“The established set of attitudes held by someone”
“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job”
Jom Rohn
To be happy and successful in whatever you do, you first need to be a happy and successful as a human being.
There’s countless stories out there of people that “had it all” then lost it.
- The business leaders with high flying careers, beautiful partner and all the shiny trappings of wealth, yet they drink themselves into oblivion before they’re 50.
- The sporting star with the looks and talent and the world at their feet that drifts into obscurity by their mid-teens.
The human mind is one of the greatest gifts of life. It has a boundless plethora of unique skills. It can calculate the velocity, trajectory and dimensions of a fast-moving tennis ball in milliseconds so you can hit it, it can cut out the noise of a crowded room to allow you to focus on a friend’s conversation, it creates symphonies, masterpieces in art and is a vast data store.
The best news of all is, we choose how to direct it, add to it and alter it!
Interesting brain numbers;
- Around 86 billion neurons (That’s 86,000,000,000!)
- Represents around 2 percent of body weight, uses 20 percent of their oxygen and calories
- The fastest speed for information to pass between neurons is about 250 mph
THREE KEY ELEMENTS OF THE BRAIN
- The human brain has plasticity (the ability of neural networks to change and grow) meaning we have the ability to literally change our brains.
- Our brains are goal striving and will move towards, adjusting course when needed, meaningful goals we set for it.
- It has a mind of its own. It’s beneficial for us to accept that thoughts sometimes (if not quite often!) simply pop into our heads that you haven’t asked for. They can be negative, destructive and embarrassing. It’s in our own interest that we don’t assign too much power to these thoughts and just accept them as part of the brain’s mystical workings. The Buddhists have a great strategy of ‘observing without judgment’. I believe it’s a small price worth paying for having access to such a powerful tool.
With our brain we have the power to replace bad habits with good ones, we can continually learn and enhance our knowledge, we can adjust our outlooks, we can set and reset goals, the possibilities are endless.
It’s empowering to acknowledge the brain’s wonder and to dutifully accept our responsibility to choose to use its fullest and for the greater good.
Why is it two people can start nearly the exact same businesses at nearly the exact same time and one fails while one succeeds?
There’s obviously several influences as to whether they thrive or not, however, I guarantee there’s one overriding common factor.
One understands that it’s not circumstances, environment, upbringing or DNA that determines how effective you are in the world, it’s your MINDSET.
Why is it you can ask one person why they don’t drink and they say they had alcoholic parents, whilst you could ask another why they drink too much and they’ll say they had alcoholic parents?
Same answers, different viewpoint, a different MINDSET.
Mindset, Mindset, Mindset!
