Archive for November, 2009

27 Nov

Broken Windows (redux)

Your acceptance of, or propensity for failure, if left unaddressed, will develop into chronic mental stress, affecting your decision making, mental processing, even the structure of your brain. Your alternative, which can turn your life and future into what you want it to be, is to understand how to learn and come away from each situation with greater personal insight and perhaps even a plan to avoid that failure in the future. Introducing positive programming will counter the effects of negative programming and rewire your brain, producing new neural connections (neurogenesis), further increasing your success potential. There is no situation where somebody will always fail, unless they choose to program themselves and manage the situation to fail. Your ability to create and expand successful neural connections means that you always have the ability to succeed when you choose to begin the process.

20 Nov

Broken Windows

The Broken Windows Theory may also be applied to address and resolve individual negative programming. We’re human and personal guilt is a powerful motivator! We’ll spend hours, even days, seeking to discover what we did wrong. We look to find and fix our broken windows, in this case our personal problems, those behaviors or aspirations that we identify as the source of a past failure. We’ll even go so far as to find a rock and make a broken window to fix, such as locking onto a thought as the reason why something didn’t happen. These generated reasons often begin with, “If I had…” or “If I hadn’t…”. The facts are that our personal windows aren’t broken; they simply need a good cleaning…