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"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
You cannot create success when your mind is based on Scarcity. You absolutely MUST train your mind to operate from Abundance. In this episode we will discuss strategies and habits that will help you become a more abundant thinker. As a result, you will see a dramatic increase in your prosperity and your life.
Today we’re on Pillar 5 of the 12 Prosperity Pillars, and the topic is I Focus On Solutions. Many of us need solutions to some major problems that are happening in our life right now.
Zig Ziglar said, “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.”
That's right! If you can dream it, you can achieve it, especially if you focus on solutions!
Your Perception of Your Problems is the Key
So today is all about shifting focus a little bit and we need to start talking about your perception and the way you look at situations. Then we'll circle back around and talk about how to create and focus on solutions.
Your perception of problems is really going to be a roadblock, or a sticking factor in keeping you from creating solutions. You really need to become aware of that because it's not the problem itself, it's the meaning that you attach to the problem.
Let's say you're at a football game. There are always two different teams, there's always two different perspectives going on. One play could be an unbelievable play for one person and a devastating play for another person. That’s strictly because of the meaning that we attach to the situation…the play.
So, step back for a moment and realize that the meanings you attach to situations are going to dictate where your mind is going to be. And whether or not you're going to be productive at creating solutions!
Another Key is to be Aware of Your View of Success vs. Failure
Success versus failure is a really important topic for you to think about. If you're constantly focused on success, and failure is a bad thing to you, then you are 100% wrong. ARTICLE
You need to realize that failure takes you closer to your success. When you begin to perceive failure as a stepping-stone to success, then you will not be stopped or held back from creating, acting and moving forward with your life.
Here is a Crazy thought…Problems Can be a Good Thing!
Problems can be a good thing when you begin to view them differently. Now you may be thinking, “George, how can problems be a good thing?” Here’s how ...
If we didn't have problems and we didn't have circumstances and we didn't have obstacles and trials … we would never learn to overcome them. We would never grow! Let that sink in a bit.
If you don't lift heavy weights, you'll never stress your muscles enough for them to grow. It's that stress and that recovery that is needed in order for you to go to the next level.
Unsuccessful people want their problems to be smaller. Successful people want to be bigger than their problems. What do you want to be in relation to your problems??
Make the Decision to Change How You Look At Things
As you start to look back on the tapestry of your life, your perception changes. In the specific moment, a situation may be completely overwhelming. But as time goes by and you look back on that situation, generally you're going to find that you grew, you learned, and you developed.
So, if we can identify that our perception will change or dictate how we view a problem, that's a key step in being more and more successful.
With a fresh Perspective you can Start From Solutions
Now we can move on to how to create solutions? One of my mentors told me that he always likes to start any conversation from solutions. He always says, “I don't want to deal with the problem. I want to start from solution.” I think that's a great habit to take up! Thanks Jason Brown.
I know it's hard to find solutions in the moment. I understand it is tough. We all get overwhelmed and overcome with the difficulty that we're dealing with. But you need to realize something that's really important: you are not your mind; you are not your thoughts.
You’ve got to Learn to Train Your Mind, just like any Tool.
You can train your mind to be able to perceive things a certain way and lead you to solutions. Have you heard of the concept called neuroplasticity? Most people think that as you get older, it's more and more difficult to create or change habits. Actually, science has proven through neuroplasticity that the pathways in your brain are hard wired based on repetition.
So, if you start to train your mind to stop reacting, and start being proactive in looking for solutions, the more often you do that the more that habit will be an ingrained pattern into your mind. The neurons that fire together wire together…it really works…trust me on this one.
Focus on Solutions, and Start Focusing On Your Goals
Start the process of reprogramming your mind by finding ways to interrupt that negative and old pattern you always fall into. The #1 way to do that is to focus on your goals. When you have your goals, your dreams, affirmations and desires in front of you on a regular basis ... as a problem comes up, your dreams can be bigger than the obstacles in your life. Vision creates clarity.
REMIND YOURSELF: Your goal to be bigger than the obstacles in your life
Your Strategy Needs to be Focusing On Solutions
So, to review: begin to look at how you perceive the problems and situations in your life. Then start to focus on the solutions.
