For those seeking an exercise for a flat stomach, there are many to try. Listed here are seven workouts from yoga and pilates poses to weight training and resistance band exercises.

Toe Circles

1. Lie on your back with arms at your sides.

2. While exhaling, raise both feet six inches off the floor. Point toes and move them in a small circle. Complete two or three circles.

3. Slowly bring feet back to the floor.

4. Repeat, moving your feet in the opposite direction.

One Leg Circles

1. Lie on your back with your arms at your sides.

2. Pull in your abs while extending the left leg toward the ceiling with toes pointed.

3. Rotate leg clockwise, breathing in through half of the circle and exhaling through the other half.

4. Switch legs and repeat.

Incline Twisting Sit-ups Exercise for a Flat Stomach

1. With weights in each hand, lock feet at the top of an incline bench. Place hands beside head, keep butt square on the bench.

2. Raise body to knees, while twisting torso to one side.

3. Go back down, repeat twisting to other side.

Standing Twist with Dumbbell

1. Hold a dumbbell with both hands and stand with feet shoulder width apart. Hold dumbbell close to your chest.

2. Contract the abs and twist the weight from left to right using only the abdominal muscles. The dumbbell should stay close to the body.

3. Focus on breathing and contracting the abs.

Barbell Abdominal Rollouts

1. Place a light barbell on the ground.

2. Standing above the barbell, keep your legs straight and bend down to grab the barbell with both hands shoulder width apart.

3. Roll your torso forward, keeping arms extended in a locked position. Roll until you are parallel with the floor.

4. Return to the start position and repeat.

One Arm Band Pull

1. Stand with feet hip width apart. With resistance band in hands, put your hands above your head and hold the band open about 18 inches.

2. Keep the left hand over your head and slowly bring the right hand to your side. Your elbow should be at a ninety degree angle.

3. Contract your core muscles while lowering your right arm until it is lined up with your chest. 4. Hold this position then return to starting position. Switch hands and repeat.

Twisting Roll Back

1. While sitting, bend your knees with your heels on the floor and toes pointing upward.

2. Loop the resistance band around your feet and hold the ends in each hand.

3. Put your hands together and roll your lower body to the floor at a 45 degree angle. Twist to the right and pull your hands to your sides at the same time.

4. Hold for several seconds, switch to the other side and repeat.

While there are many that enjoy playing the piano, they just don’t have the space for a piano in their home. However, with portable keyboards this problem is easily fixed. The only problem one faces is finding the right keyboard. In this Yamaha YPT-320 review, you’ll find out exactly what makes this keyboard an excellent buy.

Variety of Sounds and Voices: One of the best features you’ll read about in the Yamaha YPT-320 is that this keyboard gives owners the ability to play with 482 different instrument voices and over 100 different accompaniment styles. This definitely gives you a lot of options for what you do with your keyboard. Whether you want to enjoy the soothing timbres of a grand piano or if you want to be accompanied by drums and other instruments as you play, this baby does it all!

Lesson Features: Many owners of this particular keyboard don’t mention the lesson features of this instrument, but it is a feature that needs to be spotlighted because it’s a great tool for beginners. There are three different lesson functions. These are “Keys for Success,” “Listening, Timing, Waiting,” and “Phrase Repeat.” With Keys for Success you will be able to master a specific song by practicing phrases individually and receiving a score for how well you play. The Listening, Timing, Writing functions teaches you how to learn correct timing and the Phrase Repeat function gives you the ability to repeat different phrases in the song for better practice.

Recording: Another great feature that I feel deserves to be mentioned is the 2-track easy recording feature. This allows you to record and save up to 5 of your own songs. This is great for two reasons, first it can help you practice a specific song and play it back so you can hear your mistakes. Secondly, you can compose your own songs with this feature. Both of these are great for those that enjoy playing piano.

Instant Mobility: Finally, I’ll end this Yamaha YPT-320 review with the convenience of having instant mobility. While having a full size, traditional piano is nice, it is also inconvenient because you can’t play it everywhere you go. While all keyboards can be mobile, this one is pretty lightweight, which makes it easier to carry than others. There are also hookups for headphones, which means you can take it wherever you want and practice without disturbing others.

