Article - Achieving Self-Mastery by Randy Gage
Ξ May 26th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Articles and Faves |
How do you achieve self-mastery? Mastery comes from
confidence. Confidence comes from experience. Experience
comes from practice. Practice comes from commitment. And
commitment comes from vision. Please read that last
paragraph again. Then do the arithmetic backward and you
have a roadmap to success. And notice that it all starts
with vision.
Every thing that manifests in your life is a result of the
vision you have for yourself. Everything. One of the
common mistakes people make is to say things, like, “But I
don’t really have a vision.”contraire … EVERYONE has a
vision.
Now it might be a positive vision, it could be a negative
one, or it may be a neutral one. Now you may wonder, how you
transform a neutral or negative vision into a positive one
… Glad you asked.
First, and you knew I was going to say this, programming is
important. If you’re watching three hours of sitcoms on TV
every night, it’s highly unlikely that you’re ever going to
believe in a positive vision for yourself. Likewise if
you’re reading the daily newspapers, hanging around with
victims and attending a church that beats you up every week.
So of course you need to be exposed to positive programming,
in the form of uplifting stories, positive reinforcement,
spiritual nourishment, mental and physical challenges and
the like. Next, you must make your goals real to you. And
this can be easier than you may think.
If your goal is to be the number one producer in your
company, just having a chart showing that on your Dream
Board will go a long way toward making that the case. Every
time you walk past it, your subconscious mind sees you
listed in the number one slot. After enough times, that
doesn’t seem so audacious anymore. In fact, it starts to
seem quite normal.
If you don’t own the audiotape album “Crafting Your Vision,”
get it today! It is a collection of twelve different
experts, all sharing their thoughts on vision and goal
setting. I’m one of the contributors, as is Mastermind
Council member Lisa Jimenez. This album is simply a “must
own” for anyone who is serious about manifesting great
things in their life.
I mention it now because of a very relevant technique you’ll
learn from Richard Brooke in his tape. Richard recommends
that you write a movie script of the vision you want to
manifest in your life. So going back to our earlier example,
you would write a script about you becoming the number one
producer in your company.
It might be the day of the company convention where you are
given the award. The key in writing this is to involve as
many senses as possible. So you might talk about the birds
chirping when you woke up, and the roar of the crowd as you
are introduced. You could mention the smell of the tea you
sip in the morning and the lilacs that are drifting in your
window.
You might write about the delicious taste of the lunch you
ate on the way to the convention hotel. You would describe
the huge hall where the convention is being held, and the
details on the stage. You would describe the heaviness of
the trophy you are handed, and the warmth of the handshake
from the company president as she awards you the honor.
Once you write this script, you carry it around in your
planner, purse or briefcase. Then when you have a few
minutes on the Metro, in line or on your lunch hour, you
read a little of it.
Because so many senses are involved, it resonates with you
deeper. And the deeper it does, the more of an imprint it
makes on your consciousness. Once you have a vision really
anchored with you, you just naturally want to achieve it. So
you commit to doing the things that make it happen. Along
the way to Mastery, I’ve discovered two insights that seem
to hold true in the pursuit of Mastery in all fields and at
all levels.
Once you accept and integrate them into your plan, you are
well on the road to Mastery. Here they are… Number one,
practice is the time to think, and plan, and analyze. Not in
the Championship game. You practice because you build
“muscle memory.” Think about soccer players. They didn’t
need to think, aim, or direct their kicks on goal
consciously. They see ball, kick ball.
It is an instinctive reaction, built up over hundreds or
even thousands of hours of practice. They don’t have fear or
self-doubt; they simply do what they do best. When you’re in
the big game, you don’t want to be having to think, question
or analyze. You want to be able to relax, have fun, and let
your training (practice) take over. In the case of Self-
Mastery, the situation is no different.
How you respond when the business deal doesn’t go your way,
your marriage faces a challenge, or you’re faced with an
ethical dilemma is determined well ahead of time by the
programming you’ve chosen, the wisdom you acquired, and the
self-discipline you’ve developed along the way. That’s why
some of those people walking by the café seem so confident.
They’ve done the work on themselves so they don’t fear life.
They embrace it, celebrate it, and revel in it.
Yes, they have setbacks, challenges, and even defeats.But
they have enough confidence in themselves to know that
defeat is a temporary setback, and failure is never final.
Unless you want it to be. Now here is the second insight
I’ve learned along the way. You can’t look good and get
better at the same time.
The first time you throw a baseball, ballroom dance,
pronounce a new language, hammer a nail, paint a picture,
build a bookcase, or serve a tennis ball you look silly!
Disjointed, unsure, or even ridiculous. Good. You are
starting truly at a place of learning.
The only way to be good, is to practice a lot of times while
you are bad. Like I tell new speakers, the only way to be a
good speaker is to do a lot of mediocre speeches. And after
you do enough good ones, you will do great ones. And after
you give enough great ones, you will be able to do world-
class ones.
If your vision is strong, and your commitment is real, you
don’t worry about looking silly in practice. You have enough
belief in yourself to put up with the cuts and scrapes or
the snickers and snide comments or the sweat and toil to
move another step closer to where you want to be.
Even when you hit the plateaus… Which we all must face. It
is just a reality of Mastery that you don’t move forward
continuously. In fact, sometimes it’s necessary to advance a
little, plateau, fall backward, go forward and plateau again
before you breakthrough to the next level. It’s a just a
part of the process. And once you’ve experienced this
enough, you develop confidence. Belief. And conviction. And
once you’ve got this, you are well on the road to true
Mastery.
And in any area, the process is the same. You don’t end up a
Master. You achieve a level of Mastery, at which you really
start the higher learning. Mastery is not a place, but a
process. A continuous one that includes many plateaus and
setbacks along the way. In fact, if you are not facing
setbacks and having some minor failures, you really can’t be
moving forward.
So here are some ideas for consideration.&First, evaluate
yourself. What kind of vision do you have for yourself? Be
honest. Is it positive, neutral, or negative? Do you have
different types of vision for different areas of your life?
Look for incongruence here.
For example, you may have a vision of greatness for your
bowling team, but think you will always be a low level
bureaucrat all your life. You may see yourself as a
successful CEO, but in a lifeless marriage. Or you may see
yourself as active and healthy, but struggling financially.
Evaluate if the areas of Mastery you are moving forward
include the way you make a living. Will Mastery of the
things you’re doing, lead to prosperity in your life? In ALL
areas? Give these things some thought. And change your
strategy, based upon the answers. Then you’ll be on track
and on target, to achieve Mastery in the areas that matter
most to you!
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Article Submitted by Randy Gage - For more than 15 years,
Randy Gage has been helping people transform self-limiting
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