9 Mind Myths To Ditch For 2014 Success

We’ve all been taught mind myths, supposed truths about ourselves that serve to limit our results.

What if we ditched these mind myths for the year 2014? What if we stepped into the truth and beyond our limiting beliefs, expanded our minds and shifted into our true potential? We can, starting right now. The power is all in our minds!

Following are 9 mind myths that we can all ditch for the new year.

We are conscious rational beings making logical decisions. We’re not. Neuroscience has now proven that over 95% of our decisions and behaviors are driven by our unconscious mind. We use mindware programs created throughout our lives to make these decisions…not our logical, conscious mind. We are human in business, with our emotions, instincts and unconscious mindware driving our thinking and actions. Once we recognize this fact, we can begin to pay attention to our thoughts and actions, watching for the triggers to automated responses. When we see such a response, we can simply step in front of it by asking a question, “Why am I doing or thinking this?” That simple questions brings our conscious mind online – and rational results follow.

Reality is Reality. Not really. We all select and see a different reality, based on our unconscious mindware. we each take in over 11M bits of data/second. we then filter that data to select 128 bits/second to give to our conscious mind as reality. We filter based on our past experiences and mindware. No two of us have the same mindware, so no 2 of us select the same reality. Once we recognize that we are all experiencing a different truth, we can begin to explore others’ realities to clarify our situations, thinking and actions. That’s how we truly get on the same page.

We’re all limited by this crazy economy. Only if you believe it. Which is what we’ve all been programmed to believe b our media and more. Just look around, times are tough. Yet if e look around we’ll also find entrepreneurs in all walks of life creating success, even in this darned economy. How? Because they believe they can be successful. They believe that they can and do deliver value that people seek. They step out of the way they’ve always done it and into new ways of being successful. The power is all in their mind, in their beliefs and in their focus on success. You can be successful too. First you have to believe. Then you have to change the way you think and act…which is why you need to ditch the rest of these mind myths!

Failure is to be avoided at all costs. What a crock. Failure is how we get feedback, how we learn and expand our thinking, create new experiences and generally grow. When we punish failure we essentially limit our ability to expand and innovate. Instead of thinking of failure as a bad thing, focus on failure as feedback along the path to greater creation. Reward those around you for their failures, focus on the learning from those failures and watch your business, or your life, expand! There is NO failure, there is only feedback!

Change is hard. Only because we make it hard. Humans are instinctually wired to avoid anything that is new and different. Our unconscious mind views it as a threat. Which is why when we makea big deal out of change, by hiding it, whispering about it, seeing it as an upheaval instead of an opportunity – we create a threat. We can act to consciously remove that threat of change. How? focus on the opportunity in the change, not the problem that caused it. Ask people how they would like to change instead of telling them how they’ll behave and what they’ll do. Focus on the positive, create excitement and paint a clear picture of the opportunity. Successful change will follow.

Deductive reasoning is the best logic. Only because we were taught to think that way. In reality deductive reasoning serves to limit our thinking and our results. Why? Because we begin with an assumption and then narrow our research to prove that assumption is correct. That process inherently limits our opportunities. Instead, start with an assumption and then expand beyond it. Come up with 5 other assumptions and then go find the data to prove them all right – and wrong. In this way you’ll find more information, get better answers and create a better result.

The group knows best. That’s only because we’re chemically wired to follow the group. It’s called the herd instinct and we see it in action every day of our lives. From believing what the media and supposed gooroos say to going along with our friends’ ideas of the best business decision, we like to stick with the herd. Even if it’s right off the cliff. The great news is we can lead away from the herd by simply offering new insights, different approaches and rewarding those who think and act differently. only beyond the herd can we find the innovation that drives bottom line results.

The past predicts the future. This is one of the biggest challenges in our modern world. Change happens in minutes and hours, not weeks and months. What was true last month may no longer be true today. Depending on our past to predict trends for our future is ancient thinking. Yet we humans have an instinct designed to drive us to hang onto the safety of our past. It’s called the status quo bias and it drives us to find safety and comfort in the way we’ve always done it. We can move beyond this instinct. How? By simply reminding ourselves that we are safe, that our past does not predict our future and by questioning our knee jerk reactions to depend on the past in our decisions and actions. When we know we’re safe, our unconscious mind gives control to our conscious mind. When we ask questions, our conscious mind seeks new answers. The result is new thinking and new ways that fuel bottom line results.

Intuition is woowoo. Facts tell the truth. Not necessarily. We’ve learned that our minds literally change the facts to map into what we want to believe. So one man’s fact may be another woman’s mistruth. Science is also learning that our intuition is born in data that our unconscious mind has stored for future use. Since our conscious minds can only process ~58 bits/second, our unconscious minds store extra data from our streams for future needs. When our unconscious mind sees a situation where we need that extra data – it sends us that information in the form of intuition. So for 2014, listen to your intuition more and check those supposed facts more carefully.

The Bottom Line

Our minds are more powerful than any of us have ever imagined. We’re only now beginning to touch the surface of the power inherent without our minds.

Harnassing this power means giving up old beliefs and programs even as we step into new ways of thinking, driven by the truth about our minds.

Sending you a 2014 filled with the power of your mind. Results will follow!

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Rayne
January 1, 2014 - 3:22 pm
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