I’ve been watching Joe Vitale’s series on the Awakened Millionaire and this last one really hit home for me.
It’s not new information for me but I hadn’t thought about it for a long time.
It was all about the subconscious and how it affects everything we do.
You see the subconscious mind is busy. It is estimated that it sends your conscious mind about 50,000 messages a day. Wow! That’s about 34 messages per minute.
The subconscious mind needs a hobby.
Unfortunately the subconscious mind is a bit of a worry wort and it tends to hold onto memories and messages for a very long time. AND, it can, with great efficiency, torpedo all of your hard work toward your life goals and dreams. (I told you it needed a hobby.)
This is how it works for me. I’m working on developing a product (that I’m really excited about) that I will (I almost wrote “want” but decided “will” was a more pro-active phrasing) sell on QVC, the famous shopping network.
But the whole time I’m working on this I have a niggling feeling that it’s not going to happen. A doubt.
Maybe lots of doubts.
After listening to Joe’s video I started paying attention to that voice in my head that I usually don’t even know is there.
What I heard was this: I CAN’T DO IT!
I didn’t like that. So I decided to search for the evidence in life that would confirm or deny this. I started jotting down a list of all the rather difficult things I have done in my life.
The list was long.
When I stopped I had more than fifty items that I had done, e.g. graduating college, raising a son (who is fantastic) on my own, starting a non profit company, etc…
Alright, subconscious, I told it, you’re WRONG. The evidence supports that I CAN DO IT, I HAVE DONE “IT” MANY TIMES WITH WONDERFUL SUCCESS.
The next thing I heard was I’LL NEVER MAKE THAT KIND OF MONEY.
That misconception came while I was reading the success story of a man who made $441,000 in ten minutes time on QVC. He had invented a simple jig for folding paper to make custom envelopes and bags. He’s still making tons of money on these products.
But I realized that when I had been reading his fascinating story that my little inner voice was saying: I’LL NEVER MAKE THAT KIND OF MONEY.
Now I was in a fighting mood. I was going to turn this subconscious into my cheerleader if it took all day…and the next, too.
So, being a list maker, I started tallying up all the money I had made in my life. Just round number estimates. I was shocked. It was $1,180,000! I could hear the voice arguing already, “yeah, but, that was over your whole lifetime, that…”
I told it to cease and realized what an astounding figure that was. And the truth is, I AM CAPABLE OF GENERATING LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY! And you know what Dr. Phil says, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
If I did it once, I can do it again.
But first I have to start turning at least some of those negative messages into I CAN messages. The first step to this is hearing them, pulling them out of the constant rattle of thoughts going on constantly.
I am very excited about going on QVC. I am very excited about making $400,000 in ten minutes. And if my subconscious doesn’t straighten out I just may not take her along.
NOW HERE’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES,
“You can get yourself in front of important people, [referring to Donald Trump specifically], people who everyone else would say are totally inaccessible, by letting them know you can make them a lot of money.”
Kevin Harrington, The King of Infomercials
Best of luck. PLEASE SHARE HOW YOU ARE DOING.
PLEASE CLICK ON TITLE TO COMMENT! THANK YOU.
