30 Minutes To Infinite Success

I was listening to Earl Nightingale recently and heard him tell the following story:

The Two Travelers and the Farmer

A traveler came upon an old farmer hoeing in his field beside the road. Eager to rest his feet, the wanderer hailed the countryman, who seemed happy enough to straighten his back and talk for a moment.

"What sort of people live in the next town?" asked the stranger.

"What were the people like where you've come from?" replied the farmer, answering the question with another question.

"They were a bad lot. Troublemakers all, and lazy too. The most selfish people in the world, and not a one of them to be trusted. I'm happy to be leaving the scoundrels."

"Is that so?" replied the old farmer. "Well, I'm afraid that you'll find the same sort in the next town.

Disappointed, the traveler trudged on his way, and the farmer returned to his work.

Some time later another stranger, coming from the same direction, hailed the farmer, and they stopped to talk. "What sort of people live in the next town?" he asked.

"What were the people like where you've come from?" replied the farmer once again.

"They were the best people in the world. Hard working, honest, and friendly. I'm sorry to be leaving them."

"Fear not," said the farmer. "You'll find the same sort in the next town."

What does this have to do with being ‘successful’ you are probably asking me right now?  It is telling us that we see what we expect to see. But if we are not seeing success, how do we change what we are expecting to see?

WHAT IS MANIFESTING MEAN?

After reading “The Secret”, “Think And Grow Rich” and many other books on ‘manifesting’ success, I could never quite understand why none of it was working for me. I daydreamed about what I wanted. I meditated on my goals. I wrote them down and put up pictures everywhere. Nothing was driving me towards my goals. Manifesting was NOT working for me.

20 years later, I was still trying to understand how to achieve the success that I wanted. Then I finally figured it out. We can make our conscious mind say it believes as often as we want without seeing any change. It is about getting our subconscious mind to BELIEVE and thus look for the goals that we want to achieve.

HOW DOES OUR SUBCONSCIOUS WORK?

Let me try to explain what I mean. Have you ever bought a car and then over the next few weeks or months you see that make and model just about everywhere you go? You hadn’t noticed them before though? It is because you brain was not looking for it before.

Our subconscious is programmed to look for patterns. The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a part of our vision that connects with our subconscious mind to look for the patterns that we have programmed into it.

Just like when you started seeing your new car everywhere. When you have spent years telling yourself that you are ‘unlucky’, ‘doomed to be single’, ‘ugly’… you get my point. Your brain starts looking for ‘patterns’ that reinforce that program. Instead of finding success at your job, your subconscious is actually looking for ways to sabotage your success. Instead of noticing the attractive girl/guy that is smiling at your and is probably thinking how sexy you are. Your subconscious mind is actually drawing your attention to the ‘hottie’ that is clearly NOT interested in you, thus reinforcing your belief that you are ‘ugly’.

CAN WE CHANGE OUR PATTERNS?

The teachings of “The Secret” and “Think And Grow Rich” teach that it’s as easy as “thinking about success” and developing a ‘belief’ that you are successful, attractive, lucky, etc. However, if you are like me, the constant daydreaming and fake belief never changed the outcomes that just continued to reinforce my negative thoughts.

CHANGE YOUR PATTERNS FAST AND EASY

Do you want to learn how to change the ‘patterns’ that your RAS and subconscious are looking for? What if you could do it in 30 minutes? Yes it is truly that easy, and I am living proof.

Ideally, daily meditation is one of the more effective ways to build those positive belief patterns for your RAS to start looking for. Until you are practiced at it though, 20-30 minutes of meditation is darn near impossible. Three minutes is hard enough when you are getting started. Three minutes of meditation isn’t going to create immediate impact though. It is a good place to start. The book “The 3-minute Meditator” by David Harp is a great book to help you start developing good meditation habits.

But in the meantime, what are you to do? Keep living like the ‘loser’ you feel like?

NOPE!

I found a brain hack that worked wonders for me.

Hypnosis…

No! I am not talking about going to a comedy show or going to an expensive psychologist. Plain old YouTube videos on hypnosis worked wonders for me. If you go to YouTube and type in “[your goal] hypnosis”, you will find audio recordings for just about anything. Sales success. Dating success. Self-esteem and confidence. Look for the ones that are about 30 minutes long.

Before you think it is going to be as easy as listening to an audio once and, BOOM, you’re an instant success. That is not how it works. It took years of bad thoughts to build your bad pattern. The good news is, it will not take nearly that long to break it.

You will need to listen to that audio for a MINIMUM of 21 days in a row before your mind starts to really ingrain the new thought pattern. Ideally you will listen for 30-45 days. Most likely you will start to see a change before then, but DO NOT stop listening until that new pattern is etched into your subconscious.

STAY FOCUSED

Once you start to see some success using this technique, it is really easy to want to start making changes in all kinds of areas of your life. I caution you not to try to do more than one thing at a time. Pick the area that is more impactful to your life, work, dating, confidence, and stick with that for 30 days. Only then, once you have developed a new pattern in your subconscious do you move on to the next area.

Be patient! In 12 months, you can make significant changes in 12 areas of your life. Or you can focus in on one or two and concentrate on making significant changes in those areas. Either way, once you start to see how this works in your life, things will never be the same for you again.

Good Luck and Great Success!!!