Top 7 Ways To Programme Your Brain For Success

Programming is a computer term that aptly describes what happens when we feed a goal into our brains. We give our brains the goal and then programme it to achieve it. It then works like a locked-on missile seeking out its target. The following are 7 proven programming techniques that will ensure you land right on target.

1. Affirm What You Want. Affirming what you want means stating your goal in the present tense as if you'd already achieved it. The brain takes whatever action is needed to comply with the affirmation. Affirmations should be positive, realistic and expressed in emotive words such as “I love…” and “I enjoy…”. All of life’s geniuses use affirmations: "I am the greatest" (Muhammed Ali); "I know that I am an artist" (Beethoven).
   
   
2. See It Happening Now. Visualisation means seeing yourself in your mind's eye having achieved your goal. The secret of visualisation is to do it in such rich detail, and with all your senses, that you are fully there. Ray Kroc, founder of restaurant chain McDonalds, had a regular bedtime routine, in which he would imagine all the day’s problems written on a blackboard. One by one, he would see them being solved. As a result, he managed to sleep like a log.
   
   
3. Associate Your Goal With Rewards. Associate your goal with something you desire such as money, a desired object, or simply the feeling of pleasure and you will be motivated towards it. Alternatively, associate not getting your goal with something you don't want, such as loss of money or physical pain. These two things, pleasure and pain, are powerful motivating forces to get you what you want.
   
   
4. Practise Your Shots. The more you practise your shots, the more likely you are to score well when the opportunity arises. It's what cricketers do in the nets. Or teams that rehearse fire drills each week. Or entrepreneurs who visit their dream home each day as if they already owned it. In this way, you are reminding your brain of exactly what you are aiming for. And the brain will respond.
   
   
5. De-Bug With Positive Self-Talk. Just as a computer programme occasionally gets infected with viruses and bugs, so your own goal-setting programmes can get infected with setbacks, doubts, and feelings of failure. That’s when you need an anti-virus mental programme. One such programme is Positive Suggestion which is activated whenever you have thoughts of fear, panic or doom. Simply replace your negative thoughts with positive ones and remind yourself of your progress: “Every day in every way I am getting nearer and nearer my goals.”
   
   
6. Leave It Alone. Once we feed our goals into our subconscious brains, it’s very important that we let our brains get on with the job without interference. The conscious brain is like the machine operator while the sub-conscious is the machine itself. This means that you have to let go and resist the temptation to analyse or check how it’s doing. When you let go, you let God or, if you like, let good into your life.
   
   
7. Pray With Heartfelt Gratitude. Prayers are a form of programming that people have practised for centuries. But with one important difference from other kinds of programming. As well as verbalizing or internalizing something you want, you give thanks as if you already possessed it. Such gratitude connects you to a mightier power than you possess and unleashes great forces that work on your behalf.

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