Use both your conscious and unconscious mind to reinvent yourself or your business
First make a decision on what it is that you want to reinvent or change about yourself. Next start making a conscious effort to change your moment by moment actions concerning the changes you want to make. With enough repetitions your conscious mind will convince your unconscious mind to take over your new habits and the new you will be on autopilot.
It all starts with the realization that some part of your life is not working the way you want it to. Just look at the books being purchased today and you will see most of them address changes we would like to see in our lives. How to diet, how to speak in public, how to control our anger, how to be organized. Seems like the list is endless, however ,one change can be introduced into your life at one time, just realized something has to change and work on that one thing.
Start using your conscious mind, in order to do this we must be conscious of what is happening in our own life. We often use our conscious mind to determine how others should make changes in their life, but this has no upside for yourself, you need to make conscious decisions that will change things for the better in your own life. If I am too fat, it’s not my concern that the neighbor kid is smoking pot, I need to deal with my weight issue. Consciously I need to observe my own actions and start making healthy choices that lead to weight loss. If I consciously make the right decisions on a consistent basis I will educate my unconscious mind.
The reason we have things in our life that don’t work the way we would like them to is because we are making unconscious choices that no longer work for us. How do we we educate our unconscious mind, we simply make conscious choices based on repetition and consistency to develop a new pattern for our unconscious mind to use. Look at all the steps involved in getting your car and driving to the grocery store to buy some milk. We drive to our local version of a quickie Mart to buy something we ran out of and hurry home and never give it any conscious thought. Pretty much our unconscious mind knew how to do that because we’ve done it enough times before, all of the conscious decision-making was gone and our unconscious mind to do it on autopilot.
So want to reinvent yourself? Make a conscious decision what it is you want to change in your life, practice making those choices necessary for that change on a consistent basis, and eventually your subconscious mind will handle it all for you. Check on your life once a while to make sure that the unconscious decisions you are making right now are in line with your life vision.
Hey Dale,
People tend to focus a lot on the conscious while totally disregarding the sub conscious. I have been guilty myself. Thanks for this post.
J