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The Human Brain<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Roodepoort, May 18, 2020: When you look at the human brain, you need to understand that there is a difference between the conscious and the subconscious and one of the concepts about the subconscious is that there is no time in the subconscious, everything is in the present.\u00a0 So when you have a memory for example, even though the memory is something that is in the past your brain pulls it into the subconscious and it gets illuminated or revealed in the subconscious, and while that memory is playing in your subconscious mind, your brain experiences it as if it is happening at the moment. It is one of the reasons why a memory can trigger an emotion, because if you understand how the brains files data and stores memories, every memory is stored with an attached emotion to it, so when that memory is extracted into the brain and it is remembered the emotion attached to it triggers with it.\u00a0 Because your subconscious has no understanding about time, there is no yesterday, today or tomorrow, everything is now.\u00a0 The brain experiences that memory as if it is happening now. That is a good thing to use when you want to put someone in a state or yourself in a specific state but that concept has a little bit of a risk as well because the same rule applies when we start dreaming about tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Dreaming<\/strong><\/p>\n

What happens to the brain when you dream those dreams, the brain experiences them as if they are happening?\u00a0 Now think about it from a different angle.\u00a0 Some of you know people that are in an abusive relationship, and have you ever met a woman that\u2019s in an abusive relationship for a very long time and you wonder why they don\u2019t just get out of it, its as if she is in a state of contentment and accepted it for some reason. One of the reasons this happens is because we daydream. If you are in an abusive relationship, what the brain often does is it dreams about a good relationship and because the subconscious brain cannot differentiate between time, the subconscious mind cannot differentiate between fake or real, synthetic or actual. This is simplistic when we think about movies.\u00a0 When you watch a movie, ladies, when you watch a chick flick like the notebook, you cry every time at the same scene.\u00a0 When you watch a movie, intellectually, you know that that character busy dying, that your crying about will re-appear in another soap opera next week.\u00a0 But you still cry about it because a part of the brain does not differentiate between time and reality.\u00a0 It experiences what it experiences as if it is happening now and as if it is real, there is no differentiation.\u00a0 When your brain experiences a dream state of happiness, it means you are experiencing happiness.\u00a0 If you are in a bad situation and dream about a good situation your brain and subconscious mind, your emotional state experiences the good situation as if it is happening, and that very often creates a state of contentment.\u00a0 In other words, even though part of my life is miserable, I have times where I have good moments.\u00a0 Even if those good moments are fake moments.<\/p>\n

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The risks of daydreaming<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is the risk of that, it very often causes us to dream about what we want to achieve, experience it in the short term, and then it allows us to still sit on the coach and do nothing about it because we have experienced it, and that short experience gives us a state of contentment.\u00a0 Part of our brain believes it has happened, so we don\u2019t put in the energy and the effort and the behaviour to make it happen. That is one of the reasons we very often procrastinate on our amazing goals because we think about them, we dream about them, we experience them and because we have experienced them, part of the brain says you have experienced it so there for you don\u2019t have to do anything about it.\u00a0 And tomorrow we wake up feeling miserable because nothing has happened in our lives and then we go back into that dream state.<\/p>\n

2 Types of dreams<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is an old saying in the project management field, failing to plan, is planning to fail. Unless you have a well-structured, well-formed strategy plan, step by step on how you are going to achieve that dream, you might find yourself dreaming about the dream and not doing anything about it.\u00a0 So, what I have done in my life is I have differentiated two types of dreams in my life.\u00a0 The one type of dream I call a dream. But the other type, I do a deliberate action plan where I apply discipline and courage and I act on that action plan.\u00a0 Those dreams I call goals.\u00a0 So, there is a fine line between a dream and a goal.\u00a0 And the fine line is, the one has a strategy to it and action and behaviour.\u00a0 The moment we start acting we start getting into a motion.<\/p>\n

Get into it<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever gone to the gym or wanted to do some exercise, sometimes beforehand you just don\u2019t feel like it and the first 5 minutes of it your just lethargic, and not really putting in a lot of effort, but once you start getting into it, something just kicks in and you start putting in a huge amount of effort and you\u2019re on rollercoaster of an energy drive and you start producing amazing results.<\/p>\n

