Getting Rich - with Basil Mienie

How to get Motivated for Success and Confidence|Understanding Stress

What is psychological stress?

Taken from Wikipedia. Stress (psychological). 

 The word stress is used in many different contexts. However, psychological stress is not as vague and all-encompassing as most people believe it to be. Stress is not directly created by external events, but instead, by the internal perceptions that cause an individual to have anxiety/negative emotions surrounding a situation, such as pressure, discomfort, etc., which they then deem “stressful”.

Humans experience stress, or perceive things as threatening, when they do not believe that their resources for coping with obstacles (stimuli, people, situations, etc.) are enough for what the circumstances demand. When we think the demands being placed on us exceed our ability to cope, we then perceive stress. The feelings often associated with experiencing stress are anxiety and being overwhelmed.

I have found that when we take more control of what we think we tend to reduce the amount of stress we have. Exercise is known to be one of the finest stress relievers along with a really good relaxation method. These tend to give us the idea that we are in control of our lives and the surrounding situations.

Motivation| How to get confidence and success with motivation

You will often see people start a fitness plan and quit. You might well have been one of them. Most people start training and then lose motivation. This is very common. You will see gyms full in January and then by March the numbers are right down.

Before you set the goal of what you want, know why you want it. It must not be for anyone else. It has to be for you. This is for any goal that you decide on.  Once you know what you want then set the goal. Do not just set any goal. Set a winning goal. That means that if you achieve what you set out to do, you will see yourself as a winner. If you do not achieve the goal you will have to go with the opposite word which is LOSER.  No one wants to be known as a loser so you will have a lot more motivation to achieve your goal. Every time you want to procrastinate or make excuses for not doing what you know you should be doing you need to ask yourself, “is this what a winner does or what a loser does”.  You will be amazed at how strict you will become.

As the results come so the motivation will keep growing. You can use this for every goal you want in life.

Relaxation| How to get Success, Motivation and Confidence

Relaxation Before Visualisation

In order to get the absolute most out of the time you spend in visualisation it is important that you learn to relax, physically and mentally.

Why is this?

Because a mind that is filled with stress will really struggle to accept a new idea.You will really battle to get a good vision of how you want to be. If you cannot see what you want in your mind you will never have it in life.

One of the fastest ways is to pay attention to your breathing. As you breathe out see the old energy leaving the body and then as you breathe in feel the wonderful new energy entering your body. Watch yourself breathe. Inhale deeply. Pay attention to the air filling your lungs. Exhale deeply.

After a few deep breaths you'll wonder where all the mental stress went. Your muscles will relax and you will be ready to program your mind with exactly how you want to be.

It is a great idea to visualize for a few minutes just before going off to sleep, when you are not asleep but nearly there, the twilight zone. If you visualize before sleep your subconscious mind will work on your goals while you sleep.

How to get Success, Motivation and Confidence|Focus

How to overcome stress, fear and self doubt with focus

I once again travelled over 2 hours to a 4 Networking meeting in Croydon. At the meeting I met a life coach who introduced himself to the group as person that helps people to focus correctly.

Often we do things that we do not really give a lot of thought to. It came to mind how many times I suggest to people on my YouTube site Bazblog that, in order to get results you have to focus on what you are doing. I have many, many times explained the following to my clients who I work with.

Most of us have used a magnifying glass to set a piece of paper alight. You have to get the suns rays into a concentrated spot. The secret here is to get it focused on one spot then wait until it becomes so hot that it ignites. That is what you have to do to achieve any kind of success you want. It is no good getting the focus and not waiting long enough. All that will happen is you will keep getting the focus and before the paper is hot enough to ignite you move it. You will have a load of hot spots but nothing alight.

Being focused means you choose a goal or destination - then you get so focused on what you need to do that you do not waste time, or fall into the trap of being busy being busy.

It is easy to forget these important things when you do it every day. It is really great to get a little reminder of how important focus actually is.

How to get Success, Motivation and Confidence|Belief

One of the greatest statements I have ever heard is this one.

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve”.

This comes from Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich. Just think about what is says.

