remote village home of 300 people in northern Quebec, Canada. Outside her two boys were playing happily until their worried shouts got her attention. There, making straight for her children, was a 320kg bear that dwarfed her in size and sheer muscle. Most people would have ran away rather than confront the wild animal. Her mind knew only one thing – to defend and protect her young boys.

She faced up to the bear screaming at it but it swatted her aside, knocking her to the ground. Undaunted, she got to her feet and began an all out fight with the huge beast, her mind driven only by saving her family. The commotion was overheard by a neighbour who grabbed a rifle and killed the bear. Despite her ordeal, Mrs Angiyou only experienced minor injuries.

Witness this again in 2013 in the US state of Oregon. Teenage sisters Hannah and Hayley were out walking their dogs near their home when they heard their father’s cries in pain and desperation. Upon finding him they came across a shocking scene. Attempting to pull out a tree stump in the garden his tractor flipped over and pinned him underneath by his chest. The tractor weighed 3000lbs.

Again something in the girls’ minds switched on to what they had to do. They had to remove the tractor or their father would be crushed to death by it. Even though the young teens were very slight sized in body frames, they successfully lifted the machine, many times their weight, and saved their Pa.

As their father, Jeff Smith, later said, ‘It’s amazing. You hear about this stuff…being able to pick cars up and slide people out. You never realise it’s really there until you actually witness it’.

His only injuries were a broken wrist, lacerations, and bruising.

These true events perfectly illustrate how the mind holds stunning reserves of available power.

They also prove how this power is an untapped source of strength we possess.

Now this doesn’t mean you have to face some critical situation like the women above. What it typifies is that your mind has hidden forcefulness that you can access when you have a highly challenging test or task in front of you. In fact, it’s almost such scenarios that triggers this power to activate and become available for super use.

And that’s why I’m writing this blog post. If you are facing drastic times or a seemingly insurmountable obstacle that, at first look, appears hopeless. It’s not. It requires your mind to go into super fight mode. To face the dilemma head on.

If you can remove any panic and see the issue as a bear/tractor/heavy weight stopping you, the mind will give you mental brawn to get straight on in there and bust the difficulty. You can tell because it will guide you ‘to do what you have to do’ to win, get back control, and/or end this headache once and for all.

You MUST trust the powerful pictures it will project across you head. Then follow them.

Fight back and fight through through supersolving. Ask your mind, it’s ready and prepared. Always!

So much of our brain power is unused, untapped, and under utilised.

We prefer to only use it for everyday menial tasks – basic jobs to complete, making sure we do the washing, remembering where we put something we need at home and so on. Nothing big, nothing momentous. This mind effort works at a low level never employing it’s real ability to evolve more.

And that’s real story here. The tales above only epitomise that so much lays dormant in our mental banks awaiting us to exploit it. We shouldn’t wait until a frightful drama arrives to open up our supermind power. Otherwise our life remains limited and limiting.

Put the mobile phone down and stop scrolling through rubbish that does nothing for your life. Stop binge watching on Netflix. End thinking just about your next holiday or online clothes sales. Begin USING more of your mind. Have more big brain belief.

Photo attribution – Pixaby.com/GuyKeve – free for use under Pixabay content license.

The 5 Decisions That Decide Life.

The 5 Decisions That Decide Life.

Just five!

And yet they influence our full destiny, and continue to decide our life for all our life, until we know just what they are. These tell us who we are, what the prospects will be for that person, and define the whole significance and direction of who we become and what we experience.

They are the same for the celebrity as well as the average person on the street. They are the ones that have mapped out your life from day 1. And they are the decisions that make a pauper out of a millionaire, or a self made success out of a failure.

Just ask Warwick Davis.

Warwick stands only 3ft 6 inches tall but stands very tall as an accomplished actor. He was born with a rare bone growth disorder that leads to dwarfism. For most people with the same condition, that restriction alone has defined their life from the very start. Not so Warwick. He made the resolution that he was more, far more, than the size of his self. He would not accept anything else than a bigger future.

An opportunity appeared to act as an extra playing an Ewok in Return of the Jedi. As a firm Star Wars fan he jumped at it without any question. But chance was on his side even more. When fellow actor Kenny Baker fell ill, Warwick’s self-confidence as himself led him to being offered the prime role of Wicket. He excelled and began to craft a career in such roles that he became the ‘go-to’ person in films and TV series such as Willow, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and Merlin.

Now, years later, he is a BAFTA winner and one of the highest earning support actors of all time.

All because of the decision he took to define and decide his own life.

Being famous is a wonderful thing, right?

Well not for some because of what their mind is telling them.

Legendary pop star Michael Jackson, Transformers actress Megan Fox, Twilight actor Robert Pattinson, and singer Tom Grennan who has just spoke about it, have experienced (and still do), the mental obsessive disorder called Body Dysmorphia. No matter how beautiful, pretty, slim, or perfectly formed their bodies may be to the world, they only see ugliness, awful figures, or disfiguring body parts in some way. The naturally attractive Fox captures it when she said, ‘I don’t ever see myself the way other people see me’.

