Suppose you had a ready supply of success assets and didn’t use them?
Well, we all do and most of us ignore these assets with woeful consequences. We fail to enjoy the success they could and should generate.
These assets are success memories. And I don’t mean just business success memories. I mean any success experience of any kind from any time in your life.
Each of these memories still holds lots of good feelings. As you relive these memories, your mind naturally floods your awareness with a bounty of good vibes.
Even if the success event happened decades previously and has nothing to do with your current goals, you still feel a rush of well-being, satisfaction, and pride of accomplishment. Fortunately, the mind also combines the feelings of success memories into a powerful success experience. And we can use the powerful combination to generate wonderful results in the present.
You have probably heard “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” Suppose you apply this idea to your past memories of success?
What happens when you blend the vibes from past success memories and experience the result in the present? You see new possibilities, harmonize with undiscovered potential, and grasp new levels of confidence.
Here’s a technique I like to use when someone tells me “But I’ve never had much success at anything.”
Even if you’ve never closed a big deal, won the recruiting contest, or doubled your money in six months, here’s how to mine your success memories and discover long-forgotten nuggets of gold.
Recall three success experiences. These experiences do not have to be career-related or related to each other in any way except they are successes you have enjoyed in the past. They don’t have to be big, dramatic, or noteworthy in anyone’s eyes except yours.
The easiest way to do this is to call to mind times of your life and/or places of your life.
For example, what success experiences can you recall from childhood, adolescence, your 20’s, etc.?
Can you recall any from the home or city where you grew up, went to college, or lived at various times? What activities in the various times and places made you feel good about yourself and/or earned recognition that still makes you smile?
Let your mind recall these experiences. Allow your internal memory banks to present you with the sights, sounds, and feelings of these wonderful past successes that still make you feel good.
As they rush back to you, recall them as if they were actually occurring. Adjust your visual point of view to see the scene as if through your own eyes.
As you view these empowering scenes from the same perspective as they actually occurred, dwell for a moment on how they make you feel. Super-charge the power of each experience by recalling and re-experience them in succession.
Do this in any order that seems natural. They don’t have to be chronological.
Allow your mind to replay these sights, sounds, and feelings as if you were assembling a “highlight reel” of good feelings about yourself. And it does feel good, doesn’t it?
Notice how the total experience (which may last only a few seconds) is more powerful than recalling each individual memory separately. Recall these good vibes the next time your confidence needs a quick boost.
In this way, let your mind connect past successes and make more success happen now.
