Thought Ignite - Thoughts-> Feelings-> Actions-> Results

This morning I was watching Nat Geo Reveals on the National Geographic.

A young talented gymnast, Rebecca, was trying to perfect one of her moves but of no avail. She was then made to relax and go through her movements in her mind clearly. Each move she was to do on the parallel bars, she rehearsed explicitly in her mind. And then she tried to once again attempt that complicated move on the bars. Lo. She was able to perfectly execute it in a smooth and easy manner. And I still remember her beautiful smile once she finished the move.

Learned scientists explained what happened here. It seems that there is an area in the brain where pathways are to be made for any sort of movement or action to happen seamlessly in the outer world. In the case of Rebecca, these brain pathways were to be exercised either at the gym or even in her mind. Both built up the pathways and when executed in the physical world it showed the exact result. 

This is nothing but the mental programming that we are all talking about all the time. If you think right thoughts and focus on acheiving what you want, the chances are very high that when the opportunity arrives you will be able to perform and out perform and reach the goal of your dreams. It is important that you first develop the personality that you want to be in life, initially in your mind. Make the picture clear. And then the higher mechanisms will work towards making pathways to achieve your goal. And that is the time that you need to physically work towards your goal.

Many people without realizing this process seem to just work in a 9 - 5 treadmill kind of job doing the same thing over and over and over again and again......and then cursing ill luck, fate, destiny, an unfair world...an unjust God etc etc

If only they would stop.... Think.... Decide..... and then act, I am sure the will be much ahead in their lives than what they are now. Muscles develop only when you work on them. Life improves only when you work on it.

Dont get on. Get Ahead. That is what matters.

Sanjiv Padman

Goals are the motivation factor in human life.

Every one who has achieved anything significant in their lives, had at an earlier time very intensely thought about their dream or goal. And this thought was dominant in their mind all the while. A deep desire to achieve their goal triggred many mechanisms (that till then lay dormant) in their mind which forced them to act in such a way thus creating an environment which made them worthy of their goals.

Now here is the fun: many of them never even knew the science that they so unknowingly used to succeed.  (This science works like the power of gravity. You dont have to get a doctorate in gravity for you to jump off a building and reach the bottom!!) I have personally interviewed 100s of CEOs and winners in various fields who started very small and made it very big in life and I understand one common criteria in their lives. They all had clear cut goals. They all had visions of what they would be at some point of life later. This was their motivation factor to work. It served as a homing beacon throwing them the direction of direction.

There is no motivation without a motive. Get a goal. There are thousands of methods how you can harness on the power of focused attention. Spend some time with a person who knows goals and ask him to help you set yours. Somebody asked Rockfeller the steel tycoon "what are the most important points to succeed in life?" And Rockefeller told him "2 points young man. First decide what you want, and next find the price you have to pay for it and begin paying it today" Well that is how nature works too. You need to pay in advance for what you want to receive from her.This is a rich universe and there is much more than plenty for each and every soul on this earth and off it. It is only a question of what you want. Get getting clear about life.

There is going be a day and a year called 1st January 2020. It is most certain to come. And you will be somewhere when that happens. The question is "where will you be?"

Goal setting is an art. Learn it.

The Scientific Goal Setting and Getting Program

Sanjiv Padman

First give into a relationship what you would like to get from it.

Each time I read this phrase, it gives me more reason to look at my relationships.  It carries so much value and yet it is so simple you could read it and still not get its meaning. 

If you would like someone to smile at you then all you have to do is just smile at them. Go on take the initiative. It is a irrefutable command to the other person to smile at you. Not knowing this we refrain from doing so and....get what we asked for.

If you are in a relationship (no matter where you are) and if you would like to grow your relationship with that person, then do this simple exercise, and I promise you, you will feel happy you did.

(1) First visualize from deep inside your heart a sincere relationship with your spouse or friend or who ever. (2) Then pick up the phone (yes NOW) and ask them where they are now, are they busy, and tell them that you called "just like that" because you felt like doing so. Thats it.

Do it once in about 3 - 4 days and when you do so, be sincere about your talk. Use words that are meaningful. And do it irrespective of any indifference you may have between you both. And get ready to be amazed by the result that happens.

Life is so simple. All we need to do is learn to pay our dues in advance. You cannot expect a harvest from the soil without any toil right? Well, I do not know, but that is the way nature works for some reason.

Sanjiv Padman