What Is It That Makes a Person a Winner?
“It’s all in the mind,” says Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California and multimillionaire, successful real estate tycoon, movie star, body-builder and five-time winner of the Mr. Universe title, Arnold has it made. But it wasn’t always so. Arnold can remember when he had nothing except a belief that his mind was the key to where he wanted to go.
“When I was very young, I visualized myself being and having what I wanted. Mentally I never had any doubts about it. The mind is really so incredible. Before I won my first Mr. Universe, I walked around the tournament like I owned it. The title was already mine. I had won it so many times in my mind that there was no doubt I would win it. Then, when I moved on to the movies, the same thing. I visualized myself being a successful actor and earning big money. I could feel and taste success. I just knew it would all happen.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
The technique Arnold is talking about, the technique that brought him so much success is called visualization. Visualization is using your imagination to see yourself in a situation that hasn’t yet happened, picturing yourself having or doing the thing you want, or successfully achieving the results you desire.
Let’s say you want to be more confident. Using visualization you picture yourself working, talking to people, all with great confidence. You imagine yourself in situations that normally give you difficulty and you see yourself in these situations as confident, at ease, and performing well.
You might picture your friends and associates complimenting you on your newfound confidence. You feel the pride and satisfaction of being a confident person and in your mind you enjoy the things that happen to you as a result of your confidence. You visualize everything that would or could happen to you and live as if it really is happening to you.
Any thought put into your mind and nourished regularly will produce results in your life.
What is it that you want in your life?
- Better health? Then get health consciousness.
- Greater prosperity? Get prosperity consciousness.
- More spirituality? Get spirituality consciousness.
Everything exists as a possibility. All that’s required is for you to feed in the necessary energy until your objective becomes your own.
How reassuring it is to think that no matter what a person’s past or present situation, no matter how many times he or she has previously failed, if that person would but regularly feed his or her consciousness, his or her situation would change! This remarkable ability has been given to each and every one of us to use or to ignore. It costs no money. It takes no special talent. It takes only the decision on your part to take the time and put forth the necessary effort to develop the appropriate consciousness. That’s all! Everything else will automatically fall into place.
