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The Ten-Day Mental Challenge


We need to practice this emotional state of playfulness or joyous approach in weeding the gardens of our minds. We have to be able to notice when we start to have a negative pattern- not beat ourselves up about it and not dwell on it- but simply break the patterns as quickly as we discover them, and replace them with the new seeds of mental, emotional, physical, financial, spiritual, and professiional success. How do we break these patterns when they show up?

  Simply remember the following steps:

 1) You need to decide what you do want. If you really want to feel a sense of passion, joy and control over your life -- which obviously you must, or you wouldn't be reading this now- then you know what you want.
2) You've got to get leverage on yourself. If you read this whole  book  and don't establish any new patterns, wouldn't that be an unbelievable waste of time? In constrast, how will you feel as you truly use what you've learned to take immediate control of your mind, body, emotions; finances, and relationships? Let your desire to avoid pain and induce massive pleasure drive you to make the changes necessary to take your life to the next level now. In order to accomplish this, you must ....
3) Interrupt the limiting pattern. The best way I know to do this is to simply go on a "Mental Diet" -- that is, take a set period of time and take conscious control of all your thoughts. A Mental Diet is an opportunity to eliminate the negative and destructive patterns of thinking and feeling that inevitably come from living life in an emotionally reactionary and mentally undisciplined fashion.

 Here's your opportunity now to really apply all the new diciplines you've learned in the previous chapters. My challenge to you is simply this:
For the next ten days, beginning immediately, commit to taking full control of all your mental and emotional faculties by deciding right now that you will not indulge in or dwell on any unresourceful thoughts or emotions for ten consecutive days. 

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