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Reading on-line product reviews is one thing and buying products on-line is another thing. The great benefit to purchasing products through on-line vendors is that you can quite often find a better deal than you would at a regular retail store. Fortunately, there are many reputable on-line retailers that offer a wide selection of products over regular department stores. You need only enter your search terms into your browser to discover them.

In the old movie, Miracle on 34th Street, the Macy’s Santa sends customers to rival store Gimbels for products that Macy’s does not have. After a management outcry, it then turns out that customers really appreciate this service and become more loyal to Macy’s than ever before.

Retailers today have forgotten that lesson. Everybody is looking to cut costs. Customer service is no longer considered a revenue generator, so it’s one of the first things on the chopping block when a retailer starts tightening its belt.

Good customer service is good business. It creates repeat customers. Repeat customers are what every retailer wants because it is far less expensive from a marketing standpoint to sell to a former customer than to bring in new customers.

Retailers no longer know what makes “good” customer service. The general feeling is that if the product leaves the store and does not come back, everything is fine. Customer service is only for the “problems” and the job of customer service is to make the problems go away at the least possible cost. The less interaction between the store and the customer, the better.

Superior customer service demands extensive interaction between the customer and the retailer. In my Internet company we look for every possible opportunity to contact and engage the customer. Once a customer has placed an order, the company will contact them at least four times during the 4 week period between the sale and the delivery. The first contact is to acknowledge the order and thank the customer for her (or his) purchase. At that time the customer receives information about the production and delivery process and they are encouraged to call if there are any questions. A second contact is made shortly before production is complete The third contact is made when the product is actually shipped. At this time, there is a detailed description of what the delivery process will entail. There is also a tracking number provided so that the product can be tracked by the customer during the shipping process. The fourth contact is after delivery when each customer is contacted to find out whether they are happy with the product or whether some additional followup is needed.

When we receive a request for one of our free catalogs, we send it along with a letter noting that we also offer free fabric swatches and free design advice. When an order is placed, we acknowledge the order electronically, then send an email personally thanking the customer. We notify them when the product (in our case sofas) is about to be shipped. We notify them again after it has shipped. Most important, we contact the customer after the product has been received to make sure that everything is OK and that there are no problems. In doing this, sometimes there is a minor problem that the customer might not have mentioned but which distracts from the enjoyment of the sofa — for example a cushion feels too firm. We send out free, softer replacement cushions. The result is that instead of having a silent but disappointed customer, we now have a very happy buyer who enthusiastically recommends us to friends and family. The cost of the extra cushions is a marketing cost.

The secret behind outstanding customer service is simply to put yourself in the place of the customer. What would you want the company to do if you were the customer? Treat the customer the way you want to be treated.

1. Answer telephone calls promptly. It is amazing how grateful a customer can be when they realize they are speaking with a real live knowledgeable person who can answer their questions.

2. Respond to emails and phone messages promptly. All emails phone calls should be handled as quickly as possible, hopefully in less than one hour.

3. Be honest. It is amazing how often salespeople feel that telling the truth gets in the way of making a sale. If a microfiber fabric already has a stain protector built in and does not need the optional spray protector, tell the customer. Once you have saved them from spending an unnecessary $50, they will trust you completely and might even be willing to forgive minor glitches that may pop up. If a sofa won’t be finished by the promised deadline, call as soon as you are aware of the problem.

4. Under-promise — If a delivery will take 3 weeks, estimate 4. Customers are usually delighted when something is ready ahead of schedule.

5. Maximize contact with the customer. This does not mean sending frequent ads or spam. It means keeping the customer informed of the progress of their order up to and after delivery.

6. Be knowledgeable about your products and your company. If you don’t know the answer to a question, find out quickly.

7. Surprise and amaze your customer — give them something they do not expect. This can be as simple as delivering your product one week eaarly, or it can involve giving an upgrade at no charge. This is particularly important when an error has been made and you are trying to correct it. Go farther than your customer expects and they will change from disgruntled critics to enthusiastic supporters.

