1988: A Unique Daily Routine That Will Train Your Brain to Success by Terrence Kennedy with Money Mini Blog

This is Optimal Work Daily, a unique daily routine that will train your brain to success

by Terrence Kennedy with MoneyManyBlog.com.

We all want to be outrageously successful in life, whatever it is that the word success

means to each of us.

It might be to settle down and start the perfect family, produce academic children, and watch

as they grow up to become the president.

It might be to write an award-winning novel, Own A Billion Dollar Company, or simply to

create a life that you never need a holiday from.

As varied as people's ideas about success may be, one thing is always certain when trying

to achieve our goals.

Success rarely comes without hard work, dedication, tenacity, and no small amount of luck.

Though the drive to achieve our goals doesn't come as naturally to some as it does to others.

A principle which has had me racking my brain for an answer to the question, what is it

about people like Sir Richard Branson and Elon Musk that makes achieving their goals

seem like a trivial affair?

Well, after much research and testing, I've stumbled upon a few scientifically tested

ways to gear your mind toward success with a few daily rituals which will train your mind

to go for the things you want.

But before we begin, let's talk a little bit about how our brain works in relation to

drive and success.

A matter of the mind.

The human mind is a wholly remarkable object, complicated and un-listening though it may

seem.

It is the origin of every good idea that eventually grows into a successful endeavor.

It is also the means by which you'll need to navigate a sea of problems to get you

to the point you want to be at, and perhaps most importantly, it is also your biggest obstacle

to realizing your dreams.

However, learning to work with and not against your lumpy loaf of grey matter will make

it your most powerful tool when reaching your goals.

As you learn to master new abilities, you are essentially fortifying pathways in your

brain.

The more you do something, or indeed think in a certain way, the more your brain forms

to keep that skill or thought process as a permanent part of your life.

You have neuroplasticity to thank for that, a phenomenon once thought to slow down as

humans age, but has recently been found to continue long into adulthood.

This is, of course, a double-edged sword.

It is.

After all, the same brain that is pushing you towards success is throwing out a million

reasons why your plan might fail.

So the idea behind training your brain for success is learning to control what types of

thought processes you allow it to conjure up to stand a better chance of achieving what

you want.

Here are a few simple ways that you can do that.

1.

Visualize your goals in detail.

Success requires no small amount of imagination, a concept which might have those who are not

artistically inclined, squarming in their chairs, but being imaginative is not a characteristic

purely reserved for a beret-wearing post-modernists with an opinion on the aesthetic.

No, everyone is imaginative whether they believe it or not.

A lot of people simply don't actively practice it and scorn themselves for slipping into the

odd bout of daydreaming, a phenomenon I like to call passive creativity.

If you can imagine what you want to achieve, you're perfectly capable of being positively

creative, and it can go a long way towards achieving your goal.

All you have to do is spend time each day imagining, in as much detail as you can, what

it would be like to get with your after.

If you want loads of money, imagine the joy of lying in a bed of cash or checking out

bank statements with large sums on them.

The key is to incorporate as much detail into the vision as possible.

How does the image make you feel?

What is the exact sum you want?

How did you get it?

It's simply imagining what you want isn't going to be enough, while you may be altering

your brain patterns to incorporate your dream into them, you still haven't quite convinced

yourself yet.

2.

Manipulate your emotions towards your goals

The next part of hacking your way towards success involves associating your goals with

positive emotions.

Life gets us down sometimes, but for some people, simply getting out of bed without a

gripe is a difficult thing to do, and this is where self-talk comes into the mix.

Whether you are aware of it or not, the first person you listen to each day is yourself,

and it is your opinion on matters that sets the tone for the day.

So when you wake up to take a plurr slump in the shower until you're awake enough to

function, try to be aware of the nature of your thoughts, try to push negative thoughts

from your mind, tell yourself that you are awesome and deserve to move a little closer

to your goal today, and try everything in your power to get your mind and your emotions

operating on the same level.

You may have to force it at the beginning, especially if you are a characteristically

negative person, but keep it up, and over time you will begin to associate positive feelings

with your chances of success and will actually enjoy working towards your goal.

3.

Keep your goals a secret

Whenever a new idea with potential pops into our heads, we tend to want to share it

with those around us, either for acknowledgement of how astoundingly clever we are, or simply

debounce the idea off of those around us to get more information and opinions on it.

This seems like a positively constructive idea, but recent research may suggest that keeping

your goals to yourself is far more productive.

You just listen to the post titled, a unique daily routine that will train your brain to

success, by Terrence Kennedy with MoneyMiniBlog.com.

And thank you to Terrence for today's post.

He is a guest writer with MoneyMiniBlog, and Terrence Kennedy is on a journey to self-discovery,

a traveler, extreme sports aficionado, an observant wanderer, an ultimate outsider, and

a documentarist of culture, dating, relationships, fashion, and more.

And big thanks to Kaelin Bruce as well, he created MoneyMiniBlog.

Kaelin and his wife had $24,000 of debt, and they wanted out, so he became a student of

finances, and they're now debt-free and building wealth, and he shares what he's learned

over the years with you on MoneyMiniBlog.com, a website featured very regularly over on one

of our other podcasts, Optimal Finance Daily.

And on that show, as you might guess, we narrate blogs covering personal finance and money

topics like how to save more, make more, and invest more.

So check out that show for some more great content from Kaelin.

What that you do it for today, I thank you so much for being here with me today and

every day, and I'll be back again tomorrow as usual, where your Optimal Life awaits.