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 AI From the United States writes regarding the Basic Image Form And Hold brain training exercise for Mental Concentration:

"I don't really understand what you mean by form an image in your mind. When I try and picture I end up not even bringing anything up. I can sit there and ponder things about the image for a while, but actually seeing the image itself is a bit hard for me to do--I would think of a triangle. Now I would never actually see the triangle, but I can sit there and ponder things about the triange like whether its an obtuse, acute or right triangle. Also give it color, but actually imaging it is a problem."

     That's an interesting dilemma. If I correctly interpret what you're saying, it seems that in recalling aspects ABOUT a target you may briefly hold imagery of PORTIONS of it just long enough to have an auditory conversation with yourself about its characteristics. Am I correct in assuming that you can more easily TELL yourself about the target as opposed to SEEING the target visually as a whole? If so, you may want to do AUDITORY concentration exercises as well.

     Each of us has our own individual brain wiring or "MATRIX" that not only allows us to process information in or own special way (visually, auditorily, kinesthetically, etc. or a combination of two or more) but also serves as the platform through which we express who we are as a person. Some of us easily work with visual working memory, others of us most easily work with sound - and some of us have to act out physically in order to process effectively. In any case, exercises can be adapted. 

     As an example of adapting an exercise to fit your individual learning style, let's say you are a very kinesthetic, movement oriented person who is very expressive with your hands and loves to stand up and gesticulate, moving about when you talk. In your case, if you have a hard time forming a clear vision and holding it, then you may be better off DRAWING or SKETCHING out your target and then holding it before you to give it all your attention without allowing any form of distraction, timed.

     Of course, none of us should simply 'SETTLE' for our lot in life when it comes to learning style, because there is much to be gained when - as a non-visual learner - one takes on the challenge of developing visual working memory despite the fact. FIRST however, one should take advantage of one's own learning style to build up the Mental Concentration HABIT, and then employ those developed skills to building a DIFFERENT type of working memory (i.e. a VISUAL learner does AUDITORY techniques).

     Remember that the human brain grows and expands in response to NOVEL and UNIQUE training efforts. Once you reach, say, the ability to conduct this VISUAL working memory exercise for FIVE TO SEVEN MINUTES, if you then do an AUDITORY technique and become proficient with it, you'll be inciting your brain to produce new brain cells while strengthening and multiplying existing interconnectivity among brain cells - this equates to GREATER MENTAL POWER!

     EXPERIMENT WITH THIS: If you have a difficult time seeing a simple image clearly - or can only see it in portions and for very brief duration - then SKETCH YOUR TARGET ON PAPER, hold it before your eyes for a minute or so, then close your eyes and try to vividly, clearly recall that target and hold it as long as you can. Eventually, this method should help you become better at employing visual working memory in a very creative fashion.

 THIS ONE SKILL ABOVE ALL OTHERS ALIGNS YOU WITH THE UNIVERSAL RULES FOR ACHIEVEMENT!

      Anyone interested in applying principles found in such works as The Secret, Law of Attraction, Science of Getting Rich, The Master Key System, Think & Grow Rich, and other 'Success' methodologies will discover here the one most important skill necessary in applying any of those systems for better, faster results. 

     If you are someone who has read books, listened to recordings, watched videos, or attended seminars on success, yet are not getting the results you really want, your major problem may just be that you have not trained your mind to properly concentrate.  This article explains how you can turn that around, and thereby change your results. 

     Success and wealth building systems revolving around 'Law of Attraction', 'Money Consciousness', and 'Personal Magnetism' almost all require that practitioners turn to their own mind as a powerful resource that can 'bring' about the realization of goals and objectives.  As part of the process, most also require that you think clearly about what it is that you want.  Yet, when one looks objectively at the majority of the people who believe in and use the systems themselves, the failure rate is appalling.  Nobody wants to fail at these systems, especially YOU. 

     Napoleon Hill, who authored the most famous manual on success in modern history, stated it effectively when he said, "If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." Poor Concentration Is Lethal To Laws Of Attraction and Success 

     The problem with people suffering through years of dedicated effort only to find themselves in a rut is not a lack of desire, but that they are victims of UNTRAINED and UNDISCIPLINED 'wanting'.  The root of working ambitiously hard while getting nowhere lies in poorly directed attention onto an unproductively wide range of desires.  The majority of us tend to expend lots of energy wanting and chasing lots of things, rather than narrowing our wants down to just a few valuable objectives that ensure we get whatever we want.  By deciding to pour all our energy of thought and action into just a couple big items, we can so arrange it to where the process of achieving them utterly fulfills our secondary and tertiary needs and desires. 

