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SPELL OUT YOUR VISION

“He who sees the invisible can do the impossible.” – Wallace Wattles

The very first key to mastering your mindset and skyrocketing your performance in any endeavor is to get crystal clear on your desired outcome. Have you ever watched the re-run of a gold-medal performance at the Olympics? I love watching the gymnasts when they know that they can see their perfect execution. The victory already shows on their face.

Why? Because they take a moment to rehearse the move in their mind. In addition, they have rehearsed that very day in their minds a thousand times as well.

You want to spend time doing that every day too. Get clear on your ideal vision – both for the short term, (as in the end of the day) and the long term, (as in the end of the year, four years, or decade!)

Then write it down.

While Michael Phelps was winning all his gold medals at the 08 Olympics, he mentioned to a reporter that he has his goals written on a card by his bed and he reviews them every night and morning.

“How many things on that list have you accomplished?” the reporter asked.

Michael grinned, “Pretty much all of them.”

You’re probably thinking that you’ve already heard this tip a hundred times. Right.

There are secrets to writing these down to achieve success.

You must be able to honestly SEE yourself accomplishing your vision. Get your senses involved. Get your emotions involved. Your brain works on several different levels And you want them all in sync.

Your vision be exciting to you. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried writing “goals” that were imposed on me by someone else that totally did nothing to spur my own enthusiasm.

The first part of spelling out this vision is to take off the limits. Quit thinking HOW you will do this thing, and just let yourself dream. Dream big in dozens of areas. Dream about your ideal relationships, finances, livelihood, and health. Dream of the little
Things you will enjoy when everything is ideal.

All successful people are dreamers! They dream big and take massive action to make it happen. They don’t wait for things to happen to them. They make things happen.

Be a dreamer. Spell it out, look it over, and spell it out again, and again. Adjust your words so they ring true to you.

In fact, as you are writing please answer these following questions:

1. What is my “promised land?” What does it look like, feel like?
2. Who am I in this Promised Land? Am I comfortable there? Do I know I belong?
3. Why is it important to do this now? What is this really about?

Assignment:

I recommend you start by getting out a piece of paper, and take an hour to answer those questions. As you are spelling out the vision of your Promised Land, you may want to simply finish this sentence below. Make it as thorough as possible.

Wouldn’t it be nice if…

Anytime you notice any doubts that rise up, just make a note of them, and say, “So what?”

We’ll work on those internal conflicts soon enough.

Next time, I’ll help you avoid the pitfalls of traditional goal setting. But for now, just start dreaming and writing – with all your emotions and senses involved!

You can do this. Your time has come!

When you master your psychology, you can master anything!

OPTIMIZE YOUR ENVIRONMENT

“Your life is a reflection of the five people you hang around the most.”

Today, I want to help you achieve a state where everything around you is contributing to your success. This helps your Mindset Mastery become second nature, and your breakthrough inevitable. We’re talking about how to Optimize your Environment, to turn on the power of your surroundings.

The People Around You…

When I was growing up, my dad would often quip: Remember Gina, if you want to soar with the eagles, you can’t peck around with the chickens!”

Then he would tell me how great it was that I had such high-quality friends.

Thank Heavens for good friends and associates.

The people around you are the most important element of your environment. Through their influence, you attach meaning to all of your experiences. These people help you create the Thoughts, Beliefs, and Emotions that determine your reality. Usually this happens unconsciously. You become like the company you keep.

I know a certain billionaire who chooses to spend most of his time with people who are smarter and richer than himself. He understands the importance of environment.

How can you cultivate relationships with people who will make you better at your “game?”

In Your Ears, Eyes, and Mouth…

One summer several Seattle Mariners were gathered around a TV in the locker room watching the Little League World series. One of the players invited Ichiro Suzuki to come join them and he responded, “No thanks. I don’t watch bad baseball.” (This was a bit laughable considering the Mariner season that year, but that’s beside the point.)

The important thing is that, you can control what goes in front of your eyes, and what goes in your ears as well. It all influences your performance in your life, and your livelihood.

Remember the three monkeys: Hear no evil, See no evil, Speak no evil.

What’s it mean to “speak evil?” You might think when things are bad you’re just “telling it like it is.” STOP IT. According to the Bible, when some of God’s people looked at their promised land, and “told it like they saw it,” which was quite negative, God called it an “evil report.” They found themselves forfeiting the Promise over that negative report and the horrible impact it had on the others.

So, watch your words; they’re very powerful. We’ll talk about that some more next time.

But for now – Optimize your environment – this means the people around you, plus what goes in your eyes and ears. Make sure it supports your promises!

PS – One way to truly optimize your environment is to listen to some powerful affirmations as you are waking up and getting ready for your day or driving in your car.
For this reason, you might love to listen to my very popular CD, “Royalty Within – a meditation”
§ “Royalty Within” ( Image) A meditation to help renew your mind.

This audio is perhaps the most special product I have ever created, (if you’re not offended by Scriptural Blessing.) This meditation was made in a professional studio with beautiful soothing music, and a script that I wrote with every single word carefully chosen to have massive impact on my own mindset. This audio alone has helped me exchange my own faulty thinking for a Spirit of Truth. With this message I overcome a poverty mindset and achieved miraculous success, and you will too.

“Royalty Within” opens with a scripture and then for 10 minutes, it speaks positive words over you to reinforce your royalty mindset. Then it repeats 2 more times, so that you hear the message 3 times if you need to, or just once as a mood lifter.

RAISE YOUR SKILL SET

“If you are not getting the results you want, there is simply something you don’t yet know.” -T Harv Ecker

In order to master your mindset and achieve a breakthrough season, it is necessary to do step Five – Master Your Skill Set.

