How To Be Successful - Allowing The Mind To Create Success

In 1902, James Hill published his book, "As a Man Thinketh

," where he stated that a person's thoughts have the power to create his personal circumstances. A half century later, Napoleon Hill studied the characteristics of some of the most wealthy individuals of his time, and developed 16 laws of success. Hill explained these 16 laws in his book, "Think and Grow Rich," where he explained that any person can achieve success by forming clear goals, eliminating negative thoughts and pursuing his goals with faith and persistence. Both of these books were best-sellers during their time, and remain popular and relevant to this day. These, along with many other popular self-help literature, are built on the principle that by focusing on positive thoughts the human mind has the power to create positive results. The books give key take home knowledge to implement on how to be successful.

This idea is also at the core of the law of attraction, a theory that became wildly popular with the release of the movie "The Secret" in 2006. The law of attraction says that "like attracts like." Simply put, if a person focuses on positive thoughts, he or she will attract positive results. When a person's mind is filled with negative thoughts, negative things happen to him or her. Like so many other theories and beliefs that are not yet fully understood, the law of attraction has its share of critics. But despite the abundance of detractors, there are irrefutable

A recent article in the Sunday Review of the New York Times, written by Annie Murphy Paul, discusses a 2009 study conducted by Vronique Boulenger, Olaf Hauk and Friedemann Pulvermller on the brain's response to fiction. Ms. Paul writes that the study concluded that the human brain apparently cannot distinguish between an experience it reads about and one that it encounters. The importance of this is that as far as the brain is concerned, what it thinks about is just as real as what it experiences.

In a study conducted a year earlier at the William Beaumont Hospital, 15 women suffering from interstitial cystitis were asked to visualize the healing of their bladder twice a day over a period of eight weeks. These women experienced less discomfort and pain than those who did not visualize. These and many other research studies strengthen the case for the human mind being able to create or influence its own reality.

Actual examples abound in different fields of endeavour include basketball great Larry Bird who used to come out onto the court long before everyone else and spend a few minutes just imagining himself making shot after shot after shot, in all sorts of conditions. Only after this mental exercise would he start actually taking his practice shots. Actor Will Smith mentioned in an interview that he had visualized his own success years before he finally experienced success. These two men truly understood how to be successful.

Here are a handful of quick steps you can do to get what you want out of life.

1. Define success. Begin with the end in mind.

2. Visualize the goal as a present reality.

3. Set realistic goals that support your vision of success.

4. Work your plan.

by: Allan Wright

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