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Jun 24, 2008 9:32 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Good question Craig,
 
The key is that the beliefs that manifests your experience are your subconscious beliefs.
 
It works like this:
 
Something happened at some time in the past (often when you were very young). and you subconsciously made a decision about it.  For (silly) illustration...
 
You saw someone driving down the road in a Rolls Royce and while you gaulked for father grumbled something derogatory about rich people.
 
Subconsciously, you decided that being rich was not good.
 
That subconscious belief is stored as a memory and surreptitiously sabotages your pursuit of wealth for the remainder of your life....at least until you learn of it and clear it.
 
Obviously, the belief that wealthy people are evil (or whatever) is not true...it is just a belief.  A subconscious belief, which may, in fact, be contrary to your conscious desire for wealth and the good life.
 
There are literally hundreds of techniques for clearing subconscious memory and the limiting beliefs and counter intentions they create.
 
Science of Getting Rich
The Option Process
Ho Oponopono
The Script
Sedona Method
The Release Technique
 
This is the essences of the work I do.
 
All of them follow the basic premise that you can not overpower a subconscious limiting belief with a white-wash positive thinking.  Instead, you engage the belief experientially as an observer and make a new decision....in this case perhaps it is something like, rich people contribute tot he opportunity I have to live the life i desire....whatever.
 
The point is, that when the subconscious memory if clear of the limiting belief, your experience changes.  You are able to visualize and (as my good friend Joe Vitale would say) `Nevillize` your desired success and through inspiration step into the flow of abundance and accomplishment unhindered by the saboteur.
 
To be clear, I am NOT saying all we need to do is clear our subconscious minds and visualize what we want and it shows up.
 
I AM however saying that, once clear, we can visualize and affirm the success we want and will `receive` inspiration to make decisions and take actions that will cause us to experience the success we desire....and do so `effortlessly`.
 
I truly enjoy the intellectual dialog in this discussion and would welcome the opportunity to discuss this in any level of depth and can be contacted directly via email steve@zerolimitschampion.com.
 
Have an amazing day.  You deserve it.
 
Steve
Your Success Champion
 
 
 
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CraigL

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Jun 24, 2008 5:49 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Hi Steve :-)
Another technique is NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). In a nutshell, our language expresses the underlying belief systems, and if we can correctly manipulate that language, we can affect and even change subconscious beliefs, even if we don`t ever get to see them clearly.

I tend to like that because I enjoy language, semantics, and the principles of definition. It`s definitely good to know there are other folks out there using other techniques to accomplish the same goal---helping people overcome their own limitations.

Getting back to the problem at hand: What would be some specific examples of beliefs that energize someone to find new ideas, then call a halt to the implementation of those ideas?

Why do people get all fired up with an inspired idea, only to let it drift away, never turning into a real event?
TigerTaco

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Jun 24, 2008 9:08 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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You got to get clear ... you gotta let go ... ya` gotta feel good ... to go, go, go!
 
I jest about visualization for success because "everyone wondering what they should do" should consider what the wise sage Buckaroo Banzai said, "no matter where you go, there you are."
 
Just saying, determination delivers destiny regardless of intent ... it might not be everything you dreamed, but if you don`t stop feeling and start doing it`s never, ever going to be anything.


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Jun 25, 2008 2:09 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Chris & Craig -

I appreciate this dialogue.

Chris - to be clear I agree that it is a fallacy to expect a successful outcome (indeed any outcome at all) without action.  I am not proposing that.

I am however saying that true success, from the perspective of the reward a person actually experiences from it is not measured in terms of financial results.  In my 38 year career building and managing the successful exits of many companies including 6 different tech startups, I earned millions of dollars....but truthfully I did not experience that portion of my career as success.   While I had lots of results, what I accomplished was not well aligned with the purpose I am truly committed to accomplishing…with who I am..with my purpose - creating to make others lives better.

I was instead following the circa 1950`s approach to life....sacrifice or defer pursuit your passions now and make `enough` money so you can enjoy them later....problem with this thinking is `later` never happens.

So, in terms of finding the perfect business, what I am advocating is that a person first get focused on  the accomplishment of a (life) purpose, then clear the subconscious limiting beliefs that sabotage the achievement of that purpose...and once clear, ACT from inspiration.  This, as opposed to following a B-school formula for evaluating market trends and writing  (useless) business plans.

 

So I am all for action and lots of it.  I have just come to believe that the action you take should come from inspiration.

 

Do you see this differently?