We think all the time. If we think right, and we really believe what we think, we then can achieve what we are thinking about. Have you ever thought of the terrible impact it can have on your life if you think you cannot achieve something. No matter how much you might wish and hope to achieve it you will never get a favourable result. Only when you stop and think right will you start to get the kind of results you really want to get. It is not going to be easy because controlling your thought is one of the most difficult things to do. You might require help to do this. Never feel you have failed because you use someone to help you to get what you want.

How to get Success, Motivation and Confidence|Worry

One of the quickest ways to lose confidence and become totally de-motivated is to worry. Every one of us suffers from this from time to time. We worry over the weather, our partners, our children, our business/employment, our health and even what is going to happen with the rising costs of living. It is extremely difficult to overcome this problem.

In order to win against worry you first need to understand what it is. Worry is pain suffered for something that has not happened and probably never will. It is always in the future and is never in the present.

Think about it. We start to worry about how we are going to pay the bills often at the beginning of the month. We spend the whole month feeling worse and worse. It stops us from moving forward. We find it very difficult to make decisions and it absolutely causes us to procrastinate.

The next time you start to worry just ask yourself "do I want to suffer pain right now". Face the bill problem on the day it is due not days or weeks before. You will find that you will have more energy to be active, confident and motivated when you put worry to rest. You will find that because of the action you put in you will probably have the money to pay everything at month end.

How to get Success, Motivation and Confidence|persistence

If you want to have success and motivation you must be persistent. Once you learn to be persistent you will find that you will develop confidence.

I have just finished a new video showing a full upper body workout.

 

 I now wanted to get it on my computer and then up load it to YouTube. I have got a new laptop which does not have a fire wire connection. I went into Oxford 3 times to get the cables that I needed. Each time I got home they did not work. The journey takes nearly an hour for the round trip. After the 3rd time I really wanted to give up. I then thought of a way to do it. I would connect the camera to the DVD player as this can also record DVD’s. It worked after a lot of effort. Finally I thought I had succeeded when I discovered that the windows 7 movie maker is totally different to the last one I had. I had to just keep trying and trying till finally I managed to get it to work. I uploaded a video that I started at midday, at 11pm that night. 11 hours it took to upload a video that should not have taken much more than 1 hour. Once the video was up the comments were amazing. It has made it all worthwhile.  Being persistent definitely does help you to achieve success. 

How to get Success, Motivation and Confidence| The power of thought

Correct thought has helped people achieve results that literally boggle the mind. It is described in the following verses.

If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a person's will,
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You,ve got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man
But soon or late the one who wins
Is the one WHO THINKS HE CAN!

You can see from the above that is it simple to achieve success to be confident and to be motivated about life if you control your thought.

"As a person thinks in their mind so they are in life" ~ Basil Mienie

How to get Success, Motivation and Confidence|Networking

I have seen people grow considerably with networking. Most groups these days give you the opportunity to explain what you do. Some groups will allow a full minute, where the group I belong to allows 40 seconds. The group is called 4Networking and I must admit, after spending 10 years networking, this has to be about the best group I have been associated with. Every time you have to stand up you are actually building up some confidence. It is like all things, if you practice you will get better. I have seen very shy people end up running groups as a result of putting in the effort to deliver a great short explanation of what they do.  The great thing about networking is you get a chance to share ideas with others. Today I undertook a 2 hour journey to do a 10 minute presentation to one of the groups. This is a great confidence builder and the fact that you have been able to help others does wonders for your motivation and success.

How to get Success, Motivation and Confidence|Enthusiasm| How to be enthusiastic

When you meet someone who is enthusiastic it is infectious. It causes you to be enthusiastic. I have found that you can develop enthusiasm but you will have to work at it. I do not mean a false enthusiasm that is put on to impress people, but one that reflects the real you.

You have to have in interest in what you are doing to be enthusiastic. If there is no interest there will not be enthusiasm.  You will need to get some knowledge about what you are doing. Without knowledge it is impossible to be enthusiastic. You have to have a belief in what you are doing. If you do not believe in something enthusiasm dies in its tracks.

Those 3 things, interest, knowledge and belief are the keys to being an enthusiastic person. You will never see a person at the top of their game who is a dull person. They are full of life and that is what enthusiasm does. It helps to create success, motivation and confidence. Try it and you will be amazed at how you feel.