mind-body connection

You Have To Be There Mentally Before You Are There Physically

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41. You have to be there mentally before you are there physically.

Your mind cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and a mental one. This fact is mentioned a number of times throughout this book. The reason I believe it comes up again and again is because it is important for you to understand the role your mind plays in determining success. The key to this Tool is to start to think about what you want and where you want to be. This is obviously why we write our goals down in our S.A.N.E. section.

The reason we need to use this application is to expedite the probability of reaching our destination. So how we can help that occur is to start thinking about being there before we get there. If your goal is to win a swimming meet, you want to visualize in your mind what the water feels like. What it feels like to win the race. How it feels when you’re holding the trophy at the end. By going through this process over and over in your head, your body will start to feel the event happening before it actually does.

This can be applied to other areas besides just athletics. If you are trying to build a successful business, what are the things you would see in your mind that a successful business would have? You would see happy customers buying your product. You would see them sending their friends and family to your business. You would see employees making the extra effort to build the business of your dreams. As you continue to run through this exercise, you will start to program your brain to feel what this feels like long before you ever get there. Hence, you will start doing the things that make this success begin to feel real and then translate it into reality.

If your goal is to get into shape, what do you think it would feel like to be fit? What do you think you would be doing if you were in the best shape you could be? You would be active and fitting into better clothes. You would be getting compliments from your friends and coworkers. Your confidence would be the highest it had been in some time, maybe ever. When you keep thinking about it mentally, you start to feel what it would be like.

When you start by training brain pathways before you get to the actual event, you will plow a way for these goals to actually occur. You can go in many directions with this Tool. You might pretend to walk like the most successful lawyer in town would walk. You may fantasize that when you get in your car, you are driving that dream car you have always wanted. It works on so many levels. It keeps you focused on what you want, it trains your brain to get used to the feeling of the ultimate destination, and in a weird way you essentially enjoy the prize a little before you actually get there. You get your mind more prepared to accept wins.

Get Up Earlier

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10. Get up earlier.

There are so many reasons for adding this Tool to your arsenal. Getting up earlier in the morning assists you in so many challenges you may be having. The first area it tackles is the complaint of not having enough time. If you only got up one hour earlier a day, that would give you a whole extra day’s worth of time every month. The truth really is not that you don’t have enough time but that you don’t have enough energy.

We covered a little bit about what causes us to be low on our energy level, which is nutrition and exercise, but with regard to getting up earlier it is because we oversleep. I find most people say they need 7-8 hours of sleep but they DON’T sleep for all that time. When I started getting up at 5:00 a.m. every morning, it was hard at first. Then I started to get used to it and I liked it. When others found out I did this, they assumed I had to go to bed at 9:00 every night. The truth was I went to bed around 11:00 but I slept for a solid six hours. You see, it is not totally about the number of hours but the quality of sleep in those hours. This will vary from person to person, but the truth is you can get by on less sleep if it is QUALITY sleep.

Some of the other advantages of getting up earlier are getting a workout in, sitting down to a good, hot breakfast. If you are someone who is constantly late or hates traffic, getting up earlier is a remedy for those difficulties as well. Finally, there is a great peace of mind knowing that when your day is done, you have gotten a number of tasks done in the morning, freeing you up for activities at night. By applying this simple Tool, you will get more done, be in less of a rush, and get the best quality sleep you’ve ever had.

Get Up Earlier

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10. Get up earlier.

There are so many reasons for adding this Tool to your arsenal. Getting up earlier in the morning assists you in so many challenges you may be having. The first area it tackles is the complaint of not having enough time. If you only got up one hour earlier a day, that would give you a whole extra day’s worth of time every month. The truth really is not that you don’t have enough time but that you don’t have enough energy. We covered a little bit about what causes us to be low on our energy level, which is nutrition and exercise, but with regard to getting up earlier it is because we oversleep. I find most people say they need 7-8 hours of sleep but they DON’T sleep for all that time. When I started getting up at 5:00 a.m. every morning, it was hard at first. Then I started to get used to it and I liked it.

When others found out I did this, they assumed I had to go to bed at 9:00 every night. The truth was I went to bed around 11:00 but I slept for a solid six hours. You see, it is not totally about the number of hours but the quality of sleep in those hours. This will vary from person to person, but the truth is you can get by on less sleep if it is QUALITY sleep. Some of the other advantages of getting up earlier are getting a workout in, sitting down to a good, hot breakfast. If you are someone who is constantly late or hates traffic, getting up earlier is a remedy for those difficulties as well. Finally, there is a great peace of mind knowing that when your day is done, you have gotten a number of tasks done in the morning, freeing you up for activities at night. By applying this simple Tool, you will get more done, be in less of a rush, and get the best quality sleep you’ve ever had.

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