4 Simple Steps to Battle Your Antagonist Mind

March 30, 2010 By Spencer Leave a Comment

Success with Rubber Bands

Like a movie script our mind has a protagonist and an antagonist. The protagonist is our positive, energetic, risk-taking mind and the antagonist is the doom and gloom, negative mind. To resist our antagonist mind would be futile. We should acknowledge their existence and power to hold us back from success. To ignore the antagonist will only frustrate the protagonist side of our mind.

What we need are tools or weapons to do battle. Your weapons are these:

1. A rubber band

2. A pen and paper

3. Index cards

4. Book and CD’s

First, let’s discuss the rubber band. This is one of my favorites weapons because it is interactive and immediate. Grab a fat band and slide it over your wrist. Each time, throughout the day, your protagonist mind is cut off from a positive idea or thought by the antagonist, gently snap the rubber band against your wrist. This gives the power back to your protagonist mind. You become aware of the negative and quickly correct it with this pattern breaker called a rubber band.

The paper and pen are the most power weapons against any force local or far. To your antagonist mind, these too are great weapons. Take up journaling and begin to talk to your antagonist through pen and paper. If they are causing you havoc and pushing away your success, answer them with words that fight back.

Index cards and affirmations go together. Each time your antagonist mind pops up a negative defeating thought create an affirmation to battle that thought and write it on your index card. Carry your cards around with you and read as needed. These are like alignment tools and help to keep your protagonist mind anchored to what you do want rather than what you do not.

Finally, read and listen to books and CD’s. Everyone should be reading and keeping your protagonist mind fresh, aligned with the possibilities, and learning new ways to achieve success. CD’s will offer you the same. Set a goal to read so many books per year, listen great CD’s programs, and get connected with Bob Proctor’s Six Minutes to Success program.

In six minutes per day you can begin to shift you thoughts, do battle against your antagonist mind, and truly go toward success. I am a customer and rave about the service Bob Proctor delivers.

Go about your day with the goal of keeping your antagonist in check. You have some solid tools above that may help keep you focused on what you do want rather than what you don’t want.

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The Authentic You

March 27, 2010 By Spencer Leave a Comment

Confucius said, “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” We are all flawed individuals. Without the flaw life would be boring. Our flaws bring out the drama, the intrigue, and originality of life. The Authentic You is about the real you, not some God like perfection of a being. And, it’s totally all right to have flaws.

Choose to grab hold of that lump of coal called YOU and begin cutting and polishing until your diamond begins to show. Everyone has a diamond hiding out inside just begging to be uncovered. A little effort digging around inside you lump of coal will uncover your brilliance, happiness, and success.

Here are 6 steps to help you find The Authentic You. This is a journey. Take the journey. And keep this thought from Benjamin Disraeli in mind, “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”

Face your failures and let them go

This is an important step. This is the step that helps you focus on your flaws, failures, or past transgressions. Don’t ignore them or attempt to bury them away somewhere. If you do this, they will pop up later to torture you some more. Face into the resolve of ridding yourself of these future happiness killers.

Take out a sheet of paper and begin listing everything that has held you back, everything that you did wrong, any failure that was a set back to your happy life. Write with passion. Get it all out. Then… grab that sheet of paper and wad it up and throw it away. Now it’s gone. You faced it, owned it, and resolved to rid yourself of those limiters from your past.

Focus on what’s right

Get a new sheet of paper and begin listing everything that is good or right in your life. List everything that has ever gone your way. As you write, internalize how it made you feel to have those wins or successes, no matter how small.

After you have your list, reflect on what you wrote down. How were you able to have those successes? What did you do? How did you do it? These are clues to your future happiness and success. These are clues to helping you find The Authentic You.

Find your true desires

We all have that one thing that makes our heart sing. What is yours? That is what was meant by find your true desires. This is key to unlocking your real happiness.

Steal away to a quiet spot, without distractions, close your eyes and take several deep breaths, and then ask, “What am I meant to do with my life?” Let the universe answer. When the answer comes to you begin projecting forward to living what you have imagined.

Create a support system

As you move forward toward building The Authentic You, it helps to have friends, mentors, or coaches in place to help you get to where you desire to go. Think of these people as snake kickers. They are there to keep you focused and traveling down the road you have envisioned. When you get off in the weeds, it will be their responsibility to keep you on the path forward and away from the snakes of failure.

Initiate your plan and action

Don’t spend too much time planning every detail. Get the general idea down on paper. Try to get it to less than six steps. The easier it is to go do, the better chance you will have of success.

Remember, all the planning in the world is wasted if you do not take action on your plan. First thing every morning read your plan and write down three actions you intend to take throughout the day to move toward your goal and finding The Authentic You. This will help you build a positive habit.

Adjust as needed

When a fighter pilot fires a guided missile it is off course most of the way toward the target. A small adjustment throughout the missiles journey allows a successful bulls eye in the end. Think of your own journey toward The Authentic You in the same way. You will need small adjustments along the road toward your true desires. Do not get discouraged, simply adjust and move on.

Understand that success may not equate to happiness. Abraham Lincoln said, “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Many people are successful, yet missing genuine happiness in their lives. This suggests that they are still flawed individuals. Some have found both happiness and success. Most may find one or the other. Isn’t it worth the journey to find out if you can get both?

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What Is Your Perspective?

March 24, 2010 By Spencer 3 Comments
Cascade RiverOur perspective on life is what matters. It is that perspective that drives us to live happy or end sad, old, and hard in the heart. You honestly have the choice to view your world as murky, desperate, a vile place where nothing good happens. I believe you reap what you sow. Keep seeing from this narrow perspective and your life will soon spin wildly out of control. It will spin out of control because that is what you drew toward you. Life will happen to you and you will become a victim of circumstance.

On the other hand, you have a choice to view the world through a different set of spectacles and perspective. This view shows you hope, happiness, and a world where people help people. This perspective provides us a support structure for success and we are in control of our world and the outcome we get.

One view will turn your heart cold and hard. The other view will make you smile and help your heart beat a little faster for the possibilities that life has to offer. Which perspective do you choose for the world you see?

It is in my heart that you will choose to see our world as beautiful and full of intrigue, mystery, and endless possibilities. The choice is yours. This choice provides power and destiny. And you are powerful beyond measure so choose to be happy and helpful to the world and reap all that is good.

Recently, Bob Proctor, through his dynamic Six Minutes to Success program left this article along with one of his lessons to download and read. The article is titled, “Responsibility.” He writes, “You are responsible for all of the results in your life. You are responsible for your happiness. You are responsible for your health. You are responsible for your wealth. You are responsible for your emotional state. Regardless of what has happened in the past, the future lies ahead with an open slate, waiting for you to take control and create a wonderful life for yourself.”

Bob Proctor’s message is clear. You are responsible for your life. You get to choose the perspective view. Maybe you have a slightly bent perspective on life that speaks to the negative side. Is that how you intend to continue through life? Would you rather take control of the ultimate outcome?

Try this. Write out five “I am…” statements. Here are mine.

I am powerful beyond measure and enjoy changing the world.
I am a great example to others of what happiness is.
I am grateful for the opportunity to inspire others.
I am moving toward my success in life every day.
I am a shining model of hope.

Use mine or find your own. It is much more powerful to find and write your own. Every day over the next 30 days I ask you to take a chance and truly make a change. Write out your five “I am…” statements every morning, and then read and visualize twice a day. And carry thoughts of these powerful statements all day long in your mind.

Decide to do this exercise for the next 30 days and then ask yourself, “Has my perspective of the world changed for the better?” I know it will.

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