Retail stores have been cutting back on customer service for years. As competition grows and profit margins shrink, customer service is one of the first places to cut back. Everyone who has ever tried to call a computer company for technical assistance and winds up talking to someone from India knows the problem. Corporate bean counters forget that with good customer service you can earn better margins. You are not forced to fight over who can offer the lowest price. Besides, it’s just nicer working in a friendly environment. When you have happy customers, you have happy employees.

Many organists want to be able to play the most wonderful organ compositions from memory. This skill lets them to know the music at a much deeper level and gives many advantages against the organists who do not work on memorizing their music.

But is it possible to store the music in our permanent memory so that we could play it after many months? The answer is yes, and this article will show you how to do it.

First of all, we have to understand that after we memorize the piece the next day we have to repeat it otherwise we will soon forget it. What does it take to truly memorize the composition? We can take the analogy with learning the words of the new language.

Just imagine if you have to memorize 5 new words in a foreign language today. How many times you have to repeat them in order to memorize them? Perhaps repetition of 10 times each would be enough for most people. Will you remember them tomorrow? Not really, unless you repeat them tomorrow, right? So, if you repeat them tomorrow, will you remember them permanently? Not yet.

We have to repeat them about 100 times over a long period of time to be able to remember them permanently. In other words, repetition of just 10 times stores them in our short-term memory, but if we repeat them 100 times over some months, then we will have them stored in our long-term memory.

Going back to organ playing, we can also use a similar system how you could go about in memorizing music and keeping it in your long-term memory. We will use a special strategy to achieve this goal.

Memorize the music and repeat it 10 times. Then you will have to repeat it after one day, two days, four days, one week, two weeks, one month, two months, four months, six months, and finally after one year. Always repeat your memorized organ piece 10 times.

Note that the length of the piece does not mater as long as you repeat so many times. However, I suggest you try something shorter for starters. After 1 year you will have 110 repetitions of this piece and it will be stored in your long-term memory. Then you can leave it for many months, but your will not forget it.

However, I don’t mean you should be playing ONLY this piece for one year. Of course, play and other organ compositions but this is for the sake of an experiment. You can memorize more pieces, if you will have time.

Here is the key to the mental shackles you have put yourself in:

Are you tired of having to repeat mantras when you know that they will not help and that they make no sense?

It’s about time that you’ve found this article isn’t it!

Here’s what you do, say to yourself, “Today I will not repeat any mantras!”

Here is the one I used to say to myself, “hate bad, love God.” It’s a mantra that I used to say to myself. What does it mean?

Absolutely nothing, it’s magic thinking. If I would have a bad thought, I would repeat this to myself to somehow cleanse my thoughts, the only problem is simply this, this doesn’t do a damn thing!

This is what we in the industry of OCD and anxiety call “magic thinking” What makes you think that you’re magical anyway.

Just simply say “I’m not saying any mantra, I’m becoming normal right now in my thought life.”

Let’s face it, a person that has never had OCD couldn’t possibly understand the anxiety that comes from not saying the mantra when you first stop saying it. You’d have weird thoughts like, I love the devil if I don’t say it and things like that.

Our minds love to play tricks on us sometimes. Here’s the key, You’ve got to trust what you know about yourself. You know that you don’t love the devil, so if you have a thought like that, just chillax and laugh. Say to yourself, “It’s funny how the mind works.”

Don’t be afraid of what kind of thoughts you are going to have, if you fear something, your mind thinks about it, so by fearing something, you cause it to happen. Instead chill out and just know that as a man thinketh so he is.

Are you done torturing yourself? good, now let it go, let go of the mantras. Ask normal people how they think. You’ll have to unlearn thinking in mantras and learn how to think normally like, “did I turn off the iron?”

Now that is normal thinking! Enjoy your time with this knowing that you create your own fears, you can created them, you can destroy them, period.

