"How
to Put the Attainment of Your Desires
on Automatic Pilot!"
By Stuart Lichtman
"My goal is to be rich by the end of the
year."
"My goal is to get more money fast!"
"My goal is to have Donald Trump owing me money."
Those might be called goals, but chances are high that the person
saying them will never achieve them.
Why?
Because they simply aren't good targets.
Most people set a goal, declare it their target, and then wonder
why they don't hit it.
Why?
Well, no one has ever explained the inner workings of the human
mind quite like I do in my book, How to Get Lots of Money for
Anything - Fast.
You see, in the past, when you stated a desire and tried to achieve
it, you didn't know that other parts of you may have other desires.
How to Set Your Target.
Why do you have inner parts that may not want the same goal you
say you want?
I'll explain it to you. This is something virtually no one else
has ever understood.
Your brain's activities are divided among four different systems,
each involving a major part of your brain. Usually these parts
are pulling you in different directions because they each speak
a different language:
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The right brain is fluent in patterns of
arrangement, rhythm, and sound.
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The left brain's language is made up of words
and logic.
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The midbrain communicates in emotions.
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The brainstem's language consists of physical
stimulus and response.
Your "rhythm section", the part of
the brain that "speaks" the language of patterns, rhythm,
and sound, is popularly known as the right brain.
The "words and logic brain" is sometimes called the
left brain.
The emotionally fluent section is the midbrain.
And the part that responds to physical stimulus is the brainstem.
You have probably experienced them all working together in harmony-and
sometimes in conflict, battling and even sabotaging each other.
For example:
Why Dieting Sucks
This example ought to strike home for you:
Suppose you decide to go on a diet and write a resolution (words
and logic).
But when you arrive at the dinner table, you unconsciously grab
a hot, fresh roll and bite into it before realizing that it will
delay reaching your weight-loss goal (physical stimulus: sitting
down to dinner - and response: eating a roll).
Perhaps you get upset at yourself, muttering some obscenity (emotions)
and, in response, rededicate yourself to holding to your diet
(words and logic again).
You refuse the potatoes and gravy (words and logic) and feel better
about yourself. (emotions).
But pretty soon, something seems to be missing (your patterns
are being violated).
Meat without potatoes? You think (words and logic), "Where
are the potatoes? Potatoes go with meat" (pattern).
Do you get a feel for what is happening? Do you sense the inner
contradictions?
No wonder dieting doesn't work!
Relax. It can be another way.
Framing
Not only are the four parts of your brain often in conflict, even
when what you consciously want wouldn't create conflict, three
parts usually don't know what that is!
In other words, they won't give you what they don't know you want!
Why?
Well, try the following simple exercise:
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Close your eyes and imagine a yellow triangle
perfectly centered within a red circle.
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Keep picturing that for as long as you can.
At what moment do other ideas, thoughts, emotions, visual
images, sounds, or feelings intrude?
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Note what intrudes. If you're typical and
if you're honest with yourself, you didn't make it more than
3 seconds.
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What intruded is what I call, "your
steam of consciousness."
If you were trying to give someone else instructions
and that included your stream of consciousness, they'd get totally
confused.
For example, I'm focusing on writing this. Here's what it might
sound like if I were describing what I want and including my stream
of consciousness:
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I want to describe framing.
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My ear itches.
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Scratch it.
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Do I start with the word example or.?
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Now the top of my head itches.
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I have to move my legs, they are crossed
and feel uncomfortable.
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No, that's too complicated
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Now my right eyebrow itches.
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And the top of my head.
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Oh, an email just came in.
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Maybe I should take a look.
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No, I should finish this section. Etc.
That's the sort of thing that goes on all the
time. Check it out for yourself.
Also, notice that each time my unconscious intruded with a stream
of consciousness experience, I not only recognized that experience
but I consciously responded.
My unconscious was listening to all of that. How could it tell
what was important and what was of little importance?
How can it tell when the same thing goes on with
you?
The answer is: NORMALLY IT CAN'T!
It can't unless you frame what you want it to pay attention to.
Whoops! What's framing?
Framing is simply the process of breaking things
into logical elements. In this case, it means separating what
you want from everything else that goes on in your "steam
of consciousness."
In effect, putting a bulls eye around what you
want. The Success And Failure Process I'm going to show
you what you might consider a ridiculously simple exercise in
framing and instructing your unconscious.
I call it the Success and Failure Process.
In fact, it's so simple, you might think it's silly.
But if you try it, you'll learn something important - as well
as increasing your success rate.
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Each day, take a clean piece of paper, divide
it into two columns, write "successes" at the top
of the left hand column and "failures" at the top
of the right hand one. Then date the page.
Under "successes," briefly note each of your successes
that day, one per line. Include both the little and big ones.
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Similarly, under "failures," list
each of what you perceive to be the day's failures. For example,
take a look at my morning:
Successes.
- I remembered to water my plant.
- I remembered to put the coffee on before I ran out
to my meeting.
- I remembered to send an email to my bank asking them
to deliver the papers here.
- I downloaded the free version of RealPlayer's Helix
program and installed it.
- I converted the updated Target Process audio I created
yesterday to RealPlayer format.
Failures
- I forgot to close Netscape last night before making
a backup so I got an error message.
- I forgot to completely shut off the water in the sink
and now the dripping is annoying me.
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Then read through your success list.
After reading each "success," remember the experience
it refers to and say to yourself, "That's a success.
I'd like more like of those!"
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Next read through your "failure"
list. After each "failure," remember the experience
and say to yourself, "That's a failure. I don't want
any more of those!"
If you do this every day, you will soon see
that the daily list of successes increases and the list of failures
decreases simply because you consciously framed the experiences
that you consider successes and the ones that you consider failures
and told your unconscious to focus on generating the former and
reducing the latter.
What you focus on is an instruction to your unconscious.
If you want more successes, focus on successes.
Easy, isn't it?
Of course, what I just showed you is a baby step but it is an
effective one.
Tomorrow, you will receive part three of this free email course.
It's called "How to Get Your Inner Forces All Moving Toward
the Same Goal."
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