Gratien Mukeshimana

 

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve,”   Napoleon Hill   once said. “The mind is everything. What you think, you become,” Buddha taught. You’ve heard high-minded quotes like these all your life. Now science has caught up. We can finally quantify and track how beliefs can shape outcomes. Related:   Napoleon Hill’s 17 Principles of Personal Achievement Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck found that some people have a “fixed mindset” and believe that they cannot change their capabilities. Other people have a “growth mindset.”  The growers believe they can work toward improving themselves.  Dweck and her colleagues studied 373 students and tracked their academic performance from the beginning of seventh grade through the end of the eighth. They found that those with a growth mindset think-I-can-think-I-can’d themselves to a rise in grade point average, while those with a fixed mindset remained the same. It’s also been shown that if, before takin...

 

 

Meditation   is like sitting by the bank of a river, watching it flow by. From time to time, we get pulled into the (thought) stream, but that’s OK. In fact, pulling ourselves out to again sit and watch is the heart of the practice. With 10 minutes of daily meditation, I’ve been able to see my otherwise unobserved thoughts for what they are: passing flotsam. Although I’ve  sidestepped boatloads of negative emotion , lately I’ve noticed the same obnoxious thoughts assailing me year after year. Related:  ‘All It Takes Is 10 Mindful Minutes’ I got tired of those seductive but harmful sirens pulling me under. I decided it was time to use some powerful techniques to actively  reprogram my thoughts . You can, too. “He can’t help it; he’s set in his ways.” The folk wisdom that adults can’t change is being challenged by new research. Our personality is not cast in stone in childhood;  the brain is highly reprogrammable at any age . Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ...

  How To Make One Hell Of A Profit And Still Get To Heaven - John Demartini Dr. John F. Demartini wrote  How to Make One Hell of a Profit and Still Get to Heaven  to help you (if you happen to be like most people) dissolve these apparent conflicts. This book can assist you in making your financial dreams come true while shedding light on an entirely new way of looking at, understanding, and appreciating the true nature of Earthly profits and heavenly wealth. If you read and apply the principles and methodologies that are laid out in these pages, your relationship with, and ability to master, your spiritual wealth and material finances as well as other vital areas of your life will undergo an amazing transformation. Welcome to the world of greater profits and heavenly riches!  Click here   The Gratitude Effect - John Demartini Proclaiming the importance of gratitude in an individual's life, this self-help book by motivational speaker Dr. John Demartini is a guide...

 

When I came across the notion that I could   get good at anything   I set my mind to, I was blown away. The whole idea that you can’t teach old dogs new tricks has now been debunked (both for humans and for dogs). Thankfully, the brain is far more plastic than people used to believe, and you can shape your mind through disciplined practice. So just because you’re bad at something today doesn’t mean you have to keep being bad at it tomorrow. That concept was one of the driving forces behind my obsession with learning  how the brain works . I figure if the brain is the organ that literally constructs the world around me (don’t believe me, read the books listed below), then I had better figure out how it works so that I could take control of the process. And I don’t think it’s overstating the case to say that taking control of that process, and focusing my energies on learning the neuro-anatomical realities of unleashing my full potential, is what allowed me to  succeed...

 

 

 

If you’re like most people, you probably want to spend your Saturday and Sunday sleeping in, only to roll out of bed and onto the couch to veg out in front of a little mindless TV—but just until it’s time to change out of your sweats and into real clothes for dinner and a fun night of drinking. Right? Yeah, that’s most people, but not entrepreneurs. They use their time a little more wisely—because they realize if they want to be successful, they have to go  do  something about it. Follow their lead and you can become more productive, too… even on a Saturday. Here are five things successful entrepreneurs do on the weekends: 1. Wake up early. Savvy entrepreneurs know that if they sleep in on Saturdays and Sundays, their sleep schedule will be thrown off for the rest of the week. They also know that the most productive hours of the day are usually in the morning—and if they have work to do this weekend and want time left over for some recreation, they have to set their alarm cloc...