The mind that's overcome with all of the obstacles is not the mind that can help you create solutions. It's a mind that's focused on solutions that will take you far in life.
So, here’s your strategy to implement today:
It might be overwhelming to find 10 possible solutions, even if they're crazy ideas. But see what happens with your mind as you start to focus on solutions. You’ll find that simple things will come up that you may say to yourself, “Why didn’t I think of that already?”
You have greatness inside of you. I want you to remember that it's never too late for you to be begin living the life that you were meant to live. Start by focusing on solutions.
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If this is your first time listening, then welcome.
Quote: Other people’s opinion doesn’t have to become your reality. Les Brown
Are you struggling in your life right now?
Are you finding it hard to separate from the typical struggles of most entrepreneurs?
…things like social media, competitive spirit, feedback from family and friends…
One of the things we need to learn to deal with in life is to find more ways to LISTEN TO OUR INNER VOICE RATHER THAN THE OPINION AND JUDGMENTS OF OTHERS.
It is a tough thing to do now days…BUT, one of the best ways to do this is to follow Pillar #4.
SURROUND YOURSELF WITH POSITIVE (HAPPY) PEOPLE
…and Stop giving Value to Others Opinions in your life…stop living to please and impress others.
What are some reasons that it is important to surround yourself with positive people?
-experience
-confidence
-vision
-opportunity
-BELIEF TRANSFERENCE IS KEY
Another Prime Reason to surround yourself with positive people is that Your Network is Your Net Worth…leading you to Success…
Napoleon Hill gave a great perspective on Surrounding yourself with Positive People
He explains this when he describes the 4 most important parts of developing PERSISTENCE IN LIFE
…remember that he said in his Principles of success that PERSISTENCE is a KEY to Creating Success.
To Develop Persistence he said…
There are four simple steps which lead to the habit of PERSISTENCE. They call for no great amount of intelligence, no particular amount of education, and but little time or effort. The necessary steps are:
Strategy: add someone to your network today…reach out...
I Act in Spite of My Mood- Pillar #3
We are on Pillar 3 of the 12 Prosperity Pillars and I’m really excited to be able to go through this one. I just love this one because I know how many of us struggle with it.
Last time we talked about taking personal responsibility. Now principle number 3 is the difference maker: I act in spite of my mood. I know we all struggle with this and we’re going to cover a strategy and some ideas on how to use this Pillar daily.
Bruce Lee said, “The successful Warrior is the average man with laser like focus.”
I can't think of someone who may be more disciplined than Bruce Lee. But that is a powerful statement: a successful warrior is the average man with laser like focus. So, let's tie this into this principle of how to act in spite of your mood.
Are You Acting in Spite of Your Mood?
I want you to ask yourself if you are willing to act in spite of your mood. Are you willing to do things whether you feel like it or not?
All of us get up in the morning and we’re tired. You know you might be getting up and saying to yourself:
Guess what? All of us struggle. Everyone struggles! But here's the thing …
You say you want to create a great life. You say you want to make a difference. But are your actions telling the story the validates what you say you want? Because that's the key. That's the difference.
If your actions don’t reflect what you want then it’s doubtful you really want it…bad enough.
Life is tough, and we don't always feel like doing the things we need to do. We don't always feel like we can. I get it. I feel the same way many days when I get up in the morning. But, NOT taking action will destroy your ability to make progress in your life and results.
Failure, pain and struggle are a lot worse if you don't take basic control of your actions and act in spite of your mood. Having growth happen for you is a key to living a great life.
One of the things I have recognized over time that many people do (including myself) is we focus too much on our own problems and situations. The key is to Stop making it about you. Stop making it about your feelings. Find purpose and passion outside of yourself and it can help you to move forward when you are feeling worn down. Maybe it's a relationship. Maybe it's a cause or passion that you have. Regardless, it is important to find things outside of yourself to focus on when you are feeling stuck or unmotivated.
You have stop making it about you and your feelings and you'll see some things move forward in your life!