Goals have that. Dreams do not.<\/p>\n

There is a huge difference between the 2 and yet they are very close to each other.\u00a0 If you have dreams in your life and you have found yourself dreaming the same dream and realising I\u2019m not getting into it, you need to realise it is a dream and you have no right to call it a goal unless there is a strategy and action attached to it.\u00a0 See the difference between the two.\u00a0 So ask yourself what is your goal because here is the strangest thing about this, if you merely keep dreaming and not convert the dream into a goal with a strategy and an action plan and then a behaviour, what you will find is that external factors will start creating and forcing you to behave in certain ways, then you become reactive, and you don\u2019t live a life of pro-active.\u00a0 The moment you become reactive, you become controlled or influenced by something on the outside.\u00a0 You are not in control of your life.\u00a0 The moment you become proactive, then you become in control of your life.\u00a0 And that is a massive difference.\u00a0 If you look at successful people and you look at unsuccessful people, that is very often the main differentiating factor.<\/p>\n

Act on your goals<\/strong><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter if you feel great, unless there is a behavioural response to it, it is merely just a dream. \u00a0There is how many people around this world, that have been dreaming the same thing as you and they have been thinking I need to go do that, I need to go on that workshop, that thing has been offered for free, there is something really interesting about this. And then they dream about doing it and then nothing happens.\u00a0 Because there is no action.<\/p>\n

Motivation is one of the biggest false emotional states you can experience.<\/p>\n

Motivation is a false emotional state. Motivation does not create action.<\/p>\n

Now I am not knocking motivational speakers, they are critical in our society and I love motivational speakers. But have you ever been to a motivational speaker session and at the end of the session you find yourself really pumped; you are ready to take on the world? You are energized, you know this is the moment you have been waiting for, and you know you are now going to kick ass. You are going to make this stuff happen and then the next day nothing happens.\u00a0 And then the next day you have forgotten about it, and the next week you are back into your normal default behaviour patterns and your tank is empty and the only way you can ever feel like that is to go back to a motivational speaker.<\/p>\n

Motivation is part of the brain that gets disillusioned about a potential outcome. It experiences something in the future as if it has already happened and then it feels fantastic.\u00a0 Motivational states are often very similar to a dream state, so I want you to look at it differently.\u00a0 I wan to tell you a story.\u00a0 Let\u2019s assume there are two guys standing on a cliff and at the bottom there is a beautiful ocean and these two guys want to jump off the cliff.\u00a0 Number one decides he is jumping, as he is jumping, he has this adrenaline rush, and swoosh into the ocean. Very thrilled and excited he now runs back up the cliff and to the top. Number two took a few steps back and decided he is not going to jump.\u00a0 Now they are both standing on the cliff, which one now feels motivated to jump, very simple, the one that has already jumped.\u00a0 We believe we need to feel motivated before we take action, we don\u2019t.\u00a0 First and foremost, before we take action, you need to experience hope, hope is a future emotion that says if I do something there will be a result.\u00a0 It is an emotion of positive expectation that something could happen.\u00a0 Once I have hope or I have the positive expectation that something can happen.\u00a0 The next state I will need is courage.\u00a0 You see the guy that jumped for the first time, in that moment what he experienced was hope, was a potential expectation but combined with that he also experienced fear.\u00a0 He also experienced a nervous state and inside of those states he applied courage to push him through those states, take the leap, have the experience.\u00a0 Because he has now had that experience the brain can now reference that experience.\u00a0 Now the brain is motivated to experience it again.\u00a0 What motivational speakers do is they allow your brain to tap into things you have achieved in the past, create that in a way where you believe you are experiencing it in your future.\u00a0 And now you feel motivated that you can do it again, but if it is a new behaviour you will not take action.\u00a0 You need to apply courage.\u00a0 Courage combined with discipline creates sustainability and results.<\/p>\n

A deadline forces a human to take courage, but here is the difference.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you decide you want to go for a run, and you don\u2019t go for a run and you dreamed about the run, but you are not taking any action on it.\u00a0 If you decide to get fit and you want to run every day.\u00a0 To start that process you need courage and discipline to start to action so you can get into a motion.\u00a0 Then you start feeling motivated and you start doing this more and more.\u00a0 That is a towards strategy behaviour, because you are starting to run because you want to get fit.\u00a0 But there is another way to get you to start running and that is by putting a snake in your room.\u00a0 That is a fear-based behaviour.\u00a0 And all fear-based behaviours are not sustainable, because you will only run up to the moment where you believe you have gotten away from that initial catalyst that got you to run.\u00a0 The moment that fear is gone you will stop running.\u00a0 If you believe that timeframes are what gets you going then you must start to realise that you are living in a fear based kickstart behaviour.\u00a0 Would you rather want to live in a fear based kickstart behavioural pattern or would you rather want to live in a courage, disciplined, congruent behaviour?\u00a0 Step into it, take the first action.\u00a0 Teach your brain to become proactive, start taking the actions, then get into that discipline, then start feeling the pleasure, the rush from it, now you are motivated to start the motion going, and now congruency and a continuous behaviour will start.<\/p>\n

