Goal Setting & the Subconscious Mind

Your mind is an interesting thing.  It has two parts, a conscious and a subconscious part.  The conscious section is the part that is aware of what is going on in your environment and is very limited.  You conscious mind can only focus on a very few things at once.  More realistically, it can effectively only focus on one thing at a time.

Your subconscious mind is the mastermind that controls everything about you without your “awareness.”  Your subconscious mind “rules the roost.”  The subconscious mind keeps your heart beating, lungs breathing, as well as all other bodily functions without your consciousness.   

Your conscious mind acts as a gatekeeper to the subconscious.  However, your subconscious will respond according to what has been consistently programmed into it by the allowance of the “gatekeeper.”  An example would be: “Money is the root of all evil.”  If you have heard that over and over again and your conscious mind handed that thought over to the subconscious mind enough, the subconscious mind will respond by doing everything it can to keep you from being rich; from having money, for your BELIEF is that money is evil.  It does this because it has been programmed to believe that money is evil and it knows that you don’t want evil in your life. 

Let’s say this aforementioned thought about money was put into you in as a child.  You heard your parents say that rich people are crooks and that money is evil.  You heard them talk about the filthy rich and things of this nature.  These thoughts being quietly programmed in our subconscious mind in your early years will raise their ugly heads when you grow older and want to obtain wealth.  When you try to obtain wealth, your subconscious mind will make sure you NEVER achieve it because of all the negative beliefs that are buried deep in your subconscious about money, wealth, or riches.  Therefore, I don’t care how much you desire to be rich; you will NEVER be rich until you train your subconscious mind with a new belief that money is good.

First you have to discover what limiting beliefs are holding you back from what you desire and then dispel them with new and MORE POWERFUL beliefs.   There are many effective ways to “trick” your subconscious mind to believe something new.

Let’s say you are in a network marketing company and you want to be a Diamond.  You want to be a Diamond because Diamonds make $5,000 a month in residual income.  However, somewhere deep in you subconscious mind you have a belief that YOU can never be Diamond.  You may think that you are not smart enough, young enough, talented enough, or some other limiting belief that was programmed into your subconscious mind over the years.  Because of this type of programming (that probably came from self-talk, your parents or siblings, etc.) you don’t feel you can succeed in becoming Diamond.

Well, let’s play a trick on the “Old Sub.”  Take a piece of paper and write this phrase at the top:  “25 Things I Am Going to Do AFTER I Become a Diamond.”  Once you have written that statement, start listing the 25 things you would do after you became Diamond.  Here are some examples:

·      Buy a new car

·      Replace the deck

·      Replace the garage door

·      Take a 2 week vacation to the Smokies

·      Give $1,000 to the needy

·      Take the family to a special place for dinner

·      Buy a new computer

·      Get a new wardrobe

·      Cut back on my hours at work

·      Spend more time with the family

·      Volunteer

·      Serve on a worthwhile committee

·      Get a new Blackberry Storm

·      Learn a new computer program

·      Take some courses to improve my network marketing business

·      Get my wife a diamond ring

·      Pay off my daughters car

·      Get my grandkids a new computer

·      Sent my granddaughter to volleyball classes

·      Learn to play a guitar

·      Buy 20 new self-improvement books

·      Go on a cruise

·      Support a needy family for a month

·      Buy wood-crafting tools and form a new hobby

·      Pay off my credit cards

The list can be anything you really desire.  When you do this you begin to feel that those things are possible.  You get excited and full of feeling.  If you review this list over and over, several times a day, over a period of time, you will find yourself being propelled to that Diamond position you thought was impossible.

The key is to reprogram the subconscious mind until it believes and receives this new programming.  This process speeds up when emotion (feeling) is added to the equation.  As you write YOUR 25 things, pay attention to how you FEEL.  If you FEEL good, your vibration is high and that is the best state with which to reprogram your subconscious.

Another key is to stay the course.  Focus on those 25 things you want to do AFTER you become DIAMOND.  Don’t focus on becoming Diamond.  Rather focus what the things you want or want to do.  I can assure you that becoming Diamond will be a lot easier than you think.  You just have to get your subconscious mind to work FOR you and not AGAINST you.  Once you do that, the rest just happens.

Go ahead, get that piece of paper and practice what is written here.  You will be delighted at the outcome.  Do it! Be patient!  You are about to go Diamond!

Can Opposites Exist?

The fact is that opposites do exist. Good and bad exist as will and light and darkness. Abundance and lack exist as well as health and sickness. A better question and a more important one would be: Can opposites exist in the SAME space at the SAME time? The answer to that question is, they cannot. Love and hate can never exist in the same space at the same time. Worshiping God and mammon cannot happen simultaneously either.

I would like to spend the rest of this article on abundance and lack since many reading this are seeking wealth and financial freedom. You only have one mind and if you occupy the real estate of your mind with lack, abundance can NEVER appear.

When you look at a bill, do you think thoughts of lack or abundance? If you are like me, your mind immediately thinks of lack. You think of the depletion of your bank account. Maybe you think, “I can’t afford to pay this.” These thoughts STOP the opposite (abundance) from appearing in your life.

