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  BUILDING A MINDSET Mindset is key – as our thinking defines our lives. We have a choice to be happy, to be successful, to be in control of our bodies, what we put in them and how we direct our energies. Our decisions and actions, spring forward from our mind state. Our hormones and health are all dependent on how we think. Negative thoughts will attract negative outcomes. Good thoughts will attract positive ones. Positive Thought, Positive Action, Positive Life The only truth, are the beliefs that we have, hold on to and follow to be true. Belief drives everything. That's why it's important to believe in something meaningful. If beliefs connect through to family, about having good friends, finding love, having a worthwhile job or enough money to enjoy life – the projection of these positive life-enriching attachments, originating in the mind – will manifest into reality.  Attraction  is the result of following our belief. Our mindset is defined by what we experience, wh...

  GUT INSTINCT Mindful, carefully considered and applied thought processes, help us to make sense of the world around us. Conscious decisions based on sound judgment and reasoning will steer us on the right path in life. But deep thinking can be time-consuming, and energy-depleting and potentially even take us away from where our true desires intend us to go. Before the mind's synapses get too heavily burdened with complex thought processes, take a moment to listen to that inner voice. Our intuitive brain understands our needs and desires the best of all. Registering that sensation, felt in the solar plexus area, can be helpful for quickly answering a life conundrum and provide us with the necessary early warning signals for making snap decisions when it really counts. Reactive decisions can often be right. Gut feelings can steer us on the right path or divert away from danger, but because it's closely connected to our emotive state, it can also get us to make poor decisions. W...

  THINK AND BE The brain is a complex structure, defining humans as the most advanced species on Earth. Our evolutionary path has been defined through the workings of the mind, to adapt, create and form social structures from which to flourish within. Mind is also a tool that, when used well, can unlock the potential for bringing much success in life.  Applied learning of what makes a man tick, can help to broaden the individual's mind. With such a wealth of discovery readily available to us – information on hand through libraries and so easily accessible via the internet, this moment in history brings even greater opportunities to expand our understanding of the world around us. Many exceptional intellects have pondered what it is to be human and the learnings of these great thinkers, have helped shape our world. Philosophy has attempted to tackle the fundamental concepts of reality and existence. It's these philosophers before us, who have dedicated their lives to rationalis...

  FALSE REALITIES Truth is an illusion. There is no right and wrong. There is no objective reality – just perception. The only reality is the one you – and only you – believe.  Having a strong belief in something which can bring greater purpose and ultimately happiness into our lives, is where our energy should be focused. It doesn't matter what anyone else believes in, as it's only your perception that truly matters. If you believe it, then it becomes real. The cycle of belief, purpose and happiness, all exist and continue to drive us forward. Believe in achieving a goal, take action with determination and a reward will materialise at the end of the work. But ultimately, there is no end, just another cycle of belief until we run out of what we believe in. In a driven person, the Belief Cycle is a feedback loop between the person's conceptual ideas, the belief in the concepts, potential energy for success attainment, action for achieving and the results manifested. In this ...

  SELF- FULFILLING PROPHECIES The directions our lives will take are all determined by our actions. Our actions follow our intentions, which are fuelled by desire. This means we truly can be the masters of our own destiny if we  follow our hearts . To achieve goals, all we have to do is conceive the direction we want to go in, visualise the destination and believe in the outcome we most aspire to. Belief forms our mindset and from here onward, we can determine success or failure ( self-defeating prophecies ), by practising the right mindset. Many people have learnt the  power of intention  through meditation, breathing and yoga practice. Others have discovered that good things happen, purely if we go along with the idea of achieving a positive outcome, even if we seem to 'know' it will turn out otherwise. These surprising effects are down to a phenomenon called the  placebo effect . Belief Follows Action When we can switch off the busy chatter in our minds,...

GAINING AN ADVANTAGE  Sometimes, the best way to succeed is to fail. For if we never lose, how can we know what winning feels like? Taking on a tough challenge can highlight where strengths and weaknesses lie as well as where  improvements can be made. Perhaps, slowly over time, by simply turning up every day to learn these lessons of success and failure, we may eventually arrive at the optimum place for continued success, – purely through consistency. Sticking To A Plan Defining an objective, containing a series of steps for attaining a goal, is how we set in motion a plan for action. Self-management of our necessary work output to achieve these steps within a set time frame, plus closely monitoring the quality of all our efforts, will ultimately determine the measure of our success.  All tasks both great and small, will have a start and a finish line. Our will to commence, coupled with our determination to complete, are what motivates us to carry out tasks. No matter th...

