What you think will become reality.
The average human brain weighs about three pounds. It contains 100 billion neurons that send and receive electrochemical signals at approximately 200 miles per hour. Our brains typically have 50,000 to 55,000 thoughts per day. That’s 2,083 to 2,292 thoughts per hour and 35 to 38 thoughts per minute. What amazing statistics these are! Now listen to this. A computer technician, Keeno Gregory, estimates that our brains contain 5 million megabytes of storage space. The processing power of the average brain is about 10 quadrillion instructions per second. The world’s fastest computer can process at only a fraction of this speed.
Suffice it to say that the human mind is probably the most sophisticated and powerful machine in the universe. So it stands to reason that we also don’t fully understand just how sophisticated and powerful our brains truly are. There’s been an ongoing debate as to just what percentage of our brains we actually use. Conventional wisdom pegs it at 10% to 20% - but 10% to 20% of what? In fact, if as Nobel-prize winner Sir John Eccles believed, we have infinite potential in our brains then how do you measure a percentage of infinity? Kind of makes your head want to explode.
The human mind is the key to the way we live our lives. It is the key to how we succeed or fail. I reject the notion that external influences beyond our control have anything to do with the course of our existence. Instead, I fully embrace the belief that our mind is so powerful that we have the ability to plot the direction we take.
Our brains are so incredibly powerful that what we think will become reality. For that reason, we must train ourselves to think thoughts that bring us happiness and satisfaction. This philosophy is called the Law of Attraction. A web site,http://altered-mind.com provides the following insight about the Law of Attraction:
“The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thoughts. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Like attracts like defines the Law of Attraction. It is our thoughts plus our feelings that‘attract like unto themselves.’ Negative thoughts and feelings remind us that we’re about to attract something to ourselves that we don’t want. Positive thoughts and feelings are reassurances that we are, in fact, attracting something to ourselves that we do want. You will get what you think about - what you focus on. If you focus your thoughts on what you don’t have, you will attract more‘don’t-have’ situations into your life. If you focus on lack, you will get more lack and not what you want.”
Vision, Mission and Values
In our businesses we create Vision, Mission and Values. Yet many of us fail to do the same thing for our personal lives.
- A Vision is what we look like when we“get there.”
- A Mission is who we are and what we do for whom.
- Values are our core principles that we embrace and defend.
Vision
Dr. Linda Phillips-Jones, a licensed psychologist, mentoring consultant, author and researcher writes, the following:
Numerous experts on leadership and personal development emphasize how
