Motivational Mastermind | Motivational Podcast Kee

No matter what type of business you’re in online, you probably have to do at least some writing. Whether you’re a blogger, a website builder, an indie book publisher, a freelance writer, or even an online shop owner, chances are you need to write content of some sort. We all know that time is money, and when you’re writing for your business, the faster you write, the more money you can potentially make. But can you really change the speed at which you write? Yes!

Content is King. It’s a common saying in the business world, but it’s true. With all the changes Google has made in the last few years, the quality and length of the content you post online is more important than ever. Even if you don’t depend on Google for traffic, the next best source of traffic (actually, it’s probably even more important than Google for most people) is viral traffic, and people don’t share crappy content. If you want to get traffic from social media without paying for it, you must be posting great content.

I don’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t want a happy, fulfilling life. If that’s the case, why do so few of us achieve that. Most people work hard for their entire lives, and yet after they retire they have very little to show for it. Yes they may have material possessions. But, is that all people really want? Now before we start to blame external organizations or events, we should perhaps consider it an error in thinking. An error in our minds. We have some idea about what we want, but do we really believe we can achieve it? I mean deep down, do we really expect it to happen?

Don’t allow worrying to take over your life. Life is short enough without filling it with unnecessary actions. And worry must be one of the most useless actions we could engage in. Worrying solves nothing. In fact, worrying adds fuel to the fire. Many people suffer from excessive worrying because it’s how they learned to see the world. As a series of endless, unforeseen problems. Problems plague them daily. They worry about things that haven’t happened yet. What’s amazing is many times, everything you’ve worried about materializes in the real world. We don’t want that to happen. We don’t want our negative thoughts to rule our world. Deep down, we know these things are happening to us because we’d thought of nothing else.

Let’s face it, anger is a destructive emotion. It’s created wars and destroyed whole civilizations. It rips apart families and ruins perfectly fine relationships in an instant. A single surge of anger that lasts a mere moment can cause regret for an entire lifetime. From full-blown road rage to a simple heated argument, anger can consume us and cloud our judgement. And the result most always has a negative outcome. We’ve all experienced anger at some point, but for the most part, we got through it unscathed. But it’s that chronic anger, that fear of losing control and not being able to hold back that needs to be kept in check. When bouts of anger seem to be getting far more frequent, we know it’s time to do something about it, fast. The sooner the better.

Negativity is the great soul destroyer. It’s crushed the dreams of countless great people and broken the hearts and minds of many, many more. Negativity has more destructive power than any weapon, yet has no physical form. It originates from deep within or rides like a parasite on the words and ideas of others. Negativity appears out of nowhere and refuses to leave until the damage is done. How can we stand up to such a powerful enemy? Aren’t we just pawns in a game that's playing us? The truth is, you have at your disposal the Universe’s most formidable weapon ever created. In fact, it’s the only thing with enough raw power to defeat negativity. Your mind!

It’s a strange thing that so many people on the planet today have such little belief in themselves. They have no faith in their ability to be what they want. This is definitely a glitch in the system don’t you think? To not believe in yourself must be one of the craziest, soul destroying issues ever. I mean, I understand we all go through periods of low self-belief on some area at times. But to go through life with continuous low self belief shouldn’t happen. We basically all have the same opportunities, the same chance to make something of our lives. If you have the belief that some outside influence is to blame for what happens to you, then that’s a major part of the problem.

Everyone has bad days, they’re a normal part of life. I guess it’s safe to assume that most of us lead somewhat hectic lives. Especially if you live and work in the city. Life can get pretty crazy and random at times right? Humans for the most part are resilient. They deal with stuff and just keep going. Some people are better at dealing with difficulties than others. But at some point, even the toughest of us will start to show some wear and tear. We get a few chinks in the old armor. We can’t quite seem to bounce back as fast as we used to. We begin to react negatively to the little things that bother us. 

Okay, we’ve discussed how powerful the subconscious mind can be, how it influences our waking conscious and how it take persistence and effort to change the beliefs that are stored there. We also found that we can’t simply use our waking conscious to make changes in the subconscious. We must use a different approach by relaxing the mind and using repetitive autosuggestion to get what we want through to our subconscious. When we do, the subconscious will start to influence our waking conscious to put our suggestions into action. Does that mean we can use this way to program people for evil? No of course not. There are other factors that counteract this false belief. The subconscious has a defense system that makes sure not just any old suggestion is implanted into it.