     Despite the pervasive spread of misinterpretations of 'Law of Attraction' principles proposing that your brain will automatically stay focused on something you want because, well, you WANT it, overwhelming evidence proves that merely coming up with an attractive idea is insufficient to change the established physical structure of a habitually unfocused brain that tends to constantly wander from desire to desire.  The way to fix the damage of established mental habits that interfere with greater success is to replace them with mental habits that make achieving our goals easier.  Therefore, the primary principle underlying Law Of Attraction philosophies which needs to be understood by you is Mental Concentration.  Those who fail to master this one simple skill are subject to waste many years in unnecessary struggle and defeat while trying to incorporate Laws of Success into their lives to the degree of they wish.

Train Your Mind To Concentrate And Attract Success

      You must learn to hold your mind steady onto one objective in the short term so that your mind will be practiced enough to maintain focus on a larger objective over the long term.  There is nothing abnormal about the fact that thoughts fade, shift, are displaced constantly by competing thoughts, impulses, influences, and desires.  But since you have chosen to live a life above and beyond the norm, you have thus obligated that your mind should also operate on that same, unique level; therefore, you must make the necessary effort to train your mind to do something it has not thus far been tasked to do, which is to dismiss everything that pulls at it and to stay put on the one thing that matters most, no matter what rises up to distract you.

       Fortunately, acquiring Concentration skills is a simple process, although it does involve a committed personal schedule of regular practice at strategic mental exercises that strengthen your mental concentration muscles.  As you develop your mental concentration skills, the increase itself will inevitably evolve into better overall mental focus, and eventually, stronger willpower. 

Real Estate Agent Wants To Know If Mental Focus Training Help Her

“I’m a Real Estate Agent in Pensacola, Florida who got into this business because I want to make lots of money.  I’ve been studying successful agents around me and it’s pretty clear what I need to do, but when I think about how much work is required, it’s just overwhelming and I don’t get anything done.”—Betty R., Pensacola, Florida

            You’ve made the right decision to use strategic brain training for better mental fitness as your resource for getting the results you want for your career.  The good news is you have determined that there are specific duties and tasks necessary to make your dreams come true.  At least you have that part down, because many people never get to that clear, concise picture clarity in their thoughts.  So, now all you need to do is resolve the mental obstacles that are getting in the way of you consistently doing the duties required for career success so that you can swim around gleefully in that lake of money you want to earn.

            Let us review your situation from a mentally practical perspective.  When you walk away and leave the duties you need to do undone, what’s really happening is your brain is in the process of contradicting itself by way of thoughts and impulses that directly conflict with each other.  Thoughts generated in your mind (either willingly or that have been ‘fed’ to you from other sources) have promised you numerous wonders and glories upon the achievement of the objective, but when the time comes for action, it suddenly hits you with negative thoughts and feelings. 

The result is that you are either making no progress or moving in the wrong direction in relation to the path you sincerely want.  At the instant of your brain’s painful assault on your dreams, it offers you a distracting option that it claims will ease the pain.  When you take the bait and find yourself hooked by the distraction, your brain hassles you about it, causing more pain, which it promises to ease if you’ll only take more distracting bait.  This is an illogical and entirely natural effort on the part of ancient neural evolutionary biology to keep you safe by maintaining the familiarity of your life’s status quo, no matter how uncomfortable your current level. This biological self-protection is referred to as ‘HOMEOSTASIS’.

Amazingly enough, your fears are there to serve a self-sustaining purpose, to keep you from taking risks that your unconscious mind, wisely or unwisely, believes to be in some way harmful.  The problem with this ancient neural faculty is that, at this stage of human evolution, remaining the same is the same as moving backwards; this, because progressive change is a key process for survival, advancement, and expansion when it comes to modern human beings. 

The high level of intellectual capacity afforded you by an evolved cerebral cortex is there so you can reach out, do more and become more in this modern world.  Inspiring ideas and intentions are commonly sabotaged by homeostatically induced negative thoughts and fears, causing procrastination and avoidance of challenging tasks and necessary actions. Fortunately for us the higher intellectual capacities of the human brain have a most profound influence over your day to day destiny, but only for those who learn to use and apply that influence through proper training. 

