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HOW TO KILL NEGATIVE

BELIEFS

M2 MILLIONAIRE MIND CODE

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Success requires, two key elements. Competence, and Confidence. Competence is all strategy based. The knowledge to achieve a specific goal or objective, the skill, or the method. Confidence is all about your beliefs. Belief about the activity, belief in self or belief in general. Some of us have positive beliefs, about our selves. Some of us have major negative beliefs about our selves. Many of have conflicting belief systems. Some good, and some bad. Many which support us, and few that cause major problems in life. Yet. Many of us have no idea, what is buried in our subconscious mind. What

beliefs are buried in our mind from: Teachers, Parents, Friends, Life Events, and Loved ones. But many of these beliefs are the programming code that runs our life. 1. Confidence: The most effective person has positive beliefs, and supporting

affirmations about life, health, relationships, wealth, and money.

2. Competence: High-performance achievers are excellent at structuring every part of their life. They have life strategies. They have money strategies. They health and wealth strategies. If you are skilled and you don’t belief, no doubt you will fail. If not immediate, sooner or later. Even self-sabotage your success at some point. If you belief you can do it, but have no skill, you can lose a lot of money or time. Use the right plan. The right strategy. Maybe time to get a strong mentor. Coaches and mentors are worth their weight in Gold.

A little caution, here too. There are lots of folks that try DIY, and fail. That is like knowing nothing about sailing, jumping in boat, and trying to go across the Atlantic Ocean. You are going to die. You need to know how to sail, how to navigate, emergency measures, supplies, a plan, and a map. Even better if you have professional captain on board. Buy the skill set. Get Mentors.

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I often say, there are 3 major keys to duplicating anyone’s success in any discipline or activity or life:

1. Strategies. There are specific Strategies or Systems for success. Napolean Hill had it right in Think and Grow Rich. Wealthy people usually have specialized knowledge. Proven and reliable. This is often where a mentor is valuable. Ensure you have a wealth guide. A MAP to the treasure. 2. Belief. Wealthy people have supporting beliefs, which move them forward to success. For example: “I attract wealth with ease and comfort”. They removed negative beliefs, or conflicting beliefs to ensure there success.

3. Action. You must take action. Information and belief are great buy if you do not take action it is a waste. Whether you belief you can or cannot you are right! Belief is incredibly important to success, in every area of life.

Let me give you and example of how a belief can change your life. I speak. I train. And I sell. I enjoy speaking. I enjoy training. BUT I use to say; selling is not my strong suit. Well if say you are not X, you will not be X. So, in terms of ranking on the sale board, I was always in the middle.

Some times you need a coach, or someone with another way of looking at things, to make you have an AHA experience. For me it was my friend MO (Mo Money). A great instructor, and sales person. He said to Jim, you know all these great NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) skills, why don’t you use those patterns when you teach. They will help you influence.

Well, that started a whole conversation about selling beliefs. It became apparent I had some limiting ones, like: You should not pressure a client, I am not the best at selling, I am ok with being in the middle of the pack, and more. If I believe I am a middle of the road, my results will be middle of the road.

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If you are in sales, and even if are not, because fundamentally we are ALL sales people. Either selling products or services to clients. Selling ideas to loved ones. Selling our boss on advancement. Selling our employees on doing excellent work or a new project. Or even our kids on cleaning their rooms. You are selling your ideas. You are influencing. You are selling.

You might want to take the Closing TEST below, and see how you do. We need to know how to close people. If you score badly likely you have poor beliefs about selling (even if you belief current beliefs are correct). Don’t let your current beliefs limit yourself or your income

A perfect example to work through, to show you how to change a belief and get on track. We will do it for selling (closing) first, then talk, about money and wealth beliefs next.

Strategy: Test Your Belief about Sales & Closing (take the test)

Questions: (circle yes or no) 1. Do you feel you deserve the sale?

Yes No 2. Do you create pressure on the prospect to make a purchase? Yes No 3. Do you have five closing questions you use regularly? Yes No 4. Do you always point out the negatives of not buying the product today? Yes No 5. Do you begin writing up the order without asking for permission? Yes No 6. Do you always ask for the sale after dealing with an objection? Yes No 7. Do you pressure the prospect when they say “I’ll think it over” or “I’ll get back to you?

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Yes No 8. Do you automatically ask for more volume if you get a “yes” to your initial request?