How To Start Taking More Action
So here are a couple specific strategies I use in order to act in spite of my mood.
1-Setting Goals
When you have clear direction and you have focus in your life, it's much easier to act in spite your mood. When you've been able to take time and develop a clear vision of where you're going, it's a lot easier to take action when times are difficult.
2-Making a Commitment
Second, I want you to make the commitment, not just the decision, the commitment that you're going to act in spite of your mood. You make the decision and the commitment that if you're going to get up early and go to the gym, you're going to get up. You make the decision and the commitment! If you set your alarm, you're going to get up when your alarm goes off.
You're will see all kinds of things change in your life if you do this and there will be a lot of benefits.
3-The 5 Second Rule
Have you heard of the 5 second rule?
When situations happen in your life, there's a about a 5 second period of time until doubt and indecision comes into your mind. You've got to act before those 5 seconds are up. If you act, then you'll move forward. If you don't, if you hesitate ... that's when you're going to see lack of follow through with your goals. You will not be accomplishing the things you want if you hesitate.
4- Power Statements
Create for yourself a power statement. It could be something like:
Create power statements so that when you get to that moment of the 5 second window, you start to decide to act in spite of your mood. Or motivate yourself to do it another way.
To be able to act in spite of your mood, you need create a change in you and your state of being. Whether it's your physical state, your mental state, your emotional state.
Ways to Create Change in Your State
You can use many different tools that can help to change your state toward more action. Maybe you have certain music, books, awesome pictures, or the daily mastermind mobile app that helps you get in a state for action.
I use certain songs that I'll play on my ipod or my phone that motivate me to go to the gym. Or I'll have certain pictures and memories that are vivid specific things to help me. Everyone's different.
So, I encourage you to find something that works for you that can help you to change your state…our state of mind, your state of physical/mental/emotional well-being. Then when you need it, have those ready. Be prepared.
Create Supportive Habits
The last thing I'm going to suggest is to work on creating more habits in your life. When discipline and motivation go out the door, habits are there to guide you. Creating daily rituals will guide you into creating habits that support you. Why are rituals and habits important?
It’s so you don't question every time whether or not you’re going to go to the gym. You don't question every night if you're going to read, meditate, or write in your journal. Once you create habits, then you won't have to struggle so much with acting in spite of your mood.
Be the person that backs up your talk with
I believe, and I’ll say it again, acting in spite of your mood is a difference maker. You've got to back up your talk with your actions. And you have to be able to do this on a consistent basis. So whether it's setting goals, making commitments, power statements, or other tools that will change your state and create habits … use them to create long term discipline.
All of these things are critical for you to be successful and to enjoy prosperity in your life! So right now, I want you to write down this principle, this is your decision to start.
This will be a very empowering thing for you to do. Follow this principle, and I promise it will spark your true potential.
I believe it's never too late for you to begin living the life you want to remember
Pillar number 2 of the Prosperity Pillars is the principle that I Take Personal Responsibility. Now that this is a really big one and it's difficult for a lot of people.
Tony Robbins said, “It's in your moments of decision that you shape your destiny.”
Now there's a big difference between creating your life (which was principle number 1) and taking responsibility for your life. There's a huge difference!
Making the decision to Take Responsibility for Your Life Is a Very Empowering Decision…
You may be very proactive with your life, but are you taking responsibility for your life? Because responsibility is not just a success principle. It's also a very empowering concept if you think about it. Creating your life is very proactive thing for you to do, but taking responsibility for your life, and knowing that your life is where it is because of YOUR thoughts goes above and beyond.
One way to start taking responsibility is to STOP focusing on the problem and start focusing on the solution. It's not about where you’ve gotten to in your life. It's where you can go and being empowered by taking responsibility for your life will lead you to have more control over the outcome in yoru life.
When you focus on responsibility and Solutions in your life you will also create more happiness. I mean think about that from a minute!
If you believe that you are responsible for your life, then you can begin to increase your belief and the fact that you CAN Create your Best life (regardless of circumstances). That's so important and huge!
