Marry this with Desire to effectively make things go your way

Is your desire already white hot that you’re now ready to act towards achieving it? Is it already so vivid in your mind that you could almost touch it? Is your engine revving up to make you run towards it?

So you’ve already laid out your action plans. You’ve created visual images of the thing that you so desire and you regularly check on it mentally to keep your mind focused on it. Almost instantly you’d start to feel that you are eventually going to have it. You know it’s yours for the taking! Now that’s a firm conviction no one can take away from you. You now have belief. What is it? How essential is belief in achieving any goal?

Belief is a mental process which is synonymous to faith and expectation. Belief is an assumption of things as truth. With belief you expect the most likely thing to happen in the future as a result of your actions. You believe, for example, that you will get a better job when you graduate from college than when you don’t. So you go to college, expecting to achieve what you believe is true, that is, that you’re going to have a finer job at some corporation seeking the best university produce like the one you’re going to be. Of course, belief, as it is widely held today, is anchored on instances that have previously happened, as in the case of college graduates landing better careers than those who dropped out. Well, at least, that’s what our parents and teachers told us. (But then we saw what happened to Bill Gates when he dropped out – he built an empire. Now we start to believe in something else.)

While it is true that a college education is important as it shapes the world that we live in so we could have doctors, engineers, teachers and other professionals who make our world a better place to live in, it is not a pre-requisite to attaining success in whatever endeavor that we wish to succeed. Remember Mr. Barnes? He desired to work with Edison and he believed he could. And because he believed, he did eventually work with Edison.

Belief is so powerful that it empowers many people to make things happen, but also brings many people to a halt while on their way to attaining their goal. “Established” beliefs are turning many of us off to discontinue pursuing our dreams. Beliefs such as just because one is poor one can’t have the best things in life or just because one doesn’t have a college degree he can’t build an empire turns many average people off. These are socially-induced beliefs. But, however established those beliefs are, you have the power to change them.

Stop for a while and think about what I just said.

You have the power to change your belief. You have the power.

Just exercise that power enough and you’ll inevitably attain what you want. All you need to do is to learn how to program your mind to make it instantly believe that success will be yours.

The power of mental programming
When you have a goal, believe that you are going to achieve it. In fact, you must act as if you already own it. Remember, the brain works towards its most current dominant thought and “whatever the mind can conceive the body can achieve.”

Let’s take a look again at one of the examples that I previously gave about the sales manager who wanted to own a house at a posh neighborhood that he chose. He didn’t have that house yet at that time. He did not even have a car yet. Those were just figments of his mind. Yet he believed he could achieve his goal. He believed no one can ever stop him. He believed it so much that he carried himself as if he already had those things he so coveted. He would borrow his friend’s car and drive around that neighborhood and he would even enter into one of the open houses just to feel his goal. He did that regularly until he finally bought one of the posh houses…and his own car. He programmed his mind so that he believed that he already had his goals. Another thing to point out here is that he turned believing into a habit.

So each time you think about your goal, believe that you’ll have it by programming your mind to think as if you already have it. Here’s how:

1. Clear your mind before finally thinking about your goal.
2. Focus your mind on your goal, visualize and describe it in your mind clearly, define the shape and color, make it very clear that you can almost touch it.
3. Do some role playing if you have to like what that the sales manager did – he felt his goal.
4. See yourself as someone who already owns your goal. Think that you already achieved your goal. You already have it.
5. Do this everyday. I can’t emphasize this enough. Set a specific time for doing this each day. In fact, do this whenever you can. Make it a habit. MAKE BELIEVING A HABIT.

Each time you want something believe that you are going to have it. Train your mind to accept it as something that is already true. Carry yourself as if you already have it. Do this constantly. Make believing that you’re going to achieve what you want a habit. Remember that just like any other habits, good or bad, they are formed after a couple of days of being exercised. Why not make believing in attaining something that you want your best habit?

Belief is a very powerful mental process. Use it to become powerful. You want to become successful, don’t you? Ask those who already are. They’ve capitalized on it.

Up next, we’ll discuss why you shouldn’t let other people turn you off whenever an idea, however simple and small it may be, hits you.