Yes No 9. Do you answer, “What’s the price?” with “What volume?” Yes No 10. Do you frequently ask for the order in the first five minutes? Yes No 11. Do you have five common test questions that progress toward a sale? Yes No 12. Are you comfortable when another salesperson tries to sell to you? In particular, if he/she closes hard?

Yes No 13. Have you eliminated any self-doubt about the product/service? Yes No 14. Do you always sell full-price for your products and services? Yes No 15. Do you know three ways to ask for the order without ever saying a word Yes No 16. Do you ever get nervous asking for the order, talking about price, or dealing with objections? Yes No 17. Do you deal with common objections up front so the customer never mentions them?

Yes No 18. Are you prepared for indecision and have a specific action planned? Yes No 19. Do you always have an order form ready?

Yes No 20. Do you believe you are a good closer?

Yes No

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Score Yourself

Add up the total number of “Yes” answers and see how you stack up on the Closer Chart. 18-20 Excellent! You are in the minority. You are a consistent performer and one of the leading sales representatives. As a professional, you know the value of increasing your skills. Picking up only three or four of the closing strategies presented will help you close substantially more accounts. 15-17 Good. With a few additional skills and confidence, you’ll close more sales. 12-14 Averages. You are with the bulk of the sales representatives out in the field. You have a general idea of what to do but do not put enough emphasis on making the sale. Pay close attention to the strategies and tactics in this workbook. If you become their master, you’ll improve your close ratio up to 50%. 9-12 Poor. You may be a great presenter but an ineffective producer. You are capable of much more. Put the time and effort in the upcoming material to become a master closer. 8-0 What? Have you thought about another career? If you are like most salespeople, when you took this test you had a series of “yes’s” and “no’s.” The “no’s” were an indication of missing closing characteristics, either a lack of closing confidence or self-confidence.

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Closing Self-Confidence

For many salespeople, their confidence or lack of confidence comes directly from their personal beliefs about selling and closing. If you believe that asking for the order five times in one call is too high-pressure, you never will ask for the order, and sales will slip through you fingers. If you believe all professional salespeople ask for the order five times, that buyers in fact expect it, you will close more sales. In fact, 80% of all sales come on the fifth close. To become an effective closer, you must develop positive belief systems about closing and eliminate negative belief systems. Therefore, take a look at your beliefs about what closing means to you. In the space provided on the following page, for the next five minutes, write what your beliefs are about closing, both positive and negative. To get the ball rolling, included are a few positive and negative beliefs. If they apply to you, leave them. If they don’t, simply cross them out.

Personal Beliefs About Closing

Here are few Beliefs people may have (positive and negative)

Ø I believe I’m a good closer. (Positive)

Ø I believe you shouldn’t pressure the customer. (Negative)

Ø I believe closing is important. (Positive)

Ø I believe hard closers ruin relationships. (Negative)

Ø I believe I’m confident when I close. (Positive)

Ø I believe I’m less than confident when I close. (Negative)

Ø I believe I’m not good at closing. (Negative)

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Coding Beliefs

Good closers realize that any belief that interrupts the sales process or impedes moving closer to the sale of the product/service is a negative belief. Quite often, we mix our personal beliefs with selling/closing beliefs. For example, if you believe you shouldn’t pressure the customer, you are impeding the sales process. Pressure sells. Pressure creates desire and a sense of urgency.

Most of us were brought up to believe you don’t want to make people feel uncomfortable or on the spot. That’s not a good belief for a sales representative. The greater the discomfort (the pressure), the greater the likelihood of movement from the prospect. In fact, some companies use annoying music during their presentation to make people feel uncomfortable (their close ratio is great). Don’t go to this extreme, but you may want to look at your limiting beliefs, especially the ones that stop you from making the sale.

Once you have your beliefs on paper, code your beliefs about closing as either positive or negative. For coding the belief, remember that a belief system that interrupts, slows down, or impedes a sale is a negative belief system. Once you have coded these statements, take a negative belief system and work through the “changing a belief” exercise.

Changing A Belief System

Here is how to change a belief system:

1. Identify the negative belief.

2. Create doubt that the belief is true, necessary, or serving you.

3. Create the opposite belief.

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4. Justify the opposite belief.

5. Create a positive reward associated with the new belief.

6. Check to make sure there are no conflicts with other beliefs or values.

Negative Belief Example

1. Identify the negative belief: Ø “I should not pressure the client. It ruins the relationship.”

2. Create doubt that the belief is true, necessary, or serving you:

Ask questions! Challenge the beliefs. If you have difficulty. Talk to some who is experienced, what they believe. Some examples of questions: Ø Why? Aren’t there people who expect to be closed? Ø In fact, you probably wouldn’t buy from someone who never asked, would you? Ø Is this true all the time? Ø Are there cases where pressure is good for the client? Ø Does this belief help me? Ø Do I need to believe this? Ø Is this belief holding me back? Ø What is the cost of this belief?