So, Let’s Begin Today to Take More Responsibility
I believe it's important for you to be able to both make a decision AND a commitment to be responsible for situations in your life. You can begin today the decision: I will take personal responsibility for my life, for my actions, for the circumstances in my life.
But I want you to also go a step further and make the commitment to be responsible for your life. A lot of us make decisions but we don't stay committed. Make the decision today AND make the commitment…and I promise you several amazing things are going to happen for you.
I promise you that great leaders are all ones that take responsibility for their actions and for their life.
Power You’ll See with This Commitment
Now…keep this in mind…amazing things will start to happen when you take responsibility for your life. Let me explain…
Stephen Covey with his principles of successful people, has talked about TAKING A MINUTE before reacting after some stimulus (OR EVENT) happens in your life. How you react that split second (after something happens) will be the difference you between the average person and the successful person. So, learn to NOT to be reactive in your life. Learn to be Proactive and Intentional with the way you handle situations that come up!
Take a minute to be responsible for the outcome of every situation.
So, What are Ways To Take Responsibility
The way you can become responsible for your life is be objective. Train yourself to step back and take an objective view of situations that happen in your life. Maybe this situation you’re in is happening for your benefit. Maybe there's a different way to handle or respond to events than what your mind originally could come up with.
Another way you can take personal responsibility is to literally tell yourself, in any situation, that “I take responsibility.” Say it out loud! By simply making that statement, setting that powerful intention, you are creating a more powerful life.
Your Intentions Are Powerful
I want you to know that I believe that your intentions are powerful. And I also believe that you need to give yourself more credit. Sometimes we don't give ourselves enough credit, patience or understanding.
A few mentor of mine have said a couple of different times, “You need to give yourself more credit for your intentions, not just your actions.”
A lot of us judge ourselves, our lives, our jobs, our success by our results. We need to learn that having the “intention of taking personal responsibility”, can be just as powerful in our lives.
These are things that I want you to be able to do. I want you to be able to not only proactively create your life, but also take responsibility for your life. Make the decision. Make the commitment.
Change your perception and you'll begin to see some powerful changes in your life.
How do you start implementing This Principle?
Today I want to give you a strategy to be able to implement this principle into your life.
Maybe it’s at work, or it's at home. Maybe it's with a relationship, just not getting along with someone.
Maybe you're not seeing a result that you want, or you've seen some failures or suffered some setbacks. I want you identify at least one key situation, just find one, and decide how you can Take Responsibility for this Area...regardless of whether you are to blame or the cause of the situation.
Solutions will present themselves. You'll feel more empowered and happier. Identify a situation today that you can take responsibility. Exercise your choice to be responsible.
You have greatness within you. I believe it's never too late for you to begin living the life you were meant to live. So, let’s continue on that path to unleash yoru potential and create your best life.
This is the key I want you to learn and practice this week with Prosperity Pillar #2.
Then, join me tomorrow and we will cover Pillar #3 I Act in Spite of My Mood.
Thanks for listening…
George Wright III
Today's is going to be the 1st of a 12-week series on the Prosperity Pillars. These are the 12 Principles for Success that I created from my experience with different thought leaders, experts, and individuals in the field of personal development and financial education.
My goal with this particular series is to help create a foundation for you in your life, and when applied, will support you in all your endeavors. Jim Rohn, one of the fathers of personal development and one of my mentors, said “We all have two choices. We can make a living, or we can design a life."
We Can Make a Living or Design Our Lives
How powerful is that? I'll repeat it. We all have two choices. We can make a living, or we can design of life.
How many of us are just going through life on a day-to-day basis, living our life, making a living, doing all these things... without consciously designing or creating your life? That's why I've created Principle number 1: I Create My Life.
Which one are you doing? Think about that for a minute. Are you just making a living, getting by? Or are you designing and creating the life that you were meant to live? Because, let's be honest, your focus will determine the results that you're going to get.
Are You Consciously Creating Your Life?
Do you ever wake up after weeks and weeks of work and just think, "Man, where did the time go by?"
The principle around success that is one of the most recognized throughout time is the principal (or let's call it the Secret) that my partner Robert talks about a lot…
Your thoughts create your life.
