Successful people in all areas of life are people who have a healthy, positive self image of themselves.

When you think poorly about yourself, you will achieve poor results in everything that you attempt.

On the contrary, when you have a positive self image you will succeed at everything that you pursue.

Improvement motivation, the desire to improve upon your current life and your future, begins when you develop a more positive self image.

You cannot create a better future if you do not take control of your current attitudes.

I want to share with you some very valuable advice about how this is done as well as why it is so powerful and necessary.

The following words of inspiration and motivation come from Dr. Denis Waitley in his book the psychology of winning.

winners are especially aware of the tremendous importance of their self image-and of the role their imagination can play in the creation and upgrading of the self image.

They know the self image acts as a subconscious life governing device-that if in your self-image you can’t possibly see yourself doing something, achieving something, you literally cannot do it!

They also know the self-image can be changed since the subconscious is incapable of differentiating between a real success and a success imagined again and again vividly and in full detail.

The winners self talk is “I see myself changing, growing, achieving, winning!”

losers say, “their my hangups, faults and stupidities… And I’m stuck with them.”

Your behavior and performance usually are consistent with your self-image. Your self-image is an intricately woven concept made up of all your feelings, fears and emotional responses to each and every personal experience up to the present.

As with any learned activity or skill, the self-image is housed at the subconscious or automatic level of thinking. What you perceive as real is filtered or shaded differently from what others perceive by your time grown, robot like self-image.

What you imagine as being real, with frequency, becomes your version of reality.

Winners imagine and fantasize that person that they would most like to become-and the robot self-image reads the script, memorizes it and acts accordingly.



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