What if you could learn the secret tool that Einstein used to develop a good portion of his theories? What if it was the same tool that helped a famous engineer design many of the products he patented? What if I told you this same secret was used by successful authors, business people, and other successful people of all areas? Would you want to know it? What if I told you this secret would cost you less than a $1? Well here is the great secret. It will help you access the mountain of untapped knowledge trapped in your subconscious mind. It is…a pen and a pocket-size notebook. Now before you find yourself feeling disappointed. Let me explain. Have you ever caught yourself having a flash of brilliance where you come up with a solution you have been working on for months? I’ll let you in on a little secret, it didn’t just happen at that moment. Your subconscious had been working in the background on it for days, weeks, months or who knows how long. Same goes for flashes of inspiration. How many times has this happened to you? How many times have you struggled to remember what it was ten minutes later? something to the effect of “I had the perfect gift for my aunt, but now I can’t remember what it was” Now not all your ideas will seem so great later on, but the majority just might. Not only will it relieve some frustration and help you be more productive, it also helps train your subconscious how to communicate with your conscious thus bringing about more knowledge for you to work with. So before you dismiss this as old-fashioned, or not useful just remember we wouldn’t have E=mc2 without it. If you still worry about looking funny with a pen and paper with you, they also make great new apps for tablets and smart phones that are just like notebooks. You will be amazed and excited at all the great ideas you capture!
Tag: Consciousness
ASK A BETTER QUESTION
Evaluations, we all do them every day. What is an evaluation? It is really a question. Was that concert good last night? How good was the concert last night? What does all this have to do with you and living an amazing life? Another good question. Here is what I hope you will find to be a good answer. Asking yourself the proper questions can make all the difference between success and failure. It is another way to take advantage of the way the brain works. Let me give you an example. I have a friend who constantly dates men who are not right for her. After the relationship fails she always asks the same question, “how could I be so stupid?” When your brain hears this it subconsciously goes to work on finding out why you could be so stupid and usually supplies the conscious mind with several answers. Normally when you receive answers to questions you ask it should make you happy? If you are always asking disempowering question like the one above, or see if you can ever remember asking yourself questions like these. “Why does this always happen to me?” ” How come I can never get this right?” “How come I can never get ahead?” These are all perfect examples of questions that will lead you nowhere. Start asking yourself empowering questions. If you find yourself always dating the wrong person, ask yourself “What can I learn from this?” or one of my favorites is “What do I have to be grateful for in this situation?”. Sometimes the little devil on your shoulder will scream “Nothing you idiot, this situation sucks!” Even if it does, there is always something to be grateful for. So how do we get past that little negative voice in your ear? This is where fun things like tricking your own mind comes into play. Ok, so I don’t feel like being grateful for anything, but if I did want to find something to be grateful/happy/optimistic about what would that be. That way you are giving that voice room to do its thing while still focusing on the positive. So pay attention to the questions you ask yourself. They can literally empower or disempower you. So do yourself a favor and ask the right question.
THE IMPORTANCE OF ACTING LIKE A FOOL
Yesterday we spoke of doing things from our youth and how it can prevent our minds from growing old. There is another way to keep our minds young and flexible. Acting crazy. Now before you think I am going to suggest something that would land you in jail or a nice comfortable padded room with a jacket that fastens in the back, let me explain. What way to you drive to work? Have you ever arrived there and not remembered anything about the trip there? Providing you arrived sober let me explain what happened. When we travel the same course five or six days a week it becomes almost ingrained in our mind how to get there. So much so that much of the duty of arriving there safely is delegated to the subconscious mind. Think of the act of driving itself. When we first learned to drive our minds were on overdrive. There seemed so much to pay attention to. How fast are we going, don’t look at that too long, check the review mirror every 8 seconds. After a few months we pretty much just get into our car and well, drive. We don’t think about making sure our foot is on the brake before we put it into drive. It all seems to happen automatically. So what is the problem with this? Well, when we lose our focus on the present two major things occur. One like physical exercise if we use our brain for the same things over and over again we plateau. We cease making new pathways in our brain and it fails to get a workout. How many times has a new business opened up on the path to your work and you fail to notice until somebody else points it out to you? Just because you are not looking for something you ‘know’ is not there. The other thing that happens is we fail to appreciate the beauty of the present. A lot of what we do on a daily basis is nothing short of a miracle and was considered, even by ourselves in the beginning, to be a monumental task.
So, how can we avoid getting in these ruts? How can we keep our brain sharp? I am going to take a lesson from the Shaman. For those of you who do not know Shamans were spiritual, and sometimes political leaders of indigenous Peoples. Quite often people would think of them as crazy. They would do things like walk backwards, eat hot food cold and cold food hot, wear ridiculous outfits, or even say things that seemed to make no sense. This all was part of the way of keeping the shamans mind from falling into a rut. Now I am not suggesting you come into work dressed in drag as the boss may frown. What I am suggesting is do a few things to shake up your routine. Take a slightly different path to work. Eat a breakfast meal for dinner. Most of the things we do out of habit are really not all that serious. It will give your mind a jolt and keep it sharp!
SECRET 2 AN AMAZING LIFE 