Day 4 - Use your subconscious
Imagine that you have achieved your goal. Again, we are talking about using your most valuable asset. (the brain) Let your conscious and subconscious mind vividly imagine being in the position of attaining your goal. Over the years, I have trained a lot of people in public speaking and so many of the delegates on my course have come saying to themselves: ‘ I am a bad speaker.’ One of the first stages of becoming a good speaker is to reverse that infusion of negativity by saying ‘I am a good speaker’ and clearly imagining the sucess of each speaking opportunity. This may all sound very trite, and I have had many people on my personal development courses question this stage. Your subconscious is more powerful than your conscious mind. Let your subconscious take over by clearly visualizing what it is you really want to achieve. Your subconscious will bring it to fruition. How can i imagine I’ve gained something before I have. Who’s kidding who? All I can say is that this is not some strange technique that I personally have dreamt up.
It is one of the greatest principles of all personal development and success. Let your brain take an active part in the stages towards your goal achievement: it is the great spectrum of visualization. Dr Roger Bannister, the first man in the world to run a mile in under four minutes, visualized running four quarter-miles and each quarter mile was under a minute.
One day i phoned a good friend and business colleague, Frank Tijou, whom I hadn’t seen for some months. My first question, quite naturally, was to ask how he was, to which he replied that he had just been told he had cancer. I personally was devastated as I thought that he, as I am sure we have all said at some stage, was the last person I would have thought to have this debilitating disease. I then enquired as to where he had the cancer, and he replied that he had cancer of the lymph glands. I was certainly no authority on this subject, but I had been told that this is one of the most serious cancers. In my shock I asked him how he felt, to which he replied: ‘Great!’ This ‘great’ was almost bellowed down the phone, He then went on to say that he had six chemotherapy treatments to go through, he would lose all his hair and he would feel dreadfully ill shortly after each treatment. He would allow himself a short time to stay at home to overcome the sickness - but he had got a very busy period in front of him. After the final treatment there would be a period when he would have to wait for the final check-up and then he and his wife, Kate, were having a holiday in Turkey. Frank and Kate had their holiday and he went on to achieve many years of success at work and great joy in his personal life. The combination of brilliant medical help, the visualization and the power of the subconscious mind were all factors that led to such a positive outcome and proved to be too powerful for Frank’s cancer.
Your brain can become your greatest ally and supporter. It can be your greatest fan if you give it a chance. It will most certainly be your productive employee if you give it the right training. Continuing this analogy, some people think their brain is their most expensive employee, as it always thinks the worst, makes all the excuses and continually sees the negative rather than the positive.