Discipline Your Mind For Success, Improve Your Focus

I was reading my usual blogs today and found a particularly interesting post by Steve Pavlina on his Personal Development Blog. I thought that you might like to head on over there if you aren't already following along. It is a huge post so take a little time and settle in for a good read and take some notes.

The whole post can be read at: Disciplining Your Mind to Become Better at Manifesting. Here are a couple of thoughts he touches on but he goes into great detail on the "How To's" in his original post.

"When our mind is cluttered and we attempt to introduce new intentions, it’s like throwing pebbles into a stormy sea. The ripples will still occur, but they’ll just be absorbed. The calmer we can make our background thoughts, the cleaner will be our intentions’ ripples, and the more readily they’ll manifest."

"How can you hold a thought of financial abundance without succumbing to worries about paying the bills? How can you focus on attracting a new relationship when you still harbor thoughts of being alone? How can you manifest health when you keep thinking about your ailments?" . . .

"I think a good solution to these problems is to build your mental discipline, your ability to stay focused on whatever it is you consciously decide to think about.

"We spend a lot of time thinking, but how much effort do we put into consciously managing our thoughts? How skilled are you at choosing your thoughts?"

"I’ve come up with a number of practices that have been very helpful in keeping my thoughts focused on what I want and away from what I don’t want . . . Read his entire posting