“DEVELOP A SUCCESS DRIVEN MIND SET” – The power of thought
To become a successful investor you need to harness the power of the one thing that we all have total control over – one’s thoughts.
Let’s make the assumption that each person is a summation of his or her thoughts. Your life, your circumstances, and the actions you take are a result of how you think. Following that assumption each person has the power to be either successful or unsuccessful.
Have you ever heard the phrase, “whatever a man can conceive and believe he can achieve”?
Depending on who you talk with, this phrase was attributed to Napolean Hill, W. Clement Stone and Earl Nightingale (Hill’s protégé). In any event in Napoleon Hill’s book, Think & Grow Rich, he points out that everything you achieve has its beginnings as an idea. So if man can conceive the idea then he can in fact achieve it.
It is said that man has absolute control over but one thing and that thing is his mind. If you fail to control your thoughts, be assured you will control nothing else.
In his book, As a Man Thinketh, James Allen says, “A man is literally what he thinks, his character is the sum of his thoughts.” In other words, “they themselves are makers of themselves.”
In order to really comprehend the power of thought you should understand that there exists the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind gathers knowledge through experience and then those thoughts are passed on to the subconscious mind which is responsible for our actions.
The subconscious mind acts entirely on the thoughts that the conscious mind sends it and it blindly follows those thoughts and suggestions. Whatever we think will eventually be translated into actions. So by controlling our conscious thoughts we can control our actions.
By thinking and focusing on success your subconscious mind will take actions that contribute to your success. You must learn to control your mind or it will control you.
The best way to do that is to keep the mind busy with a definitive purpose, focus and plan of action.
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale is also a recommended read. You can get it online for about five bucks in paperback.
Parts 1 and 2 of my article on building wealth may be found in this article directory or at my website, Invest To Retire.
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Mike Bridges
Invest To Retire
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