Take it off auto-pilot – now. Your professional career and quality of life may depend on it.
Especially at a time when the media is reporting various (mostly pessimistic) views of where the world is at, from the economy to crime, employment stats and other indicators like the price of petrol and “brain drain” stats.
In the first of my posts on “The Nine Powers”, we look at:
Taking charge and being conscious of your thoughts and how they impact your life.
For most people, when their two feet land on the floor next to their bed first thing in the morning and the day is ahead of them – up to seventy percent of their day is on autopilot- passively responding to their world around them- with family, peers and bosses and the media that they consume.
This is a coping strategy because at times the average consumer will see or hear nearly a million marketing & media messages - that's almost 3,000 per day. No human being can pay attention to 3,000 messages every day. We cope by shutting some things out and letting some messages in automatically.
Then there are family, home chores and responsibilities, finances, our future,
work commitments. You are truly gifted if you can take charge of your thoughts every single day.
I’m not saying go under a rock somewhere, or bury your head in the sand. I am saying make a conscious effort to take charge of your thoughts and how they impact your life and what messages you internalise and use to run your brain.
Many people have mastered the power to direct their own thoughts, feelings
and behaviours. They have been able to stop reacting to life, people and
events around them and create their “own ending”.
Being Conscious of Your Thoughts
We need to become conscious of the process of thinking. Starting thoughts and visualizations in our mind is a creative process. The same energies that hold matter together, change water into steam, or form clouds in the sky are at play when we create thought.
Once we become aware of the physical laws that are in action during the process of thinking, we become more able to direct those thoughts.
Everything is energy and when you think, you work with a large amount of this energy in the form of thought.
The nervous system is the body’s communication network or media center. It includes the brain and spinal cord in the central nervous system – the control center of the entire body. It regulates other activities of all other systems, including the senses, motor system (connecting every muscle fibre in the body to the brain) and the autonomic system connecting smooth muscles and internal organs.
The basic unit of the nervous system is the nerve cell called a neuron. Neurons are specially designed to carry signals from one place to another. They conduct electrical impulses along their dendrites and axon.
Reduce The Clutter
Just like our brain is responsible for organizing the clutter of messages sent to and from the body, so the conscious and unconscious mind is responsible for organizing the enormous clutter that most of us experience from the “outside”.
We face many interruptions and distractions from media, work, family and other sources in our daily lives, which contrive to weaken our focus and concentration on what is important for us - our own personal goals, visions and ability to live our dream life. We often scatter our energies and life force focusing on routine or meaningless tasks or corporate goals or other distractions.
Thought is always attempting to find form, is always trying to manifest itself and materialize into its physical equivalent.
John Kehoe in his book “Mind Power” (Published by Zoetic Inc.), compares our normal thoughts to sparks of fire. “Though they contain the essence and potential power of the flame, they normally dissipate quickly. They only last a few seconds, fly into the air, and quickly burn out. Although a single unaided thought hasn’t much power, just repeat this particular thought over and over again. Through repetition, the thought becomes concentrated and directed and its force is magnified many times. The more it’s repeated the more energy and power it generates.” I highly recommend Johns book.
He goes on to say that “weak and scattered thoughts are weak and scattered forces but strong thoughts and concentrated thoughts are strong and concentrated forces.”
This also works in reverse, so taking in negative messages constantly (like the economy is bad and opportunities are decreasing) can also create enormous power in your mind.
Recession –Proof Yourself.
As many know, even in a recession, people flourish, companies grow and inspired people create massive positive change in the world.
If we are able to harness the electricity and energy inside these neurons and create patterns of thinking that move us towards our goals, would that not be better than relying on stimuli as and when they occur? This applies to how we run our brain every day.
Do you focus your mind’s media center or do you allow channel hopping and media stacking (consuming multiple media forms at once like reading a magazine and listening to the radio at the same time) without any thought for direction or purpose?
Create Strategic Time For Yourself
How much quiet, reflective, creative time do you allow in your average day? Can you make time for this in your day by stepping out and really thinking creatively?
This is an especially useful technique if you work in an open plan office environment as many people do.
Most of us live on autopilot allowing our thoughts to wonder and our days to rule us.
If we imagined that our thoughts (positive and negative) either added to our wealth or took away- we would manage our mental balance sheet a bit better!
The fact is that, in business, this ends up to be true, thoughts create actions (or no actions) which ends up either making money or not making money (or even losing money) depending on the original thought.
Dreaming and hoping very rarely results in much, but if we actively visualize and create actions towards these visualizations then things will start happening.
Train Your Brain
Training your brain through controlling your own neurons, which in turn are part of our own internal communication system, will result in a much higher level of functioning. It is an established fact that most of us utilize a small percentage of the capacity of our brainpower (1-5%).
Realizing that we have the power of choice is empowering in itself. The power to think about the way we think and direct the energy that we have every single day will be the difference between achieving your goals and not.
Take the randomness out of thinking. Eliminate frustrations and distractions! Train your brain that you can control your thoughts and actions. All good media centers have a command centre, which controls the key messages that are sent out to the public. If the command centre is in control, generally the correct messages are relayed positively at the right time – achieving your goals and objectives.
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