Do you ever feel like something invisible is holding you back from achieving your entrepreneurial dreams, do you feel stuck? You’re not alone. The hidden force at play is often our own subconscious mind. It controls 90% of our brain’s activities, operating mostly beyond our conscious awareness but significantly influencing our daily entrepreneurial decisions. We can only sustain activities that the subconscious mind accepts. The subconscious acts as the lens through which we perceive our reality, with its foundation starting to form by the age of five, influenced by all our early experiences. This lens tries to determine what we can do; anything outside of this lens is often avoided because the subconscious mind tricks us into feeling that the unfamiliar is impossible or dangerous to achieve.
Exercises to Reveal the Subconscious Mind’s Tricks
Let’s do three short exercises to see these tricks in action:
Exercise 1: Simple Visualization
- Imagine Repainting Your Workspace: Picture yourself with a brush, painting the walls with your chosen color.
- Feel the Process: Imagine the sensation of the brush in your hand and the color spreading across the wall.
- Engage Your Senses: Visualize the smell of paint, the texture of the brush, and the sight of the newly colored wall.
Exercise 2: Intermediate Visualization
- Imagine Pitching to a New Client: Visualize getting up, walking to the meeting room, and shaking hands with a potential client.
- Detail the Experience: Visualize each step, from preparing your presentation to hearing the client’s feedback.
- Engage Your Senses: Feel the floor under your feet, the movement of your hand, and the sound of the conversation.
Exercise 3: Advanced Visualization
- Imagine Starting a Business from Scratch: Visualize yourself with no money, contacts, influence, or special skills, building a billion-dollar business from scratch.
- Detail the Actions: Picture the specific actions you would take to build your empire. Imagine networking, pitching ideas, working late nights, and overcoming obstacles.
- Engage Your Senses: Feel the challenges, the excitement, and the determination in every step you take.
The Subconscious Trick
Did you notice how easy Exercise 1 was? Also, did you notice how thinking becomes more difficult as the unfamiliarity of the task increases?
Many people can easily think about simple, familiar tasks but struggle with complex, unfamiliar ones. This is the trick of your subconscious mind trying to avoid discomfort and complexity because it does not already have a guideline to success for unfamiliar tasks. The brain’s tendency to favor familiar patterns is rooted in evolutionary survival mechanisms. Our ancestors relied on familiar routines for safety and efficiency. This preference for the familiar has been hardwired into our subconscious, leading to automatic resistance when we encounter new, uncharted tasks.
How Does Visualization Matter in Getting Real Results?
Firstly, if an aspiring entrepreneur cannot even think about doing a task in their mind, how can they execute it in real life? Moreover, the subconscious mind cannot differentiate between what is happening in our minds and what is happening outside. For it, both are the same. Whatever you can easily think about in your mind, you act upon it in real life.
When guaranteed guidelines to success exist, the subconscious mind accepts the task, and you can easily perform it. However, for unfamiliar tasks, when these guidelines do not already exist, the subconscious mind tries to convince you not to pursue the task at all. It does so by impulsively making you think negative thoughts:
- “I can’t do it”
- “I will fail”
- “It will go wrong”
Even thinking about the unfamiliar task raises discomfort, which is again from the bag of tricks of the subconscious mind. However, we must realize that just because a task is unfamiliar does not mean it can’t be done. With this realization, we can apply brute force and just start. However, if you can’t make the subconscious mind accept it first, you will not be able to sustain the motivation to keep on doing the task.
Convincing the Subconscious Mind Through Visualization
How do we then convince the subconscious mind? Through visualization. The goal of visualization is to familiarize the subconscious mind with the unfamiliar task, so you can start taking action in the direction of completing the task. Visualization helps the subconscious mind accept new possibilities, allowing you to silence the negative thoughts and feelings inside, and take consistent action toward your entrepreneurial goals.
The Truth About Visualization and the Law of Attraction
While many promote the mystical powers of visualization and the law of attraction, the simple truth is:
- Continuous Action: You can only continuously act on what the subconscious mind accepts.
- Familiarity: The subconscious mind accepts what is familiar.
- Imagination and Reality: The subconscious mind cannot differentiate between imagination and reality.
- Familiarity Through Visualization: Visualization familiarizes the subconscious with the unfamiliar.
- Ease of Action: We can easily act on familiar situations.
- Results Through Action: Actions lead to results.
Conclusion
The subconscious mind plays a crucial role in a persons ability to take bold actions in life & business. By understanding the subconscious tricks and utilizing visualization techniques, you can expand your mental lens to embrace new possibilities. Visualization helps convince the subconscious mind that unfamiliar tasks are achievable, enabling you to sustain motivation and achieve your entrepreneurial goals. Start incorporating visualization exercises into your daily routine and watch how they transform your approach to business challenges.
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