Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Transform Your Mind: Transform Your Life #2

The first trigger is to CONTROL OUR EYES

We have to control our eyes in three areas.  The first is to Control Who We Look At.


Men are famous for not controlling their eyes.  When they "can't" stop looking at the women walking by their thoughts fill up on sexuality.

The same principle is true with success.  Who are you looking to?

Most people look to the people who are in the same circles and situations they are.  That is why Facebook is so HUGE.  Most of the time we are looking to people who we like, who like us and nothing has to change.  This activity absorbs an enormous amount of time.  Is that you?

Other people like to look to frequent complainers.  Complainers in a company become a cancer that spreads and kills.  They do not cause success.

Our culture is not crazed with looking to entertainers.  We are fascinated with their marriage and legal woes.  That really doesn't start the thought process of achievement.

Our news programs are filled with murders and thieves and will cause fear is many.  The other news stations that are really just news opinion channels.  They love it when they can interview yelling heads that interupt each other and are quite opinionated by may not be the most rational.

The ancient writer of Psalms said this:


Who are you looking to?  This principle is vital to success.  Are you instead, looking to people who are achieving?  People who are moving ahead?  People who are influencing?  People of leadership?  If so, your thoughts fill with ideas of bringing yourself into their spheres.


Next post will be the second area we look at that triggers our thoughts.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Transform Your Mind: Transform Your Life

Do you ever have a time where you can't break your cycle of thinking?  The thoughts could be thoughts of depression, thoughts of failure, or thoughts of fear.  Do you worry that you can't achieve what others have achieved?  Do you think the good life is for someone else?

If you think like the successful think you will do what the successful do and that means you will get what the successful get.  The path will NEVER be straight.  You may have to go through times of long, tough work hours.  You may have serious financial strain and troubles before you get where you want to go.  That is exactly what the successful also had to go through.  That is why they are successful.  Most are not willing to go through the tough junk to get the great life.

It all starts with the thinking process.  How can we control our thoughts?  How can we control our mind?

There are three triggers that start an automatic thinking process.  If we can change the triggers we change our thoughts.  If we change our thoughts we change our actions.  If we change our actions we change our results.

In my next post I will start the discussion on the first trigger.