Motivation ABC

“Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”
Napoleon Hill

Whether you have years of experience in the business world or you are just starting out, the chances are that you are not making the most of the biggest resource available to you – your mind.

If your business currently brings in a modest $30,000 a year and you want to treble that, your mind is the one thing that is capable of getting you there.  The secret to growing your business successfully is to form new habits that will lead to advances in the way you think and work.

Your conscious and creative mind will come up with the purpose you seek.  In the example above, your plan is for your business to bring in $90,000 a year.  In order to achieve this, you need to keep that thought at the forefront of your mind throughout each day.  Write it in your diary and stick a note to your desk so you will see it often.  Make sure it becomes an integral part of your day, whether you are in a business frame of mind or not.

The act of repetition helps to cement a thought firmly into our minds.  This thought becomes a habit which we accept into our lives without question.  Very soon we expect this particular idea or plan to come to fruition.  In short, we believe that we will succeed and will start to think and act as if we already have succeeded, even though the success hasn’t come to us yet.

Many successful business people had this belief long before they achieved their goals.  The act of repeating these positive thoughts about their goals reinforced their focus on a daily basis and drove them towards their success.

The act of repeating an idea or plan in our own mind brings into play the power of the subconscious mind.  To the subconscious, the reality of a $90,000 a year business and the thought of achieving a $90,000 a year business are one and the same.  It cannot distinguish between them.  It will assume you already have the success you seek.

You need to make sure your repetitive thoughts are in the present tense for this to work properly.  Tell yourself you already have a successful $90,000 a year business, rather than telling yourself you want to have one.

Think about your successful goal every possible minute of the day.  This will not only place it firmly in your mind, it will also set your subconscious to work finding ways to achieve that goal.

As with any new habit, it takes time to establish the pathways in your brain that will allow you to use this thought repetition technique more easily.  But the more you use it to develop new ideas and goals for your business, the more successes you will begin to experience.