Are You Unwittingly SABOTAGING Your Own Business!?

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“Are You Unwittingly SABOTAGING Your Own Business!?”
You know, unfortunately the answer to this question is more than likely a resounding yes!
Hello Rodney Warren here today to talk about something that really is elusive, in other words, it’s a subject that you really can’t put your finger on when you are struggling to find success in your life and in your business, but because you cannot pinpoint the problem just yet, it can be like going up against a larger apponent.
What I mean is that you can be working your butt off and still not see success and there are a few things that I want to talk about in this post.
First off as I’ve mentioned before you cannot find success until you first pre-determine what success would look like for your life, you are successful if you set out to do or achieve a certain task or goal and you actually achieve it, that could be financial, relational, spiritual, whatever, so that’s step  1)
Step 2 is to realize that in your business or any other thing in life is that successes are totally built off of past failures and every golden nugget of knowledge learned by each experience. For example you may see some people who have made it to the top in their particular industry, fairly quickly, like Tracey Walker in Empower Network for example, but in reality their successes have been built from years of behind the scene struggles that have shaped, honed and created the systems required to find all that momentum that you see in the persons fairly new business.
Steps 1&2 Are powerful, truthful concepts, but how about this one, can you guess what really unwittingly sabotages our business is?
If you guessed ‘YOURSELF’, then you are absolutely right, you see it really is this concept of mind over matter. The mind has different parts and is very complicated, the conscious mind and the subconscious mind and did you realize that you have been programmed from birth genetically to inherently act in certain ways, some of which may be destructive towards successful thoughts and principals. These paradigms actually control certain parts of your brain that would sabotage you without you really even knowing about it, and actually designed to keep you out of harms way, this is the reptilian part of the brain and lies in the subconscious part of the brain.
Without a big neurological break down to explain everything, suffice to say that you need to override any negative past experiences and paradigms with new powerful overriding
 thoughts and affirmations of success.
That means daily shaping of the mind with personal development and marketing training.
One of my favorite things to do is to play my mind movie that I’ve created in animato.com it’s a vision board of all of my goals and affirmations created into a short movie with my favorite music in the background. If you don’t have a vision board or mind movie then today is the day to get started. If your having trouble then pick up a copy of Joyce Schwarz’s book ‘The Vision Board’
The Secret To An Extraordinary  Life.

Shaping your mind for success is extremely important yes, and I want to leave you with an exercise today that you can apply right away to start to reshape your paradigms, reprogram your subconscious for success and tap into the universal endless resource,  with a small yet effective law of attraction exercise called the gatekeeper exercise, so her’s how it goes.
First off it’s only fair to say that this exercise is where the rubber meets the road, where self  discipline  comes into play!
The Gate Keeper Exercise:
This is where you mentally make aware of everything coming in or out of your mind, you actually stand guard at the door of your own mind!
Now there’s two sides to this and can actually be counted as two separate exercises but let’s keep them as one today.
1) First is to be aware of what’s being allowed into your mind:
We all have a filter between our conscious and sub conscious, it’s called the reticular activation system or R.A.S. When you have goals with an emotional attachment, the r.a.s. allows information to pass between these two parts of the brain and know anything that is in alignment of the fulfillment of your goals is allowed to pique your interest, for example say you want a certain vehicle say a 4×4 in this case and you rarely had ever seen the type of vehicle that you are interested in, until say you buy the vehicle and now all of a sudden you see them everywhere, there’s no more of them vehicles out there it’s just now your r.a.s. allows you to take notice and it’s the same way our mind works when we are fixated on anything, it will act with the universe to start to cultivate your hearts desires. So think about filling your mind with your hearts desires and the development of yourself to that end and not so much on soap operas and daily news etc, right! One more thought you are what you eat and what you think about or allow into your sphere of thinking
2) I ‘m rambling on a bit today, but this stuff is so important, and if you’ve made it this far in the post , then your a true warrior and student, so kudos to you!
now, really number two, is to stand a tight guard and watch over what you allow out of your mouth. Actually what comes out of your mouth is a direct extension of what you put into your mind. This exercise is to catch yourself complaining and be focused on positive and uplifting no matter what, sound easy try it for 1hour of your day starting today, you’ll be amazed at the negative that could come out of your mouth in a day and remember that thoughts and words attract the same back unto you. The old saying that your life is a mirror image of what you’ve been thinking about and emotionally involved with on a daily basis defiantly holds true.
So in summary today, know where you want to go, what does success look like for your life!? Don’t know, figure it out today, get a vision board or mind movie together.
Realize that there is always struggle before success, and know that you are responsible to your self your family and to God to be the most productive, successful person that you can be so keep your head in the books, and we’ll see you on top, right!?
Until next time live with compassion, give generously and seize life’s golden opportunities, we’ll talk soon, Rodney Warren.

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