Negative Self-talk is Too Expensive

Written by Alan Fairweather


I'm always fascinated byrepparttar people who lift huge weights, particularly in competitions likerepparttar 122705 Olympic Games. There are events for men and women and they get up on stage to lift a bar with huge weights attached. I often wonder what sort of things they're saying to themselves as they pace up and down, rubbing their hands with resin powder and taking huge breaths.

What if they were saying - "That looks really heavy - it's heavier than anything I've lifted before. I'll probably drop it, make a real fool of myself and even injure myself to boot….!" Do you know what's going to happen if they say all this stuff to themselves? Their subconscious will say - "Okay, you say you're going to drop it. Then, that's what I'll arrange - and I'll try to make sure you injure yourself atrepparttar 122706 same time."

Of course, that isn't what happens. This weight lifter, who's trained for years to do precisely this thing, is screaming at himself internally - "You're going to lift that bar and push it right throughrepparttar 122707 ceiling! You're going to breakrepparttar 122708 world record! You're going to win this competition and everyone inrepparttar 122709 world will see you doing it!"

Inrepparttar 122710 day-to-day tasks that we face in our life, we should be no different from these sportsmen and women. Think negative thoughts and that's what your subconscious will focus upon.

If you think illness, you'll become ill. If you think gloom and doom - that's what you'll get. But if you think health, happiness and success - you're already there.

"Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln.

I read this quote some years ago and I know some people have a problem with it. We all face difficult situations in our lives and some people more than others. However, I've made up my mind to be as happy as I can and I recommend you dorepparttar 122711 same.

Focus onrepparttar 122712 positive things in your life -repparttar 122713 things you can do - notrepparttar 122714 things you can't. Think about what you've achieved inrepparttar 122715 past - not what you haven't. Look at where you're going - not where you've been

Success - It's Never Too Late

Written by Alan Fairweather


Ray Kroc,repparttar founder of McDonalds, was over fifty when he started making money. Kroc was a paper cup salesman who obtainedrepparttar 122704 marketing rights to a multi-mixer invented by Earl Prince. He criss-crossedrepparttar 122705 US for seventeen years selling these mixers until he met up withrepparttar 122706 McDonald brothers. Dick and Mac McDonald ordered eight of his mixers and had them churning away all day.

Kroc was entranced byrepparttar 122707 effectiveness ofrepparttar 122708 McDonald's operation and started thinking about building McDonald's restaurants all overrepparttar 122709 US. He thought he could then sell more multi-mixers. The McDonald brothers weren't too keen torepparttar 122710 idea so they franchisedrepparttar 122711 restaurants to Kroc. He ultimately bought outrepparttar 122712 McDonald brothers and as they say -repparttar 122713 rest is history.

Ray Kroc's belief in himself was unshakeable, as he noted later - "I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland." Kroc didn't allow his age or his physical condition to hold him back.

If you have negative beliefs about yourself that are holding you back, here's a way to change them.

Your subconscious will always attempt to move away from pain and towards pleasure. So start to associate massive pain to your negative belief. Think about how it will hold you back and stop you achieving what you're trying to achieve. Think about how miserable you'll feel if you don't even try.

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