Thoughts Of A Dreamer

(Adapted from a video by Earl Nightingale) The most Unrewarding game in life is following the follower. The average human being does not fully understand what success is about, many times success is confused with wealth, riches or status. This means the average person does not know where to seek success. Success is nothing more than the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. A successful person knows what they are doing and why - they know where they are going. Why is it then that not many people are successful, my analysis of the situation leads me to believe that 90% of the world population does not know where they are going. They do not have a worthy ideal that they are chasing, they are just living from day to day - pay cheque to pay cheque. We live in a world driven by influence which means that we are influenced by the people and environment around us from the moment we are born. Hence we learn to speak, walk, and live like the people around us. Earl Nightingale says we must ...

Psycho-Cybernetics is a book written by Maxwell Maltz. It explains how the mind works and how you can use it to positively impact and change your life. I learned that the life you have is equal to the self-image of the life you allow yourself to have. If you change your self-image, you will change your life. The human mind is made up of two part's, namely ; (a) The concious Mind (b) The subconscious mind Maxwell Maltz in his book goes on to write about how, we all have a self image in our sub-concious mind and we always act in alignment with the self-image we have of ourselves. Take what i am doing now, i am writing because i have a certain self image in my mind. This self image then influences the activities i am involved in. If your self image is someone who is cheerful, giving, forgiving and compassionate then you act in accordance with the image of yourself in your mind. When we want to change behaviors we must first change the self images in our minds. All of us are capable o...