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I love going to Motivational Seminars!   I get so excited when I hear the speaker talking about how I should Dream Big!  Set those Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals!   Dream Big - Dream Often!

Have you ever walked out of a motivational seminar so excited, that your heart is pumping faster, tears come to your eyes and you get that feeling in your gut that makes you want to just go out and do what it takes to achieve your dream?

I have! I do!  Every time I go to a seminar about something that I want to do or be I get excited. Maybe I'm just over emotional.  But I love the excitement of working hard to achieve my dreams.  You have to have dreams.  You have to have Big Dreams!

I used to go home excited and start thinking about my dreams and what I needed to do to achieve those dreams.  I would read the speakers books, I would listen to their tapes (yes, I said tapes. I started with these dreams since I was a kid, back when motivational "Tapes" were the thing).

I never seemed to succeed at my dreams. I tried, I studied and I read all of the top motivational books. I never seemed to get above 2nd place in anything. I never was #1 in the things I tried to excel at.

When I started studying martial arts, I wanted to excel at it. We practiced several meditation techniques and mental awareness methods to be able to perceive danger. I was fascinated by what my mind was capable of doing. This lead me to want to learn more about the mind and how it worked. I signed up for a hypnosis class nearby. I started learning more and more about the subconscious mind and how it worked. I went on to complete the entire program and graduated and became a trained hypnotherapist.

After working with one of the therapists, I learned that my mind had me thinking I was only 2nd best. It went back to internal feelings that my mother cared more for my sister than me. This went back to things that occurred in my childhood and was totally unfounded, BUT, my subconscious mind kept the thought that I was only #2, not #1.

Therefore, I could never achieve #1 status in anything I tried. There were other beliefs that my subconscious mind held as truths or "knowns" that weren't necessarily accurate, but were beliefs that it held. I found out that my subconscious mind believed one thing and because of that, it wouldn't let me achieve something counter to that belief.

If I set a goal and tried to achieve that goal, my own subconscious mind would sabotage my efforts to achieve that goal. It was like it just jumped up and slapped the ball away before it went into the net!

My mind was playing goalie for the other team!

Are you struggling with this?  Are you trying to achieve your goals but don't seem to be able to Get The Goals You Set?

Are you attending motivational seminars, reading all of the great self-help books to stay motivated and inspired?

Does it seem like every time you try to Achieve Your Dream that it you just fall short?  Maybe your mind is playing goalie for the other team, too.

Maybe you want to achieve your goals, your dreams. Why can't you?

The Enemy of Change

The Biggest Enemy of Change - Homeostasis

The most powerful force in nature - the innate drive to stay the same.

When we get too hot, the body sweats to cool off.

When we get too cold, the body shivers to generate warmth.

It's not just at the physiological level, but mental as well. It's all about a Life Script. 98% of what we did is Automatic.

We Walk, Talk, Breath automatically. We don't have to think about it! The Body Does It,