Using Your Inner Guidance System

Using Your Inner Guidance System
By: Brian Tracy

You have incredible powers of mind and emotions that give you timely and accurate feedback in every area of your life.

In this newsletter, you learn how to "tune in" to yourself so you can
make the right decision in every situation.

Using Your Inner Guidance System
We know that the body has a natural bias toward health and energy. It's designed to last for 100 years with proper care and maintenance. When something goes wrong with any part of our body, we experience it in the form of pain or discomfort of some kind.

We know that when our body is not functioning smoothly and painlessly,
something is wrong, and we take action to correct it. We go to a doctor; we take pills; we undergo physical therapy, massage or chiropractic. We know that if we ignore pain or discomfort for any period of time, it could lead to something more serious.

How to Tell Right From Wrong
In the same sense, nature also gives us a way to tell emotionally what's
right for us and what's wrong for us in life. Just as nature gives us
physical pain to guide us to doing or not doing things in the physical
realm, nature gives us emotional pain to guide us toward doing or not
doing things in the emotional or mental realm. The wonderful thing is
that you're constructed so that if you simply listen carefully to
yourself-to your mind, your body and your emotions-and follow the
guidance you're given, you can dramatically enhance the quality of your life.

Just as the natural physical state of your body is health and vitality,
your natural emotional state is peace and happiness. Whenever you
experience a deviation from peace and happiness, it's an indication that
something is amiss. Something is wrong with what you're thinking, doing or saying. Your feeling of inner happiness is the best indicator you
could ever have to tell you what you should be doing more of and what
you should be doing less of.

The Messenger
Unhappiness is to your life as pain is to your body. It is sent as a
messenger to tell you that what you're doing is wrong for you.

Very often, you'll suffer from what has been called "divine discontent."
You'll feel fidgety and uneasy for a reason or reasons that are unclear
to you. You'll be dissatisfied with the status quo. Sometimes, you'll be
unable to sleep. Sometimes, you'll be angry or irritable. Very often,
you'll get upset with things that have nothing to do with the real
issue. You'll have a deep inner sense that something isn't as it should
be, and you'll often feel like a fish on a hook, wriggling and squirming
emotionally to get free.

Divine Discontent
And that is a good thing. Divine discontent always comes before a
positive life change. If you were perfectly satisfied, you would never
take any action to improve or change your circumstances. Only when you're dissatisfied for some reason do you have the inner motivation to engage in the outer behaviors that lead you onward and upward.

Listen to yourself. Trust your inner voice. Go with the flow of your own
personality. Do the things that make you feel happy inside and you'll
probably never make another mistake.

Action Exercises
Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into
action.

First, listen to yourself and trust your own feelings. If there is a part of your life that causes you stress and unhappiness, resolve to deal with it.

Second, identify those areas of your life where you are dissatisfied or
frustrated for any reason. What changes should you, could you make?

Third, remember that nature wants you to be happy, healthy, popular and prosperous. Any deviation from those conditions is a signal to you that action is necessary.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Seven Disciplines for High Performance

Seven Disciplines for High Performance

There are seven disciplines you must develop if you want to achieve all
that is possible for you. You can learn these disciplines through
practice and repetition until they become automatic.

Goal Setting
Every morning, take three to five minutes to write out your top goals in the present tense. Get a spiral notebook for this purpose. By writing
out your ten goals at the beginning of each day, you will program them
deep into your subconscious mind.

This daily goal writing will activate your mental powers. It will
stimulate your mind and make you more alert. Throughout the day, you
will see opportunities and possibilities to move more rapidly toward your goals.

Planning and Organizing
Take a few minutes, preferably the night before, to plan out every
activity of the coming day. Always work from a list. Always think on
paper. This is one of the most powerful and important disciplines of all for high performance.

Priority Setting
The essence of all time management, personal management, and life management is contained in your ability to set the proper priorities on the use of your time. This is essential for high performance.

