Training Your Mind For Success

Training Your Mind For Success

Many of us go through life with several thoughts on our minds every second, everyday. Some of these thoughts are seldom positive and mostly negative.

The reason for this is quite simple: we have many issues to deal with everyday of our lives - food, house rent, clothing, spouses, siblings, relatives, friends, car, health bills, school bills, examination, power bills, water bills, etc.

What if you were told that the thoughts of your mind determine the course of your life, would you make extra effort to fill your mind with positive thoughts only? Or would you just dismiss the talk as another one of those make-believe tales by man?

One of the earliest records of how thoughts affect our lives is seen in Sacred scripture. Proverbs 23:6-7 states "Do not take food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat; for as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you".

The words of our Lord Jesus Christ states it even more clearly in Matthew 5:28, "But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart". Notice the use of the word DESIRE in that statement.

Research into the lives of many successful individuals reveal that their thought pattern were all the same - their minds were filled with desire for a definite purpose which they eventually achieved against all odds.

This, of course, was regardless of their circumstances at the beginning; you would see this fact for yourself if you study the life history of most of the world's wealthiest individuals that shows that many of them had nothing financially or had little or no formal schooling too when they started.

Names like Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Michael Dell, Edward Barnes, etc readily come to mind as case studies to confirm this truth.

If you truly understood the connection between the human mind and physical reality, you would begin TODAY to fill your mind with positive thoughts and a strong desire on whatever you intend to achieve in life.

The preceding statement explains why many go through life feeling miserable and just wishing for success that never shows up. It is simply because their minds were filled with negative or the wrong thoughts most of the time.

What you should understand is this: the human mind has a conscious and a subconscious part of it. You can control the conscious mind by your own control of the kind of thoughts that go into it. What you cannot control is your subconscious mind that works automatically even as you read this.

Please note as a very important point that the subconscious mind DOES NOT distinguish between positive or negative thought.

Therefore, any thought, positive or negative that you yourself allow to enter your conscious mind automatically finds its way into your subconscious mind where it becomes spiritual and guess what? The subconscious minds processes that thought and returns a result in the physical life.

Since this is the case, it simply means that positive thoughts on wealth and riches will return a positive result in the physical after processing in the subconscious mind, and negative thoughts on fear and poverty will equally return a negative result in the physical after processing in the subconscious mind.

If you still doubt this, I will again remind you of the eternal truths of sacred scripture that buttresses my point. Again, research into the lives of highly successful individuals has proven this point.

Or better still, cast your mind back to an incident where you or someone you knew was so scared of something negative happening that it eventually did happen! Or of something positive you or that person really, really wanted to happen and again, it did happen!

I'm too sure you will be able to remember at least one such incident. I will give you an example that happened to me personally. Sometime in 1990 when I had just finished high school and I was waiting to enter the University, I found myself developing feelings for a neighbor of mine.

Prior to this time, I never used to interact with her except for the usual greetings as neighbours. The feelings I had were so intense that what I used to do then was to lie down on a long sofa in our sitting room and begin to fantasize about her.

I continued this process of fantasizing about her every now and then (I must admit that then I NEVER knew the power and effect of keeping a dominating thought on one's mind) until in 1993 when I then asked her for a relationship to which she agreed.

It simply means I achieved my heart's desire on that particular issue. I must equally admit that there was an obstacle to my having a relationship with her then because she had strong feelings for my elder brother. However, I was determined to win her heart and I succeeded in doing that.

What I have described on the preceding paragraphs as my own personal experience shows that anyone who keeps a thought on his or her mind with strong faith and believe on a definite purpose will surely achieve his or her purpose against all odds.

Notice also that it took me about three (3) years to achieve my purpose. Again, what this means is that I believed I was going to get what I wanted (a relationship with my neighbor) and I was persistent with this thought and eventually got it against all odds.

In fact, it would interest you to note that the day I asked her for a relationship, I did not mince words in my request. I was definite.

There is a very important point to note here. Because of the nature of the world we live in and the challenges we face everyday, negative thoughts find their way into our conscious mind and then subconscious mind easily to give the result we would rather not want.

On the other hand, you need to train yourself to acquire the habit of positive thoughts through repetition and practice by saying with emotion or faith (as stated in my last post) every singe day what you want to achieve in life.

This then allows for the strongly desired positive thoughts, as a practiced and acquired habit, to become a part of your mind to produce the desired results you want. If you do not have a strong desire for that dream, it simply means you don't believe you can achieve it.

It is when you believe you can achieve it against all odds that it becomes and remains a positive thought in your mind.

What I have revealed to you today is the biggest wealth secret you will lay your hand on in this life of ours. And that is, that the road to wealth, riches or whatever you want to achieve in life begins with your thought process.

I will conclude by borrowing from a statement by author John Maxwell with a modification: Regardless of your current situation in life, be careful what you put on your mind, for it will surely come true.

© copyright Gabriel Ama

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