When you have big writing goals you wish to reach, your conscious mind is usually onboard with these goals, no matter what they might be.
Your subconscious mind, however, might need some convincing.
And it’s actually your subconscious mind that steers the ship, so to speak.
In her book Thinking Write: The Secret to Freeing Our Creative Mind, Kelly L. Stone says we all have the power to program our subconscious mind so we get what we want.
She even says there’s a formula for this.
The formula is:
genuine intention+repetition+burning desire = subconscious programming
Let’s take a closer look at the first element in this formula – genuine intention.
We all have thousands, if not millions, of thoughts each day.
If we acted on each and every one of these thoughts, we could end up in a real mess.
Fortunately (for us), in order to make something happen we first have to convince ourselves at a subconscious level that we really WANT it to happen.
So how DO we convince ourselves at this level that we REALLY want something to happen – that we have a genuine intention?
Well, by taking baby steps.
By breaking down our larger goals into a series of smaller, more easily attainable goals.
Here’s an example: If you tell yourself – I want to write a book. That will seem too overwhelming to your subconscious mind, and it will react with a thought like – Yeah, sure you do. You’ve said that before, and you’ve NEVER written a book. You can’t write a book. It’s too difficult.
But, if you tell yourself – I’m going to write just one page every day and see if I can make it into a book – then your subconscious mind says – Okay. Go ahead. You can do that.
Once you start writing a page a day and you continue doing that for a while, you begin to convince your subconscious mind that you can do something even more difficult, so you raise the bar.
You start writing three pages a day, for example.
So here’s how to start programming your subconscious mind, so you eventually get what you want.
Today, just follow these three steps:
Step One
Be sure you’ve set a genuine intention for the day. That is, you really do WANT to accomplish what you SAY you want to accomplish today. It really matters to you.
Step Two
Make sure today’s goal is just a baby step to a larger, more lofty goal. Make sure it is something you KNOW you can accomplish.
Step Three
Get to work on whatever it is you have a genuine intention to accomplish today.
That’s it.
Try it!
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