This is a living curse of vision stimulated by the mind. Whatever amazing careers they may have, whatever awards and praise they have won, whatever the millions of people who adore them, they are ashamed and depressed at themselves in the mirror.

It’s easy to say that if we were in their position we would love it, BUT, their tainted self image is a personal version we carry somewhere in our mentality. Not bodily perhaps, but in some other way for sure. And carry it in the 5 decisions that have defined and decided our whole life path, it’s level, and it’s progress.

The five that have been hidden but still show in who we are.

These true stories above reflect how our own mental opinion about ourselves will dictate how and where we go.

Warwick Davis had a less than appealable look but he set his mind to believing in what he could accomplish. The celebs listed here (with countless other famous people who never admitted it) had fame, but their minds saw another view of who they were.

And that’s where the 5 decisions that decide life come in. There is NO specific list if you are expecting one. The type that’s some secret set of choices that will set you free and apart from the rest of the world. There IS the 5 decisions you have carried in your mind about you, life, and the world that has decided how your life has turned out. Or, in your head, should and will turn out. Ones like these –

  1. You never rated yourself as clever or smart so best that you take a solid, simple job that just about pays the bills and takes little pushing of yourself to do.
  2. Looks wise you thought you were fairly plain and everyone else seemed popular and attractive. Your response – to not be the centre of attention so you had few partners and stayed single (or married another unassuming person).
  3. Finances were a struggle growing up so you believed money was scarce or limited. Therefore you never buy much new or spend your income on treats and rewards keeping it in the bank sitting there instead.
  4. Sport was never a natural fit for you so you never did much exercise. Now your body feels old and weight is hard to shift but it’s OK as you don’t do fitness, it’s not your thing.
  5. Playing safe is best. You have developed that belief so you still have the same house and job and rarely travel abroad. You don’t like to try new things as you don’t know what could go wrong.

Such scenarios are what has played out in all our lives. The successful have taken on their mindset and defeated it. The truly happy have won over any thoughts that tell them otherwise. The winners are those who decided to re-wire their brain to focus only on the end prize. And then go get it.

The rest of us have been held back by our 5 main decisions.

We are a self-fulfilling prophecy!

If your life has never matched up to what it could have been, take a good look in your main areas. Somewhere in them are the 5 decisions that have took you there and stuck you there. It’s time to know them. And it’s time to change them.

To make new decision that will give you the new life that always seemed out of reach. But it’s not far away at all.

Photo attribution – by JerzyGorecki free to use under the Pixabay content license.

The Art of Mental Precision.

The Art of Mental Precision.

Mentally we have the inbuilt ability to employ laser like focus in the pursuit of a goal, skill, aspiration, or achievement. Most minds though are only directed to scroll through social media, watch Netflix for hours, and pour over any concern no matter how small. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You have the art within you to utilise mental precision.

Others have magically done so.

Koji Mayuyama is known as The God Hand. In his native Japan he is a revered person. As a self taught ceramatist, he is the one museums, collectors, and organisations turn to when they need pottery and ceramics restored. But, they are not just any pottery. They are ancient artefacts, historical dynasty collections, and national treasures.

To normal restorers they are beyond repair. Fragile, brittle, highly damaged, and largely broken pots, bowls, vases etc that were made through traditional methods centuries before that have long since gone out of practice. Their materials no longer common or rare. The job would defeat everyone. Not Koji. This is how he gets his title as Japan’s Master of Restoration.

If you watch him at work (see link above to BBC series) you will see huge attention to detail (through researching and sourcing natural minerals and compounds to augment his restoring), patient crafting, and, above all, complete mental precision.

It’s not just the preparation that makes him so sought after. It’s the pure unadulterated focus to complete the job. Whether that’s umpteen weeks, many months….or even longer. It’s also why he purportedly commands 5 figures per piece for some of his work.

He has turned art restoration into the art of mental precision!

Some careers are slow burners. A rare breed though are meteoric.

In 1984 a young American boy was living in Italy due to his father’s work. He was an avid sports fan and particularly enjoyed football (soccer) as it was the Italian national game. But, he also participated in basketball because his Dad played the game. When they moved back to Philadelphia in the early 90’s, the die was cast. Basketball called his name.

He was a natural player and mover on court and in a few short years he was training with the famous 76ers to get fitter. Then came his bold move. Despite having good grades at school, he decided to abandon his studies and aim for the NBA itself even though he was still in high school. A gamble all young would-be basketball hopefuls just would not take.

He was different. He was drafted and soon traded to the LA Lakers. Here his legendary rise to fame began it’s sharp rise to international stardom. The young man led the team to the NBA championship, played on winning Olympic teams, and led the league in scoring for two years in a row.

That player was Kobe Bryant. His stellar confidence shone through. His ube belief never wavered. Where did he get it from?

It came from his self-created Mamba Mentality. He defined this as ‘focusing on the process and trusting in the hard work when it matters most. It’s the ultimate mantra for the competitive spirit’. Absolute mental precision in other words. Set the belief, keep it like steel, never waver, hold the nerve, see it through. And succeed in a pinnacle way. He even wrote a best selling book called, ‘The Mamba Mentality: How I Play’.

The Mamba man who became one of the sporting greats.

