{"id":49,"date":"2011-03-04T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T05:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/?p=49"},"modified":"2011-03-04T18:32:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T05:32:47","slug":"get-your-head-in-gear-%e2%80%93-the-only-way-to-self-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/get-your-head-in-gear-%e2%80%93-the-only-way-to-self-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Head In Gear \u2013 The Only Way To Self Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Easy AdSense V2.99 -->\n<!-- Post[count: 1] -->\n<div class=\"ezAdsense adsense adsense-leadin\" style=\"float:right;margin:12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8279754544979895\";\r\n\/* self improve3 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2464079329\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n<!-- Easy AdSense V2.99 -->\n\n<p>If you don\u2019t appreciate how important it is to <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>focus your mind<\/a>, you can never live the dream.  You\u2019ll never achieve anything great and you will be forever plagued by the self sabotaging thoughts and voices in your head that are an essential part of normal everyday life.  How you focus your mind, how you <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>control your mind<\/a> is the key that unlocks all the abundant things that can flow freely in your life.  It\u2019s up to you to let them flow.  So, you need to learn how to focus your mind, for becoming an expert \u2018focuser\u2019 is <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>the ultimate self improvement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Focus is paying attention.  Some people will tell you that you have to focus on your goals \u2013 but those goals of yours, whatever they might be, will only be achieved in the long run if you discover how to focus your energy right here, right now.  Focus is a now thing.  What you do right here, right now doesn\u2019t only influence if you\u2019ll achieve your goals, it determines the very course of your life.   I\u2019m not exaggerating \u2013 if you don\u2019t pay full attention to what you\u2019re actually supposed to be doing right now, not only can you not do it to the best of your ability, more importantly, your mind, by default, will pay attention to your inner voices \u2013 the nonsense that not only is completely irrelevant to the here and now but stuff that constantly constrains you from being all that you can be.<\/p>\n<p>You must understand that the normal default state of mind is to focus on what a psychologist might term our \u2018stored knowledge\u2019.  This so-called knowledge constantly informs our minds in relation to what\u2019s happening in the world and then determines how we react.   The only problem is that all of our most important stored knowledge was learned when we were young and impressionable \u2013 some of the most important stuff being learned before we were three years old!   So, if my dream is to rise to the top of some big company, or bring my breath-taking new software to an eagerly waiting world, or to settle down in my dream home in the South of France, what has what I learned when I was three years old got to do with the adult me?<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is \u2018no\u2019 \u2013 the long answer is worse!   Think about it, we get all our preconceived notions of our own inadequacy from our stored knowledge.  You\u2019ve got to consciously and deliberately, stop your mind focusing on that out-of-date stored knowledge \u2013 and the only real alternative is to pay full attention to the real world \u2013 the now.  It\u2019s not just the only time and place in which we all actually live, paying attention to now makes everything easier and makes you better at whatever it is your currently supposed to be doing.  But focusing on now does not come naturally \u2013 so you\u2019re going to have to cultivate it.  And as the word, cultivate, suggests, this is something that you must do constantly and consistently.<\/p>\n<p>And your best starting point is right at the beginning of each day \u2013 the old Irish proverb that a good start is half the job is  spot on.  If you don\u2019t tune your mind in first thing every morning, you\u2019re on a slippery slope that\u2019s just too easy to slip down.  Why\u2019s that?  Quite simply because you\u2019re used to it, that\u2019s how you\u2019ve been existing for all your adult life.<\/p>\n<p>So, tomorrow morning, take five or ten minutes to turn off the noise in your head.  Sit down, somewhere quiet, shut your eyes and feel what it\u2019s like to breathe.  Feel how it is to sit on the chair.  Hear how it is to really and truly hear all the background noises that your normal mind doesn\u2019t notice.    Take a few minutes out two or three times in the course of the day too to repeat the exercise.  You could sit down in the park and see what it\u2019s really like to actually simply look at what\u2019s actually happening, you could hear the birds, smell the roses.<\/p>\n<p>The secret to your success is found in your ability to concentrate \u2013 not on the future, not on your ambitious plans and dreams, but on the only what\u2019s real, right here, right now.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwisdomhealthprosperity.com%2Fselfimprovementmastery%2Fget-your-head-in-gear-%25e2%2580%2593-the-only-way-to-self-improvement%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit addtoany_list\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_256_24.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"24\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nvar a2a_config = a2a_config || {};\na2a_config.linkname=\"Get Your Head In Gear \u2013 The Only Way To Self Improvement\";\na2a_config.linkurl=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/get-your-head-in-gear-%e2%80%93-the-only-way-to-self-improvement\/\";\na2a_config.onclick=1;\na2a_config.show_title=1;\n\/\/--><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t appreciate how important it is to focus your mind, you can never live the dream. 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