Your mind is being programmed everyday. Either you’re doing it yourself, or somebody else is.
If you’re not in charge, then you’ll really struggle for success in network marketing or any business.
Are you letting the radio, the TV, the internet, the newspaper, or friends & family program you?
If you are, then you are definitely being programmed for lack & limitation.
If you’re in your car with the radio on, that radio has a tuner. You can tune in hundreds of radio stations. Those radio waves bombard you with negativity all day long. You are being programmed.
Do you turn the TV on and just leave it on while you’re home? Again, you’re getting constant programming. This stuff, at best, is trivial. At the worst, it’s very, very negative.
And when you’re programmed with negative garbage by radio & TV several hours a day, 7 days a week, 4 weeks a month, 12 months a year, year after year after year – it takes a toll. You develop a negative outlook on life and your MLM business – often without even knowing it.
Learn To Program Yourself
What happens with your mind, subconsciously, when negative friends & family members are talking to you? You are being programmed. Do you recognize how you feel when you are hearing these words?
For you to have the success you want and deserve in life, it’s critical that you learn to block this out.
Realize that when you are facing negativity that you have the power to control your reaction to it.
And when you want to attract things that you want, do not think in terms of what you don’t want. The Law of Attraction will work when you have positive emotions, and words like “no”, “not”, “don’t” and “can’t” will block the manifestation of your desires.
Success Requires That You Get Rid of the Negativity Forever
It’s critical that you be honest with yourself. Do you want your success so much that you’re willing to pay the price of giving up TV, giving up radio, giving up negativity?
If you will do this even for just 30 days, it will change your life. You will learn to stop the both the constant external chatter and the constant internal mental chatter – and to start reprogramming yourself with positive self-talk.
Start with gratitude and a knowledge that you have the simple power to do this at will, whenever and wherever you like.
How Do You Stop The Negative Chatter In Your Brain?
First, you learn to train yourself to turn off that external negativity. That bit of negative programming you run into everywhere can bring you down for days and make you doubt yourself. You’ve got to stop that from happening.
Next, you learn to re-program your brain with positive self-talk. For instance, here is what I use:
“I am having a blast building a hugely successful network marketing business with the most positive, motivated and enthusiastic people that I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, using a system of training and teamwork that helps everyone by paying it forward to come back ten fold!”
Anytime I’m driving somewhere, doing dishes, working in the garden, that is my self-talk.
When I first started using this particular self-talk, I probably said it 100 times a day. Now, the whole 50-word phrase is just a subconscious thing, repeating in my mind, over and over and over. It blocks out all the other chatter.
And the reason that’s so powerful is, when you stop the chatter, you can truly, truly listen to people. And THAT is the skill that is so critical to your success in both business & personal relationships.
Be sure to live in the moment, be grateful first and foremost for those who you have in your life and who have you in theirs!
Excellent article, Vicki! It is definitely so true! We take in so much that we don’t even realize we are taking in. And all that stuff manifests in our lives without us really realizing it. Making a change involves getting inside and not only clearing that old stuff out, but replacing it with new, positive stuff! Your self-talk exercise is excellent for doing that!
Lori
Absolutely Lori! We don’t realize how much clutter is crammed in there do we!? It’s like a closet full of stuff when you move you find you’ve accumulated far more than you would have imagined, bringing only 1 box when you needed 10. It really is a matter of replacing those old thoughts with so may new ones that all the old baggage is thrown out!
Thanks for the comment!
Hi Vickie,
I agree with you. Most of the time we don’t realize that all these outside influences are doing the programming for us.
A lot of the negative thoughts that we have come from thinking about what we don’t want or the fear of what might happen. I found that affirmations help in reprogramming our fearful and negative thoughts.
Great post,
Coach Freddie, Bringing Back The American Dream
Thank you Freddie!
You are right, affirmations are a great way to reprogram your subconscious. It works the same way as repeating a physical movement such as a golf swing or guitar chords so that eventually you do not think about them and just do them, like breathing. When we can think positively as easily as we can breathe then we are really getting it!
Thanks again for your comments and support!
Vicky you are so right about the media. I limit my TV intake – I usually tape shows and watch them when it suits me anyways so generally I am not watching TV at all. And I would’nt wast my reading time on trashy magazines.
Once I turned to flooding my mind with personal development books I just couldn’t get enough. There is so much positive content that we can feed our minds with instead – you end up just devouring books. I was never a reader and now I can’t get enough. I just feel so empowered by what I am learning and then applying into my life. I am the only one who can talk within my mind so why not make it positive self talk –
Thanks Vicki – great post again!
Thank You Sharon! I agree, once you get into the personal development material and mastermind groups you can’t get enough!
Wishing you Every Happiness and Success!
Hi Vicky,
I believe that feeding your mind with good content from Personal Development Mentors, Gurus, Friends thru Videos, Audios, Books, and personal messages are all ways that we can program the mind for success. I also love to meditate once a day and enjoy what i learned and truly think how it can impact what i do. Great post
Thanks Chris! You’re so right, feed that mind, it’s like fertilizer for it to grow –
That reminds me of this quote that I love -
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To Your Continued Success!
Thanks for this post Vicki! Awesome material that can help my team out. I’m reposting on FBK and retweeting for you and my Team! Have a Blast today and keep rocking it!
Thanks Kenny!
I’m glad you liked it and I really appreciate your sharing!
Wishing You Tremendous Success,
I believe it is very important how we program our minds! This is right on. Sometimes people don’t realize what is happening when they have on tv or radio constantly with all the ads, etc. blessings, Amy
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Couldn’t agree with you more!! I can’t stand having all that “noise” programmed into me with out my consent.. I have turned off the stereo, tv etc.!!
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Negative thoughts have indeed bad influence in our lives. It’s a hindrance towards achieving success and demotivates us to do good in our work or even in life in general. Affirmation is a great tool in reprogramming yourself. It can be hard at first but in the long run, your subconscious mind will do the work for you.