Putting the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Work: Reach New Levels of Career Success Using the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass.

But progress can’t be made unless you become uncomfortable. You have to delve deep into your subconscious mind and cleanse it of old habits and build into it the new ways of doing things.
It’s a difficult procedure, but it is well worth it. Some of the benefits you gain are:

You will never succeed in leadership unless you truly believe you can be a leader. You must instill in your subconscious mind two simple conditions: You must believe that what you want can happen. You must believe that it will happen.
• One of the key requirements for success as a leader is the ability and willingness to delegate decision making to subordinates. Too many managers are reluctant to do this. Successful leaders recognize that they cannot do everything. A successful leader hires and trains the most capable people he or she can find and allows them to make decisions within their areas of expertise, so that the leader is free to use his or her time on matters of a higher level of importance.

be a leader, do not follow others. Do not imitate. Do not do things just as everybody else has done them before, but try new, ingenious ways. Show the people in your specialty that precedents do not cut much of a figure with you, and that you will make your own program.

Great leaders expect more from themselves than they do from others. Success is not dependent solely on your earnest affirmation, on your self-confidence, but also on the confidence of others in you; but this confidence is very largely a reflection of your own, the effect of your own personality on them. Your own atti-
tude of mind is therefore the means to produce this confidence in others. Your earnest affirmation is contagious. It affects everyone with whom you come in contact,

You will never succeed in leadership unless you truly believe you can be a leader. You must instill in your subconscious mind two simple conditions: You must believe that what you want can happen. You must believe that it will happen.

their weakness and shortcomings with strength and ability. Thus, in their combined power, they make an effective force. To do this a good leader may often have to shake up his organization and even step aside.
A good example of this is Sean Perich, founder of Bakery Barn, producer of a protein cookie. He grew the company to the $6 million level in fewer than five years, through sales at fitness gyms and 7-Elevens. But somewhere around 2005, Bakery Barn’s rise to the top stalled, forcing Perich to look again at his team, himself included. The company had veered off into new products based on
his own ideas, which went unquestioned. His senior management team (primarily family members) had been fine at the beginning, but now he recognized that neither he nor they had the culinary or busi

consciously, audibly addressing it, in heart-to-heart talks with ourselves, we find that we can very materially influence our habits, our motives, and our methods of living. In fact, the possibilities of influencing the character and the life by this means are practically limitless.
Start by writing out a list of the qualities that make a strong, courageous, successful character, and their opposites, those that make a weak, timid, unsuccessful one, and examine yourself to see what your rating is on each list. Call the characteristics off aloud: faith, courage, self-confidence, ambition, enthusiasm, perseverance, concentration, initiative, cheerfulness, optimism, thoroughness, etc. Ask yourself if you possess these splendid quali

Don’t be afraid to face your weak points, or to call your faults by their right names. Bring them into the light, see them for what they are, and then grapple with them. You cannot afford to be less than God intended you to be, to be less than you feel that you should be and can be, to have your life spoiled by some defect that you can overcome.
When you have gone over the specific character qualities, ask yourself these broader questions, always visualizing and addressing yourself by name:
“Bob, what are you here for? What do you mean to the world? What message does your life, your career bring to it? What do you mean to your company, organization, or community?”
“Beth, what do you stand for?

Power comes from within or from nowhere. Be yourself. Listen to the voice within. There is room for improvement in every profession, in every trade, and in every business. The world wants people who can do things in new and better ways. Don’t think that because your plan or idea has no precedent, or because you are young and inexperienced, you will not get a hearing. The person who has anything new and valuable to give to the world will be