3. What is the opposite belief? ü “I should pressure the client to buy for their good, for the good of the company, and to make the sale.” ü “Many folks will do better with my products than with out them” ü “I provide a good quality product or service that everyone needs”

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4. Justify the opposite belief: ü It will help more clients. ü The company will benefit. ü I will make more money. ü The company will make more money, which means more job security. ü It will make selling the next time easier. Existing customers are 5 times more like to buy from you. ü My openness will build better relationships.

5. What is the reward? ü I’ll improve my lifestyle. ü I’ll give to charity more often. ü I will buy a new care once I hit X sales. ü If I increase my sales by 50% I will take my family to the Atlantis hotel in the Bahamas.

6. Are there any conflicting beliefs, and how do I realize them? Ø “I don’t like to make people feel uncomfortable.” ü Discomfort motivates people to action, and I want to help people take action in their lives. ü It will help people. ü It’s good for them and me.

Another key element is to check and see if there are any conflicting beliefs that may need to be changed. For example, if you are developing the belief that good closers create pressure on prospects, but you have a personal belief that people don’t make other people feel uncomfortable, you will need to change your initial belief and align with the second belief.

Strategy: Adopt powerful sales and closing beliefs

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ü I believe in my company and product. ü I can close anybody. ü I know dozens of closes. ü My price is justifiable. ü I need and deserve the sale. ü I am a great closer. ü I don’t need a callback; I’ll close the sale today. ü I can deal with a variety of people. ü I’m confident. ü I know lots of closing questions. ü I can get anyone motivated to action. ü I help people make decisions. ü I help people. ü I read customers well. ü I present well. ü I always get more than expected. ü Everyone should have this product. ü I deal with objections easily. ü I realize 80% of sales come on the fifth close. ü I apply as much pressure as needed to get the sale.

ACTION PLAN: Okay, it’s your turn. Pick a belief and work through the change. You might want start with Money, Debt, or Wealth Beliefs.

1. Identify the negative belief. 2. Create doubt that the belief is true, necessary, or serving you 3. Create the opposite belief. 4. Justify the belief. 5. Create a positive reward. 6. Remove a conflicting belief and realign the belief.

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By the way, you can use this same technique for getting rid of some of your negative personal habits, health, business, or wealth beliefs. In fact, let us look at some Negative beliefs about money or wealth. There are 3 money beliefs that are pretty common in our society, that are not very positive:

1. Money is the root of all evil. 2. You need money to make money. 3. Money will change me. Ok. Money is the root of evil. Is an evil belief! First, it is a misquote from the bible that said the LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Money is a great tool. It can do wonderful things for you, your family, friends and society. I like to give to St Jude’s Hospital for kids. It is easier to give money if you have access to a lot of money, then if you are struggling pay check to pay check. Money is wonderful tool. But if you belief, money is evil. You will not try to attract it in your life. Now some folks will say, well God will provide. Ok. I get it. Faith is wonderful thing. But “Faith without Works is DEAD.” That is a hint form the bible. I might add. In the bible, there are 350 verses on Faith, 650 on Love, but 2350 verses related to finance and possessions. That is a hint. It is OK to be wealthy.

If you believe, you need money to make money, you might never start on a wealth plan. Or you might decide you are going to “save”, but never get to the savings amount wanted to get started. Or wait years to get going. So, much better if you believe: You can Make Money without MONEY! Now someone is going to say, no way. YES WAY. Here are just a few strategies:

o Creative Finance for Real Estate.

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o Arbitrage on Amazon, or Ebay. o Joint Ventures. Find a product (not yours), and find a database (not yours). Hook them up and take a percentage. o Sandwich Lease Option for Real Estate, Commercial, or Equipment. Lease at a low rate, and re lease at a higher rate. o Air B and B. They don’t own the property, they just find customers.

These are great leverage ideas. Minimal or no cash in, and a big pay day. It takes knowledge or strategies to make money. Not money. Now don’t get me wrong, if you have some money, making money is a little easier. But do not let limited funds stop you. Get the strategy.

