I remember my first visit to the Levis Australia office, when computers were just starting. The hardware was in a huge air-conditioned room. Discussing the merits of this piece of technology, it was deemed ‘garbage in, garbage out’. The computer was only as good as it was programmed.
I think the same is true of our mind.
It is up to us to choose what we want to have programmed in our brain – it can be tough with some parents' influence!
It is now possible today, with more research in neuro-science, to rewire your brain for positive change.
When I started running seminars in 1989 in transformation leadership, everyone taught management. No-one taught leadership. Today it seems everyone teaches leadership with minimum focus on management, except tertiary educators. I still believe today that many people who profess to teach leadership to organizations have no experience of having led anything! Nor do they understand what leadership is about - yet they make a living at it. They also have all of the right buzz-words, but very limited understanding.
Transformational leadership, which we taught in IAS in 1989, was accelerated learning techniques, visualization, and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and it was intangible with no scientific backup. It worked incredibly well, although it seemed to have no basis for logic and was viewed by some as unusual.
Today we have many people skilled in neuroscience, like Dr Kerry Spackman (Winner’s Bible), Bill Harris of Centrepointe Research Institute (Holysinc), Paul Scheele of photo reading (Natural Brilliance) and Dr David Hawkins, scientist, meta-physicist and author, to name a few.
It is clear to me that our unconscious is vastly bigger than our conscious mind. I hold a view that Albert Einstein discovered and tapped into this. It requires discipline and tenacity to constantly practice these techniques and in today’s busy lifestyle, most of us don’t want to take the time, even if there is an inkling of desire. Practice takes time and people say, "I don’t have time."
So the truth is you are only touching the tip of the iceberg of your true potential.
There is a world full of possibility awaiting you. So I leave you with one of my favourite sayings, one of my mantras: "If it’s to be, it’s up to me."