Using The Expectant Power Of The Brain To Succeed

By Author: Sam Sander
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There are many examples of optimism and a positive attitude bringing positive results. In sport, massive swings of power are determined by positive and negative emotions. The same exists in everyday experiences, it's just that the scoreboard is not as obvious.

Of course, blind optimism is dangerous too, and that's where goal setting works. It gives you the direction and the plan to accomplish personal success, and combined with a little motivation and a positive attitude, there's just no stopping you!

How does attitude make a difference? Quite simply, if you believe in something enough, so it will be!

I'm sure you've heard of the placebo effect. A doctor gives a patient a sugar pill, but tells them it's a cure for their complaint. And what do you know, the patient gets better! Why? It's not because sugar is a magical cure for everything, but it's because the mind is so powerful, it can cure the body. But only if it believes it can.

This is known as the expectant power of the mind. If it expects an outcome, it will make that outcome happen. If your mind expects you to succeed, you will!

I ...
... remember writing a paper for a conference. There was a prize for the best paper and I initially thought to myself, I'm going to write the best paper and win that prize. So I wrote the paper. After presenting the paper at the conference, my confidence wavered, since there were many good papers and mine just didn't seem to stack up.

But despite my last minute jitters and doubts, my paper won, because I wrote and presented the paper with a winning attitude.

So as far as I'm concerned, self-belief and a positive attitude really works!

But you need to REALLY believe, not just pretend to believe. You can't trick your mind into expecting something if at the back of your mind you don't think it will happen. You need to do more than just say it to yourself, you need to convince yourself, and this isn't always easy to do.

So here are some tips to help you:

Step 1: Ask for what you want. Whether it's a promotion at work, a new house or even a good relationship. This step requires you to define exactly what you want.

Step 2: Believe. You need to really and truly believe that you are going to get what you want. There's no point pretending to trick your mind into giving you what you want. You need to truly and honestly believe that this is going to happen.

Step 3: Receive. Once you believe, then you will receive what you want! So thank your mind and then be grateful for what you have received.

So put your mind to good use by attracting your success and making your dreams come true.
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