Take action: Today what I want you to do is to stop repeating mantras in your mind and when you feel anxiety after you refused to speak the mantra just say to yourself, “I don’t care, do your worst!” Don’t be fearful. If you don’t fear, you will be cured. OCD and anxiety is just fear of fear itself. The Bible says, Do not be afraid! Pretty simple right? Well if it’s so easy, why aren’t you following it? There’s nothing else you need to know, just stop fearing, NOW! Go and enjoy your life, isn’t it about time!

My theist debating acquaintance, MG, from another place, who just doesn’t accept the concept of a temporal infinity[#] (either a linear one or a circular one, either one with cyclic events) on the grounds that you can’t get to “Now” from either the starting point of an infinite past or by going backwards from an infinite future. I’d argue that the everyday concept of mathematical Pi disputes MG’s assertion.

[#] Despite the fact that theists accept the concept as given that God is an eternal / everlasting being without beginning and without end.

[Note: I debated with MG the reason I think that there is a temporal infinity and as such any specific happening would have to ultimately repeat. I often used the analogy of walking around a sphere an infinite number of times and thus repeating being in a specific location at a specific “Now” or approaching “Now”. MG responds… ]

MG – “There is no reason to think a repetitive pattern will emerge. Just think of numbers like pi (an infinite set of numerals that never repeats nor demonstrates any cyclical pattern).”

JP – Even in Pi you will find repeating patterns. How many times will you find say 27, 33, 42 or 007 within the Pi sequence? Each time you find, say 42, that’s a repeat of the first 42! Even the number “4” is a unique event that randomly repeats. For that matter, you could consider Pi to be a series, not of necessity in sequence, of ten separate ‘events’ – 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Nice try!

MG – “Even if it did repeat over and over, it would be true that it had repeated a certain number of times. If that number is infinite, then an actually infinite number of events had to be traversed prior to the current one for that particle, and we are right back in the same contradiction.”

JP – Go back and re-read my analogy with the sphere and how you can go around and around an infinite number of times, participate in an infinite number of events, and still be within spitting distance of “The Present Moment”.

MG – “Pi might have the same numeral show up, but not in any CYCLICAL PATTERN.”

JP – And I stated exactly that! Re-read my post.

MG – “You messed up on this one. Just admit it and move on.”

JP – I admit no such thing! The infinity of Pi (ah, you’ve admitted an infinity) is composed of a finite number of individual numbers (0 through 9). That’s a good analogy for there being an infinite number of individual finite events. Note that I have consistently said that infinity consists of an infinite number of finite events. You are just one finite event in a sequence of infinite finite events and collectively that is what infinity is. Back to the Pi analogy: The number 4 is a finite event (like you are a finite event) within the infinite sequence we call Pi. The finite number 4 happens an infinite number of times in the sequence we call Pi. The number 4 is therefore infinitely cyclic within the Pi sequence but the number 4 itself does not have any specific cyclic pattern within the Pi sequence.

MG – “And as long as 4 doesn’t come up with cyclical regularity in pi, then pi counts as a complete counter-argument to your cyclical time argument (for which you presented zero evidence).”

JP – As long as 4 comes up again and again and again, whether in an irregular pattern or in a regular pattern, and as long as 4 stands in for some sort of event, then translated to a cosmic setting, that event has happened again and again.

Discussion:

*MG argues for an absolutely temporal finite Universe which required an actual creation and therefore a creator, and therefore God exists and God done it. However, perhaps even a finite Universe is an infinite one. By analogy, Pi has a finite beginning yet it has apparently infinite duration. Or, even if Pi does eventually repeat or come to finality, there’s 1/3rd which also has a finite beginning but which is also infinite in duration. Therefore, even if our Universe had a finite beginning, it is still infinite if there is no temporal end to it.

*It would take a temporally infinite you an infinity of time to calculate the entirety of Pi, but in attempting to do so, you would be SOMEWHERE within the sequence at any given moment, a moment you would call “Now”. In other words, you could have started a journey through time starting an infinite amount of time ago and still be at a point we call “The Present Moment” or “Now”.

