Believe Your Way to Success

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." ~ Napoleon Hill

It is really an intriguing idea to think that your mind can deliver literally anything and everything you want, as long as you BELIEVE that what you want is possible.

Here's an excerpt from "Principle #4 - Believe It's Possible":

Scientist used to believe that humans responded to information flowing into the brain from the outside world. But today, they're learning instead that we respond to what the brain, on the basis of previous experience, expects to happen next.

Why does the brain work this way? Neuropsychologists who study expectancy theory say it's because we spend our whole lives becoming conditioned. Throughout a lifetime's worth of events, our brain actually learns what to expect next - whether it eventually happens that way or not. And because our brain expects something will happen a certain way, we often achieve exactly what we anticipate.

This is why it's so important to hold positive expectations in your mind. When you replace old negative expectations with more positive ones - when you begin to believe what you want is possible - your brain will actually take over the job of accomplishing that possibility for you. Better than that, your brain will actually expect to achieve that outcome.

It also helps if you indulge yourself in the right self talk in front of the mirror, thinking of the one thing that you really want to achieve while saying this to yourself:

"No matter how bad it is, and how bad it gets, I'm going to make it!"