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By Scott Teeters

Although I read about this idea many years ago, I became reacquainted with it recently in Marc Allen’s book, “The Millionaire Course.”  This is a very old idea and it works if you have the discipline to do it. It’s also very simple. Let me describe it and then I’ll explain why it works.

One day while thinking about my daily routine, I realized that I wanted to add something to my morning routine that would help me to stay on focus with our (“our” includes my wife Karen Teeters) long range objectives. I started out by asking what our“ideal scene would look like 12 to 18 months from now.

I clumped everything into four sections:

1. Work/Business

2. Financial

3. Home

4. Personal

After each heading, I wrote a short affirmation. My favorite is this, “Our business flourishes all year around.” (That just makes me feel all warm inside.) Then I list out the various things that are important to us in each group.

I worked on this for about an hour one Sunday afternoon until I got it pared down so that it fit on to one page. Each item is just a general notion of what we want to be experiencing in the 12 to 18 month time frame. I do not have everything all detailed out for each item. I save that kind of detailing for my idea log if need be.

The point of condensing this down to one sheet of paper is because I rewrite this every morning. Like I said, this probably isn’t for everyone, but when I read that a billionaire does this every day I thought, “He must be on to something.” Since I am just rewriting what I have written before, it only takes me about 20 minutes to do this. Here’s why it works.

Obviously, your hand writes a lot slower than your mind can think. By rewriting each item, you are forcing your mind to slow down and let the words soak into your subconscious mind. By keeping each line as short as possible, what I’m really doing is writing, seeing, reading, and hearing inside my head each line as an affirmation.

We’ve all heard the expression, “repetition is the mother of all learning.” Fortunately, that’s not true for all things, but for many things such as multiplication tables, learning a foreign vocabulary, and driving new suggestions into your thinking, it’s a very good technique.

In essence, you are reminding yourself of these things every day… day after day.  Before you know it, they’re always just behind the front of your thinking, on the lookout for situations that resonate with those ideas. When something jives with one of your affirmations, it will send a signal to your cerebral cortex, “HEY! Pay attention to this!

This event is connected to that thing you keep rewriting every morning, so pay attention!” This is an excellent way to condition your mind to be alert for opportunities that would otherwise slide on by you. Your subconscious mind remembers everything you have ever said, done, and experienced.

By feeding your mind with suggestions of what you want to create with your life, you begin to use your subconscious mind to work for you, rather than against you. The subconscious mind will work one way or another. It really can work at your directive. It can dish up old dirt on you or be like a barking beagle watch dog. That’s one of the amazing things about the human brain and the spiritual concept of Free Will.

Not only do we get to choose our thoughts, but we get to choose “how” we spin them… for better or worse, with a positive or negative charge. We choose. So Write out the affirmations of the goals you would like to achieve in short sentences and then try the act of quickly rewriting these sentences everyday. They may just get into your subconscious to do something positive for you!