The best athletes are those who are well-practiced in proper technique and execution, and the same applies to the mental performer, and the Real Estate Agent.  I suggest you train your mind to make the accomplishment of the duties you’ve set for yourself an easy, natural pleasure, and rebuild your thinking processes so that you can accept the greater rewards without feeling bad about it.  To accomplish this requires you become acutely aware of negative thoughts and feelings that rise and fall in your mind the very moment they occur, while at the same time mastering the ability to grow and remain psychologically immune to their effects so that they will never again cause you to hesitate when the time comes for doing what’s necessary to have what you want in your life.

                The same mental fitness training tools that provide you the psychological power to move through self-sabotaging mental roadblocks will also provide you with insights for overcoming the common discomforts that accompany intensive, lengthy mental concentration and focus.  When you feel the pain of ‘much to do,’ you’ll be able to either work through temporary fatigue, or clear it away from your mind and body by an easy act of willpower so that the tasks before you are more enjoyable.

 SHARP STUDENT WRITES: “I am a bright student in school and can achieve high marks when I focus although I find it harder and harder to focus nowadays. What should I do?”

     The mental habits (established thoughts, emotions, and impulses) that you have relied on until now are growing increasingly to get you going and keep you moving have increasingly unreliable, which is not a surprise because it happens to many of us as our brains form into teen and early adult years. 

     As you place more and more demand on your brain to deal with growing challenges in school (and eventually, the competitive work and business environments), the last thing you want is to discover unexpected limitations as you’re trying build a future for yourself. 

     My advice to you is that you adopt a new lifestyle of dynamic mental fitness into your daily schedule, in the same way you might adopt physical fitness into your daily schedule. Doing so would ensure that, day by day, you strengthen and deepen your MENTAL power so that you can rely on it, so that it will be there for you, so that you won’t have to struggle or find yourself at the end of the day looking back in regret knowing you could have done better and produced more. 

     To get that kind of consistency and unfailing reliability, you want to TRANSFORM your current ability to concentrate from solely dependent on ‘mood’ - you want to ELEVATE your mental concentration to a WELL-MASTERED SKILL, like a Master Carpenter who has had excellent training and expanding experience and who can execute his trade come rain or shine. In this way, you can SKILLFULLY stop distracting thoughts, gather FOCUS, tap into deep wells of endurance, and shut the iron doors of your will against invading distractions. 

     Training yourself in the actual SKILL of mental concentration will make it a CHOICE, rather than a hope. 

     If you take advantage of the training opportunities we provide, you’ll be on the right track in a very short time.

ONE SIMPLE APPROACH BOOSTS WILLPOWER, FOCUS, AND CONCENTRATION!

     If you're looking for something you can do to give yourself a mental edge in accomplishing your personal, career, or financial goals, then you want to pay close attention to this advice on how to use a specific mental fitness approach to help you along.  

     Of all the brain training techniques that can be employed to boost the skill and effectiveness of your mental talents, only one mental exercise has the comprehensive influence on enough of your brain functions that it can enhance your mental concentration, your mental focus, and your power of will, simultaneously -   dynamic breathing concentration. 

      Special breathing methods have been used in spiritual practices for thousands of years to bring the mind under control and practitioners into better awareness of their environment, themselves, their thoughts, and their emotions, resulting in greater mental clarity and focus in preparation for even more enlightening personal development. 

      Today, Science is recognizing and acknowledging through expanding research the benefits of meditative breathing techniques in contributing to stress reduction, emotional well-being, and increased mental clarity.  Dynamic breathing concentration activates the higher self-management function of your brain in order to exert intentional control over parts of your physical activity that are normally automated by your unconscious mind. 

      Using your mind to willfully regulate the physical action of breathing processes results in your brain directing a significant percentage of its resources onto the task, which means your attention narrows onto the job at hand, your thoughts concern themselves with the necessary effort, and your resolve is called upon to maintain consistently successful action.  Therefore, as you continue using dynamic breathing mental fitness exercises, your brain enjoys a novel new demand upon its functions that mean more mental strength, endurance, and flexibility, all of which equate to better performance in all your pursuits.  The physical changes that happen as your brain begins to solidify, strengthen, and forge new connections among its brain cells is known as Neuro-sculpting.  So, let's introduce you to one dynamic mental fitness brain exercise that will get you started on the road to more brainpower. 

      Basic dynamic breathing concentration is a simple brain exercise for which you should set aside some personal time in which nobody will disturb you, and in a place where you can be alone.  You should also have a piece of paper along with a pen or pencil to use for making notes of what you experience during your training sessions.

