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Things do not change, we change...... Henry David Thoreau

If you've ever found yourself starting to accomplish something,, and then destroying it, mixed neuro-associations are usually the culprit. Perhaps your business has been moving in fits and starts, flourishing one day and floundering the next. What is this all about? It's a case of associating both pain and pleasure to the same situation. One example a lot of us can relate to is money. In our culture people have incredibly mixed associations to wealth. There's no doubt that people want money. They think it would provide them with the pleasure of more  freedom, more security, a chance to contribute, a chance to travel, to learn, to expand, to make a difference.  But simultaneously most people never climb above a certain earnings plateau because deep down they associate having "excess" money to a lot of negatives. They associate it to greed,to pain of having to work harder to get it, to stress, to being judged,  with immorality or a lack of spirituality, fi...

Beliefs

The beliefs that we hold in business and in life control all of our decisions, and therefore our future. One of the most important global beliefs that you and I can adopt is a belief that in order to succeed and be happy, we'e got to be constantly  improving the quality of our lives, constantly growing and expanding. Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will either lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on.  The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.  I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it. I constantly strive to learn and to make new and more powerful distinctions about ways to add value to other people's lives. This gives ...