Sunday, February 10, 2008

Dream makers vs. Dreams breakers: Mindset

So last week, I finished my post with this quote by Dr. Robert Anthony “You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.”

What its always comes down to at the end of the day is your mindset. In order to achieve great things in life and accomplish your goals, you MUST have a great mindset. You need to change your ways of thinking and challenge yourself more as to what is feasible, what is reachable.

As a business consultant, I have the privilege to work with a lot of entrepreneurs and after talking to them for a while; I can spot right away who will do really well and who will not. And 90% of the time it’s got nothing to do with their skills but mostly with their mindset.

What is it in life that you have always wanted or what is it today that you want? What is that big project you have in mind that your research and your gut tells you will be a huge success but you are still putting off because you have convinced yourself that it is out of your league?

Whatever it is, start by changing your mindset. Start by letting go of the idea it is out of your reach and I GUARANTEE you that you will be surprise on how fast things start to fall into place.

Now a little story for you, I read it in a special report by Vic Johnson, Mindset 13 Secrets of World-Class Goal Achievers.

“From the days of the Greeks and the very first Olympics, it was debated whether a human being could run a sub-four minute mile. The medical community, the scientific community said that it was not possible. They said if a person ran a mile that fast, their heart would explode. So if you are an athlete out there in training and the medical community says if you break that barrier, your heart is going to explode, do you think that belief might affect your training?
For thousands of years it was a widely held belief that a sub-four minute mile was not only impossible, it was dangerous. Until a medical student named Roger Bannister came along in the 1950's. In England he was studying anatomy and physiology as part of his medical studies and in the process looked at the medical evidence that against a sub-four minute mile.

Roger Bannister looked at the evidence and the evidence told him that not only would the heart not explode, but the body of a human being was more then capable of achieving that mark. He convinced himself from the evidence. He changed his belief from that of the held belief and then he actually went out and boldly told the world, "I am going to break the four minute barrier."
Most everyone knows that in 1956, he went out and ran a mile in three minutes and 59.4 seconds and broke the record. Now here's what a lot of people do not know. Within two weeks, another person broke the sub-four minute barrier. In the same year that he did, nine other people ran a mile under four minutes. In thousands of years of recorded history, no one had been able to run a four minute mile, and in one year, nine people did. What changed? The human body or the human belief?”


To the beginning of a new mindset!
Jephtée Elysée

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