This is the third in the Re-programming series of articles. We have already talked about what the importance of programming is, how is formed, and why we need to re-programme ourselves.
In this article, I want give you hope that change is possible and not difficult, and can be initiated by taking 5 simple steps by spending at least 5-10 minutes each day on these activities.
If you are right handed and lost your right hand, do you believe you could learn to use your left hand? Yes of course, people re-learn and re-program themselves all the time. If you lose your job, social services may well request you learn new skills or ‘re-skilling’ as they sometimes call it.
How does this work? REPETITION! The key here is repetition – practice using your left hand – this is the only way to build new pathways in your brain – and let’s face it, this is the way you built them in the first place, without ever realising it. This is certainly not rocket science!
Humans are so built that nature gave us complete control over the material, information or data that we allow to reach our sub conscious….but few of us ever exercise this control. So the result – rubbish in, rubbish out – and why most of our programs are the wrong ones, and why we Humans, above all, have the most outstanding ability to change and adapt….if we apply ourselves.
I am going to recommend these 5 steps to help you start the process of change :-
1. observe and listen to yourself – and question yourself – you will soon start to recognise the wrong programs. Make brief notes of what you did each day to identify your habits. Do this in the first week.
2. start breaking your thoughts, habits – stop them from completing – put up a road closed sign. Write them down first to recognise what they are, and than think about how you could have done it better – analyse. Do step 1 and 2 in the second week.
3. start re-programming yourself – you do this with your tongue – through self talk, daily affirmations and incantations, and following this through with actions. Your self talk should be your goals, your desires, what you want to become, and must be positively motivated. We will be posting an article on this and how this can also benefit our kids greatly.
4. change your environment – seek out new people and groups moving in the same direction as you – you are the company you keep. Take out the floppy disk with the old programs and load a CD with new programs to replace them with.
5. Have total faith – that it will happen and in the knowledge the many before you have already achieved change. Look Bill Gates, Mother Teresa, Richard Branson and many others.
You will need some tools to help you do this:
- notepad, diary or MP3 recorder, or some other form of note taking
- a plan – draw up a daily plan to earmark your 5-10 minutes and what step you will be taking.
- most important – be consistent! Take small steps.
I sincerely encourage you to enter, with total faith, into a new world …. of vision, ambition, fulfilment, attainment, happiness, full of positive energy, beauty, let a state of grace fill your mind and soul …..once you start on this process, you will join the 4-5% of the population who have made a decision to reclaim their destiny, and by doing so have change the destiny for their children without ever realising it.
This is the real legacy that you leave behind for your children.
