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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Mind Management Tips for Success

“You are the most powerful magnet in the universe! You contain a magnetic power within you that is more powerful than anything in this world, and this unfathomable magnetic power is emitted through your thoughts.” - Rhonda Byrne




The human mind is an enigma. It is very powerful and has vast potential. However, people don’t realize. They look elsewhere without realizing their hidden potential laying within them. Even if few people realize they don’t know how to use their potential up to the hilt. In fact, those who win this world are the ones who know how to spot their hidden potential and realize the same for achieving success.


What is Mind Management?

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." Wayne W. Dyer

Mind management is all about managing the mind effectively and efficiently. It is the process of exploring, analyzing, realizing, planning, organizing, directing, controlling and exploiting human mind for achieving all-round success in personal, professional and social life. It is related to self-awareness, self-introspection and self-development.

Through mind management you can achieve success. First of all, you must know all about mind management. Secondly, there is a methodology to tap and manage your hidden potential. Thirdly, by orienting your potential through right tools and techniques, you can connect to your outside world. And fourthly, by putting sustained efforts and energies regularly, you can achieve success.

Everything is there in your mind. It all depends on your state of thinking and management. Whether you want to have a triumph or a waterloo, it is in your hands. You need to build a right mental attitude through mind management which takes you towards success in your chosen area of interest.


Mind Management Process:

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture.” - Norman Vincent Peale

As people maintain their physical body by hitting gym, or walking or exercising, they should maintain their mind qualitatively through right process.

Engage your mind everyday with certain targets. Early morning when you wake up from bed, write down what is to be executed so that your mind gets engaged throughout the day about the tasks.

Prepare the list of qualities to be developed. Find out the ways and means to develop the same. Jot down the resources required to reach and get equipped. Build bridges and network with relevant people. Don’t invent excuses. Have firm will power and commitment to see through the things.

We run internal movies within our minds through self-talk. It is a narrator helps in shaping our minds. Whatever the positive or negative actions reflected in our lives is the result of self-talk running in our minds. In fact, you are the director of your mind.

You need to control your emotions, intellect and habits so as to develop right mental attitude. It helps in better mind management.


Everyday when you go to bed, take feedback about the progress of what was done and what has to be done the very next day. When you do so, your mind starts working in a focused manner resulting into success.

Mind management is not possible in overnight. It requires lot of practice to develop a positive mindset. It must become an ingrained habit.


Mind Management Tips:

“Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.” - Eckhart Tolle

• Journal whatever pops up in your mind and prioritize. It helps in staying focused and also manages your time.
• Clear your mental clutter. Don’t let negativity creep in your mind. As you sweep your house, you must clean your mind regularly by removing negative thoughts.
• Read good books that will uplift and inspire you.
• Listen to motivational audio tapes everyday.
• Write and visualize affirmations.
• Never criticize, condemn and complain as it keeps your mind free and healthy keeping more space for absorbing positive information.
• Be creative and pursue your passionate areas to keep your mind receptive and flexibility.
• Avoid invalidating people who poison your mind with discouraging and negative comments. They also squash your dreams and limit your thinking.
• Avoid obsessive thinking as it clutters your mind.
• Avoid wet blankets.
• Have only realistic and achievable expectations.
• Have passion for continuous learning and growing.
• Learn to forgive and forget.
• Observe solitude as it reinvigorates and revives your mental powers. In fact, solitude is fortitude.


Conclusion:

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” - Wayne Dyer

Success should start from you and from within yourself. For this, you need to manage your mind. You need to orient your mind towards goals. Once it is done, you need to put in sustained efforts and energies to achieve. If you want to win a battle you need to win it in your mind first and then in real life. Similarly, if you want to achieve success you need to achieve it in your mind so that you can translate into reality.

You can grow you mind the way you grow your body physically. How you nurture your mind is in your hands. What kind of inputs and instructions you give is in your hands. Your results will depend on your efforts. To put it succinctly, your efforts are directly proportional to your results.

Your future is in your hands. Take the right step. Give something back to this world and bring difference in the lives of others.


The End

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this article. I always thought i knew everything and didn't need to source for information or clean out my mind --boy, was i wrong. Really appreciate it, even though it's an old article.

Good job.

Anonymous said...

Hmm..Really an useful article for all. I'm very pleased to read this. thanks for it. really helpful.

Rajesh chawat said...

Mind can give u heaven and same mind can become hell.so mind managing skill give u right path to lead ur own world