       Slowly, comfortably inhale fully, then exhale fully, and repeat.  Begin with a count of just five breaths.  When you take the breath in, don't focus on your chest pulling the air; instead, with a relaxed torso, let the air fill from the bottom of your lungs near the lower sternum and fill upwards.   On exhale, release the air slowly so that it seems it's exiting from the top of your lungs on down to the bottom.  As an example, conceptualize the way a balloon fills from the bottom and then the top expands; when you let the air go from the balloon, the top air goes first and then the bottom.  See if you can try that a few times, but don't get too wrapped up about it.  Just make sure you breathe comfortably. 

     Thoughts will arise - you'll start analyzing - but NONE of that is of use to you as you direct your attention to remain targeted onto the breath itself.  Try five, although you may not be able to complete three full breaths before you get caught up in some thought or self-talk.  When you can do five fully attended breaths without thought or other distractions stealing your Attention away from the rich, full experience of breathing, then extend the number.  Do the exercise 20 to 30 minutes a day, twice a day for accelerated progress.  Make yourself a three week goal of 20 to 30 full breaths in a row without giving in to wandering thoughts or external distractions.

 Strategic Working Memory Training Gives You The Mental Power To Revolutionize Your Success Track!

"All improvement of memory consists, then, in the improvement of one’s habitual methods of recording facts." --William James, Philosopher

          If you want to be a stronger thinker, a better strategist, a faster problem-solver, a prolific creator, increase your mental dexterity, or reverse and protect yourself from natural cognitive declines as you get older, then STRATEGIC Working Memory Training should be on your daily agenda.

          Strategic Working Memory Training (as opposed to common "Passive, Non-Direct" methods) has been credited by numerous scientific research studies over the past few years for contributing directly to better mental performance, superior problem-solving skills, academic and career excellence, and is even being shown to have strong potential for mitigating symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

          Numerous scientific studies have also demonstrated conclusively that Working Memory Training greatly reduces cognitive declines due to aging, resulting in stonger connectivity among brain cells as well as Neurogenesis, which is the growth of new brain cells, both as a result of strategic, uniquely challenging brain training approaches.

          Working Memory's filtering function acts as a cognitive gatekeeper, rejecting irrelevant information to prevent sensory overwhelm and prevent mistakes. When this faculty becomes weaker with advancing years, people nearing retirement age often have increasing difficulty shutting out useless stimuli from the world around them, affecting cognitive reaction time, short-term memory, mental clarity, mental concentration, and mental focus.

          Every day we are obligated to work out challenges and problems that call upon our ability to keep issues clearly organized and prioritized in mind so that we can work out solutions quickly. Certainly, busy Executives, Business Owners, and Business Professionals rely heavily on Working Memory for keeping the day's events in productive order.

          In addition to its organizational properties, Working Memory comes with an isolation feature that allows us to focus in on and mentally pull individual information objects from the conveyor belt and bring them into closer view for detailed examination. Thus, Students, Researchers, and Engineers who must deal with heavy loads of rapidly flowing data use Working Memory to excavate the most important details.

          Further, Working Memory allows us to HOLD any form of information (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, or Thought-based) on the stage of consciousness awareness in case we need immediate access to use that information. Thanks to this fantastic feature of Working Memory, Inventors, Architects, Writers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs utilize it to craft visionary ideas and, step-by-step, take action to give them physical form.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
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 Dynamic Mental Focus Training:

The Acquired Skill To Design Your Own Life!

          Not only do many people have a difficult time deciding with absolute clarity what they want to be, do, and have in their life, most do not have the mental discipline required in order to pursue their life goals and objectives in a straight line. Unfortunately, too many of us wander back and forth in widely-veering paths that can cost unnecessary expense and time (weeks, months, even YEARS). Too often, this tendency to veer off-course once a goal has finally been decided is so acute that millions literally give up on their deepest desires and settle for whatever comes their way, going to the grave with their song still unsung.

          With just the right amount of strategic Mental Fitness Training, any normal human being can develop a power of Mental Focus so strong that making a success at doing what they want, living the way they really want to live, and having the people in their life they really enjoy being around takes on a mathematical certainty.

          Mental Focus is your skillful ability to KNOW WHAT YOU WANT with absolute clarity, a knowledge so clear and uncorrupted by competing desires and distractions that it thoroughly brings into congruent alignment your THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, IMPULSES & URGES, PERCEPTIONS, & ACTIONS. That’s right: If you forge it clearly enough in mind, it will TRANSFORM YOU into the person you need to be in order to make it come about.