 

Sooo.... on to Craig`s question.

 

"What would be some specific examples of beliefs that energize someone to find new ideas, then call a halt to the implementation of those ideas?"

 

How about this one (an excerpt from my forthcoming book)

 

"From a very young age, I had always wanted to be a well read and recoignized author.  I recall when I was in high-school, I was given an assignment to write a fictional short story.  I really took to the assignment and wrote a story I was quite proud of.  My teacher was so taken by my work he circulated throughout his network of literary experts.  One summer day, he called my house and asked my parents if I could join him and a special guest at a luncheon near the school to discuss my story.

 

When I arrived I was stunned to find myself face to face, right across diner-sized table from my boyhood literary idol Kurt Vonnegut Jr.  I was of course, initially speechless.  My high school English teacher came to the rescue and got the conversation started by explaining that he was a personal friend of Mr. Vonnegut’s and had shared my story with him while visiting one evening.  Vonnegut was so taken by my work he had asked to meet me.

 

Vonnegut himself told me I was very talented and had a bright future as an author.

 

What am amazing story, right?  Certainly encouraging to a high school kid.

 

You would think that I would have gone on to become a great fictional author as famous as JRR Tolkein, CS Lewis, or dare I say, Kurt Vonnegut himself.  But that is not what happened.

 

To the contrary, following that lunch meeting I never completed another fictional story.  I started a few, but I never finished one.  Can you guess why?

 

Here is why:

 

Somewhere along the way, in relaying this amazing story to others whose opinion I held in high regard, I `subconsciously` overheard someone say that most writers struggle in poverty for years and years and many never make any substantial sums of money at all. 

 

It was not even a conversation I was in.  I do not recall having a single conversation about the financial aspects of being a writer, and yet, my subconscious mind recorded the limiting belief that writers struggle in poverty and do not make any money.

 

As a result, from that moment on, despite the fact that I began building businesses at age 13 and had started and sold 2 by the time I graduated, whenever I endeavored to find the perfect business for myself, despite the fact that I passionately loved to write, ‘Famous Author’ never emerged as a viable possibility.

 

Whenever anyone told me I should write, the notion was instantly discarded.

 

It was literally discounted; blocked by the subconscious limiting belief that I would not make enough money as a writer.  Mind you, nobody ever said that to me directly.  The notion was a creation of my subconscious mind.

 

There is no telling where these subconscious limiting beliefs come from.  What is important for you to know is that they are not ‘truths’.  They are just beliefs.  As such, you can change your beliefs and alter your experience.

 

Maybe you have already experienced this with previous efforts to start a business.  Perhaps you have already tried starting your own business and you have not experienced the success you desire. 

 

Maybe you are working long hard hours, doing all the right things, and it seems to no avail.

 

Maybe you have tried every imaginable goal setting, marketing method plan, and sales plan available to you and the outcome does not change.

 

The place to look is within your-self.  The next exercise will reveal some of the subconscious limiting beliefs you hold to be true by illuminating them through inquiry of the things you have in your life that you do NOT want."

Thank you gents

 

Steve

 



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CraigL

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Jun 25, 2008 4:15 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Excellent summation, Steve. :-)

You`re right that the key problem for anyone who wants to start a business is to "hear" those rules and propositions going on in the mind.

I also think we`re agreed that subconscious contradictions are only one part of a complex equation.

All in all, I think in today`s world the largest obstacle to getting started with a business is simply stress and being overwhelmed. Someone is working 8+ hours a day, seeing their money going less and less distance. They work, but they can`t build a savings account, have too little for the things they want.

They`re discouraged, frustrated, trying to figure out how to have some "free time" to even start with a business. It`s all massively huge, totally over-the-top complicated, and there`s the TV beckoning. Like a drug, they sit for just a moment to catch their breath, and we`re not even including kids who want attention.
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Jul 01, 2008 3:08 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Thanks, Kev. And then once they figure out exactly what it is they WANT to do -- 3 "secret" words... PLAN - EXECUTE - REVIEW are the fuel, if you will that will make your success engine run.. In other words, 1.) Plan your business activities. 2.) execute and complete those tasks and 3.) Review your results. I think the "what to do" part is only half the battle. The other half is putting it into action.  