*Looking Infinitely Forward: Let’s say for sake of argument that the “Looking Infinitely Back” problems have been resolved in MG’s favor. That is, the Universe had an absolute beginning a finite amount of time ago. Now there’s the “Looking Infinitely Forward” versions of issues to be resolved.

But doesn’t the issue of not being able to get from an infinite past to “Now” also work the other way around? Presumably if you start travelling – even if mentally – back from an infinite future, you couldn’t thus in time travelling backwards ever reach “Now” either. This is relevant because like Pi [#], we have a finite beginning yet, according to theists, have ‘life’ everlasting or everlasting ‘life’; ‘life’ eternal or eternal ‘life’ in the afterlife. So how do you come back to “Now” from the infinite future? So, theists have the same infinity problem only in reverse.

[#] I’m not really sure how one can have a one-sided infinity as in an infinite past that terminates, or a finite beginning that never terminates. Yet, Pi has a finite beginning yet an (apparently) infinite ‘end’.

*If you can actually have a one-sided infinity as in creation hence an eternal ‘life’, or Pi, then logically you can have an infinite ‘beginning’ or a ‘beginning’ an infinite amount of time ago, and a finite ending, or in other words what you can term as “Now”. If one, then the other. If the other – finite beginning; infinite ‘end’ – then something can undergo an infinite journey in time and arrive at “Now”.

In the past ten years, much advancement has been made in the world of strength and conditioning, including the development of dynamic warmup routines. Gone are the days of stretching statically before a sporting event. Before soccer and lacrosse games, you will witness players doing a series of active exercises in straight lines, repeating the same exercise 10-20 times while in constant motion. They will progress to faster drills in the same patterns on the field. There is no reason why you shouldn’t see gymnasts completing the same routine, and do to the flexibility demands of the sport, dynamic warmup is even more important for these athletes to do.

There are several phases of warming up a muscle. First is the muscle activation phase, in which a gymnast performs a few repetitions of an exercise that will initiate contraction of a muscle. This phase is not meant for strengthening, hence the low repetitions. These exercises are examples of a muscle activation exercise:

SingleLegBridge: This exercise will activate your gluts and hamstrings. Lie on your back with one knee bent and the other leg hugged into your chest. Lift your buttocks about 5-6 inches off of the ground as you maintain a flat back with tight abdominals. Repeat 5-6 times on each side.

Deep Squat: Stand with your feet a bit wider than shoulder width apart, with your arms overhead. Squat down by sitting your buttocks back. The back should remain flat as the shoulders come forward. Place hands on the ground, then reach one to the sky and rotate toward that hand. Reach with the opposite hand. Repeat sequence 3-4 times

The next phase is the muscle mobility phase, which starts to introduce a dynamic stretch to a muscle, and will begin to increase the muscle tissue temperature. This is example of a muscle mobility exercise:

Dynamic Supine Hamstring Stretch: Lie on your back with your arms at your sides and your legs straight. Keeping a flat back and tight abdominals, raise one leg straight in the air, then lower it at a moderate speed. If it is more comfortable, bend the opposite knee. Only raise your leg to a comfortable level and do not let your back arch off of the ground. Repeat 5-6 times on each side. You may also raise the leg, then bring it slightly out to the side about 10-12 inches and back inwards 5-6 times. Do not allow the torso to rotate or the hip to lift off of the ground. Skip this last step if you have any hip problems.

The next phase of a dynamic warmup is the traveling mobility phase. In this phase, a gymnast utilizes an area of about 15 yards, adding consistent movement to the exercises. The temperature of the muscles rise, and each muscle is warmed up through its entire range of motion. Here are some examples of traveling mobility exercises:

Quadricep Stretches: Stand tall and bend your knee to bring your heel towards you buttocks, keeping the legs parallel to each other. Grab your foot with the hand on the same side, hold for about 3 seconds, then lower the leg. Step forward about 2 feet and repeat with the other side. Feel a stretch in front of your thigh. Continue the 15 yard distance. When you return in the opposite direction, you may stretch the front of your hip by leaning forward and reaching the opposite hand forward. Hold for about 3 seconds. Continue the 15 yard distance.