To think abundant thoughts in the “appearance” of lack is difficult. Believe me, it is one of the most difficult exercises that you will ever encounter. One trick that I am learning is this: When I see a bill, I multiply the amount by 10 and give thanks to God for the multiplied amount that He is providing. This may sound crazy, but I think life is like a movie. A movie has a script and it “appears” real when that script is acted out. If you don’t like the movie of your life, just change the script and the outcome of your “movie” will change. It’s a “mind game,” but if you understand the way your mind works, you will understand the beauty of this exercise.

Giving thanks in advance is equally powerful. Gratitude draws into our life more of what we are grateful for, for in giving thanks we are focusing on what we desire and we are taking our mind off what we do not desire; in this case—lack. When you thank God for the abundance in your life, you are acknowledging Him as the source of your abundance and occupying your mind with thoughts of abundance. With a mind of gratitude for abundance, guess what will eventually show up in your life? That’s right—the very things you are grateful for.

Multiplying by 10 is powerful as well. The number 10, in the Bible, signifies human failure and God’s provision. Where we fail, God provides 10 times more! We just need to believe and trust in God instead of what is “apparent” in our lives.

Your life, right now, may “apparently” be in lack. If you remain in lack that just means that you are entertaining thoughts of lack. To turn the table around, you need to change your thoughts; thinking in terms of abundance by PRACTICING the exercise outlined above. Giving thanks for the provision of 10 times the amount of your debt. Again, this will take time and practice. Don’t expect an overnight success. Your lack came for a lifetime of WRONG thinking and focus. Your abundance won’t take a lifetime to manifest, but it may take weeks or even months. It all depends on belief. Changing beliefs takes time and the amount of time it takes depends on identifying false beliefs of lack (in this case) and replacing them with the beliefs of unlimited abundance. Remember, abundance and lack cannot occupy the same time and place. The one that dominates your thoughts will win.

Won’t you begin this practice with me? Begin to change your thinking by looking at debt, multiply it by 10, and be thankful to God for His abundant provision. Opposites do exist, but they cannot exist in the same time and space, so practice changing your thinking and beliefs. Develop a heart of gratitude, and in time, you life will change.

Beliefs Can Make or Break You

Beliefs are just thoughts that we give energy to.  The more energy we give a thought the stronger the belief.  Beliefs are formed from birth and many were imposed on us without any or much resistance.  We heard our parents say over and over that rich people are crooks.  We heard the religious say that money is evil.  We heard many such things and we believed them.   When something is heard over and over again it can becomes a belief; especially if what is being said is spoken with intense emotion.

I talk to many people that seem like mind numb robots.  I know, I was one of them!  They say things that are untrue as though they were fact.  This is especially true for those who sit in front of the “tube” day after day taking in all the things they see and hear over and over again and then spew them out like they are experts or something.  We live in a society where we are taught WHAT to think and not HOW to think.   This is a shame!  Not even our educational system teaches our kid HOW to think!

How many times have we network marketers been told that we were in a pyramid scheme?  How many times was we warned that, “That won’t work?”  Who did all the warning?  People who “believed” something they heard in the past; people with strong opinions that have not mastered the ability to think.

For the sake of this post, I will tackle that belief that money is evil.  I heard that saying over and over again throughout my over 50 years and believed it.  After all, rich people had to take from the poor to get their money, didn’t they?  I was lead to believe that being poor and dead broke was a virtue!  I had a belief that desiring wealth was bad and that I should be content with what I have even though I was miserable.  This is just the “tip of the iceberg” as far as my beliefs went.  However one day I began to look at that believe and question it.

One way to deal with false beliefs is to question them.  For example:  Is money really evil?  First of all, how can money be evil?  Money is an object.  It is merely a means of trade and commerce.  It does not have a mind; a soul and thus cannot do evil.  Money is neutral.  However, some people do evil things with money.  They gamble, buy drugs, pay for prostitution, etc.  Therefore money in and of itself is not evil.  It’s how some people use it that can be evil.

Most people do good things with money.  They support themselves and their families; give to charities, hire people, purchase things and all of these things make our economy grow.  Again, money is neither good or evil, it’s the people who handle it that make the difference. 

Now I have reasoned away the false belief that money is evil.  What is evil is the love of money.   To love money, worship it; treating it like your god is evil.  Again it’s the person that makes the difference.    Now I have a new belief that having money is good and not evil.  I no longer give energy to the thought that money is evil.  Money to me is a means to make this world a better place.  With money I can treat my family and friends to the best things in this life.  I can buy things that keep the people who make them employed.  I can give to the poor and support the ministries as my Lord leads me.   I can do awesome things with money, but am totally enslaved by debt.

I have only touched on one belief, but all beliefs should be handled in the same way.  Until limiting beliefs are dealt with, new and more powerful beliefs cannot be realized.  If you have been trying to adapt new beliefs with little success, maybe it’s time to examine the beliefs that you do have and see if they are repelling the new believe.  If you want to be wealthy and deep down “believe” that wealth is wrong, you will never be wealthy.  You have to question the false or limiting beliefs and crush them by studying each one to see if it holds any water (so-to-speak).  If you discover that that belief is not true then just dismiss it and establish an new and more powerful belief such as, money is good and I can do awesome things with money.

I put together a movie to help me establish new beliefs.  You can view it on You Tube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRX_aGMg5U4

More on this subject will be covered in future posts.  My point is, don’t be imprisoned by your false beliefs.  You can do something about those limiting beliefs, develop new ones and achieve great things.  I pray the best for you!