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Jul 01, 2008 3:34 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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One of the biggest problems we have in modern society, I think, is the decline in separation between thinking and feeling. A hundred years of "modern education" has refocused people on their feelings, rather than on the principles of analysis, logic, thought, imagination, and follow-through. :-)


Craig, Having retired from the public education system (33 years) I couldn`t agree with you more. I taught physics, generally seniors. It was appalling how little ability they had to logically analyze, how to reason or just creatively work out of the box.
Reflecting on this, at the INPEX inventors show in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago... we were exposed to some 800 inventions. Most all of the inventions that had a major scientific nature came from other countries. The inventions from our country were more of the practical, meeting a need type.


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Jul 01, 2008 6:18 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Steve, I too enjoy these discussions ... SuN offers a refreshing mix of reality and abstraction in the various posts ... a metaphysical discourse on the nature of man and why we even veer from the beaten path would be interesting, but alas take too many words right now as I try not to be too flippant when someone is being so sincere.  Are you familiar with Sociobiology?  Do you believe in things like Group Consciousness?  Can you know what you feel is true, is true to your true nature and what inspires you is worthy of your life?  Just curious on where you`re coming from with your writing and all that jazz -- just being conversational (I hope!~)

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Jul 01, 2008 7:19 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Thanks Chris - I appreciate the clarity you offer and absolutely accept in the converational contexts meant.

I recognize that I can be a bit prolic in writing my opinion...sorry..but I do appreciate that you are clearly aware of the metaphysical et-al as it relates (or not) to this topic.
 
I am familiar with social biology although not intimately.  I `get` the idea, but am not sure I have a valid opinion.
 
If `Group Consciuousness` is analogous to what some describe as a `shared consciousness` then I do have some very definite opinions, although I hesitate to try to convey them in a blog/forum in the interest of brevity.
 
I think I would probably contend that to the extent that these princples are useful for people in helping them enjoy the lives they truly desire then at least in that context they are `true`.
 
In a more practical sense, it has been my experience that there is an important distinction between accomplishments and results as they relate to success.  This distinction occurs on the ground of commitment.
 
In short:  I can work hard and accumulate extraordinary results...like build a business that makes me a lot of money, and still end up feeling un-accomplished and un-successful in life.  That is, I experience no success.
 
This is because accomplishment does not occure in the result..
 
Instead it occurs in the commitment (purpose)
 
So, if I work hard and accumulate extraordinary results...like build a business that makes me a lot of money to be used in service of my commitment to "make others lives better" for instance, then the results, in a sense, inherit the commitment and I end up feeling accomplished and successful.....that it I experience success.
 
This is the reason I contend that in order to experince success in anything, you need to know what your committed purpose is, first.
 
Does that clarify?
 
Thank you again for the discourse.  I enjoy it.  =0))
 
Steve
 
PS - Chuck - I absolutely agree that "the what to do` part is only half the battle. The other half is putting it into action."  The distinction I draw is that, if you have chosen the what to do such that it is in service of your committed purpose, then the experience of accomplishment and success occur all along the way in a manner that seems effortless and not dependent on the achievement of some predetermined (even arbitrary) success (financial?) threshold.
 
I mean if you could live your life in ecstatic abundance and joy making $100,000 a year but had set a success goal of $200,000 per year when you started, what is your success experience at the $100,000 level?
 
zerolimitschamp7/1/2008 7:24 PM


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Champion Bodybuilder, Author, Musician, Artist, Master Craftsman, and Entrepreneurial Multimillionaire

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www.secretforentrepreneurs.com

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mtkeister

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Jul 02, 2008 3:29 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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I`ve been working on correcting destructive and self-limiting patterns of thought within myself for a couple years now - with great success.  Once I discovered the be-do-have principle of transformation there was no turning back.  A great little book that helped me open the doors to my subconscious mind and realize the power that lies beneath the surface is "The Master Key System" by Charles Haanel:

http://www.masterkeysystem.com

Another area that I stumbled on involves the ubiquitous presence in western culture of the pattern of thought that is logical and linear and how this type of thinking inhibits growth of the mind and new discovery.  Most people are trapped in this way of thinking most of the time and this e-book really is a fresh perspective that I`ve found interesting and useful.  It`s called "cvs2bvs: software for your brain" by Michael Hewitt-Gleeson:

http://www.schoolofthinking.org/about/cvstobvs-universal-brain-software

I can affirm what everyone here is saying: stay positive, plan ahead, define clear and realistic goals, take baby steps, don`t be afraid to make course corrections, and don`t be afraid to fail. Persist day in and day out and you will move down the path that you choose.

Michael Keister
mtkeister@freeeagles.com

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