As the owner of my own personal Success Coach company, Ignite Your Essence (www.igniteyouressence.com), it is literally part of my lifestyle to practice daily life success coaching techniques. As a speaker and personal coach, I want to make sure I experience every possible angle of every coaching strategy I recommend to my clients.
By no means is this a chore to me. In fact, every bit of it I find both fun and fascinating at the same time. After spending a full day in a seminar/workshop event with Personal Development master John Assaraf this week, I feel like I have elevated my awareness and understanding of the mind and personal success more than ever before.
I am currently re-reading "The Answer" which was released by John and his business partner Murray Smith back in the spring of 2008. This is a book that I will probably read 100 times and still gain value from. What I love about the book is that it gives even the most hard-headed skeptic some insights into the potential of learning how your brain and mind operate. More importantly, it gives some insight into how anyone can leverage an understanding of their brain and translate it into material success (whether is be financial, business, relationship or otherwise).
I will give a high level overview of one of the key concepts in this books. The lesson is about neural connections in our brain. You see, every habit and behaviour that we have are caused by nothing more than a neural pattern that is physically wired in our brain. For habits we have carried for a long time, the neural connection is strong and more ingrained in our personality. For example, you may have a strong neural connection that causes you to react with anger anytime you are stuck in traffic. This was created by years of repetition and eventually the neural connection became so strong that you identify yourself as "someone who can't handle traffic." To the unaware person, they may accept this situation as an unchangeable circumstance in their life. The truth is, however, that they simply need to establish a new nerual connection in their brain that causes them to react differently when the traffic situation arises.
The challenge for most of us, is that establishing a new neural connection takes time. And as you invest time in developing this connection, the old connection related to the old behaviour begins to dissolve. Again, the average person who is not aware of this proces may try making the external change through will power alone. This is an exercise in futility because they are dealing with the effect, as opposed to the cause. The cause of the behaviour
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