  THE IMPORTANCE OF DEPENDENCE In life, being able to 'do what we mean and mean what we do', is an essential component of our ethical group set, – the self-defining moral principles from whence we base our notions of right conduct Punctuality and acknowledgement of it's power to conform, lays the foundation for our core principles – because it serves so well as a marker for self-managed integrity. However, being on time, shouldn't be the sole focus in our 'do-right' rule book. A Reason For Doing Right Being in a set place and at a predetermined time when we say we will be there – all activated through thought processes with the rationale to take the appropriate action – sits shallowly within the many complex layers forming our 'higher' active/reactive thought processes. Just as a simple alarm clock merely ticks, the process of setting a time to adhere to, is simply the basic action leading up to the formative moment. Residing deeper within our core, is t...

  COMMITTING TO TIME Punctuality is commitment and self-discipline combined. It's a key indicator for measuring our awareness of time, will to act on decisions and reliability to deliver. Saying what we mean and doing what we say, are the basic elements required to live a true and purposeful life. Time commitment is our master – commanded from, delivered to and received through the medium of punctuality – self-mastery in a mirrored form. In this regard, we should trust punctuality as a positive attribute to follow and adhere to. The affirmations we receive, after committing to a set time, should be based on our integrity of thought. It encourages mindfulness and consideration. When we agree to a time, we make a conscious choice first and foremost – a shared statement and agreement within ourselves before we agree with others. So, how important is punctuality – for how can we define a person that is always late...are they not the lowest character type – self-deceiver, an i...

  STEPPING UP TO THE TASK   When there's an arduous task ahead and a real need for us to step up our game to tackle it head-on, the fear of the task often becomes more of an obstacle to taking action than performing the actual task itself.  We tend to dwell on the idea of the task itself, the potential discomfort and the time frame we will likely have to endure this feeling, rather than focus on the mechanics and tools we’ll require to accomplish our goal. In the past, when my training for a long-distance run or cycle ride has been lacking, I’ve learned the hard way how to accomplish a tough task. I've had to endure discomfort. Fortunately, it taught me that no matter how tough the perceived task seemed before or felt during, the end result was always the same – I achieved the goal.   And despite the perceived toughness of the situation being confirmed throughout the ongoing hardship – fully realised throughout the entire experience – the ending always, ver...

  STAYING THE COURSE We're all capable of so much more than we realise. And through an ongoing and continued program of dedicated effort, able to accomplish great feats of endurance by building mental & physical strength to attain desired goals.  Unfortunately, what we lack, is the will and determination to continue on a dedicated program to arrive at our destination. In this sense, we can say that we lack, is the commitment.  Committing to something implies that we are keeping an obligation with ourselves to complete a task. We are removing the freedom of action which we ourselves govern. We are the jailer and the jailed all in one. And that's how many of us see the roles – especially when we're restricting ourselves in some way or taking on a particularly tough challenge where there are easier ways out instead. Keeping to the plan, staying on track and doing what we've set out to do, all  take strong will and a mental toughness. This we call self-discipline....

ENGAGING YOUR MIND Our mind is our universe. Our very existence comes from the thoughts and outward projections of those thoughts, realised through our senses. We are conscious beings and all outside influences will register, either picked up in our subconsciousness or consciously aware minds, as will the effects from those influences, be received through our nervous system and become internal influences on our mindset. Without our five known senses, we would still be conscious, but without experiences, we'd be without a basis to measure reality against. Therefore, it must follow that anything picked up through the senses, ultimately becomes our reality. In this sense, reality is dependent on the sensory input we receive and because this is a constant stream of input, our minds can be wildly fickle. We can feel down, unhappy or afraid one instant and in the next, upbeat, happy and carefree. Our emotional influencers are going to sway our mindset and because our minds themselves are...

  A PSYCHOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE Psychology  is the scientific study of our mental processes and behaviours. Understanding a basic level of psychology can award us an advantage in life. Understanding the behaviours of other people will be key for personal and business relationships and understanding our own minds will identify our strengths, weaknesses, preferences and where we can improve or undo negative behaviour patterns. When I first started looking at the basics of Psychology, I quickly realised that if science was able to rationalise our behaviour, then applying these intellectual ideas to my own processes could greatly help to justify my thoughts and actions in a more subjective way. And so it follows, that learning these workings of the brain will give us greater potential for understanding the requirements for living out purposeful, happy lives.  We Are All Representatives We are led by our unconscious minds. The person each and every one of us thinks we are, is just...

  LEARNING TO LIVE If you're reading this book, chances are, you have been pondering the same questions I've been asking myself. Namely, the question many also ask themselves — who am I? The question has been pondered before, but never before has so much thought been given to how I've arrived at this point in my life and ended up becoming this person under review. This point in time has been reached, via many multiple sets of decisions being made. One thing I'm sure of — my own position in the world today was not reached by chance or decided purely by trial and error. There were deliberate decisions made. Some of these decisions were a consequence of the rules instilled in me and (hopefully), preferable behaviours were championed over those less acceptable ones, and have enabled me to function well within society. So, coming up to a mid-life juncture, with evidently a bit of an identity crisis looming, I've really started to ask myself why I've made the decision...