A Sensible,
Pragmatic person, once asked Zig- Ziglar
“These motivation mumbo, jumbo does not work in long run, they are temporary”.
Zig Ziglar
responds “Of course Motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing.
But it is something
you should do on a regular basis”
I think both
the statements are true.
While most
people are unable to keep up the New Year resolutions, beyond January, there a
much selected few, who do.
There are
few people in every sphere of life, who achieve exceptional results.
How do they
motivate themselves on a daily basis?
We will
probe on this topic in next few minutes.
My topic is
“What you say, when you talk to yourself”. This is a best seller book, written
by Shad HelmStetter. This has been translated in more than 65 languages &
is top 10 PMA book of all time.
There are two purpose of this this blog
1.
I want to re-inforce the message given in the
book to myself.
2.
Make you aware of the golden nuggets in the
book, which might inspire you, to read the complete book & implement the
learning.
The best
thing I like about the book is, it takes a very practical approach & not
the usual ra ra motivation steps.
Like for example, all of you will agree that
tomorrow in a classroom in Israel, a boy or a girl will think that Palestine is
bad. Same thing will happen in a
classroom in Palestine as well.
They will
develop & nurture this belief to their adulthood.
Some of them
will join the army & eventually kill each other.
Is the Action of killing each other is the
source of the problem? No.
Is the Belief that these people developed in
their childhood, source of the problem?
No
The source
of the problem is the programming they
received as kids.
The good
news is – like any other computer program, this programming can be reversed as
well.
According to
the author, the programming language that can used on ourselves is called self –Talk.
This is the
secret sauce of the success that most successful people have
For example
Jim Carrey –
At 19, he
headed to Hollywood. He was one of many wannabe actors trying to make it big in
tinsel town. He used to drive his Toyota to Hollywood hills, overlooking
los-Angeles he daydreamed of his success.
One day just
to make himself feel better, he wrote himself a check of 10 million dollar
& postdated it for 10 years & kept in his wallet & check it every
day.
The check
got severely deteriorated but, he eventually made those 10 million signing
Ace-Ventura.
Another
example is Suze Orman – During her struggling days, she use to write “ I am a
young, powerful successful person, making at least $10,000 every month”
Once you
read the book, you will find “Self-Talk” as a common thread among all
successful people.
Some of them
did it knowingly, but most of them did it unknowingly.
According to
the Author, you can program your brain in various way. If you imagine your
brain as a CPU(with Motherboard, RAM & ROM). The five senses would be the
input devices to your brain.
What you
see, what you hear, what you speak, what you touch, what you smell – all can
program your brain both in positive or negative way.
At the end, I will come back to what Zig Ziglar said “Motivation
is like taking bath, it needs to be done on daily basis”.
Using this book, I am sure we can all learn how to motivate
ourselves, how to program ourselves towards the path of success.