          Mental Focus is what you use to keep a singularly fixed mindset clearly locked onto the vision, objective, or goal you have set for yourself OVER A LENGTHY PERIOD OF TIME, whether that goal be mental, physical, social, spiritual, material, business, or career-oriented. As a cognitive function it TIES TOGETHER AND UNIFIES EVERYTHING IN YOUR PERCEPTION - IMAGINATION, HABITUAL THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, AND ACTIONS so that everything you think, feel, and do takes you in a self-straightening line toward the finish.

          This unwavering, UNIFIED MINDSET (with all the aspects of your 'inner world' being efficiently aligned and marching to the same tune) moves you forward with increasing momentum along the chain of steps necessary to complete that which you have determined for yourself. Strongly-developed Mental Focus allows you to easily set a clear destination for your immediate, intermediate, and long-term future, giving you the cognitive habits and mental discipline you need to map your entire course including the individual steps necessary to get there. The mental discipline that comes as a result of training your Mental Focus skills makes goal achievement such a natural part of your personality that your objectives - the resources, knowledge, and people you need to help you - seem to move toward you, magnetically.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
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Dynamic Mental Concentration Training

          Mental Concentration is the masterful ability to summon, narrow, direct, and hold your Attention onto any target you wish, for as long as you wish to do so. Period.

          Very few people have a highly-developed skill at Mental Concentration, and even most who seem very productive lean mostly on well-established habits that can totally fail them if they are removed from their optimum work scenario. A strongly-skilled Mental Concentration talent can willfully shut down the temptation for diversion any time, any place.

          When it comes to completing a task, Mental Concentration is the absolute, conscious, single-minded control of Attention in total defiance of every form of distraction, whether it be from your own busy mind or from other people or anything else in your environment. Mental Concentration gives you the power to not only refuse to be distracted even by your own thoughts and impulses, but can allow you to CONTROL your thoughts and impulses and direct them to maximize your own effectiveness.

          Applying it to achieving goals, Mental Concentration is what you do in relation to the smallest individual action steps within a goal, no matter how extensive the goal. With it, you select the next, highest value or priority step (a task, an assignment, and appointment, etc.) along the chain of steps leading to the objective. You then bring together the full might of your Attention and CONCENTRATE that Attention onto the task at hand, rejecting and dismissing any distractions that would interfere with getting it done, remaining with the duty until it is properly completed.

          Dynamic Mental Concentration training targets your current mental habits of Attention and brings them under your absolute command and authority, resulting in a major increase in mental control, endurance, and flexibility. These improved skills can easily, profitably be applied to your pursuits in business, career, sports, your spiritual and even social life for extraordinary results.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
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The More You Learn About Willpower, The Easier It Is To Master!

          One of the great mysteries for anyone who wants to live a significant life concerns how to develop the personal power to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, even when we don’t want to do it, so that we can enjoy the feeling of being in total control of ourselves, and taste the sweet fruits and rewards that come from having strong self-discipline.  As you read further, you’re about to learn three important things about Willpower.

          One of the first things you need to know about Willpower is that you have an infinite supply of it as close to you as your desire to learn more about it.  Willpower is NOT a superhuman characteristic, but a normal function of the human brain that only needs to be trained and developed through applied practice.

          A second important principle to keep in mind is that Willpower may not be what you think it is.  For instance, did you know that Willpower has nothing to do with you forcing yourself or anybody else to do something?  What a relief that is!

          Here’s a third thing you should know about Willpower, that the more you use it – the more you reach down into yourself, call upon and apply it – the more it expands for you and the stronger it becomes.  Like any good habit, Willpower is a practiced skill that can totally uplift every area of your life.

What Is Power Of Will?

          Like Consciousness, Willpower has eluded a consensus definition among Psychologists and Neuroscientists for many years. For the purposes of this brain training method we have devised a practical definition by synthesizing the meanings of a number of related ideas.

          Willpower is the DISCIPLINE OF ACTING CONSCIOUSLY AND CONGRUENTLY upon the sincerest designs and resolutions of your Will, the practice of which cultivates subconscious habits and processes that are similarly congruent and supportive in the achievement of your objectives.

          Willpower is a well-practiced way of working for the achievement of the objectives you want to accomplish, with passionate efficiency that perpetuates your own self-expansion and brings you more wisdom and personal power. It is an outpouring of energetic, consciously guided effort based on a clear decision formed considerately in Mind without interference from fleeting, conflicting impulses or conditioned thinking or pressure from others.