If you’ve ever tried to change or quit a habit, then you know just how stubborn the subconscious mind can be. It seems very difficult, if not impossible to change the subconscious beliefs with our conscious mind or willpower. Now and then we can get a breakthrough using sheer willpower to make a change, but this usually just ends up coming back a short time later. But before you throw your hands up in frustration and decide it’s impossible to change, let’s take a look at what the subconscious mind is and how it operates. Knowledge is power right?

If you’ve ever tried to change or quit a habit, then you know just how stubborn the subconscious mind can be. It seems very difficult, if not impossible to change the subconscious beliefs with our conscious mind or willpower. Now and then we can get a breakthrough using sheer willpower to make a change, but this usually just ends up coming back a short time later. But before you throw your hands up in frustration and decide it’s impossible to change, let’s take a look at what the subconscious mind is and how it operates. Knowledge is power right?

With all the noise bombarding our personal worlds these days, it’s getting harder and harder to stay focused on what we’re doing. It seems real privacy is a thing of the past. Electronic devices that most of us have many of these days help invade our space with advertising, news, trivia, messaging and games. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a technophobe at all. Far from it. I love technology and all the amazing gadgets it offers us. But there’s one problem. Most people forget gadgets have an off button.

How did you go with writing your own positive affirmations? I know it can take a while to get the correct wording you want. But what I usually do, is get it close to what I want and then start using it as soon as possible. I can and do tweak it later if I feel I can state it in a better way that’s more fitting. The key is don’t be too serious about it. That’ll just frustrate you and you might just give up. Just get started on it and use the guidelines to help formulate your affirmations correctly.

I’m not going to sit here and tell you it’s easy to change a long term habit. It’s not easy! And sometimes it’s very, very difficult. But I really believe that with enough determination and grit, and if you’re persistent enough and don’t give up on yourself, any habit, ANY habit CAN be changed. And when you can begin to do this, your life will start to change dramatically. You will be stronger when you have certainty that you can totally get rid of a unwanted habit or negative limiting belief.

Many successful people have figured out that using willpower alone to power their success isn’t enough. We need to also let go of all our negative thoughts and ideas. We must feed our subconscious minds with new positive thoughts and images that are stated in the present tense. We do this by using daily affirmations. An affirmation is basically a statement of truth or what you strongly believe to be true. How we’ll look at it is - a short description of a goal’s outcome.

Let’s take a look at a familiar condition which most people hate and will do almost anything to avoid that feeling. That feeling is nervousness. This is a feeling that can cause intense pain and is one of the most terrifying of all the negative emotions. It can completely stop you from taking action and achieving your goals in life. But, there’s a way to overcome it and get back into the game of life. You don’t need to let it run your life. Let’s see what most people do and then look at how to overcome nervousness.

Fear is the biggest killer of confidence we have. If it’s not kept in check, it will totally take over our lives. Fear makes it impossible to live the lifestyle many of us dream about. It keeps us locked in a virtual prison of misery as we try to cope with our daily lives. To become that confident person we want to be, we must first deal with our fears. We must understand that fear is a natural survival mechanism that helps keep us alive from real threats. But, in our modern society, it can get triggered for no reason and it’s this that can destroy our chances for a successful, fulfilling life.

In the last episode we took a look at personal power factors that boost confidence. We looked at the first one which was focus. Now let’s move on to the second factor, and that’s discipline. Basically, discipline is your personal ability to follow your own command and instruction in order to accomplish your dreams and goals in life. Discipline is one of the old laws of success and a sure fire way to boost self-confidence. Remember how we’ve already discussed that self-confidence will grow depending on the quality of all your efforts toward achieving your goals?

You already have within you all you need for the self-confidence you are searching for. There isn’t any need to look beyond your own present power to solve all your problems and turn your life around. Essentially, you can create the life you want with the tools you already have, they simply need some refinement and more awareness. Usually when I tell people that all the answers they could ever want are already within them, they are skeptical. That’s because they’re not yet aware of them. But I ask them to first have some faith and put your heart into our search for these inner answers and just see where it takes you. Just believe in yourself.

As we move forward through this series on confidence, more and more ideas and concepts will begin to integrate into one bigger picture. More aspects of the conditioning we’ve received growing up and how that has led to our current situation will become more obvious. We’ll see that how the current system teaches you to cope with problems and difficulties may not be the best solution for us anymore. We’ll also see how and why those solutions have been limiting our progress and holding us back from operating with total confidence.