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To become a champion, you must think like one. According to Luc d' Abadie -
"To be successful requires honing the habit of thinking like a winner throughout the journey from nothingness to prominence".
In his classic book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill explains how attaining wealth in any amount you desire happens as a result of your will power. Norman Vincent Peale's all-time bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking is founded on the principle that positive results start with positive thoughts. Shad Helm and Wayne Dver are few of the many other well known authors who have also written best-selling books on the power of the mind. Some call itself talk, others call it positive thinking or intention; others use terminology like visualization or manifestation. Call it anything you like, it all means same thing success starts in the mind.
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What works harder and longer than you do? Your mind does. While you are awake it is consciously buzzing away with thoughts and ideas and while you sleep your subconscious
continues to produce thought after thought. What is your mind working on while you are in the shower, commuting to work, or sitting in a meeting with client? The words and pictures you feed your mind with crave the path to achieving big goals. Almost every Olympic athlete can testify to a time when they visualized themselves winning the Gold or when they told themselves they would set a world record and they did.
Champions are regular people who confidently tell themselves day and night thoughts and mental images that the:
can and will reach their goals. As Napoleon Hill says, "what you can conceive, and believe, you can achieve." Conceiving big things and believing they are possible is the dividing line between the mediocrity of the masses and greatness of champions.
The bigger the goal and the wilder the dream, the more resistance there will be on the journey. Have you ever have someone tell you that you lack the education, money experience, connections or fill in the blank that is required to reach your goal? This is one of the primary reasons people do not step outside their comfort zone and pursue their dreams they are not thinking like a champion does, their minds cannot withstand the resistance. Champions are determined to reach their goals and their mind is conditioned to see obstacles as well as opportunities on the journey.