And if your thoughts create your life, you have to be asking yourself how you are consciously you're directing those thoughts.
If you're consciously designing a life, then you'll have thoughts that take you towards creating your life.
You have to remember that your thoughts will create feelings. Your feelings will result in your actions. Those actions create experiences which will reinforce beliefs that you have in your life.
So, you have to be conscious of your thoughts every single day.
Every. Single. Day. Create your life now…Don’t Wait!
CAUTION: Make no mistake, whether you're consciously creating your life or you're just living your life, something's being created.
I prefer to have a conscious effort creating my life and I think you do too.
Here are some Steps For “Creating Your Life”
1-First of all, you have to believe you can do it. Now a mentor of mine, Les Brown, says, "Greatness is within you." Every one of us has the power and the greatness inside of us to create the life that we were meant to live. We have the ability to do this. You have to BELIEVE that.
If you have trouble with that belief right now, you can do a lot of different things to change that. We'll talk about those in a minute. But first and foremost, you have to believe that you can do it.
2-Second, you have to create daily activities which will empower you towards designing and creating your life. For example:
These will all ultimately help you create daily habits for success. This will help you to be able to create the life you're meant to live.
Remember, energy is key. You have to be able to create some energy TOO. You can do that through physical exercise and creating a state of mental awareness that will give you the energy you need.
So once again ... first you have to believe you can do it, and second you have to create daily activities that will help you design your life.
Affirmations are a Success Practice
One of the things you could do daily, for example, is to repeat daily affirmations.
One of the reasons I have the prosperity pillars poster is that you can repeat time and time again these affirmations for success.
Go ahead and say today Principle to yourself ... just say it out loud, "I create my life. I create my life!" It's empowering to be able to make these statements, these affirmations, these powerful statements. Let your mind soak them in and begin to start focusing on what's really important.
Set Some Goals
I'd like you to set some goals. Because here's the thing ... if you don't have goals of where you'd like your life to be…then chances are you’re not going to end up where you want it to be?
As you grow up people ask you “what you want to be when you grow up.”
Then as you go through school, you ask yourself, "What so I want to do? What major do I need to have what kind of job I want?"
I really think all of this line of questioning is wrong…!!
Robert Stuberg, a long time ago, told me, "It's about your thoughts as much as the quality of the questions you ask yourself that create your thoughts." So don't ask yourself what you'd like to do or what your goals are. A better question is to Ask yourself what you want your life to be like?
What do you want your life to be like? If you're going to start creating a life and design in a life don't begin with what you want to do for a living, or what you want to have for material things, or for relationships. Ask yourself what you want your life to be like.
I personally believe that if you were to consciously create memories on-going, then you're going to be creating a life of fulfillment, happiness, and success.
In Closing…
I'd like to leave you with a particular strategy for you to try today.
I want you to think back about some of the things that made you the happiest and the most fulfilled. Consciously set a goal for yourself to create a new memory. Create a memory that you feel like you can put inside you, in a repertoire of memories that you've had throughout your life. Use that as a way to motivate yourself to consciously create your life.
I really believe that if you'll do this, if you make the effort to create your life, you'll be far more successful you'll ever be. Far happier and you'll be more fulfilled as well.
I believe it's never too late for you to begin living the life you were meant to live.
Quote of the Day If you really want to do something you’ll find a way. If not your find an excuse. Jim Rohn T Harv Eker You can have Reasons or Results. Not both. Take a minute and Analyze the Results in your life. Are you finding more Reasons or Results. If you are not getting results then check your Thoughts. Stuberg- Your thoughts Control Your Life. 20 Years of Mentorship...12 Prosperity Pillars This week will Start a Series (Fundamentals) Fundamentals are Key to Success in Life. Review of the Prosperity Pillars I create my life I take personal responsibility I act in spite of my mood I surround myself with positive people I focus on solutions I create an attitude of abundance I choose to be happy I always think win-win I am committed to life-long learning I create daily rituals I attract success I visualize and manifest my life Free PDF download if you email me directly Do 1 Thing to Start Your Day Right
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