You Are What You Think

[sc:Titel-Zitat zitat=”Franklin D. Roosevelt” ] [sc:Untertitel-Zitat title=”//” zitat=”32^nd president of the United States” ] [sc:Zitat-Text zitat=’“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”’] [sc:Autor-Text autor=”The limits and obstacles that prevent us from achieving greater things in the course of our lives are ours alone – they exist in our own heads. Once we’ve successfully torn them down, we are capable of many things we wouldn’t even have dreamt of before. To change your life, you need to change your thinking before you start trying to change the external circumstances of your life.” ] [sc:Titel-Autor autor=”Dr. Rainer Zitelmann” ] [sc:Spacer ] [sc:Titel-Zitat zitat=”Marcus Aurelius” ] [sc:Untertitel-Zitat title=”//” zitat=”Roman emperor and philosopher” ] [sc:Zitat-Text zitat=’“The happiness of your life depends on the nature of your thoughts.”’] [sc:Autor-Text autor=”Karl Marx believed that consciousness was determined by being, i.e. by the external circumstances of a person’s life. Although there may be something to that, the reverse is also true – and far more important – for all of us: we are what we think. By thinking of success, health and wealth, you will attract success, health and wealth. Watch out though, because here too, the reverse is equally true: by thinking of failure, illness and poverty, you will attract failure, illness and poverty. ” ] [sc:Titel-Autor autor=”Dr. Rainer Zitelmann” ] [sc:Spacer ] [sc:Titel-Zitat zitat=”Henry Ford” ] [sc:Untertitel-Zitat title=”//” zitat=”American industrialist” ] [sc:Zitat-Text zitat=”“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.””] [sc:Autor-Text autor=’Google founder Larry Page recommends a “healthy disregard for the impossible.” In other words, we shouldn’t be too fast to dismiss any of our goals or heart´s desires as being “impossible” to achieve. By doing so, we set a dangerous automatism in motion: we start actively searching for reasons not to attempt them. Of course you should weigh the pros and cons carefully and objectively – but in that order. Start by compiling reasons why you should attempt something. Think about why achieving a certain goal or objective would be desirable and important. Make sure you know exactly why you want to do something by any means possible, make sure you can visualize what you want to do, then focus on the reasons why you will succeed. Think back on previous successes that seemed impossible to achieve because there were so many reasons why you might have failed.’ ] [sc:Titel-Autor autor=”Dr. Rainer Zitelmann” ] [sc:Spacer ] [sc:Titel-Zitat zitat=”Leo Tolstoy” ] [sc:Untertitel-Zitat title=”//” zitat=”Russian writer” ] [sc:Zitat-Text zitat=”“The power of thought is as invisible as the seed from which a huge tree grows; but it is the origin of any visible changes in a man’s life.””] [sc:Autor-Text autor=’In the beginning was the thought. And then came the word. Any change in your life starts at the moment when you become aware of the power of thoughts and words. Have you ever tried talking to yourself out loud when you’re on your own? This may seem weird to you at first, but why don’t you give it a try? Don’t dismiss the idea without even having tried it – it really works! As soon as you’ve got out of bed, recite your three most important goals to yourself in a loud voice. Immediately after getting up, your subconscious is more susceptible to the power of autosuggestive messages than at any other time. This is because you’re still a bit tired and your critical mind is not yet active enough to raise objections against what you’re telling yourself. If your goals are of a financial nature, for example, simply tell yourself as soon as you’ve got up in the morning: “By the end of the year, I want to own … dollars, my subconscious will show me how to get there.” Those words are like seeds that will grow into beautiful flowers or mighty trees if they are fertilized on a regular basis. Your thoughts will supply the fertilizer.’ ] [sc:Titel-Autor autor=”Dr. Rainer Zitelmann” ] [sc:Spacer ] [sc:Titel-Zitat zitat=”Orison Swett Marden” ] [sc:Untertitel-Zitat title=”//” zitat=”American entrepreneur and motivational writer” ] [sc:Zitat-Text zitat=”“It doesn’t matter whether it is work or money, a better position or health, or whatever else it is, your thoughts about it must be positive, clean cut, decisive, persistent. No weak, wobbly ‘Perhaps I may get it,’ or ‘Maybe it will come some time’ or ‘I wonder if I shall get this’ or ‘if I can do that’ sort of thought will ever help you to get anything in this world or the next.””] [sc:Autor-Text autor=’Do you frequently say: “Well, I could try”? By admitting the possibility of failure – to yourself and to others – you safeguard yourself against its consequences. “I gave it my best shot, there was nothing else I could’ve done.” Everybody is sometimes plagued by doubt as to whether or not they will achieve their goals. But by using vague language such as this, you’ll only reinforce your doubt. Most people, Arnold Schwarzenegger observes, “do it in a conditional way. (…) Wouldn’t it be nice if that happened. That’s not enough. You have to make a big emotional commitment into it, that you want it very much, that you love the process and will take all the steps to achieve your goal.” That’s exactly Marden’s point.’ ] [sc:Titel-Autor autor=”Dr. Rainer Zitelmann” ] [sc:Spacer ] [sc:Titel-Zitat zitat=”Jospeh Murphy” ] [sc:Untertitel-Zitat title=”//” zitat=”American motivational writer” ] [sc:Zitat-Text zitat=”“As soon as your subconscious accepts any idea, it proceeds to put it into effect immediately. It works by association of ideas and uses every bit of knowledge that you have gathered in your lifetime to bring about its purpose. I draws on the infinite power, energy and wisdom within you.””] [sc:Autor-Text autor=’Your subconscious works as a memory storage for countless experiences and insights that normally don’t penetrate the conscious mind. But if you imprint certain ideas or images onto your mind – this can be done most effectively by constant repetition – they will eventually take root and your subconscious will find ways and means to make them come true. You have to learn to trust your subconscious and to make use of its powers. By putting all our trust in the power of the conscious mind, we use less than 50 percent of our mental resources.’ ] [sc:Titel-Autor autor=”Dr. Rainer Zitelmann” ] [sc:Spacer ] [sc:Titel-Zitat zitat=”Jonathan Swift” ] [sc:Untertitel-Zitat title=”//” zitat=”Irish essayist” ] [sc:Zitat-Text zitat=”“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.””] [sc:Autor-Text autor=’God has given us imagination so we can see even those things that we haven’t yet got, and so we can see ourselves the way we want to be one day. Imagination is the basis for any discovery and invention, it’s the basis for every business success, but it’s also the basis for any major change in our life. Einstein said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Give free rein to your imagination, dare to dream of things other people don’t dare to dream of. When Howard Schultz and Ray Kroc discovered the first Starbucks coffeeshops and McDonald’s restaurants, they saw much more: They saw a national, even a global chain of coffeeshops or restaurants. Their imagination was the most important basis for their subsequent successes. “Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible,” Howard Schultz said.’ ] [sc:Titel-Autor autor=”Dr. Rainer Zitelmann” ] [sc:Spacer ] [sc:Titel-Zitat zitat=”Leo Tolstoy” ] [sc:Untertitel-Zitat title=”//” zitat=”Russian writer” ] [sc:Zitat-Text zitat=”“Thought is everything. Thought is the beginning of everything. And thought can be guided. Therefore the most important thing is to work on your thoughts.””] [sc:Autor-Text autor=’Our actions are determined by our thoughts, and our habits, which shape and influence us and our lives are born from our actions. That’s why it’s so important to keep an eye on our thoughts. The fact that we can influence our subconscious by influencing our conscious thoughts counts among the most important discoveries in the history of mankind. You can program your subconscious much like you program a computer – by “working on your thoughts,” as Tolstoy says.’ ] [sc:Titel-Autor autor=”Dr. Rainer Zitelmann” ]