How will Money change you? Some folks belief, you have take advantage of other people to make money. If you have that belief, and care about people, that is a limiting belief. You do not have to take advantage of folks. Deliver a great product at competitive prices. Generally, money accentuates, their existing personality. If you are a jerk, money will make you a bigger jerk. If you are a caring person, you will be able to help more people. Money is a GREAT thing. It is GREEN Energy. Makes the life easier. Make giving to charity easier. Makes your future secure.

Those are just a few of dozens of beliefs, concepts, and statements, we make to ourselves on a regular bases.

Your personal beliefs about MONEY Or DEBT can make a major difference in your performance and Wealth. Make sure they are all positive.

Examples:

• I believe Money is Very Useful (Positive)

• I believe it takes money to make money (Negative)

• I believe to make more money you must work hard (Negative)

• I believe Debt is a BAD thing (Negative)

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• I believe I can positively change lives with more money (Positive)

• I believe Money does not grow on trees (Negative). Hey money is paper,

paper comes from trees, and so Money does grow on trees. J

Strategy: Look at your personal beliefs & code them positive and negative

In the space provided, write down some of your beliefs about Money. Then Debt. Be honest. At some point, you might want to look at all your beliefs in life. Positive and negative beliefs about MONEY, DEBT, WORK, FINANCIAL ADVISORS, STOCK MARKET, REAL ESTATE, BUSINESS, and LIFE

MONEY I believe: _______________________________________________________

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DEBT

I believe: _______________________________________________________

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Strategy: Establish Positive Beliefs and Affirmations for wealth

• I attract wealth.

• I am rich. Not just financially but in all areas of my life.

• Money comes to me easily.

• People love to give me money.

• I welcome and enthusiastically accept unlimited abundance.

• My financial abundance overflows today.

• The presence of joy in my heart releases an abundance of good in my life.

• I was destined to be prosperous. I have abundance to share and to spare.

• I have faith that I am being guided in ways that bring amazing results.

• I fill my mind with the idea of abundance, and abundance manifests in all my affairs.

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• I recognize my true Source and let prosperity pour forth into my every experience.

• Abundance surrounds me. I claim my share.

• Abundance is limited only by my unconsciousness.

• My prosperity thoughts create my prosperous world.

• All that I have ever given is being returned to me in many forms.

• My life is filled with an abundance of good.

• With God’s guidance, my life is filled with joyous successes and rich abundance.

• I release all feelings of lack and limitation and joyfully accept blessings of joy and abundance.

• To Session is rich with opportunities and I open my heart to receive them.

• Money flows freely and abundantly into my life.

• Abundance is mine! I give thanks for the unlimited flow of good into my life.

• Wonderful things happen to me because I live with an attitude of gratitude.

• I am worthy of all that my heart desires. It is my divine heritage!

• I am the source of my abundance.

• I picture abundance for myself and others.

• I live in an abundant universe. I always have everything I need.

• I create money and abundance through joy, aliveness, and self-love.

• I am increasingly magnetic to money, prosperity, and abundance.

• My beliefs create my reality. I believe in my unlimited prosperity.

• I deserve abundance.

• Money flows in my life. I am prosperous.

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Strategy: Install positive affirmations. Take a 10 or 20 minutes, each day and affirm, you beliefs. Read them or say them for yourself, on a regular bases. You don’t need to do 25 of them. 1-3 repeated, over and over, will get buried in the subconscious. My big 3 are:

o I find money-making opportunities. Daily.

o I attract money and prosperity. Daily.

o I believe in a world of abundance. Ok. You are working on your personal beliefs. Beginning to get empowered, excited, and even succeeding in life. Whether that is: Wealth, Health or Happiness. Then “Fxxx”, you have a major life event happen. Perhaps a loved ones dies, an accident, loss of job, retirement gets destroyed, business failure, lose money, health fails, or bankruptcy. Can that affect your emotions? Can that affect your motivation? Can that destroy some of your positive beliefs systems. Of Course! But it does not have too. One of my beliefs, is I attract wealth and prosperity. Well in in the past, within a two month period, I went from having an income (business, real estate and trading), of 40k a month, to 7k a month, and my expenses were about 20k a month. I was going negative for months. Could that event, affect my beliefs. Yes. That is were you might need more strategies, than just belief. Although a strong belief, and faith is a good strategy. Emergency measures might be necessary. Additional tactics, may be required to get you back on the path to a healthy mind set.

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Strategy: A Flat Ball does not bounce. Keep Pumped up.

