Think Success

By Devlyn Steele

Do you think you can be successful at creating positive change in your life?

State Out Loud: "I am powerful to create positive change in my life!"

Repeat three times.

If you think success, success will happen.  It sounds like magic, think success and success will happen, but that is exactly how it works!  Before anything is realized in our lives, it is preceded by a thought.  If you want shoes, you first have to think shoes.  If you want to eat, you first think food.  Without the thought, no action is taken and nothing is realized.  In life, if you want success, you have to learn how to think successfully.

If at some point you have the thought to change a certain area of your life, deciding to create change is just the first step to making a transformation. Falling into the same approach to change what failed in the past will only lead to the same result. In order to get new results you have to change your mental patterns. Learn how to Think Success and you will create the life you want.

It is said, "We become what we think."  In other words, we are shaped by our thoughts.   When you were born, your brain contained over a hundred billion cells.  Imagine that! Granted, these cells had yet to develop any real circuit connectivity. 

Over time, you developed synapses that became the road map to your thoughts resulting from environmental exposure.  Everything you have seen and experienced has shaped and defined the patterns of your thoughts.  These thoughts drive the engine of your actions. 

Learning takes place in the region of the brain called the cerebral cortex.  When we are actively learning we are consciously concentrating.  Once we have an activity fully understood, our learning passes from the conscious to the unconscious.  Think back to when you learned to tie your shoelaces, drive a car, or brush your teeth.  These activities once required a great deal of our focus and concentration, yet now we are able to perform them with very little or often no conscious thought at all.

Think of all the activities you do without conscious thought.  Think about your breathing, your heart, your arms moving, walking.  The "automatic brain" performs much of what we do.

Your brain develops automatic activity from every single experience, thought and emotion.  The words you speak to yourself will determine your brain patterns.  You need to once again become conscious and take an active role in your life. 

When we fail, we fail largely because of our own self-limiting thoughts and partly because of our desire to make changes in our circumstances without changing our thinking.  There are no magic bullets or magic answer that will solve your situations.  There are no magic diets, magic exercise machines or get-rich-quick programs.

Success requires a shift in thinking.  Success is not limited to a few arbitrary individuals.  Success is only limited to those who learn how to think positively with the genuine belief in their ability to achieve. This means you have to change the way you talk to yourself.

Get actively involved in changing how you are thinking.  Take a new mental approach and you will find your life changing as a result.  The way to achieve a change in your thinking patterns is to use empowering affirmations, we call them ‘State Out Loud" affirmations. The words you speak are the ideas with which you train yourself and those around you to accept. 

The only limitations on your life are the limitations you place on your life by how you think.  In Tools-To-Life, the approach to changing your thinking is called "correctional thinking."  This method allows you to substantiate how you should think to achieve your goals.  The result is success thinking that actualizes your ability to re-create your life and make it what you want it to be. 

Start retraining how you think by the words you speak to yourself. Start a practice of State Out Loud. Start with taking charge of your thinking from the moment you wake up and throughout your day. Find affirmations that create a shift in your thinking and that will promote behavior to create positive changes in your life. In addition to affirmations, remember that the "Attitude of Gratitude" is the fertile ground that all positive changes grow from. State Out Loud morning and night your grateful list.

You did not always have a choice in the circumstances that led to the way you think about yourself, and your life, but you do now,

State Out Loud, "I am powerful to create positive change in my life."

Now use that power to State Out Loud and start Thinking Success.

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