What Is Willpower NOT?

NOT ‘Self-Denial’ – Willpower is never ‘denying yourself’ something genuinely good or pleasing. To the contrary, it is making use of your intellect to displace unhealthy choices with healthy, good, and pleasing alternatives in a satisfactory way.

NOT ‘Struggle’ – True Willpower ALWAYS leads to relaxed, productive efficiency and enjoyment of harmonious action.

NOT 'Force' – Willpower is the expression of a vision being crafted into reality through KNOWLEDGE, while brute force is merely blind and mindless.

NOT 'Cunning' – Instead, it is Wisdom attained by sincere work – the result of knowledge, insight, and an uncorrupted Mind.

NOT 'Manipulation' – Willpower inspires! The possessor climbs toward higher ground and ’shines as a light’ that simply cannot be extinguished by the schemes of the petty and small.

NOT 'Domineering' – Rather, it is COOPERATIVE. Slave drivers are always chained to those they try to oppress, and operate in constant fear of being overthrown. Effective training that educates you in the nature of your Will moves you toward freedom, and away from all desperate need to control others.

Characteristics Of Willpower:

Self-Knowledge – You know and manage your thoughts, impulses, and emotions.

Self-Motivation – You create your own purposes, motives, and motivations. The currents and winds of culture and society don’t pull at you, and temptation is merely a word used by people who do not know the truth about their own thoughts, emotions, and impulses.

Self-Direction – You don’t require a leader, because you take the point without needing to asked or told. You know what needs to be done because you have set the bar and determined what your course shall be. Let others keep up with you, if they can. You never take a blind step because you are keenly aware of every movement and action.

          Go ahead and throw out all those useless concepts of FORCING yourself! Forget CONTROL! Willpower has NOTHING to do with FORCE or CONTROL! What a RELIEF that is! Willpower also has no relation to ‘making’ yourself do anything, nor is it about painful self-denial. Willpower is fun and fascinating and you can learn about it through strategically customized and applied mental fitness training.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
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Mental Focus - External Pressure is inferior to Strategic Internal Pressure 

          Motivation is pressure, whether externally driven by other people, situations, and events, or internally created by our own thoughts and emotions about what it will mean to achieve a certain thing. When a person feels motivated, what they are feeling is physiological pressure in their central nervous system. As a manager of a Team (and manager of YOURSELF), you can take advantage of this phenomenon to bring greater success to your organization, its Team Members, and your own life.

          When working to inspire better Mental Focus from the people on your Team, one of the best tools of influence you as the Team Leader can master is the ability to spark beneficial internal pressure that moves a Team Player to excel past their current level of performance so that they become a better, more secure person in the process. Consider the following approach for integration into your own method for getting the most out of your Team.

          The right motivational strategy uplifts everyone involved with the Team, stimulating creativity, productivity, and rapport, while preventing stagnation, weak output, and friction. Here are five constants of Team Psychology that you should keep in mind when trying to influence the people on your team to stay focused, mentally.

1. Force begets an equal, opposite reaction. Force is inferior to Pressure and makes both Leader and Team Player miserable.
2. External pressure has no lasting effect on personal Mental Focus, and over time leads to an opposite result of distraction in the form of negativity and resentment.
3. Internal pressure - brought on by inspired, creative, flexible guidance from a source who has the Team Player's best interest at heart - not only lasts a long time, but can cause such a momentum of positive results that it becomes self-perpetuating until the Team Player becomes independently self-motivating.
4. When a Team Leader wants only good things for the Team Player, that selflessness naturally expresses itself by that Team Leader showing genuine interest in the Team Player - asking helpful questions about what is most important to them, becoming familiar with their beliefs and values, and finding a way to tie those things to the Team objectives so that both Team and Player enjoy a win-win scenario.
5. The wise Team Leader pays careful attention to the nature of the pressure (external vs. internal, positive vs. negative) moving his or her own self, making adjustments to maintain valuable, uplifting momentum within themselves. Few things make managing and motivating a Team as unbearable as being compelled by fear or desperation.

          When you understand the full depth of these five constants, managing internal pressure can easily be carried out by partnering with your Team Player to find out:

1. What they want most (goals and rewards),
2. What consequences they want most to avoid (failure, shame, etc.)

          You can then design a strategy that continually keeps what's most important within the scope of their daily attention. The more they focus on what they want - the more they habitually refer to the definitive plan of action related to productivity on the Team - the more natural, motivating internal pressure they'll have to compel them forward to reach the mark.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
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