How many new thoughts and new skills can you learn over a lifetime? What number would you give it?
I’ll give you a clue. The number is huge. Humungous. Out of this world. Any ideas?
Here’s the answer. Think of the number 1, followed by zeros that would fill an 800 page book, both sides of the page and in standard font size 12. Then go off the last page for another 6.2 million miles of zeros.
Read that again.
Now isn’t that amazing? That’s how many new things and skills we as humans can learn. That’s how many new thoughts we can own. That’s how many new behaviours we can expose.
Your possibilities have no limits. There is no limit on your capacity to learn new things. No limits whatsoever for your brain to learn, to memorize, develop, achieve and perform at higher levels than you can ever imagine.
It makes no difference what your age is. You are capable of learning anything new that you want to learn. You are able to develop your brain right up to the moment that you breathe out your last breath.
Your brain has the capacity to achieve way beyond what was ever thought possible.
So now is the time to break out of your limited thinking by dreaming big dreams and imagining unlimited possibilities.
Becoming successful is not impossible. In fact, it is virtually impossible not to be successful. It’s a choice you make, your decision. Every day, step by step, you may climb the mountain of success if you’ve decided to do so – if you are committed to accomplish what others think impossible.
Make it your choice, from today, to head towards improving your life; whether it is to learn more about your business or job, to start your own part-time or full-time business, to develop your writing skills, to practice for your driving test.
Whatever your goal is make that decision to do it. Feel excited and motivated to take unconditional action; to act in spite of fear, doubt and inconvenience.
How would you motivate yourself to take unyielding action? Here’s how:
1. Create an attitude of determination. Every action that you take in life is first filtered through your feelings that are in your unconscious mind. How you feel about something determines what you do and how well you do it.
Where do those feelings come from?
Your feelings are created, controlled and influenced by your attitudes. Your attitude is your perspective from which you view life. Whatever attitude you have about anything will affect how you feel, which affects how you act.
It is your attitude that will determine your motivation level; whether you will take action or not.
2. Create an attitude of motivation. There are many people out there who believe, or are under the strong impression, that motivation is something that will come to them when the time is ready. In the meantime, they can carry on with their lives as is.
Of course, this is not the case. Motivation is an attitude, a way of thinking that we create for ourselves. It is not something we wait for in the hope that ’someday’ I will have all the motivation I need to accomplish all that I want.
That ’someday’ might never come!
Science of success experts have concluded that the brain is a goal-setting organism. No matter what goal you give to your unconscious mind, it will work day and night, 24/7, to achieve it for you; to make it a reality.
Dig deep. Find the goal, the strong feelings and attitude behind the goal that will spur your unyielding motivation to get you and keep you moving. Every day, make that choice an intention to have what it is that you are aspiring after.
And day by day, your level of motivation will stack one layer over the other, providing you with a warehouse of motivation energy. The more motivated action that you take, the easier it will be for you to escalate your feelings, your attitude and your motivation.
The more you generate high feelings and attitudes of energy the more motivation you will feel surging within you. And the more you store your ready-to-be-released motivation, the easier it will become for you to be motivated to take all the necessary action to accomplish your objectives and reach your goals.
Hani Al-Qasem is a published author and personal growth specialist. He co-authored Self-Confidence Building in 7 Steps and Establish Powerful Self-Enhancing Beliefs.
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Great content. More than often, people are not aware of the power that lies within because motivation and attitude have to be internalised to make sense. Is it in tune with the life changing journey you want to embark on, or are you merely following the dictates of family, society and other peers?
“Science of success experts have concluded that the brain is a goal-setting organism. No matter what goal you give to your unconscious mind, it will work day and night, 24/7, to achieve it for you; to make it a reality.”
An amazing statement. I have not heard this before but I am interested as I have been caught so many times when I thought I was fully concentrating on one thing when a solution to a problem from a day or two ago suddenly popped up without my consciously thinking about it.
Can you reccomend any links so that I can explore this further?
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Hi Pol,
Thank you for your comment. You never know when your unconscious mind will bring to your conscious awareness the answer you have been working on. It could be at 3 in the morning or when having a shower.
Always keep a pen and paper handy! Have you ever had the answer to a question or problem, not written it down and wish you had because you have forgotten that answer a while later?
I suggest, for starters, read a book by Brian Tracy entitled Goals!
Start there and let me know how you progress.
Yes, it does come down to attitude, perhaps re-training of the brain. Alot of aspects come into it, ultimately it comes down to the individual… great article
How true:
Just finished reading ” The Magic Power of Your Mind” by
Walter Germain.
Whoever reading will laugh in disbelief – but pls lay your hands on it it to believe.
A second hand first print bought in 1988 & read in 2009.
It was the first book I read in one & half days.
Beleive me -At Least.
I love this post. It makes you realized just how limitless our power really is, but we learn limitation from the world around us.
I find the greatest motivator is a loud friend who believes in you. One who yells at you at the wee hours of the morning to get things done. To hit the gym, to start that project, to get to work!
There’s nothing like accountability.
I have no idea where you come up with this ridiculous number. The average modern ‘thinker’ has 50,000 thoughts per day. This works out to 1,423,500,000 thoughts over a 78 year lifetime. Making up huge numbers out of the blue does not improve your reputation if you want people to believe you have a valid point.
Hi Nicole,
Yes, it does help greatly to have a friend, especially a loud one, who believes in you.
That person can put you back on track very quickly I a sure when you get off it, and can reinstate and increase belief in yourself.
Very handy to have around.
Hi Folov,
DSP connections are made when learning something new. Gage and Eriksson studied the number of connections made for every new thought or thing learned.
A brain has 100 billion brain cells, each brain cell has 10,000 to 100,000 dendrite branches. Each dendrite has 100,000 to 1 million dendrite spines.
You form connections when you learn something. As you learn, you create 1 million to 100 million new connections from EACH dendrite spine.
They spent 2 years coming up with the number of new connections made. They theorised the number of new connections a brain has the capacity to add, during its lifetime, is the number mentioned.
Thank you for the opportunity to share this information.
hi,
i am a student and i find these articles very much helpful. but theres some thing i wish to ask n hope its not a stupid question……i have heard that people go mad ( as in actually crazy) because they learn so much. can that like actually happen?
Hi Akhila,
The brain is designed to be a learning machine. Subscribe to this line of thought: C.A.N.I. Which is Constant And Never-ending Improvement.
If it makes you feel more comfortable spreading your learning, do so. Perhaps read one self-help book every month or two. Listen to a self improvement CD every 6 months.
Spread it in any way that makes you feel comfortable. But the secret to self-improvement is to consistently learn new things. Or even read the same things over and over until the ‘message’ sinks in.