Week 12 – Achieving Life’s Rewards

Have Confidence in Yourself

There is a story of Thomas Edison about when he discovered the way
to record a human voice.  It is said he called in a model maker and had
the man sketch the machine for Edison’s idea.

The model maker exclaimed that this machine would never work.  Edison
asked him, “why not?”

The model maker said, “because no one has EVER made a machine that
could talk!”  Of course Edison could have accepted the opinion and given
up.  But we all know that is not what he did.

He sent the model maker off to make the machine and stated, “let me
be the loser if it doesn’t work.”

It absolutely worked and because of the confidence of Thomas
Edison he opened us up to many of today’s comforts and inspired
countless others to pursue their own desires for creation.

Is self confidence a natural trait for you?  For me this is a trait that I
have had to work on over the years to develop it.  For some, this is as
natural as taking their first steps.  However for many this is a
struggle that may plague an individual for a lifetime and steal away
dream after dream.

The good news is that this is a trait you can absolutely develop to
serve you and your pursuit for success.

Your subconscious mind is an amazing gift because it is quite
pliable.  It will believe ANYTHING that you tell it to believe.  You absolutely
have control over what this part of your mind believes is true.

Most of us were not conditioned to be happy, healthy and wealthy. But
through simple repetitive statements that are emphasized with emotion
you can now as an adult re-condition your mind to be happy, healthy and
WEALTHY.

This is also a very clear explanation of why people that are living in poverty
continue to live that way.  They only impress lack, limitation and scarcity on
the treasury of their subconscious mind and that is what they receive
in return.  You don’t have to be that way!

Whatever you want in life and however you want to think can be a reality
for you if you do certain things in a certain way.

Most people have seen  the old Saturday Night Live skit where the actor
stands in front of the mirror and says, “I like myself and people like me.”
While this is good for a laugh on your couch on Saturday Night, this is
also a very powerful tool in getting exactly what you want in life.

So, you can only laugh at an exercise like this or you can utilize it
to build your own self-confidence so that nothing will shake your believe
in your ability to attain your desires.

This is called the “Mirror Exercise” and it was introduced to me by one
of my mentors.  It has the ability to cement whatever thoughts you WANT
to have about yourself and your own success into your subconscious mind
so that you will never again struggle with your own confidence.

What do you say to yourself? Whatever you want to now believe!  There
are “secrets” in this world for having whatever you desire.  This is one of
them.

It doesn’t have to be done in a mirror, you can do this all day long
whenever you find yourself idle in thought.  Instead of playing the same
old tapes in your mind actively THINK about who you want to be.

You can laugh at this and disregard it as ridiculous but I would say look
in the mirror and ask if you have the life you really want.  If the answer is
no then I personally wouldn’t write anything off until I at least tried it.

There are millions of millionaires walking around this planet and they ALL
on some level have a practice that conditions their mind to draw to them what
they desire.

Is your subconscious mind producing thoughts of abundance and rich new
ideas for your own success or it is producing thoughts that keep you in
the land of the lost?

Again, the good news is that you are in control!  Decide how you want to
think and simply change it through repetitive exercise of the mind.