Change The Way You Think
Change The Way You Think
It’s fascinating that we human beings tend to forget the difficulties of accomplishment once we’ve reached our objective. Once we’ve done something, we tend to look at others and think, “Why are you having so much trouble? It’s not that hard.” We do that regardless of the difficulty we may have had when we first tried it. Most rich people felt that way about making money.
The great Andrew Carnegie felt that you have to make people work for their own success. He said, “There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.”
In his day, Carnegie had an opportunity to rub shoulders with hundreds of self-made millionaires. As he got to know them, he realized that there was a common denominator among all of them. What they all shared was that even in the earliest days of their careers, these millionaires knew what they wanted and what it would feel like to be successful. They experienced their success long before they achieved it.
They could create a visual image of their success. They could experience the feeling of stepping into their Cadillac and sinking into the fine leather seats. They knew what it would be like to wear the world’s finest clothes and have dozens of employees at their disposal. They knew what it would be like to enter a ballroom filled with people who would turn and be awed by their approach.
Napoleon Hill called this ability to experience the future “imagizing.” These high achievers were able to imagine — to create in their mind — the feeling of success. So “imagizing” our success is the way to start changing our self-image. Learning to mentally experience success will help us to achieve it. The next step is to change our self-talk from negative fears to positive expectations. Eliminate “I can’t do this” and “It’ll never work” and Other people are just lucky.” Replace them with “I can do this” and “No problem, I’ll make it work” and “I’m the lucky one.” Soon, we’ll find our image of ourselves changing — we‘ll see ourselves as a different person, and then gradually we’ll become a different person.
You can play a little game with this positive thinking approach. Each time, when you drive into the parking lot of a restaurant or a large department store, say to yourself, “There is someone getting ready to pull out of the parking space closest to the door because they know I’m coming and it belongs to me.” Amazingly, over 70 percent of the time that’s just what happens.
Did positive thinking make the parking space magically appear? Of course not! That would be metaphysical madness! The parking space was always there, but only a positive thinker goes to look for it. Many self-improvement gurus have promoted the idea that if we are to change our lives, we must first change our self-image.
One of Earl Nightingale’s famous theories is that — we become what we think about” has changed the lives of millions. If a person thinks all day long about becoming rich, he or she will become rich one way or another. If a person is single and thinks all the time about being married, it won’t be long before he or she will marry. Conversely, if a person with a negative self-image thinks constantly of nothing but becoming poorer, that will probably happen too. In other words, a self-image is self-fulfilling.
Every self-image psychologist agrees that before you can change your life dramatically, you must first change your self-image. You must train your mind to “imagize” the person you can become. Self-image psychologists explain why the lives of people with a Millionaire Mindset seem charmed. It seems they can do no wrong. Success washes over them in gigantic waves. Good things happen to them much faster and in larger quantities than seems possible.
People with a Millionaire Mindset know they can learn to change their whole life by changing the way they think about themselves. They learn to experience success — to taste and smell it, long before they actually achieve it. At every step of the journey to accomplishment, they carry an image of what they want to be. They change their own mental image of themselves and in doing so make the rest of their lives a stage on which they act out a fascinating and fulfilling story.
So concentrate on what you really want to be, change your self-talk and become a Millionaire. When you begin to think of yourself as a Millionaire, accumulating wealth and influence become only the details that you’ll put together later.
That’s all for now my friends. See you all in my next article.
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