“Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it, proceed the issues that govern life” – Proverbs 4:23
“In the end, we will remember, not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” – Marthin Luther King Jr.
It might shock you to know, but research has revealed that in any area of professional development, focusing on the skill itself accounts for less than 30% of what will make you grow or develop. In fact, a school of thought I have come to find interesting and fascinating says that the combination of learned skill, knowledge and other intellectual factors account for just 15% of the actual skill’s development, the other 85% are accounted for by things you and I an unconscious of. Let’s call them unconscious factors.
To take a more practical approach, let’s look at a skill like presentation skills, or writing skills. If you wanted to develop these skills today, you would focus on reading about these skills, that would be called gaining knowledge, you would talk about learning by doing, practicing, forming habits, that would be called learned skill. You would also look at some other intellectual factors like learning by teaching others, going for a course, passing an exam e.t.c. Right? All that will account for only 15% of what you need to do to develop that skill. If that is all you have ever done today, you can only imagine the potentials you have to further develop yourself. 85% of what is responsible for your development are things within your subconscious mind. The factors mostly responsible for your success, are internal. You’ll need to align them properly to succeed.
These unconscious factors include but are not limited to the following – your attitude, self-beliefs, feelings of worthiness, spiritual and emotional influences. All human beings have a latent inner power that only few are ever able to access and tap into. This inner power makes all the difference between success and failure. All the trainings of the world will never take you past a point in your cruise to success. You will only get past this barrier when you are able to tap into the vast resource of internal and unconscious factors.
Fact 1. Your limiting factors in life are the things you unconsciously accept to be your possibilities. Your deep-seated self estimates give the marching orders, and your habits, activities and attitudes carry them out without questioning. You have an internal script, a programming that runs underneath the operation of your life. You are normally unconscious of this script or programming, but it clearly describes your achievement possibilities and your life runs on it. If you take time out to be introspective, you will pick up some of the events and factors that created this internal programming – your parents, your upbringing, privileges you enjoyed or were denied, love or lack of it e.t.c. These become the basis for your perception of yourself. When something becomes your perception, it doesn’t matter if it is right or wrong, it is the pivot of your reality. If I perceive that I was being chased by a lion, and in reality I wasn’t, I would still run like I was being chased. Deep seated perception controls our realities.
Fact 2. You have the power to achieve any goal you consciously accept to be within your possibilities. There is a lot of literature out there on the fundamental principle of goal setting. What goal setting does for you, is that it helps you expand your unconscious limits. It changes some aspects of your internal programming. Remember, the viability of your internal programming is not a function of truth or false, right or wrong; it’s a function of your perception.
Where the battle for success is won is in the mind. The weapons of our warfare are not canal, they are not physical weapons, they are internal, and they are weapons that help us to capture and channel our thoughts, to program our subconscious mind and to give ourselves a chance to be the best that we can be. A little rudder controls a big ship, a little fire burns down a big forest, a little tongue sets nations against each other, small hinges swing big doors, little keys open metal doors…in the same way, the little seemingly insignificant unconscious mind controls all that you see in the world and is responsible for the limits preset in the lives of the living. What do you unconsciously disallow?
10 thoughts on “Secrets to Success – 2”
A masterpiece…as always…
One must look within to identify what he unconsciously disallows….”Selah”
Nice one.. Keep it up! What a man achieves ultimately are as a result of the innate qualities he possesses!!!
hmmmm….”You have the power to achieve any goal you consciously accept to be within your possibilities” this is great revelation. The pieces are finally coming together, the picture is becoming clearer.
Thanx Chairman for this great revelation and see you at the TOP!
Josh
http://www.joshadeyemi.blogspot.com
Hello Deolu,
Quite an incisive, thought provoking and inspirational masterpiece.
Though I have known a little about the subconscious mind and its operations but to be candid, i have never heard it in this fashion before.
No wonder The Lord Jesus in Matthew 12:35 said, “a good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things…”
Until there is that inner change, there can’t be any worhty out word change (Romans 12:2b). No matter the amount of efforts and skills emplolyed “for as he thinketh (perceived) in his heart so is he” Proverbs 23:7.
Many thanks and More Power to your elbow!
I know I can be what I want to be if I work hard at it ,I will be where I want to be .By allowing my subconcious to be right and focus positively about life I will get there.
Thanks for you great work,it is not over until it is over.
Now, this is deep! Goes a long way to underscore the value of our mind, what we feed it and how we use it consiously and unconsiously.
This piece has opened my eyes to somethings I have do to go to the next level! God bless you, Chairman!
Dear Charman,
Thank you for writing about this INTERNAL PROGRAMS that run us.
If they are positive programs we have can do ,nothing is impossible spirit.
If the programs are negative,failure is almost assured.
Iwill like to add that “PROPER PRIOR PREPARATION PREVENTS POOR PERFOMANCE” .
I have made this into a song and played it on my guitar and asked my children,and other children at fora I have been opportuned to discuss success, to learrn the 6Ps song and sing along with me.It helps the message to sink into their minds.
wonderful…very inspiring.God bless you.
@the mind
i read a version of the bible that said “take no thought saying…..” i understood it to mean that “accept no thought that says…. what shall we eat, drink…” everyday and time, thoughts come away asking us questions. we must be concious enough to know those kind of thought and be on guard against them or they may immobilise us in life.
strangely enough, to replace bad thinking with good thinking, we need to discuss more with good thinkers, read more, and practise what i call the act of silence. reading without going over it is almost a waste. peace!!!
everytime i visist this site, i always do so with a jotter and a pen to always jote down. you are wonderful sir. the truth of the matter is that “mind failure is life failure” only those who hacve seen victories in their mind can truly claim victory in life. there is no limit to what anybody can do when he has the right mindset. great peice i must confess.