From Know to Now – Believe it to Achieve it!

One of the single most influential factors to your personal and even your professional success is your beliefs about yourself and your abilities. Napoleon Hill said it so well many years before I even knew about this ‘Law of Belief.’  He said “Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve.

Your reality today is or has been populated with those things that you believed in the past.  Your reality of tomorrow will be further populated with those things that you can conceive and believe today and beyond.  We even go so far as to block out information that is contradictory to our beliefs.  Successful people consistently believe that they will succeed, period.  They do not spend their time considering, entertaining or pondering all the ways they could possibly fail.  They focus their beliefs on their success and all they ways in which they can and will attain it.

You will spend the bulk of your time acting in a matter consistent with your internal beliefs. So I would highly recommend fostering a very important belief system which I will call affluence awareness.   An affluence awareness is a where you absolutely believe that you are going achieve your personal, professional and financial goals.  This affluent belief in yourself will cause you to become more aware of knowledge and opportunities around you that will bring you to your goals far faster than if you missed these important ‘cues.’  This brings out the outwardly subtle but all too important difference between positive knowing and positive thinking.  While positive thinking generally is all about wishing or hoping, positive knowing is when you absolutely believe that no matter what, you will be successful.

Another key related to your beliefs is willpower.  As many have learned willpower is essential to any success small or large. Willpower is based on confidence, conviction and faith that you can realize your dreams.  It is based on your positively knowing that you have to ability to triumph over all obstacles to reach your dreams. Are you seeing the difference in positive knowing over just positive thinking?  One way to strengthen your willpower is with persistence.  Work on your goals DAILY – no matter how little to something toward your goal each and every day.  You can also build your will power through inspiration - read the biographies of other successful people hear how they did it.  What things did they do that you can learn from?  I personally get these stories on audio so I can otherwise inactive time to get this information.  Times like when I am driving or working in the yard, turning this otherwise mentally unproductive time into a time of inspiration and idea generation.  The more information you take into your mind consistent with success, the more likely it is that you will develop the willpower to push you through the obstacles and difficulties you will experience.

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