Kobe Bryant and Koji Mayuyama found their mental precision.

Found it where they could deliver it. Found it so they could use it in something specialist they could pursue to iconic outcomes and personal mastery.

That type of future can be destined for you too. Just like a novice restorer or novice basketballer, before you what you would seek may seem out of reach, beyond possible, crazy to consider, and a pipe dream. But, with mental precision, a locked in mindset of belief that does not let go of achieving the very best no matter the unfolding events around you, the best of yourself with it, the result will skyrocket you into a world very few ever experience.

To win your gold medals or be chosen to bring ancient treasures back to life.

It’s not WHAT you choose to achieve or become. It’s the MENTAL FORTITUDE you take with you on the journey. What mental companion you let accompany you on your pilgrimage to prominence. Find something that will force and forge something great within you to come to life. Take the higher road with your mind.

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Four Simple SuperMind Boosters.

Four Simple SuperMind Boosters.

Most people believe it is some complex procedure that will take years. Or a specialist programme few have the desired intelligence to qualify for. Not so. In fact, it’s all about getting started, forging the right foundations and building momentum.

And that’s something anyone can do whether they are from Milan or Mogadishu, Brisbane or Boston, Peru or the Philippines.

Because a SuperMind is what we all have and what we can all strengthen.

So, let’s get your SuperMind development up and running with these 4 simple SuperMind boosters.

You already imagine, don’t you?

What you imagine, though, are your worst fears, of everything going wrong and turning out pear shaped. Ones you keep having without fail.

And those images are driving actions and behaviours formed from the negatively set beliefs and thinking they have forged into you. If you only ever see bad things, you will expect bad things, and so end up avoiding most things. For example, if you only ever see businesses failing and picturing total financial disaster in your head, it will be no surprise that you will steer well clear of starting your own venture.

If you only ever imagine horror stories about love or travel, you will be a lone soul who stays at home rather than part of a happy couple on an exotic beach.

You have to begin re-imagining. Re-imagining differently, better, brighter, more optimistically, and with everything going right and working out. This HAS to be your first port of call for a SuperMind to take root.

Today, add some look good, feel good, imagined outcomes in your mind. Repeat day after day.

You have an amazing idea.

A possible great product or developing a talent you have to meet a gap in the market. In your mind it looks good. Or something to explore further; a project that really interests you or a personal ability to expand. You decide to think about it.

A few days pass. Your head has been infiltrated by other stuff – tasks to complete at home, a heavy workload in the office, shopping duties, kids to pick up, your normal weekly hobbies. Soon that super idea has gone to the back of your mind, and then out of it completely. You can’t quite recall what you thought was so cool or lucrative….and now you are frustrated and disappointed.

You can prevent this ever happening. When those brilliant ideas come out of nowhere, write them down. Always have a small note pad to hand to capture those initial idea bursts. Record as much as you receive in your mind. As your mind feeds you the total scene and how it can unfold, put it down on paper to protect. You can always add it to a computer file afterwards. Then you can revisit, rework, and progress this golden concept.

You can’t grow what you don’t keep. Do the write thing, write ideas down!

What grabs the mind gets the attention. All other thinking and activity gets shelved as it gets caught up in this attractor.

This means important functions such as idea generation or mental confidence building become halted. And if the source of the attention does not go away, these highly crucial attributes of the mind power down as they are not considered important.

The No.1 origin that causes this are distractions. Ones that don’t expand or improve life, they offer no growth potential or mental development. The problem is that they are the same for the majority of all of us. Yes, you know the ones!

Social media, endless scrolling on the phone entertaining yourself with funny videos, catching up with world news or sports updates, plus bingeing on a Netflix series or a few hours of down time in front of the box (that’s TV for the non-Brits out there), nights out with the boys or girls and the like.

We all are due some fun space. We deserve a break and some escapism. Except that it’s not a few minutes or something to watch over a coffee break or after a long weekend of self improvement work. It’s a daily occurrence without pause. It’s sucking the mental life out of you and you have to start binning it.

If you truly want mental muscle that can help you achieve anything, ditch the distractions.

You mind needs a new spark.

An igniter of stronger possibility. An inspirer for far more. Something that uplifts, encourages, informs, and stimulates the best thinking.

Welcome to books.

Good books. Ideas books. Development books. Not wild fiction books or genres that again act as a distraction. Books DO help us exist within another world but it mustn’t be a dark world or harsh world or any similar world that tells a story of pain, struggle, and even death.

You have to get into books that propel you upwards where achievement lives. They can be personal life story autobiographies from the successful. Equally they could be true history tales from the past detailing success and how great things happened.

Top of the lot are educational books from the ultimate writers in your field. Those that have more than ‘been there done that’ and have actually created some blueprint that fires up your mind to how you too can elevate yourself. One of my all time favourites is ‘Atomic Habits’ by James Clear. That’s one of mine, get power reading and discover some of your all time mind movers that get your head in a new bigger game.

Reading books is filling your mind with mental fulfilment fuel.

That’s your fab four right there. Four simple SuperMind boosters. Four is all it will take for your mind to start working in the progressive ways it was built for and has been waiting for.