Inchworm: This is a hamstring stretch for the back of your thigh. Bend over to reach your hands to the floor, then walk your hands forward as far as you can. Maintain a flat back. Next, walk your feet forward with straight knees as close to your hands as you can. Don’t worry if you cannot bring your feet all the way to your hands. It will improve with practice. Repeat for the 15 yard distance twice.

The final phase of a dynamic warmup is dynamic mobility, in which a gymnast uses the same 15 yard space to complete fast movement exercises such as high knee runs, lateral runs, and side skips, which will fully elevate the body temperature to the level it needs to be to perform on the ice.

Recently, I was thinking about the subject I am writing about here, and I was thinking along these lines: To successfully invest or speculate, you must understand where you went wrong if you failed, and do your best not to repeat the same mistakes. Even better, to succeed, you must purely do what works at the right time, in the right way. I, personally think that is the hardest thing about any investment of any sort.

Genuine success of any sort depends on knowing every inch of failure and how not to do it again if you did it when you attempted to achieve success. If you can understand that statement, you can genuinely get somewhere. If you depend on initial luck and the “luck of the draw” in success, you really will get nowhere. In short, reality is understanding fully how to fail and not doing it, and instead doing what makes for genuine success. After all, people judge you for real successes, not the many temporary misunderstandings and failures that led to that ultimate real success.

In that sense, “We all love to win, but who loves to train?” takes on a brand old meaning. Failure, properly used is the ultimate stepping stone to genuine success, especially in investing, futures, and that type of thing and beyond.

I remember Thomas Edison and his quote that “I have found ten thousand ways not to invent the light bulb, and one way to do it.” That is the reality of genuine success in investing, playing poker or anything requiring cognitive understanding of when to act, when not to act, when to pull back and when to go forward. In brief, there are many ways to lose, but only one genuine way to win ultimately after understanding all those ways to lose: You work through to success. You do not depend on luck, you do not worship the first time making it through “luckily”, success comes through that trial and error understanding work. For those that think I am a pessimist and not the ultimate optimist in understanding the nature of all games requiring investment and future commodities of every sort in a genuine ultimate capitalist way, there is always the Bernard “Bernie” Madoff way of faking it until you genuinely fail, or doing what it takes to really succeed (like the ultimate genuine capitalist I am), which I genuinely prefer. Doing what it takes really, consists of not so much skill, but understanding how to succeed by finding every way to fail until success is certain. Why do you think Jason “Jay” Gould died a failure technically, and Abraham Lincoln is remembered as one of our greatest Presidents of the United States, because in his life, he found every way to fail until he did succeed while Gould, though successful in business most of his life cut corners at crucial moments instead of failing smartly. I get it. Gould died of a heart attack from the stress of maintenance, Lincoln had to be taken out by an assassin of the January 6th, 2021 sort that wanted attention in a sorry way. I get it: Win the right way, or else suffer a fate “getting away with it” gives you in the mirror if nobody else immediately knows what you lied about or attempted cheating at.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a great persuasion tool to use. NLP involves using a few simple but effective tricks to influence people around you. It is a tool that works because it is a technique that resonates with the subconscious mind. When a person’s subconscious mind has taken notice of you, they are more likely to not only like you, but agree with you and follow through with your suggestions. There are many different ways you can use NLP as a persuasion tool.

Names

Saying a person’s name during conversation is just one way to use NLP as a persuasion tool. When you say a person’s name, you automatically form a connection with that person. In today’s society, it is common for people to be “bad with names.” Don’t make the mistake of letting someone’s name slip out of your mind! Pay attention during introductions and make a conscious effort to remember people’s names. Then, during conversation, use names! This will make the conversation more personal and the person will feel a stronger association with you than they would otherwise.