Millionaires are by no means exempt from failures. They have losses, make mistakes in judgment, and screw it up occasionally. They must keep a positive attitude, no matter what. Many tell themselves, “I will get them next time. I just have to work a little harder or smarter to get a better result.” They know that all they need is a better plan. A new strategy. A better mentor.

They also, know a flat ball doesn’t bounce - so they keep it pumped up. Maintaining their motivation, even if the score is against them. They have ways to deal with issues, problems, and failures.

That is where strategy, questions, and perception are often a great tool. How you perceive an event, will keep the ball pumped up or not. Can drive you to success or make you give up.

So let me share with you 6 strategies that are useful along your path:

• Perception of events. • Positive Replacement • Interrupt Pattern • Physical Response • Questions • Belief.

They have served me well. Keeping my beliefs strong. Maintaining motivation. Keeping inspired. They can serve you too.

Strategy: Nothing has any meaning until you assign it meaning. Assign it a GREAT meaning, a positive meaning.

My mother died a several years ago. Now many people will see that as a major negative life event. Reacting with a number of negative emotions. Loss. Heartache. Regrets. And more. I chose to see it as a blessing. She had lung

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cancer. Went through chemo, and radiation. I recall her one-day in the hospital, saying to me “It’s just not worth it, Jim”. So for me her death was a blessing. Her pain was gone. She is with the angels. I was happy for her. Now, she is in heaven looking after me. We celebrated her life, not death.

Every event in life can have a positive meaning. You just have to look for it. By the way, if we assign a positive meaning to the event. It does not affect us negatively.

For example, many entrepreneurs, will have a failure, or disaster. How you look at the event is important. A failure, has a negative emotional response. Actually, I do not look at them (failures) that way. They are all learning experiences. Just part of the process to success, and achievement. So it is ok for me to have a failure. Means I am getting closer to success. But I have to frame the event correctly in my mind.

Sometimes that is tough, because the life event is HARD. That is were you might condition your mind to look for positive, with the positive replacement strategy.

Strategy: Use positive replacement to condition the mind.

Most folks, not all, are conditioned to look for the negative in life. Our minds look for the faults, problems, potential problems, why it won’t work, or how this event is going to destroy me. Not sure where that conditioning comes from: Family, Society, School or Friend. Maybe all of them. But a few of us look for what is possible. What is positive? Now I was not always a positive guy. Had my own demons.

One of my mentors, Charles Givens taught me this strategy, and it works. So try it.

Some event happens in your life. A death, a financial debt, job loss, or a loss of loved one, or illness. We immediately come up with how this is going to

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negatively affect your life. We lament. We get angry. We get upset. We get depressed. Or even worse.

For example, at one point in my life, I had 78k in debt (all credit card debt). And I could not make the payments. I was thinking:

• I am screwed. I can’t pay the bills. • I am a failure. • How did I get myself in this shape? • I will never take a risk again. • Owning your own business sucks. • I am not as smart as I thought I was. • People will think badly of me. • I have failed my wife and kids. • I will be on the street soon.

All negative thoughts. I was pretty depressed and not very motivated. In fact, I actually had a few thoughts, about my life insurance policy. My family would be better off if I was dead. WOW. That is stupid.

Thank GOD, as those thoughts were rolling around in my head, the seed of an idea, I had read many years earlier, popped up. For every adversity in life, there is the seed of greater opportunity. That got me thinking. What is good about this situation? Chuck (Charles Givens) has a strategy.

For every negative thought you have to come up with 2 positives. Positive thoughts, to replace the negative thought.

So. What is GREAT about being 78k in Debt?

• I know how to build credit. That can be useful in the future. And it has.

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• Successful people tend to take risks. To win the game you have to take some risk. I am not afraid.

• I had some good days in the business, what did I do on those days to make money. Focus on money, not debts. • It will be a good story some day. And it has.

• At least I am not a 100k in debt. And I met a guy a million in debt, which made my perspective shift a little. At least I was not 1 million in debt. • You know, what debt can be a good thing if it is GOOD debt. Borrowing to make money.

• Maybe I should not be thinking I can’t make the payment, but how could I make the payment.

• I have time to spend with my wife and kids.

• I have time to change to improve my life.

Hey, those positive thoughts saved my life. Put me back on track. In fact, I started to look, how could I make a lot of money in short period of time. Actually moved me into the Real Estate game.

Positive Replacement means, the moment, you have 1 negative thought. You must immediate come up with 2 positive reasons or interpretations. Write them down. You begin to condition the mind to look for the positive in each event in life. Building the habit of looking for the brighter side of life. Soon or later, you will just look at positive, and the occasional negative.