Concentration on your Highest-Value Activities
Your ability to work single-mindedly on your most important task will
contribute as much to your success as any other discipline you can
develop.

Exercise and Proper Nutrition
Your health is more important than anything else. By disciplining
yourself to exercise regularly and to eat carefully, you will promote
the highest possible levels of health and fitness throughout your life.

Learning and Growth
Your mind is like a muscle. If you don't use it, you lose it. Continuous
learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

Time for Important People in your Life
Relationships are everything. Be sure that in climbing the ladder of
success, you do not find it leaning against the wrong building. Build
time for your relationships into every day, no matter how busy you get.

Action Exercise
These seven disciplines will ensure that you perform at the highest
level and get the greatest satisfaction and results from everything you do. Study these seven disciplines and then make a plan for how you can
incorporate each of them into your daily life.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Four Parts of Visualization

Four Parts of Visualization
By Brian Tracy

There are four parts of visualization that you can learn and practice to
assure that you use this incredible power to its best advantage all the
days of your life.

How Often?

The first aspect of visualization is frequency, the number of times that
you visualize a particular goal as achieved of yourself performing in an excellent way in a particular event or circumstance. The more frequently you repeat a clear mental picture of your very best performance or result, the more rapidly it will appear as part of your reality.

How Long?

The second element of visualization is the duration of the mental image,
the length of time that you can hold the picture in your mind each time
you replay it. When you deeply relax, you can often hold a mental
picture of yourself performing at your best for several seconds, and
even several minutes. The longer you can hold your mental picture, the
more deeply it will be impressed into your subconscious mind and the
more rapidly it will express itself in your subsequent performance.

How Clearly?

The third element of visualization is vividness. There is a direct
relationship between how clearly you can see your desired goal or result in your mind and how quickly it comes into your reality. This element of visualization is what explains the powers of the Law of Attraction and the Law of Correspondence. The vividness of your desire directly determines how quickly it materializes in the world around you. Here is an interesting point. When you set a new goal for yourself, your image or picture of this goal will usually be vague and fuzzy. But the more often you write it, review it, and repeat it mentally, the clearer it becomes for you. Eventually, it will become crystal clear. At that point, the goal will suddenly appear in your world exactly as you imagined it.

How Intensely?

The fourth element of visualization is intensity, the amount of emotion
that you attach to your visual image. In reality, this is the most
important and powerful part of the visualization process. Sometimes, if
your emotion is intense enough and your visual image is clear enough,
your goal will immediately come true.

Of course, the elements of frequency, duration, vividness, and intensity can help you or hurt you. Like nature, the power of visualization is neutral. Like a two-edged sword, it can cut in either direction. It can either make you a success or make you a failure. Visualization brings you whatever you vividly and intensely imagine, whether good or bad.

Action Exercise

Continually feed your mind with clear, exciting, emotional pictures.
Remember, your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Rolling the Dice

Rolling the Dice
By Brian Tracy

Gambling is perhaps the most perfect example of the desire to get
something for nothing. The whole idea behind gambling is there is some fast, easy way to get money that you have not earned. Proponents of legalized gambling declare that it is an innocent form of entertainment.
But gamblers always lose eventually. It is only a matter of time. The
billion-dollar casinos and gambling resorts have not been built with
"losses."

Indian Casinos
According to economist Alan Meister in his new "Indian Gaming Industry
Report," the nation's 405 Indian casinos generated about nineteen
billion dollars in revenues last year, up from zero a few years ago. In
other estimates, these tribes and casinos contributed more than $800
million in 2004 to various politicians, making them the biggest and most
powerful political lobbying group in the world.

Gambling Destroys the Gambler
The main objective to gambling is not that most people are losing money that could be better spent on their families. The worst aspect of the "gambling bug" is it destroys the gambler's capacity to deal with
reality. According to psychologists, when gamblers win, they consider it
to be a matter of personal skill. When they lose, however, they define the situation not as "losing" but "almost winning." They create a
fantasy world around gambling and attempt to live in it.

