Are you Ready for ‘Just One Thing To Do’ that Gets you Better Results?

Success today is all about mental conditioning.  Business is a brain game.  Productivity is a brain game.  Relationships are a brain game.  Sports is a brain game.  Even your body and your feelings are a brain game.  Everything we do has to be processed through our brains.  Our brains control our nervous systems, our physiology, our psychology.  What our brains validate as real becomes real. Some of you may argue that it is all about heart.  Yes, I agree with that too…but there is a subtle difference.  The brain chooses, the heart feels. The heart is actually a muscle, which seems to feel changes in emotions, which affects our desire and energy output.The brain turns it up and down. Emotional feelings come after our brains collect data, interpret it and then within split seconds direct and produce the physiological response.  Our physiological response gives us physical sensations that we feel into and through our hearts and our bodies.  Our heart feeds data back up to our brains, and again an interpretation process happens. After years of studying on how things happen, I have finally concluded that the tipping point of power and control is in our brains. It is in the spot before the unconscious and the conscious thoughts gain power. A thought is not real.  A thought is just an electrical impulse. A thought is just a thought until we empower it with interpretation and emotion.  Then it becomes real. It is in that split second where you control your destiny.  That is where things matter.  In that split second we determine our results by mental application of emotional interpretations.  Emotions become the passion that attracts our results. A thought happens.  We label the thought with an emotional interpretation causing a cascading effect happens.  Our physiological response collects more thoughts and interpretations, and the rest ripples out and becomes history.   This is my interpretation of how it works.  The ‘tipping point’ for me was talking with Nola Ayers, a gymnastics coach from here in Bellingham. Nola is not a normal coach.  Nola is the winningest coach in high school gymnastics history with a 384 to 1 win-loss record over a 20 year period.  Remarkable.    "How did she get this kind of result consistently over time in a normal school working with normal students?  384 to 1?  Incredible." Of course, the answer is a bunch of things.  Then, when I asked her what was the key difference between her results and others results, she said, “I taught my students that a thought is just a thought.  It is not real.  It is an electrical impulse…until you label it.  It is in the interpretation that you control your results.”  This is what she taught her gymnasts to control their results?  This is worth knowing. Nola then gave further credit to Jim Loehr, the author of a book called “Toughness Training for Life”.  In one chapter he explains the intricacy of how the brain regulates and controls the release of certain brain chemicals that control our physiological response.  This controls how our body reacts or responds to our thoughts.  He explains how successful people have developed mastery over this physiological response. When you add this information up with quantum physics, human potential, and a bunch of other things, it's insightful.   But I digress. Back to the point.  Fear is an emotional response to a thought.  Since it is not real until you allow it to be, you then have the ability to control your response to the thought before it becomes destructive. Here is what you can do.  Mental conditioning workouts.  Learn to differentiate illusion from reality.  What's the story vs the fact? Is the information real, or a drama?  Notice what triggers which emotions, and either adjust your input or control your response. For more on one of my key brain gym processes you can go to <a href="http://joythinks.com/" title="Joy Gilfilen's Blog">JoyThinks.com</a> and click on the Convert to Joy Triangle Model.  It will get you started.  To buy Jim's book, you can go to <a href="http://win3resources.com/" title="Recommended business resources">Win3Resources.com</a>.  This is not about false woo-woo stuff where you deny what is real in favor of fantasy and happiness thinking that provides a false sense of security.  That is another form of illusion and denial.  Thinking you can outthink the market by simply hoping the problems you have will go away is an illusion.  It is a false interpretation of fact.   The fact is, the market is going through upheavals and upsets.  Do not imagine that this is simple and it is just a glitch and we will go back to how it was.  Get real.  I do not say, get fear.  I say stop, look, and listen and interpret your data with accuracy.  Learn to discern the fact, from interpretation and opinions. Get real.  Get physical.  Start noticing what is outside the proverbial glass house. What's happening around the world? We do have problems. It is our responsibility to become part of the solution.    Fact:  The world will never be as it was.  Yesterday is gone.  Period.  You can bring it back in your memory and rehash it if you choose,but does that work?  I found I lose time moving forward. And when our world is changing fast, that time loss is a big deal. Today we are in a global internet driven marketplace.  What was real in business even 6 months ago is no longer real.  The Internet has changed reality.  Our political election and banking failures have changed reality.   Those are facts.  How we react is up to us.  I believe in looking forward into the future using accurate information about today.  Your survival and thrival ability depends not on managing your fear, but on managing your thoughts before they become fear.  Learn to focus on what really matters to you and affects results.    Figure out how you can control your emotional focus.  I choose to direct  thought towards solutions. What opportunity just opened up?   Get out of speculation and drama.  It clutters the mind.  Focus on what is of useful value. What does this fact mean to me right now or to the future?  Is it relevant, or just more busy-ness, more 'stuff', more 'story'?  If it is not useful, do not spend more time on it.  Look for data and information that is relevant, useful and that matters to your results today.   To be in business tomorrow, you gotta get real today.  Now.    2008-10-30T14:55:55Z

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Get real. Get into your own brain before your unconscious thoughts become real and control your emotions.