Seeing the big picture

BUSINESS BITS
Aileen Santos

Our life coach teaches an exercise on how you can train our mind to use the Big Picture Experience to bring success.

When you're just starting out in your business one of the most powerful resources you have is your passion which you can leverage in a variety of ways. One leveraging tool which can be extremely effective at quickly bringing success is something that I call the "Big Picture Experience."

Let me tell you why this is so powerful: In the movie The Secret, quantum physicists and medical doctors alike agreed on three breakthrough discoveries about the human mind:

That people's life situations are always caused by their deep-seated beliefs and expectations. Plastic surgeon Dr. Maxwell Maltz supports this in his book Psycho-Cybernetics. He wondered why more than 80% of his patients still felt unhappy even after receiving the surgery they wanted. He found that the reason was they still retained their old beliefs about themselves (causing the people around them to treat them the same way, too)

That real life change only begins to happen NOT after reading or hearing about something, but after actually experiencing it.

That the human mind actually can NOT distinguish between what we imagine from what we actually experience. So if we can imagine something so fully and completely that our minds cannot tell it apart from reality, then we have no choice but to make it happen.

Have you ever given yourself the chance to really experience this? Remember, "learning" about something isn't the same as experiencing it. Here's what you can do:

Imagine what a successful day would look like, feel like, sound like, smell like? and write it down. The more multi-sensory your ?story? is, the more your mind would be able to experience it and believe in it. Professional life coaches often do this for you as part of your coaching package, and will even send you a recording that includes relaxation techniques that help your mind absorb it faster.

Record this Big Picture Experience and save it as an audio file in your computer, then download it into your iPod or phone. You?ll then be able to access it whether you?re on the road or at your office.
Really commit to listening to this recording every morning for the next 30 days, before your start each day. I challenge you to try this--really try this--and tell me how it affects your life.

At the very least, this exercise will jumpstart your day with renewed passion and enthusiasm; it even helps you make easier decisions about your tasks and priorities, because you have a clearer idea about where you want to go.

At its very best--particularly when it's done beyond 30 days, this habit will reprogram your mind to "create success" while you're working towards your goals, and create lasting positive changes in your life.

(Aileen Santos is an internationally certified Work-Life ReInvention Coach & A-Ha! Trainer who helps overwhelmed leaders & entrepreneurs create more balance in their lives by helping them achieve success in the things that truly matter. Learn more about her training & coaching work at LightBulbOnYourHead.com or visit her blog at AileenSantos.com.)