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The 3 Things They Didn’t Tell You About Achieving Success

  • Jun 18, 2021
  • 3 min read

Written by: Janna Holterman, Executive Contributor

Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise.

Everyone is trying to be successful, so why do some people succeed while others spend their whole life searching?


No matter how many courses you take or how much money you spend, you will not create the life you want unless you subconsciously understand these three things.

Their “how” is not going to get you there.


Following someone else’s step-by-step plan is not going to help you. You are a unique person with individualized skills and talents. What works for someone else isn’t going to work for you because it does not create the results.


Action is important, but only when it is aligned with your self-belief model.


Your thinking will always create your results.


Everything you do is based on your self-beliefs, and a belief is just a thought repeated until it is engrained into your subconscious mind.


Whenever you decide you want to do anything, your brain will take that desire and hold it up against your self-belief models. Does it match? If it does, you can achieve it. If it doesn’t, you got some brain rewiring to do before you will achieve it.


Your behavior is based on this simple cycle. You have a thought that stimulates a feeling that causes you to create your current results in your life. When you consciously take an action that is not aligned with your thinking and feeling, you will not be able to create the desired result. Once you stop pushing, you will go back to your auto-programed think, feel, act cycle. Have you ever wondered why, even when you do something different, you always seem to create the same result? This is why.


When it comes to success, you need to create thoughts that are aligned with the success you want. When you choose new ways of thinking, the more you can get into the feelings that are associated with the thought, the faster your subconscious brain will accept it as truth, even if it doesn’t feel true when you start. How you talk about yourself is creating your results. Notice what do you want to think now?


To change your beliefs, all that is needed is to repeat thoughts that are aligned with success until they become beliefs. Not all your thoughts will always be aligned. That’s okay but aim to make success aligned thoughts a majority, 51% wins.


You’re already the successful version of yourself.


You are right now in this moment, the same person who can create anything they ever wanted. It’s easy to forget and get caught up in doubt, which is a normal protective mechanism of your brain.


In order to create the success you desire, you need to become that version of yourself before any of the evidence is present. This self-success vision is what separates those who achieve their desires from those who do not.


What does the successful version of you think about? What do they do for fun? What are they focused on?


Answer these questions and start living them. When you need to decide, pause and ask what the answer from the person you want to be is?


When you continue to practice living a life of success, even just in your brain, your subconscious mind will begin to find the answers and opportunities to create the success you envision.


You are more powerful than you could ever imagine.


Success is always within your grasp.


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Janna Holterman, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine

Janna Holterman uses her personal experiences in burnout as a Registered Nurse and entrepreneur. She transformed from hustling to the point of exhaustion and overwhelm to an energetic and self-confident entrepreneur. Now Janna helps ambitious women go from overwhelmed and exhausted to creating lives they’ve always dreamed they could live. Janna uses mindset, structure, and resiliency tools from her own recovery, along with training from CTI and The Life Coach school to create results that last a lifetime.

 
 

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