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Book stores have shelves full of autobiographical memoirs of various different achievers. From glamour models to empire builders, they all have a different story to tell. But each has a common thread – they overcame adversity by focusing on the positives. Positive belief is paramount – there are no two ways about it!

So if you’re dieting, develop a positive approach to losing the pounds. To complete a diet successfully, the biggest asset a person can have is a positive mindset. A positive approach opens up all sorts of possibilities. Answers will come to us when our minds are open. By contrast, a pessimistic outlook blocks our receptors and thwarts our progress.

This is due to our Reticular Activation System, which is a mechanism in our brain that automatically tells us what to focus on. We become familiar with many things over time that don’t continue to stay in the forefront of our minds – most of what we’ve learned moves from the conscious to the sub-conscious mind. It’s a sort of stock cupboard of all our past knowledge and beliefs.

Our Reticular Activation System will go through the sub-conscious mind for any information it holds, and bring it into focus when we need it. We’re made aware only of things that are relevant to us – anything else just stays in the background.

So if our conscious mind has regularly been transferring up-beat, positive messages to our sub-conscious mind, then that’s what will come back. And yet the reverse is true when our sub conscious has been bombarded with negative.

It seems that achievers are able to manipulate the messages filtered through to their sub-conscious minds. By deliberately programming their RAS, they choose the exact messages the conscious mind sends. So as the sub-conscious doesn’t know what’s actually real, the RAS can be a great tool for realising ambitions.

So it’s vital to construct an exact picture in our conscious mind of what we want. The RAS will then pass this on to our sub-conscious – which will then help us achieve the goal. This is done by bringing to our notice all the meaningful information which might otherwise have just been ‘background noise’.

Napoleon Hill once wrote that we can attain any reasonable goal if we keep it clearly in our mind. That’s as long as we don’t allow any negative thoughts about it. Obviously, if we keep telling ourselves that we can’t hit a goal, our sub-conscious won’t allow us to achieve it.