Strategy: Interrupt the negative pattern or emotion.

When my children cried in their youth. I did not say, “oh poor dear”. Or say “that must hurt”. I immediately said “shake it off” and often tried to make

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them laugh. Both better responses than reinforcing the crying. Kill the emotional monster while it is little. Interrupt the pattern.

There is a physical response or pattern to anger, loss, heartache and depression. If you can interrupt the pattern, you can get out of the funk. Distracting your thought process, with other activity can stop the thoughts.

Interrupt the pattern with:

Change of activity. Video game. Distraction. Laughter. Listen to a comedy show, or show. Laughing does wonders. Eat. Changes the blood chemistry, but may become a problem (too much eating leads to fat). Questions. Ask the right positive question. Look for positive meaning. Physical exercise. Take control of physiology. Change blood chemistry.

Strategy: Interrupt negative emotions with Physical exercise.

One of the quickest ways to change your negative thought(s), is to exercise or change your physiology. Does not matter, if that is going for a run, meditation, deep breathing, playing a sport, or just going for a walk. Physical exercise interrupts thought (and negative patterns). Breathing is GOOD!

You can’t figure the problem out at your desk? Go for a walk in the park. Constantly thinking of a issue, but can’t come up with a solution, time for a stretch break. FREAKING out? 10 minute super charger relaxation tape (mediation).

Interrupting the pattern, first stops the associated emotions and negative cycle, but also, often gives us a fresh approach to the problem.

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Strategy: Ask good questions, and make GOOD statements

The quality of your perception of events, is usually the quality of the questions you ask yourself and things you say about yourself (regular). If you have a “failure” and your questions are: • Why does this always happen to me (you will get answers). • How did I get into this situation? • Am I ever going to get out? • I have screw this up, haven’t I. • Why did they do that to me? • Why is this bothering me? • Why am I so fXXXed up?

Why questions often lead to negative emotions. Much better to ask What questions.

If you reaffirm negative thoughts about yourself with comments or thoughts, you will condition future behaviors.

Your personal narrative about yourself, turns in to actions at conscious and subconscious level. Therefore, you need to kill thoughts like:

• This always happens to me.

• Just when I get close, I screw up.

• I am not good at this.

• I always mess up.

• That figures.

• There is no use in trying

• I can’t….. Fix this, deal with it, change it.

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• I am going to look bad.

• Things won’t change.

These types of questions, and statements, reinforce the negative beliefs.

Better questions, will put you in a better state to solve the situation:

• What did I learn from this?

• How can I use this event to my advantage?

• How have others solved this problem?

• Who do I know that can help me with this?

• Does my mentor have some ideas?

• What assumptions am I making about this event?

• What is the worst that can happen? What is the best?

• Does thinking about this constantly, serve me?

• How else could I look at this situation?

• How can I dig out.

• What steps do I need to take.

• How CAN I, afford this, How CAN I fix this.

• What can I do about it?

• What is going on with my motivation, or emotions? You may realize

your self worth is not suppose to be tied to the business.

• How can earn from this situation.

When you have “Funk” the best thing to do, is step way from the reality of the moment, and look long term, or from a different perspective.

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A friend of mine, likes to say, go 10 years in the future, and ask will this matter? Or go to the top of the stairs, and look down. The stairs may look daunting when you are at the bottom, but pretty easy, when you are at the top (you climbed them). Perception is everything.

Strategy: Get rid of your limiting beliefs.

Often, negative thoughts, are a symptom, of a lack of belief in self, or limiting beliefs about self.

Therefore, working on stronger empowering beliefs, can improve thinking and thoughts.

Work through the various beliefs you have about: Wealth, Happiness, God, Destiny, Luck, Loved Ones, Family, Friends, Business and More. Ensure they empower you to achieve in life, or at least enjoy the ride.

Strategy: Reinforce your beliefs, with constant reminders.

I prefer to soak my mind, in positive beliefs. Therefore, I have:

• Quotations, on my wall, on my desk. Constant reminders. On my wall right now is a piece a paper that says:

o Be the Victor not the Victim. o God wants to show you his favor. o There is a Treasure in each of us. o Accelerate don’t slow down. o The best is in front of you, not behind you.

• Read positive materials. Success stories. Motivation. • Listen to positive motivational folks. Tony Robbins. Brian Tracy. • Meditate. Focus on with in. • Affirmations. Repeat positive affirmations.

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