Make Yourself an Un-stopable Success Machine in 2017

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Make Yourself an Un-stopable Success Machine: Does it bother you that, despite your extensive knowledge of what you need to do and feel to win -- gained from several books on the topic, online research, or even training sessions that you have attended -- you still haven't reached the place where you want to be? The answer is that logic and knowledge have very little to do with breaking through limitations. In fact, buying books and trying to understand the logic of what it takes to overcome your limitations and where you're going wrong is part of the problem. Your thinking patterns are a big reason that you don't get the outcomes you desire. Logic has very little to do with bringing about change to your emotional brain. The emotional brain and the logical brain operate by two different sets of rules. Understanding and working with the logical brain won't give you control of the emotional part of your brain. When it comes to being able to master your limitations, it's the emotional part that you need to learn to manage. Let me give you an analogy so you can appreciate and understand the difference between the two parts of your brain. Think of road plates, those strong and solid sheets of metal, about five feet wide by ten feet long, that construction crews use to cover openings in the road. They are so strong, cars can drive over them safely. Now, if I were to put one of them on a sidewalk, most people wouldn't hesitate to walk on it, because, safety-wise, it'sthe equivalent of a regular sidewalk. But what if I were to just change one variable? What if I placed the road plate outside the eightieth floor of the Empire State Building and across to the building on the other side of the street and asked you to walk across? If you're like most people, you would balk at the very idea. If I were to ask you why, you most likely would say, "Because it's dangerous." Let's say I then introduced logic to explain why it's totally safe, telling you, "This road plate was put in place by the same engineering team that built the famed Verrazano Bridge, and they have confirmed that it is equally as safe." If I asked you whether you would stand on it now, what would you say? Chances are your answer would still be a resounding no. You might say, "Maybe the weather's going to be windy." I might respond by saying, "What if the entire team of meteorologists from radio station WCBS 880 vouched that the weather was totally fine and there wasn't going to be any wind? Would you walk on it then?" "I'm not feeling well," you might say. "I couldn't possibly try it." If I brought a team of doctors in to attest that you were perfectly healthy, would that do the trick? Not likely. Logically, I showed you that walking on the plate eighty floors up is as safe as walking on it on the sidewalk below. But the reason logic has no sway over you is that you are accessing something a lot deeper than logic -- your imagination. You would look down at the road plate sticking out of the eightieth floor and down at the scene below, and ask, "What are those little rectangles moving around?" And I would answer, "Those are buses." "And what are those smaller rectangles?" "Oh, those are cars." "And what are those dots?""Oh, those are people." And in your mind's eye -- in your imagination -- you would see a little red dot on the ground, and that would be you after you've fallen. Logic goes out the window when imagination kicks in. You could be assured a thousand times that you're going to be okay and it's totally safe, but you still wouldn't be able to bring yourself to do it. Because when you imagine something bad happening, all the logical explanations and assurances disappear. This is why we get frustrated when someone tries to reason with us about doing something that scares us. Their logic doesn't help, because we can't get past our limiting thoughts. To get the results we want, therefore, we must alter our imagination. If we can do that, we can put a process of change in motion that will positively impact what we accomplish in life. It Starts with Your Imagination If you change your imagination then you change how you feel If you change how you feel then you change what you're going to do If you change what you're going to do then you change what you can accomplish If you change what you accomplish then you change your life.