Getting yourself right!
By: Mike Ram
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Think Success, Belief, Law Of Attraction, Knowledge

‘Whether you think you can or you can’t you’re right!’. Henry Ford. The fact that one’s own self appraisal can be so defining in one’s fate must alert at least some to the relationship between thinking and outcome. Now this is in harmony with what a number of self developement coaches teach and most parents tell their children. It is simply a matter of knowing one can do something and then putting together a plan for doing it and executing on that plan. So really there is nothing mysterious in that. But what is strange is that the very thinking of something defines and moulds the outcome.

But quite often people surprise themselves with their achievements and often exclaim at a result that they never thought they could achieve that outcome. So is it wise to regard the relationship between mindset and confidence and outcome as so set as Henry Ford thinks? Maybe there is more to it than meets the eye. But it does have to be said that confidence does play a very large part in a person’s chances of success. And in something like marketing having confidence is certainly a factor in determining the outcome of a person’s projects. But understanding the market is too. So actually mindset plus know how count for plenty. Knowing how one’s own market will respond to one’s sales messages is of paramout value. And that takes time to work out.

In other areas of life simply saying one can do something is not enough.There has to be a basis for thinking that, some evidence that one is able to carry out an operation or task. Not to have knowledge of ability is to rely on a vague hope. But if you you learn about what you want to achieve first then obviously you know you can do it. Perhaps the distinction here is about the difference between knowing and believing. With belief there is a sort of wishful thinking involved,whereas knowledge of something is very firm and committed.

This is where Napoleon Hill fails to make this distinction talking as he does about belief a great deal.The main sentence is to the effect that ‘whatever the mind can conceive and believe,the mind can achieve.’ This sentence is one of the main underpinnings to what is called the ‘Law of Attraction’,which is a law of outcome which many self-developement teachers regard as quintessential teaching in their work. Understanding how to use the Law of attraction is really one of the founding stones in modern Personal developement, and was the main subject of iconic film ‘The Secret’, which claimed that if one had enough belief in an outcome then the reality would become the achievement of that outcome. But peoples’ success in using the ‘Law of Attraction’ in this way has been very low, and the reality is that simplistic understanding has meant many students wasting their time on wishlist fulfilment without a chance of success.

Andy Shaw, a personal developement teacher whom I have been impressed by, reckons the problem with this is in the term ‘belief’,which is a word implying wishful thinking more than real chance of success.In ‘Creating A Bug Free Mind’ he says knowing is afar stronger word than belief and if you ‘know’ you can do something,then a success is more than guaranteed. He gives an alternate wording to the ‘Law of Attraction’ -’The Law of Conscious Creation’- which implies a far less passive process and one in which there is a sense of active involvement in the outcome of things. Of course one does attract outcomes in harmony with one’s mind energy and we are doing that the whole time,which is why so many people have unsatisfactory outcomes.If one the other hand one goes through a process of defining what one desires in detail and the steps required to to achieve it then one is most likely to achieve the intended result,because one’s thought wave patterns are aligned with such an outcome.

So really it is a matter of someone having their thinking in complete alignment with the reality of a successful outcome in order to achieve it. And to do that one has to understand what it akes to get there and to do it. Wishful thinking is just that whereas conscious creation is exactly that and one works and the other does not.

Between knowledge and belief is a whole wide gulf and to stop merely believing ,one has to cross that gulf to near certainty and then act on that. Then understanding one can do something usually turns out to be right.