Controlling Your Mind Power - Are You Ready?

By Harold L Lowe

Often when I ask people what do they really want to be different in their lives, I am surprised to hear them respond that they do not know what they want to be different. If I press them a bit, most come up with general answers like they would like to have more money, a better job, or a long-delayed vacation. When I then ask them why they think they do not have those things, they generally have a list of reasons. The number one reason is usually a lack of money.

Once the conversation turns away from what it is that they want to general topics, it is usually not very long before statements of negativity related to their circumstances creep into their comments. They seem to sense that I am picking up on the negative comments, and they will eventually say something that indicates that is just how the world is for them. For them, their life circumstances are all messed up. Yet, they do not know what it is that would clear up the mess for them.

Even though it causes me to pause briefly when people tell me they do not know what they want, I truly do understand. Most people get discouraged from seeking ways to fulfill their dreams and desires very early in life. Their dream-seeking is quickly turned into job-seeking by the apparent realities they observe in their environment. Once people get trapped in a paycheck to paycheck job situation, the demands of the job and of life in general make it less and less likely that they will allow themselves to be exposed to different life options.

Make no mistake about it, changing the course of your life is not to be taken lightly. My question to you is are you truly ready to do it? The good news is countless other people have made such a change. They took the same basic steps and used the same basic equipment that is at your disposal right now. They had to master their mind power. They had to learn how to change most of their habitual thinking patterns and align them with their new goals. In essence, they had to re-build their self images to conform to the new realities they decided to produce in their lives.

If you are ready to begin controlling your mind power but are in need of a starting point, here is an exercise that I found to be most helpful to me. Set aside some quiet time for your self, take out a few blank sheets of paper, draw a line down the middle of a sheet or sheets and begin listing on the left side of the page any beliefs, situations, habits and conditions that you can think of that you do not want in your life any more.

Be honest with yourself. This list is for your eyes only. You have had more than enough input or advice from others during your life. This exercise is about you working on your own individual life no matter how uncomfortable it might feel initially.

This I know for sure. You can claim or re-claim control of your own mind power. You are the most miraculous of all living beings on earth. You are the owner of a mind that is so stupendous, that as you truly begin controlling your mind power and consciously using it, there is no dream that you can dream that you cannot achieve.

Harold L Lowe retired at age 62 when his six-figure income position was eliminated. He now wishes to share some of what he has learned since then and some of his experiences as well through articles. He is now studying The New Think And Grow Rich with the author, Ted Ciuba, a founding member of the World Internet Summit. To Claim A FREE Copy Of The Book That Inspired The Movie/DVD/Book, The Secret, Go To: http://www.MasteringYourMindPower.com

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Self Motivation is the Best Motivation

By Bob Brahm

"Every artist was first an amateur."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

And Michael Jordan was not born a star. He was also just another child who motivated himself to be what he is today. He missed many shots, he lost many games, and yet he came back again and again. As the saying goes, success is not about never falling, but getting up every time we fall. But the problem with many of us is that we just don't want to get up. We think that we are not like Michael Jordan, and that he is special while we are just common.

It is the internal demon that is our worst enemy, and he will try his best to make you not try again giving you all kinds of excuses, and you will give up. Then one day you will read a motivation article like this one and feel extremely motivated for a day or two. You even take a printout of motivational quotes and post them on your cubicle, use as a screensaver, and then you just go on with life. No amount of a motivational quotes or articles will help motivate unless you fight the internal demon and start self motivating yourself.

Here are a few steps for self motivation:

1) You should first accept the fact that no great men were born great, and they were just ordinary persons who worked hard and did extra-ordinary things. Unless you accept that all men are equal, and that some are better only marginally, your internal demon will always win and you will find it hard to get up every time you fall.

2) You should have trust in yourself.
Unless you learn to trust yourself, you will find it hard to try again after a failure. You must forget the fact that you failed once and dismiss that failure as a random occurrence. It will help to remember that every great men failed many times before they began to suceed.

3) Be well prepared.
Unless you are prepared, it is no point trying. Put in more effort in your preparation before you try again. If you are well prepared you have benchmark and even if you fail again, you will know where to put your efforts in next time.

4) Be willing to change.
To be successful one must be willing to change, and once you are willing to change, you must be prepared to change.

5) Do what successful people does.
Successful people does those things that most people don't want to do. One easy example is working hard, or respecting other person. You must make these things a habit, and when they become a habit, they will drive away your internal demons.

6) Practice makes one perfect.
And if you are are perfect, it will motivate you to get better and better, for perfection has no limits.

Bob Maintains a website on motivational quotes and an interesting collection of Inspirational Will Power Quotes, for self motivation. He also contributes to a blog on sayings and proverbs.

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