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Its all in your head!

I’m reading a book called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People By Stephen R. Covey.  Amazing Book!  And I would like to share a part in the book that I think might be beneficial to everyone.  The author goes into detail about how all things are created twice.  Once as a mental creation, in your head, and second, the physical creation.  For example, take a business.  If you want to have a successful enterprise you clearly define what you’re trying to accomplish in your mind.  You have to come up with goals, strategies, market research, competition, budgeting, etc.  If you want your company to be successful you must picture the end result in your mind and in your mind create things to get there.  This principal also applies to many areas of life.  For example, if you are planning a vacation, you have to think about it first, then put it into action.  You have to determine the destination and plan out the route and activities and so on.  I have learned from personal experience that the mind is such a powerful thing!  And if we learn how to control our mind and thoughts, we would be able to do anything we want!  Can you remember how many times you wanted to do something, but the little voice inside your head stops you?  Imagine if we could overcome that little voice, and have no doubts or worries, we would be unstoppable.

I wanted to put this principal into practice in my life to prove something to myself.  That if my mind can actually focus and have a mental creation of some thing, then it has to have a physical creation also!  A couple months ago, I decided that I was going to focus my thoughts on creating an extra $500.  What I did, was I posted $500 on sticky notes everywhere around my house, so that my mind was constantly thinking of it.  Soon enough, I started noticing the number 500 everywhere I went.  On billboard signs, in magazines, prices on items were 5.00.  I set a constant reminder to myself on my blackberry so I always thought about this $500.00.  A week later, I received a cheque in the mail for $541.63.  From where?  It was from my previous job that paid bonuses once a year based on sales productions.  Even though I had quit the job just before the year ended, they still paid me for that bonus!  This story sounds crazy and obviously I could have thought of a million dollars instead of $500!  But the reason I choose $500 in the first place was because I knew that I could come up with the $500 somehow.  In my current job now my wage is based purely on commission,  So I knew I could somehow make $500 with work, I also knew I could somehow come up with $500 by getting a loan or even borrowing it from my mom.  The whole point of this story is that I focused on something realistic and achievable, I thought it of it constantly and mentally creating it in my mind that I would somehow get $500 dollars, and I did.

So my challenge to you who is reading this blog, is to really try to control your thoughts.  Focus on something that you want.  And if you focus long and hard on something you want, you can get it.  That’s what I’ll be doing!

Cheers to your success!!

Vanessa