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Did you leave your house naked this morning? Of course you didn’t. It’s bizarre that you’ve no problem preparing physically for the day ahead but you wouldn’t bothers to mentally prepare. And being mentally prepared is far more important. Your quality of life, your success, your wealth, your health and your happiness depend upon it. I say this with absolute certainty because many years research backs me up. What occupies your mind creates your life.

Whether you’re a success or failure, healthy or ill, wealthy or poor, happy or stressed or even depressed is all down to your state of mind. Unfortunately, that same research concludes that the normal person is unable to focus – on anything – because their default state of mind is distracted and negative. In other words, if your life is just OK or not too bad, if you’re not over the moon about your job, if you’d like to have more money or be more impressive or more attractive, the solution to your problems, real or perceived, is entirely in your own hands or, more to the point, in your own mind.

The solution to all your problems is up to you – if you could just tear yourself away from breakfast TV or get up five minutes earlier. Yes, it only takes five minutes each morning to make the other twenty-three hours and fifty five minutes completely, utterly and totally different. That’s how simple Personal Growth is.

Like most people, you probably assume that to be a success you need to be focused on your goals. Not true! Sure, you need to know what your goals are but focus is simply a matter of paying attention to the present moment – the only time and place you have. And, if you start each day without taking five minutes to Focus Your Mind in the here and now, your mind will wander aimlessly through the day in its default mindless, unfocused, self-destructive mode. If you get home in the evening having had another crap day, it’s your own fault.

In other words, we’re basically talking about paying attention. First off, you need to picture your goals. They need to be exciting, they need to grab your subconscious mind’s attention. Because, this is the part of your mind where you store your beliefs that, right now, don’t seem to be getting you anywhere – fast. You need new beliefs and that is why you need to focus your subconscious. This is done by using your five senses to describe to yourself what it would be like to have already achieved your desired goal. You need to write down – handwrite it – what you see, feel, hear, smell and taste as if you already have achieved your goal. Then your subconscious mind will be focused.

After that, if you keep focusing on your goal, you’ll be unable to do the key things that you need to be doing now to move you towards your goal. So you need to learn how to pay attention to now. Again, this is done by paying attention to your five senses – your only interface with the real world. You need to retrain your mind to more fully experience what now looks like, feels like, sounds like, smells like and tastes like. Even five minutes of meditation each morning will start the ball rolling, because Meditation uses the senses to experience the moment.

It disciplines your mind to be more attentive, less likely to be unsettled by the nonsense of everyday life and more likely to be able to spot opportunity when it stares you in the face. Your mind needs that discipline.

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