Mindset Part Deux

I was in the Saturn dealership last week getting my car serviced.  I got to chatting with the Service Manager, a great fellow named Dan.  He asked what I was doing these days and I told him about my hypnosis practice and some of the problems that clients come to me with.  He asked, “Does hypnosis really work?” (People always ask that.)  I said, “Yes, it works, but the results depend not so much on the hypnotist as on the client.”  I went on to say that the client’s interior view of him/herself has the greatest correlation with actual results.  Good thoughts equal good results, bad thoughts mean not so good results.  Then he said, “Like what we learned in our last team meeting here at the dealership: ‘Stinking thinking means your business is shrinking!”  EXACTLY!

What does your inner world look like?  Is it gloomy?  Sad? Stressed? Anxious? Depressed? Or worse?  Or is it cheery?  Light? Happy? Optimistic? Or even brighter than that?

Admittedly, the outside world can be a scary place.  Every time we turn around there seems to be bad news, worse news, and even more horrible news.  The television, radio, magazines and newspapers shove negative stories down our throats.  They thrive on conflict, incivility, and scandal.

That’s why I don’t watch television or listen to the radio or read the newspaper (well, except for the comics.  I love Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy.)  I don’t like people whom I don’t know cramming my head full of their negative talk. My attitude has no place for negativity.

A couple of years ago I found myself face to face with some of the most challenging things I’ve ever had to deal with personally and financially.  And I stumbled upon a cool little secret: if I waited for everything to be exactly right in my personal and financial life before I could be happy, then there was a good chance that I’d never be happy.  However, if I was able to be happy in the moment and bring that inner happiness to bear on my current circumstances, I’d have more resources available to clear up my personal and financial situations. I created a new positive mindset for myself and I haven’t looked back.

To do this, I unplugged the television and started reading like mad.  I went even further and started listening to self-hypnosis programs to rework some of that “stinkin’ thinkin’” in my unconscious mind.  The change in attitude that came about gave me the confidence to take action to clear up my personal and financial troubles.

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