Harnessing Mind Power to Achieve Success in Life
- By Mario Starks
- Published 04/22/2007
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"Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours." - Dr. Robert Anthony
It is often said that the secret to success is rooted in the power of the individual to imagine in his or her mind the success that he or she wishes to obtain. Nearly every successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, or entertainment celebrity whose personal stories of inspiration I’ve read all highlight this notion of there being a special universal law they’ve lived by, this so-called “secret” to success. In my research, I’ve learned that it is in fact a philosophy that was understood, shared, and written about by many great ancient civilizations. The ancient Egyptians, for example, by all historical accounts, seemed very attuned to the ability of controlling one’s destiny through imagination, thought and meditation. And in my own journey and experience, I have come to experience and understand this universal teaching of the often-untapped human potential that I call “mind power.”
It is a powerful teaching that my family instilled in me at an early age. I particularly remember my mother often saying, “You can do anything you put your mind to.” This was usually followed by “think it and you shall achieve it.” So wise were her words that I would sometimes take for granted. Being the often-stubborn child that I was, these words would seemingly go in one ear and out the other. But it was indeed my mother’s insistence that I could do and be anything that I wanted to be that nurtured my “mind power” ability and instilled in me a sense of positive expectancy. I was uniquely aware that my actions would have positive consequences if I focused my energy and thoughts on the end result that I wanted. Early in my childhood, I would practice and hone this unique awareness. In school, I recall writing or thinking positive affirmative statements before taking an exam, or before delivering a presentation in front of class. In my mind, I would literally picture myself having the answer or delivering a great presentation. It was this positive expectancy; this use of “mind power” that yielded small successes then, and that continues to yield even greater successes today.
Dr. Robert Anthony’s quote above is in essence what positive expectancy and “mind power” is all about. The lesson is straightforward: one must expect success in order to achieve success. As a young and aspiring leader, it is important that you believe, right now, here in this moment, that you are successful. You must speak it, write it, and think it – repeatedly. And when you do just that, with genuine conviction, something quite transformational will begin to happen both mentally and physically within. As you reveal to yourself that you are a living, breathing, and SUCCESSFUL being, signals are literally sent to every single cell in your body with the exciting news. Very subtly and perhaps unconsciously at first, you’ll find yourself acting, walking, and talking like the successful person that you knew yourself to be! The only difference now is that you are both mentally and physically in synch with this truth.
Practice “mind power” with your schoolwork, your job, or your relationships. Then observe how you achieve your goals with greater ease and less resistance.
“Think it and you shall achieve it…”
It is often said that the secret to success is rooted in the power of the individual to imagine in his or her mind the success that he or she wishes to obtain. Nearly every successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, or entertainment celebrity whose personal stories of inspiration I’ve read all highlight this notion of there being a special universal law they’ve lived by, this so-called “secret” to success. In my research, I’ve learned that it is in fact a philosophy that was understood, shared, and written about by many great ancient civilizations. The ancient Egyptians, for example, by all historical accounts, seemed very attuned to the ability of controlling one’s destiny through imagination, thought and meditation. And in my own journey and experience, I have come to experience and understand this universal teaching of the often-untapped human potential that I call “mind power.”
It is a powerful teaching that my family instilled in me at an early age. I particularly remember my mother often saying, “You can do anything you put your mind to.” This was usually followed by “think it and you shall achieve it.” So wise were her words that I would sometimes take for granted. Being the often-stubborn child that I was, these words would seemingly go in one ear and out the other. But it was indeed my mother’s insistence that I could do and be anything that I wanted to be that nurtured my “mind power” ability and instilled in me a sense of positive expectancy. I was uniquely aware that my actions would have positive consequences if I focused my energy and thoughts on the end result that I wanted. Early in my childhood, I would practice and hone this unique awareness. In school, I recall writing or thinking positive affirmative statements before taking an exam, or before delivering a presentation in front of class. In my mind, I would literally picture myself having the answer or delivering a great presentation. It was this positive expectancy; this use of “mind power” that yielded small successes then, and that continues to yield even greater successes today.
Dr. Robert Anthony’s quote above is in essence what positive expectancy and “mind power” is all about. The lesson is straightforward: one must expect success in order to achieve success. As a young and aspiring leader, it is important that you believe, right now, here in this moment, that you are successful. You must speak it, write it, and think it – repeatedly. And when you do just that, with genuine conviction, something quite transformational will begin to happen both mentally and physically within. As you reveal to yourself that you are a living, breathing, and SUCCESSFUL being, signals are literally sent to every single cell in your body with the exciting news. Very subtly and perhaps unconsciously at first, you’ll find yourself acting, walking, and talking like the successful person that you knew yourself to be! The only difference now is that you are both mentally and physically in synch with this truth.
Practice “mind power” with your schoolwork, your job, or your relationships. Then observe how you achieve your goals with greater ease and less resistance.
“Think it and you shall achieve it…”
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Comment #1 (Posted by John A. Paz)
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Mario,
Visualizing success is always going to get to further than prepping for failure. But you must make sure that visualization comes from preparation. By acting like a writer, imagining myself as a writer, and writing all the time (regardless of natural talent) I can better prepare myself for being a writer than if I just wanted to be a writer. While I love the start that you’ve given to the secret to success, visualize success, there is at least one more step that is equally important, and that’s act like you know you’ll succeed. You can see yourself doing it, so start doing it. Again, I imagine myself as a writer, so I write. I might not be getting paid for it, but I’m no less of a writer for continuing to write.
You want to be basketball star? Then do like they do and run and practice all day like it’s your job.
Can you see yourself as a business person? Then keep a tie on your neck and keep those shoes shining. It’s the next step after visualization: prep yourself for success.
The opposite is true even more. If you can only see how you will fail, failure is inevitable. I’ll take my mother for instance: a tenured professor at a thriving university, a very successful woman by anyone’s standards. When we took her skiing for her first time, before she even put on skis, she said she just couldn’t picture herself skiing down a mountain. The picture seemed awkward in her head. She went down the slope twice, fell on the second run and decided she had had enough.
In retrospect, you are too right Mario; if you can’t see yourself as successful how do you expect other people to view that way?
John A. Paz
Comment #2 (Posted by James)
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Thinking about success is important but there is more to it than simple thought. Each and everyone on the planet have thought about what they want. But many have not achieved what they want and this means failure. So just thinking about success is overated in my opinion. For example, a person who has no interest in school, may want to be a good student, but just can't because there is a limited interest or ability. So its ineffective to think of success will make them a good student. You have to go much deeper Dr Robert. We need good parents, good teachers, there are many factors for someone to achieve success and that goes for any field. Just thinking about it, is only a beginning.
Comment #3 (Posted by gecager)
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I like this Blog. For me, what this write up just wants to imply is just to start on a simple positive mind. Let us not think of the obstacles but rather think that we can actually achieve what we want to achieve . This positive mind creates an unexplainable power that attracts postive energy that helps us to do the things we want to do with ease.