Mirroring

Mirroring or mimicking your subject is also a great way to use NLP as a persuasion tool. Verbally repeat or recycle some of the words your subject uses. If you notice that your subject has a habit of adding the phrase “You know?” at the end of their sentences, then you can start adding that phrase to the end of your sentences too. You can also try repeating the words a subject says. For instance, if your subject says “It took three hours to get there,” then you can repeat the words “three hours!?” in exasperation. This is a normal thing for people to do in a conversation so it won’t seem out of the ordinary. Mirroring is a great NLP persuasion tool because it makes the subject unconsciously believe that you are similar to them.

Assumptions

Another great technique for NLP as a persuasion tool is to use assumptions. If you are trying to use NLP as a persuasion tool to get a lady to go on a date with you, you would assume she already agreed to go on the date. You would never ask her “Do you want to go to the movies?” Instead, you would say something like “What type of restaurant should we go to on Saturday night?” This assumes that the woman has already agreed to go out with you on Saturday. People are a lot less likely to disagree with things they are already assumed to be doing. NLP is a great persuasion tool. You can use NLP by saying your subject’s name, mirroring their words, or by using assumptions. All of these things affect a person’s subconscious mind, which is the hot place to be when it comes to persuasion.

This article is a review of the Quanta Personal Development daily mentor moment programs co-founded by Jim Britt and Jim Lutes.

Not happy with where you are in life? Not happy with your relationships? Not happy with your finances? Do you want to change it? Your self-image is very closely related to your subconscious mind.

If you have failed continually in the past, your subconscious mind has programmed you for failure. You see, the subconscious mind is programmed 1 of 3 ways. It is programmed by repetition, by input from an authority figure, or by a traumatic experience.

However, the good news is you can change. You can change your self-image by changing your subconscious mind programming. After all, the subconscious mind cannot distinguish between what’s imagined and what’s real.

Step 1 – Realize You Can Change. The first step in changing your self-image is realizing and believing that you can change. It may not be easy, but with practice it will become automatic, and by repetition, will become a part of your subconscious mind. You are never too old or too young to change your self-image.

Step 2 – Mind Programming Exercise. “IF IT’S GONNA BE, IT’S UP TO ME.” Repeat this statement for ten minutes at bedtime. Repeat this exercise before bedtime, with eyes closed, not totally lying down, but propped up in a prone position. Repeat this statement with a sense of certainty. As you make this statement, picture a screen, through your mind’s eye, of yourself EXACTLY AS YOU WANT TO BE.

In other words, create a picture of yourself (your image) as you would be if you could snap your fingers and it happened immediately. Not a future self, but a mental image as if you were already that person.

As you view the image of yourself on the big screen and repeat the words “IF IT’S GONNA BE, IT’S UP TO ME, squeeze your right hand then release. So here’s how the exercise works:

a – picture yourself as a perfect you on the big screen;

b – say to yourself “IF IT’S GONNA BE, IT’S UP TO ME”;

c – squeeze your right hand and release (this technique is called NLP).

Step 3 – Repeat This Exercise For 10 Minutes for 21 Days. Repeat this process about 10 minutes before bedtime (it may seem like 2 hours). Repeat this exercise for 21 days (you should begin to see results in 7 days).

What is so powerful about this simple exercise? Simplicity often can have a profound effect. When you remove all blame, whether from your surroundings, your friends, your family, your contacts, your job, your spouse, your relationships, etc., you are taking total and complete responsibility for your circumstances. You realize that your circumstance, whatever that may be, is not up to anyone else. IT’S UP TO YOU.

In summary, we are taking an elevated self-image screen, attaching complete and total responsibility and anchoring with NLP. This anchor of squeezing the right hand can be used when you are faced with situations that may be overwhelming, or when you feel insecure, or lacking confidence. This anchoring will automatically create a perfect mental image of yourself because the subconscious cannot differentiate between what’s imagined and what’s real.

The imagined, perfect mental image of yourself is now anchored with a trigger of squeezing the right hand and can be employed by you at any time. Once this technique is programmed in the subconscious you can turn it on at will.

Understanding the psychology of your self-image will mean the difference between success and failure.