Metaphors Metaphors are language tools we use to try to understand vague or abstract concepts and experiences. When we use them, they become frames that help us focus our attention on some aspect of a concept, situation or experience while ignoring other aspects. Metaphors have an impact on our perceptions and behaviours that result from these perceptions. The metaphors that you apply to yourself, others and your situations contain with them your beliefs about reality. They make experience coherent for you. And because they contain beliefs about reality, they tend to be self-fulfilling prophecies. In order to understand influence of metaphors on your experience do following: identify your metaphors which beliefs are inherent in these metaphors? what reality (or even lies) do they create? is this kind of reality that you need to? Now you know that prior successes motivates you. How can you use this knowledge? What you can do is to recall any and/or all successes you have had in recent past. Fill your brain with memories of success. Secondly, make sure you know meta-programs that are operational in your life. Thirdly, take a look at how you use 'meanings'. How do you balance your criteria with your expectations? And, fourthly, make sure that your metaphors are congruent with who you want to be or with what you want to happen in your life. Contradictory metaphors are disabling. You now can see how motivation is a core resource you can use in positioning yourself for success and abundance.

Make sure you understand it very well, and apply it wisely!

This part is what I call conscious recognition, where your conscious and subconscious are on same wavelength rather than opposing each other.

The concept of consciously recognizing something as wrong can be applied not only in lessons learned, but practically every facet of life. In taking a little more time to think a mistake out, you are literally dissecting apart each area that needs to be addressed.

Certainly, most people will not apply a learned lesson unless they want to or unless law forces them to. Yet, one must truly desire to apply a lesson before it happens again, or that person will only know that it is a mistake and not do anything about it.

Much like an alcoholic must will him or herself into treating disease by coming to peace with thought of living their lives without a drink, people must make firm resolutions to fix areas of their lives that are broken.

Procrastinating and lying to oneself about applying lessons today, rather than tomorrow, makes for a compromising environment when one already knows that applying lesson is in their best interest.

Wanting to make changes and becoming a better person is a daily task, not yearly. Work is what it is, but rewards of living cleaner always outweigh that work.

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