Gambling with Corruption
Gambling corrupts the soul and makes the gambler negative, distrustful, and angry. Continued losing undermines his self-esteem and destroys his self-respect. For every gambling loss, there is an opponent, as in poker, or a dealer/croupier, as in black jack or roulette, who wins. The loser is always being defeated by someone visible and real. As a result, he ends up feeling frustrated and bitter. He feels like a loser.

Gambling Corrupts
The act of gambling opens up the mind to every other possibility of
getting something for nothing, and like a syphilis spirochete, the
gambling idea soon lodges in the brain, causing a form of insanity,
destroying both the person and his or her family.

To Hell and Back
A reporter for National Review wrote recently, "I have been to hell and returned. It is a place called Las Vegas in the Nevada desert." He went on to write about the casinos filled with working men and women,
grim-faced, betting and losing their rent money, money that could be
better spent on their children. Anyone who has walked through a casino has noticed the strained faces and lack of joy among the people for whom the loss of their hard-earned money is only a matter of time.

Action Exercise
It is not possible to outlaw gambling. But like an addictive narcotic,
the only way you can avoid its destructive effects is to avoid it
altogether. You can recognize that it is an attempt to get something for
nothing, which is inherently wrong. Worse, it weakens your moral immune system and makes you susceptible to other temptations to get something for nothing.

The Law of Clarity

The Law of Clarity
By: Brian Tracy

Clarity accounts for probably 80% of success and happiness. Lack of
clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor. That's why we say that
"Success is goals, and all else is commentary." People with clear,
written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than
people without them could ever imagine. This is true everywhere and
under all circumstances.

The Three Keys to High Achievement
You could even say that the three keys to high achievement are,
"Clarity, Clarity, Clarity," with regard to your goals. Your success in life will be largely determined by how clear you are about what it is you really, really want.

Write and Rewrite Your Goals
The more you write and rewrite your goals and the more you think about them, the clearer you will become about them. The clearer you are about what you want, the more likely you are to do more and more of the things that are consistent with achieving them. Meanwhile, you will do fewer and fewer of the things that don't help to get the things you really want.

The Seven Step Process for Achieving Goals
Here, once more, is the simple, seven-step process that you can use to achieve your goals faster and easier than ever before.

First, decide exactly what you want in each area of your life. Be specific!

Second, write it down, clearly and in detail;

Third, set a specific deadline. If it is a large goal, break it down into sub-deadlines and write them down in order;

Fourth, make a list of everything you can think of that you are going to
have to do to achieve your goal. As you think of new items, add them to
your list;

Fifth, organize the items on your list into a plan by placing them in the proper sequence and priority;

Sixth, take action immediately on the most important thing you can do on your plan. This is very important!

Seventh, do something every day that moves you toward the attainment of one or more of your important goals. Maintain the momentum!

Join the Top 3%
Fewer than three percent of adults have written goals and plans that
they work on every single day. When you sit down and write out your
goals, you move yourself into the top 3% of people in our society. And
you will soon start to get the same results that they do.

Review Your Goals Daily
Study and review your goals every day to be sure they are still your
most important goals. You will find yourself adding goals to your list
as time passes. You will also find yourself deleting goals that are no
longer as important as you once thought. Whatever your goals are, plan them out thoroughly, on paper, and work on them every single day. This is the key to peak performance and maximum achievement.

Action Exercises
Here is how you can apply this law immediately:

First, make a list of ten goals that you would like to achieve in the
coming year. Write them down in the present tense, as though a year has passed and you have already accomplished them.

Second, from your list of ten goals, ask yourself, "What one goal, if I
were to accomplish it, would have the greatest positive impact on my
life?" Whatever it is, put a circle around this goal and move it to a
separate sheet of paper.

Third, practice the seven-step method described above on this goal. Set a deadline, make a plan, and put it into action and work on it every day. Make this goal your major definite purpose for the weeks and months ahead.

Get ready for some amazing changes in your life.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad