| Quick question before we start, please raise your hand | | | | 9. I am going to learn to fly a plane |
| if you have achieved everything you wanted to | | | | 10. I am going to hike up Mount Kosciusko |
| achieve in your life. Let me ask you another question ... | | | | What people were then told was to right these |
| do you have a passion to succeed or to achieve | | | | elements down onto a sheet of paper and put them |
| something? Are you programmed to succeed? Would | | | | up where you could see them every day where you |
| you like to know how? | | | | can read them and remind yourself of what you are |
| There are many theories that have been written by | | | | going to achieve. Essentially what they told us to do is |
| experts, historians and psychologists across the world | | | | to follow the third secret to success identified by |
| and also across time on success but the one thing | | | | Napoleon Hill called Autosuggestion. |
| every single one of them always defines as the | | | | However, what I noticed with all the people in course |
| secret to success is that you must believe you are | | | | was that over a period of time, they began to give up. |
| going to succeed and that you can achieve what you | | | | They did not read their ten items every day and they |
| want to achieve and that you are prepared to | | | | did not affirm that they would achieve what they |
| continue to have a go and keep having a go, learning | | | | wanted each day. Part of the reason this occurs is |
| each time, till you achieve what it is that you want to | | | | simply because the hustle, bustle and stress of |
| achieve. | | | | everyday life and reality take over and your mind is |
| If you ever get a chance to read a book by Napoleon | | | | cluttered with the stress. When the course finished |
| Hill called Think and Grow Rich it is worth reading. The | | | | they did not have the people in the course to |
| author, Napoleon Hill wrote this book back in 1937 and | | | | continually speak with them to see if they were |
| he was basically looking for a formula that anyone | | | | sticking to their ten things they wanted to achieve. |
| could follow to achieve success and in particular riches | | | | Look ask any educator in the world, if you are |
| on an obscene scale. One of the 13 Secrets that he | | | | stressed when trying to learn something, you will never |
| outlines in his book is that all millionaires and in this era | | | | learn the material as well as somebody who is not |
| billionaires know is the power of Autosuggestion. This | | | | stressd. Why ... because a mind that is not stressed |
| was the term that was bandied around in the 1930's | | | | and cluttered will allow you to absorb the information |
| era and essentially autosuggestion means the | | | | more effectively than somebody who does not and |
| reprogramming of your mind to believe something so | | | | this leads me to how Meditation is one of the secret |
| much that your mind automatically pushes you | | | | tools to success. |
| towards success and in the case of Think and Grow | | | | Meditation on its own will NOT bring you success. The |
| Rich, obscene wealth. | | | | role of meditation in the art of success is to bring your |
| In today's hip culture, the guru's of the self-help industry | | | | mind to a point of calm where it can absorb all the |
| refer to the power of autosuggestion more as | | | | material to help you succeed and in particular, so that |
| affirmations than the autosuggestion term however | | | | you can ingrain into your mind the affirmations of what |
| they are essentially the same. The bottom line is this, | | | | you are going to achieve. |
| for you to succeed you have to believe that you can | | | | The first step in using meditation to help you succeed |
| succeed and you have to train your mind to succeed | | | | is to learn to meditate to eliminate the stress. Before |
| and to think successfully. | | | | trying to address anything else you must learn to relax |
| Most people at this point and I are sure you are one of | | | | and be calm and to clear your mind. That is, your mind |
| them, will go, yeah right what a load of hippy talk. Well | | | | must be free from clutter, worry, concerns and |
| maybe, but let us look at few facts. Let us look at | | | | anything else that may stop you from programming |
| some of the most successful people in the world and | | | | your mind to succeed. |
| take someone who I am a great fan of Lance | | | | There are many meditations that will help you in |
| Armstrong and look closely at what he has achieved. | | | | overcoming stress such as the breathing meditation |
| Lance Armstrong is a leader and a hero in the cycling | | | | technique, stillness meditation technique and the |
| community. After being diagnosed with testicular | | | | numbers meditation technique. Each of these |
| cancer which had spread to his lungs and brain he | | | | techniques will teach you how to achieve focus and |
| fought this disease whole heartedly and not only beat | | | | calm during your meditation session. |
| the disease, but he used the power of his mind to go | | | | Once you have mastered those techniques, you can |
| onto win the Tour de France, not once, not twice but | | | | then focus on your affirmations or autosuggestions |
| seven times. | | | | each day of what you are going to achieve. The |
| There is no way in the world that this man could beat | | | | Buddhists use sacred phrases in their meditations to |
| such a debilitating disease unless he had programmed | | | | help them become better people on their journey |
| his mind to say, I will beat this disease and get my life | | | | towards achieving enlightenment. You can use the |
| back and exceed what I had achieved before. In fact, | | | | affirmations or ten things you want to achieve in |
| going onto win the Tour de France seven times is a | | | | exactly the same way. By reflecting on the ten things |
| feat never before achieved in the history of the race. | | | | you want to achieve during meditation, you are |
| Knowing this information if you were faced with | | | | reinforcing what you want to achieve in the way of |
| absolute adversity what would you do? Would you | | | | success and ingraining in a clear mind these |
| just simply stop, give up and die or would you keep | | | | affirmations or autosuggestions, which means you will |
| fighting? Would you beat your adversity and then stop, | | | | maintain your focus to achieve these ten things even |
| or would you push your goals further out there to | | | | when you are challenged by what is going on in your |
| achieve more? | | | | day. When you start using this technique over a period |
| If you want to be successful, you must train your mind | | | | of time, you will be amazed how your mind will say to |
| to be successful. You must have an overwhelming | | | | you, "Hey, you are off focus on what you want to |
| belief or faith in yourself that you can do it, even when | | | | achieve get back on focus". |
| everyone around you is telling you that you can not do | | | | I recommend that for meditation to work effectively |
| it. The key to this success is to program you for | | | | that you spend no less than 20 minutes in the morning |
| success. | | | | and night meditating on the 10 things you must achieve. |
| When I was doing a business course a few months | | | | The reason that I recommend meditating twice a day |
| ago one of the tasks that we were given was to | | | | is that you need to be reflecting on your affirmations |
| write down ten things that we wanted to achieve. We | | | | for a minimum of 20 minutes a day, however most |
| were asked to identify specifically what those ten | | | | people find that it takes them about ten minutes of |
| things are in business we wanted to achieve. The sort | | | | their meditation time before they are truly calm, when |
| of items people wrote down - | | | | they are first starting out. You will find though as time |
| 1. I am going to make $200,000 cash profit this year | | | | goes on and you meditate regularly that you are able |
| 2. I am going to buy a new Mercedes | | | | to get to a state of calm a lot quicker than when you |
| 3. I am going to buy a jet ski | | | | first start out. |
| 4. I am going to raise $500,000 to build an orphanage in | | | | Look the bottom line is this, if you want to succeed, |
| Laos | | | | you must believe inside of yourself that you can |
| 5. I am going to buy the block Lot 4 Coral Coast Road | | | | achieve whatever success you want. It is totally up to |
| in Townsville Australia | | | | you as to what you want to achieve and only you can |
| 6. I am going to take my family to Las Vegas and | | | | do it. Remember, that every great achievement in the |
| have $5,000 spending money | | | | world started out as a single thought that one person |
| 7. I am going to raise the $4,000 to buy a Vintage | | | | believed in enough to what to achieve it. To stay on |
| Plane for the RAAF Museum | | | | the path to success, meditation will help you to control |
| 8. I am going to win the Archery at the next | | | | the clutter and the stress the world can pile on you on |
| Commonwealth Games | | | | a day-to-day basis in your mind. |