Personal Success – Making Up Your Own Mind

Far too often you find yourself in situations in life that are less than ideal. Have you ever wondered how you got there? Well, the answer is extraordinarily simple – it’s your own doing! In fact, we make major life choices on a moment to moment basis because every single choice that you have made in your adult life add up to where you are in this present moment. Sadly, we’re completely in the dark when it comes to the choices that we make because they’re made subconsciously – in other words, your subconscious mind makes your choices for you.

That’s great, you may well say, I don’t have to cope with having to decide on every little thing that I have to do – lots of stuff gets done for me automatically! For example, I don’t have to decide how to brush my teeth, my subconscious mind does it for me. Obviously, that’s great – but only up to a point because your subconscious mind doesn’t make its choices based on where you are, what you’re doing, who you’re with or what is really going on. It makes it decision based on what psychology calls your stored knowledge. However, you might say, tha’s alright, I’ve been learning as I go and don’t have to relearn how to do basic tasks to enable me survive my normal day. It’s not alright – you haven’t been learning as you go – in fact, you’ve learned precious little about how to behave and how to get the most out of life since you were eleven or twelve years of age.

Unfortunately, the big problem is that your moment to moment decisions are made for you based on stored knowledge that was largely learned before you reached the age of eleven or twelve. So, if you’re now thirty five years old and you bump into someone who might be important in progressing your career, your business or your life, your subconscious mind will dictate your evaluation of what’s going on, your resultant choices and your consequent behaviour based on data that is more than twenty years out of date.

Little wonder that normal people can’t see the wood for the trees. No wonder that normal people simply cannot see the many opportunities to better themselves that are looking them in the eye every day – yes, every single day! Little wonder that normal people keep making the same mistakes. No wonder that the normal life is mundane and repetitive.

You need to drag your subconscious mind – it may object, by the way – from the past into the here and now. You need to come to your senses – I mean that literally, you’ve got to reacquaint yourself with what it’s like to experience the here and now – seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling and tasting what’s actually happening. Start small – you decide how you’ll brush your teeth – don’t leave the choice to a distracted mind that’s stuck in your childhood. In starting small, you will change your life.