Your Ideal Self and Life - By: Brian Tracy

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Dear everyone in TBP

 

Love and Love alone....

 

Here's a nice one on Self & Life from Brian Tracy, which I received

from a different source. Draw some inspiration from this. All the

best.

 

Love and Love alone....

 

P. Gopi Krishna

 

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Your Ideal Self and Life

By: Brian Tracy

 

Your self-concept is made up of three parts, each of which affects

each of the others. Understanding these three parts enables you to

put your hands on the keyboard of your own mental computer. When you

learn to take charge of the development of a new and positive self-

concept of selling, you can then control your sales destiny for the

rest of your career.

 

Determine Your Direction

 

The first part of the self-concept is the " self-ideal. " Your self-

ideal largely determines the direction in which you are going with

your life. It guides the growth and evolution of your character and

personality. Your self-ideal is a combination of all of the qualities

and attributes of other people that you most admire. Your self-ideal

is a description of the person you would very much like to be if you

could embody the qualities that you most aspire to.

 

Strive Toward Excellence

 

Throughout your life, you have seen and read about the qualities of

courage, confidence, compassion, love, fortitude, perseverance,

patience, forgiveness and integrity. Over time, these qualities have

instilled in you an ideal to which you aspire. You might not always

live up to the very best that you know, but you are constantly

striving to be a better person in light of those qualities that you

value so highly. In fact, everything that you do on a day-to-day

basis is affected by your comparing your activities with these ideal

qualities and your striving to behave consistently with them.

 

Clarity is Essential

 

Successful salespeople have very clear ideals for themselves and

their careers. Unsuccessful salespeople have fuzzy ideals. Successful

salespeople are very clear about being excellent in every part of

their work and their personal lives. Unsuccessful salespeople don't

give the subject very much thought. One of the primary

characteristics of successful men and women in every walk of life is

that they have very clearly defined ideals and they are very aware of

whether or not their current behaviors are consistent with their

idealized behaviors.

 

Set Challenging Goals

 

Part of your ideals are your goals. As you set higher and more

challenging goals, your self-ideal improves and crystallizes. When

you set goals for the kind of person you want to be and the kind of

life you want to live, your self-ideal rises and becomes a greater

guiding and motivating force in your life.

 

Your Future is Unlimited

 

Perhaps the most important thing for you to realize is that whatever

anyone else has done or become, you can do or become as well.

Improvements in your self-ideal begin in your imagination, and in

your imagination, there are no limits except the ones that you

accept.

 

What is your ideal vision of the very best person you could possibly

become? How would you behave each day if you were already that

person? Asking yourself these questions and then living your life

consistent with the answers is the first step to creating yourself in

your ideal image.

 

Action Exercises

 

Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into

action.

 

First, dream big dreams. Set big, exciting, challenging goals and

ideals for yourself in every part of your life. Allow yourself to

imagine a wonderful life ahead.

 

Second, think about how you would act if you were an outstanding

person in every way. Then, practice being this person, as though you

were acting a role in a play. You'll immediately notice a difference

in your behavior.