When we are talking about success, wanting success, or pursuing success, the most important ingredient is your attitude. How do you get that correct attitude? Tapping into your deepest desires, your dreams, and tying that in with what you want to do is a very important strategy. In addition to that, the way that you think has everything to do with what goes into your mind in the first place. Think of this like your “factory programming.” This starts very early on, even in the womb, and then after you are born. You have experiences from very early on, even when you were a small child, things you cannot even remember. You have experiences which are internal and external and you absorb them into your mind. You cannot remember any of it now, but it is a part of your fundamental understanding of the world.
I remember hearing about this horrible experiment that happened during the war. Keep in mind that I heard this story verbally, so I cannot verify that it is actually true. I believe it was Germany that wanted to test to see what would happen to small babies if they were not touched at all. From what I remember hearing, they had forty babies and they did not touch them or hold them. They did not do anything but feed them and change their diapers, but they even did that without any human contact. As time went on, some of the babies died. Eventually, all of them died. That is how important human contact is when we are first developing. Even as infants, we need that input. We may not remember being touched and held, but it was a very important part of our developmental process. The thoughts and experiences that go into our minds are a very important part of the way we think and see ourselves. They are also a very important part of how we are motivated to pursue what we desire.
I remember when I was married, I read a book about relationships, and one of the techniques the author recommended was to write down 10 positive things about the other person. Then you were instructed to read those things twice a day, once in the morning and once at night. The author claimed that there was case after case where people would come into his office wanting a divorce saying, “I don’t love him anymore.” But after a month of applying this technique, they would come back and say, “Thank you so much. I’m in love all over again.” For basic relationship issues, this could be a very effective technique. The technique simply shifted their mind from thinking negative thoughts to thinking positive thoughts which changed the way that they saw that person. All they did was simply make a list of positive things and then read it over and over again. They changed their mind by inputting new thoughts.
This would be a positive technique to do no matter what you are pursuing. Start writing down what it is you want to think about it, and then read it or write it on a regular basis. You can change your mind about the way you think or see that issue. What is your goal? What is it that you really want? This is a great way to keep your goal in the forefront. Make it a habit. Write out a sentence of whatever it is that you want. Take that one sentence and maybe post it up on your refrigerator or on your bathroom wall, and say it every day. You will see the effect of that in your life. What you think is what you do. This is a great way to keep yourself motivated to pursue your goals. You will be amazed by the natural result of changing your mind by changing your thinking, and you will also find that it will change your actions.
