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    The Secret To Creating Your Life
    The Secret To Creating Your Life
    The Secret To Creating Your Life
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    The Secret To Creating Your Life

    By Jevon Clark

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    In this self-help book you will learn what causes you to do the things you do, and what you can do to take control.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 21, 2014
    ISBN9780992462208
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      Book preview

      The Secret To Creating Your Life - Jevon Clark

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      INTRODUCTION

      Congratulations on picking up this book. Together we are going to uncover the secret behind creating the life you want.

      I say it’s a secret because very few of the countless, so called ‘self-help’ programs out there actually mention the one, essential, key ingredient for taking control of your future that we are going to discus here.

      In our search to really take control of our lives we hear ideas that sound good and seem to make sense. Things like; think positively, set goals, visualize what you want, repeat affirmations or empowering phrases - but time and time again many of us find that these ideas just don’t work, and try as we may we always seem to end up in the same old place, with the same old problems.

      The obvious question we might ask ourselves after all these experiences is: Is there something wrong with me?

      The answer is No!

      You are just fine. In fact you are better than fine.

      Inside you resides the potential to do, create and accomplish incredible things. What is missing is the key that will allow you to unlock that potential.

      In this book you will learn not only why people so often fail to achieve their dreams, you will also discover a step by step way to break this pattern, become the person you want to be, and create the life you want.

      You will learn what causes you to do the things you do, and what you can do to take control.

      You will learn three powerful habits that will enable you to achieve practically any goal.

      You will learn how to program your mind so that you can happily move towards your desires without having to even think about it. And you will learn the key to turning your dreams into reality…

      The secret to creating your life

      This is the book I wish I had found 20 years ago.

      PART ONE

      Your Mind

      As far as we are aware, right now you possess the most sophisticated and powerful device in the universe.

      In the whole of creation as we know it, no mechanism has ever existed that is as incredible as your mind.

      You have been given this miraculous instrument for free, and it is yours to do with as you please – aren’t you lucky…

      In careful, caring hands this awesome tool can be used to invent, organize, build and create, but it can just as easily cause complete chaos.

      The big question is – do you control your mind, or does your mind control you?

      This is the beginning of our story.

      In order to understand how to create the life we want, it is vital that we understand a little about how our mind works and why we do the things we do. The truth of the matter is that this amazing machine we call our mind can either be our best friend or our worst enemy, depending on how we use it. The good news is, even though our minds are ridiculously complex and scientists are still a long way from fully understanding how it all works, there are only a few things you need to know about your mind in order to really take control and have it working for you, rather than against you.

      So settle back and let’s explore.

      To make it easy we’re going to split our mind into just two parts. Part one we’ll call our ‘Conscious’ mind. Part two we’ll call our ‘Subconscious’ mind.

      Now before we get too far into this, be aware that this is just a metaphor. If you were to dissect a brain you wouldn’t find a piece you could hold up and label the ‘conscious mind’, neither would you find an area that you could say was the ‘subconscious mind’. This is just a very useful way for us to describe how the brain processes and stores information.

      Even though this is a metaphor its very helpful to imagine that these are two very distinctive areas, as both have a very important part to play in allowing us to take control of our life. The key is to understand a little about how each part works and what role each has in either helping us, or hindering us, to get to where we want to go.

      Let’s begin by looking at your conscious mind.

      Your Conscious Mind

      So what are you aware of right now?

      Thanks to your 5 basic senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste) you have the potential to be aware of a huge number of things. For instance, you might be aware of the book you are holding, the words you are reading, the thoughts you are thinking, the sensations you are feeling, the sounds you are hearing, the things that you can see in the room around you, smells, textures, and many, many other things.

      Your senses are picking up simply an enormous amount of information, which right now your mind is busily sorting out and analyzing. And yet somehow, through this overwhelming mass of data and stimuli, you can quietly focus on a book and sit here peacefully reading. This is quite a feat, and what enables us to concentrate in amongst all this noise is our conscious mind.

      The conscious mind is what we use to focus our attention. If we didn’t have a means of doing this it would be impossible to get anything done, flooded as we are from so much information coming from our senses. Using our conscious mind, we move our attention like a spotlight from object to object - so that even though our senses may be aware of thousands of things, our conscious attention remains focused on just one item at a time.

      This is where things start to get interesting.

      It might be hard to believe that at any given moment we focus only on one thing. It just seems unlikely considering how many different things we seem to be able to do at once, and how many things we are able to be aware of in a very short space of time.

      However, you can observe this phenomenon in yourself at any time, and we can demonstrate it right now.

      Just for a minute pull your eyes away from the page and notice all the different things you can sense. It will be a lot. Sounds, objects, sensations, thoughts etc…

      Now do the following.

      Simply count the number of dots below - as quickly and precisely as you can. Really focus, and try to be as accurate and fast as possible.

      Ready, Get set, Go!

      ………… ……… . …… … …

      There should have been thirty four – is that what you got? If it isn’t have another go and see how you do this time…

      Actually, whether you get the right number really isn’t important. What is important is what happened while you were concentrating.

      Notice that, even though there may have been sounds and sights around you while you were doing this, it was a lot more difficult to distinguish them clearly. Chances are they faded right into the background.

      The illusion of being consciously aware of many things at once is due to your conscious minds ability to change what it focuses on incredibly fast. Your attention can flit very, very quickly from one thing to another, so that reading words on a page and listening to music might seem to be something you do simultaneously. In actual fact it’s not. The sound might be hitting your ear while you are reading – or your eyes may see shapes on the page in front of you while you are listening to music, but, if the two things are unrelated, you don’t actually do both at once. What happens is that you flick your attention back and forth from one to the other very fast. This creates the impression you are doing both at the same time. The important thing to understand is that, in actuality, the amount of conscious awareness we have is not very big, and it typically gets completely filled with whatever we are focused on in the moment.

      A great example of this that we often experience is when we’re watching TV.

      I’m sure most of us have got into trouble at some point because someone in our family couldn’t get our attention when we were engrossed in a television program. Or perhaps it was you who became frustrated trying to get the attention of another person who seemed ‘switched off’ to everything except the TV. At this moment the conscious attention of the person who seems ‘switched off’ is completely absorbed on the television - and a lot of effort may be needed to break into the person’s conscious awareness so that they turn their attention somewhere else.

      We can very easily ‘get lost’ in a good book, or a movie, or even a thought. When this is happening our conscious attention is not flicking around on all the other things going on around us as it might normally do.

      People may say that we’ve ‘tuned them out’ but it’s not really like that at all. What’s really happening is that the limited amount of conscious attention we have available is simply taken up focusing intently on something else. The result is that we become entirely occupied with what we’re doing and seemingly oblivious of anything else.

      This is a very important point to understand and we’ll come back to it again shortly.

      There is another fascinating aspect of our conscious mind, and it’s one that appears to be very unique to human beings.

      Although our conscious mind only focuses on one thing at a time, and although we have only a small amount of conscious awareness, what we have the ability to focus our attention on is incredibly flexible. This is one of the real powers of our conscious mind.

      As we said before, thanks to our senses we can be aware of what we see right in front of us, sounds we hear, sensations, thoughts and so on. But just as easily as we can turn our focus to all the things that are happening right now, we can focus with just as much clarity on things that were happening yesterday, and things that might happen tomorrow. This is thanks to our conscious minds incredible ability to imagine.

      The power to imagine is one of the truly miraculous talents that we as human beings have, and when you get right down to it this

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