When you master today’s skill, you will find yourself moving at lightning speed towards your promised land, and enjoying the process.

Technical Skills

The most obvious ways to join the top players in your field is to learn their same technical skills.
This means that you can look at those peak performers and ask yourself, “What exactly are they great at, and how can I get great at it too?”

You want to learn your technicals from the best coaches and sources. Practice, practice and practice some more. This alone will increase your confidence.

Congruency

However, there is another skill set that is more important to your overall success. I call it the skill of Congruency.

The skill of congruency means that your THOUGHTS, WORDS, and MENTAL IMAGES are all congruent with your DESIRES.

This is why we had you start lining up your environment – so everything would stimulate your thoughts and mental images for winning.

Today I want to touch CONGRUENCY in your words and mental images. They form the contents of your “backpack.”

“Death and Life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat the fruit of it.” -Proverbs 18:21

What’s in Your Backpack?

Did you know you carry an invisible backpack? Your invisible backpack is filled with Thoughts Beliefs and Emotions (TBE’s) that are either like dark heavy rocks that weigh you down, or apples of gold that propel you forward.

Most of those TBE’s are often a result of words that you’ve heard or words you’ve spoken.

Let’s face it. Everyone has something to say about you. Your parents, your friends, your family, your coworkers, the media…

SO WHAT?!

None of their words matter as much as WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT YOU!

Remember, those Thoughts, Beliefs and Emotions determine your reality. But they may not be based on TRUTH. Instead they may have been based on other people’s ideas.

Starting today, speak words of Truth over yourself. Speak what you desire, not what you fear.

Start saying your promises in the first person, in present tense. For example, for years I was a compulsive eater, and then a compulsive dieter/binger, and then a hopeless bulimic.

Thankfully, those days have been forever behind me for almost twenty years. I have maintained my ideal size effortlessly, even through the birth of four children, including twins.

Freedom came to me, when I started studying naturally thin people and talking to myself differently. Instead of always complaining, “I am so fat and dorky…I hate my thighs…everything I eat makes me fat…”

I started saying a dozen times a day, on a long exhale…

“I Gina, am naturally thin, I do what thin people do, and I weigh 125 pounds.” As I did that, I had a crystal clear image of myself at my ideal weight, and I let myself feel the joy of already being there.

Just that sentence still has a calming effect on me, because it became an automatic thought any time I relaxed with a deep breath.

Since then, I’ve used that same technique to recreate all sorts of areas of my life, and you can too.

In what ways can you stop cursing yourself? How can you instead, make an empowering statement every time YOU exhale?

Assignment:

Think of one area where you are speaking and visualizing in conflict with your desires.
Perhaps you can vision your Promised Land for a few hours, but then you get into fear and start complaining how it’s not happening fast enough. Here’s what to do instead.

Think about someone whom you truly admire in your niche. What kind of actions does that person take? What great skills do they have? What might that feel like?

Now apply those qualities to yourself. Picture yourself as that winner.

Now, fill in the blanks and start saying these things.

“I (name) am an excellent ______________________, I do what great ______________, do and I (desired result._________________________)

Some of my clients who trade the stock market have started saying,

I am an excellent trader, I always follow my rules, and I peacefully take consistent profits from the market.”  Get it?

As you say your statement, you’ll begin to believe it. When you believe it, your words will create the reality of it.

ELIMINATE YOUR INTERNAL CONFLICTS

“A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” – James 1:8

Back in the 80’s when I first graduated from Bible College, I worked at a large church as a full-time youth minister. Sometimes I would come up with an idea to grow the ministry in ways that had never been done before. Then I would DOUBT myself and second-guess my decision. More than once, my boss (and pastor) would sit across from me in his desk and quote the above verse, saying, “Gina, a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. It’s important that we make good decisions and stick with them, so people don’t lose confidence in us.”

That’s a good lesson when you’re leading others. It’s even more important when you’re leading yourself!

Today I want to talk about eliminating your internal conflicts, or what I sometimes call, “Ending the tail enders”.

What is a tail ender? It is that negative little thought that comes up at the END of your positive statement. It usually shows up as doubt, but if you put words to it, it would be your “rocks” speaking their old programming, like this:

Statement:
“I am an excellent player, I play with perfect form and I love this game.”

Tail ender:
“Liar. Sometimes you totally mess up, like that one time…”

The result is that you feel CONFLICT instead of pure CONFIDENCE. As I say in my book, Flow on Demand, “conflict is the opposite of flow” which is that state where your success is easy and automatic.

So, let’s get clear on ending the tail ender, or eliminating our internal conflict.

I have three steps to this:

1. Acknowledge the distressing emotion
-We usually dislike this feeling so much that we just try to ignore it, but it’s a part of you, so honor it and let it lose its power.

2. Offer Acceptance/forgiveness
-Even though you have these doubts, you can accept yourself anyway, and forgive yourself or anyone who contributed to your feelings.

3. Make an Empowering Choice
-You can’t choose what happens to you, but you can ALWAYS choose how you want to respond. In this step, we reprogram ourselves.

So, as you make your affirmations, if you feel any conflict, take the time so see exactly what is bothering you, and do these steps.

Let’s stick with the above example. When you feel that doubtful tail ender, just put your hand on your heart to feel the vibration of it all, and say out loud,

“Even though I sometimes totally mess up, like that one time (and describe it), I completely accept myself anyway, I forgive myself for the mistake, and I choose to play with confidence.”

Now repeat that three times, getting as specific as you can each time. Great. Now continue with your positive affirmation, and see if you can do it with complete confidence. I know you will feel the difference.

PS – I have written a whole book that goes one step further in this process to quickly change your body’s response to stress.

It gives you a whole new way to understand your emotions and how to change them.