It is a simple thing to reflect quickly.\u00a0 Think about times when you take a short holiday, and you go on holiday for a few days, lets assume you have worked very hard up until that point. Have you noticed that you need to unlearn the behavioural pattern of working consistently , the first day or two your brain and body actually struggles to get out of the motion of working, because that congruency is installed.\u00a0 You have to teach yourself to relax, but once you have taught yourself to relax, have you also noticed that now you have to apply courage again to get back into the action and then the flowing of the motion, to get back into that work zone.\u00a0 But once you are there, it starts becoming easier and easier and you start doing more and more.\u00a0 Its patterns, its programs, its repetition.<\/p>\n

How do I install this to become automatic in it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you build your strategy and structure your goals, you need to install a personal self-celebration on every small achievement. So, every couple of days you want to have some form of measure in place, where once you have achieved it, you can celebrate it by rewarding yourself.\u00a0 Now self-reward is something a lot of people struggle with.\u00a0 Self-reward is not when I go and I am happy and I hold up a poster and say look guys I am happy, self-reward is when I treat myself to something.\u00a0 Now I love chocolate, so one of the ways I treat myself is I literally take a bite of a piece of chocolate, I do not need to eat the slab to reward.\u00a0 The gift or self-celebration can be extremely small, but what I want you guys to understand. If I do a strategy and it takes me 6 months to complete, but inside of that strategy, once a week or at max once every 2 weeks I have a small self-celebration of achievement where I reward myself, it might be I go for a walk, it might be I work in the garden, it might be I sit down for 20mins and play a game, it might be I go and meditate, it might be I listen to a beautiful song, it might be I eat a piece of chocolate.\u00a0 It is some kind of behaviour where I say this behaviour is my celebration reward for achieving.\u00a0 If I do this every week or every 2 weeks for the next couple of months, I am reprogramming my subconscious mind that discipline is rewarding.\u00a0 That discipline comes with celebration.<\/p>\n

Fear of failure is holding me back<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need to understand as humans we only have a single fear.\u00a0 You are only born with one fear.\u00a0 The fear of the unknown.\u00a0 That is why we are scared of the dark and scared of unknown things.\u00a0 We do not like running in the mist because we don\u2019t know what is ahead of us.\u00a0 As humans we would like to know what is ahead of us.\u00a0 So, our biggest fear is the fear of the unknown.\u00a0 When you plan a goal, when you start strategizing, when you realise you have a very scary, magnificent, bodacious goal you want to achieve, if you have never achieved it in your life before, it is an unknown, because its an unknown, instinctively as humans we go into a state of fear.\u00a0 It is not a fear of failure, that is a complete disillusion lie, it\u2019s a fear of the unknown.\u00a0 But because the brain struggles to comprehend this fear of the unknown, it tries to give it meaning.\u00a0 In the process where the brain tries to give it meaning, it starts believing it\u2019s a fear of potential failures.\u00a0 It has to justify the fear to itself, so it starts coming up with potential reasons of why it is fear. And those potential reasons are possible things that can maybe go wrong.\u00a0 Now if you think of your own life, how many times have you feared something in the future that could possibly go wrong. \u00a0But 99% of the time it didn\u2019t even happen, and the 1% of the time, you realised its not so bad Afterall.\u00a0 The reason that happens is because that future fear is a disillusion.\u00a0 It\u2019s a complete disillusion that the mind creates.\u00a0 The mind fears the unknown.\u00a0 Now what do you need to step into the unknown.\u00a0 Not motivation, not inspiration. You need courage.\u00a0 It is in hat moment of fearing your own greatness that you need courage to become the person you can become.\u00a0 If you stay in your comfort zone, you will feel content, you will feel safe.\u00a0 Being safe in life and in a content state, being in a comfort zone, is the biggest hand brake that is holding you back from your true potential.<\/p>\n

How do I activate courage?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You act in the midst of it.\u00a0 You do. It is a verb.\u00a0 To apply courage is not an emotional state.\u00a0 Applying courage is a verb, its an action.\u00a0 You start doing something.\u00a0 Force yourself to do something.\u00a0 What is the one thing? I often get people telling me I want to become a motivational speaker but I am petrified of speaking in front of groups, if you listen to people that have become speakers, and ill use myself as an example, you think I woke up one day and decided I want to be a speaker and speak in front of 1000s of people, and I had no fear.\u00a0 Of course, I was afraid.\u00a0 Some of the guys that know me well, every time I need to speak in front of a new group, especially if it is a large group, I still experience fear, I have a massive amount of nerves.\u00a0 Courage means, in the midst of that fear, act!<\/p>\n

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