Impress to Express: The C,B,A Formula
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The process of manifesting or creating our goals has been something that wise men have researched for thousands of years. How do you take an idea in your imagination and create it in reality? What is the process of manifesting our dreams and goals so that we can enjoy them in our lives?
Napolean Hill said it best when he wrote ...
'What the Mind of Man can Conceive and Believe, he can Achieve'
Napolean has given us a simple A,B,C formula only in reverse. It seems to me that most people have no problem in the C stage - conception of new ideas, or dreams for their futures. But they fail to get past B - believe and therefore they mostly do not make it to A - achievement.
Don't you know someone who has had a brilliant idea for a new product or gadget, but never acted and achieved it? Only to find a year or so later that someone else stole their idea and did act. Had the person you know like this overcome their lack of self belief then they may have been the ones that brought the product to market.
So if our belief is holding us back from achieving what we have conceived in our minds then how do we overcome this stumbling block and move onto achievement?
Well our beliefs are really a factor of the stored information in our subconscious minds. If we have negative beliefs in our subconscious then we will act in accordance with them. If our subconscious mind holds supportive beliefs then we can move on to achieve greater success in our lives.
As our subconscious mind does not judge what it stores, we have the ability to begin to store paterns of belief that support our new ideas and conceptions until they become a reality. In effect, what we impress upon our subconscious mind we invariably express in our outer world of reality.
Our job then is to learn to Impress upon our subconscious minds exactly what it is that we want out of life, and the belief that we can attain it. Once we know how to do this, all things we can clearly conceive of become possible to us.
This explains why there is a magic in goals setting. The very act of writing down a new goal with clarity (conceive) starts this C,B,A process that Napolean Hill was talking about. Make sure you have your goals clearly defined today!
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