I discussed recently the fact that what you think about is what guides your results.  In the diagram above your conscious day to day thoughts are in the top part of your mind (where the 1 is in this diagram).  There's a huge problem though, your senses: 

• Sights
• Sounds
• Tastes
• Touches
• Smells

All of these things affect your thoughts.  You see a  bill you don't have the money to pay, you hear someone yelling at someone they should be loving, you feel your tummy that should be flat but isn't.  These are of course things around you that are hard to ignore, but you have to find a way to look past them if you want to achieve your goals.

Easier said than done, but there are a few things you can do to make it easier.  Firstly it takes practice!  You have to actually exercise your imagination, here are some contrasts to the common issues above.

• A bill you don't want to pay.  Last year I went to my Internet banking and took a screen dump of my bank accounts, then I went into photoshop and edited all the number to be what I actually wanted them to be.  I printed that out and stuck it on the wall next to my computer, all I had to do was glance to the side of my screen to see my goal. 
• Hearing Yelling.  This is easy, get some headphones and listen to what you want to be hearing.  Want to be on a tropical island, then download some meditation music with waves and wind blowing through trees.  A quick google search showed plenty of places to get music, try here.
• Tummy not so flat huh?  Touch is a hard one, but I bet there is one part of your tummy you do like.  Maybe just a square inch off to the side.  Here's where you need to be concentrating.

Some people have gone to the trouble of actually going and sitting in the car they want to be driving and getting someone to take their picture!  They then stick this up on their wall at home so it's something they see all the time.

Another trick I learned is to use memory triggers to jolt you back into what you need to be thinking about.  It's really throughout the day to get stuck in the static of seeing the wrong things so you need a way to constantly remind yourself of what you should be thinking about.  A memory trigger is something small that disrupts your vision at regular intervals and reminds you of something.  As an example some people might put a rubber band around their wrist so that every time they feel it or touch is they remind themselves of what they need to be thinking about.

I invested a couple of dollars in some red dots and put them in specific places.  On the top of my computer screen, no the steering wheel of the car and on my keys, on my wallet and on my bathroom mirror.  Places that I found my mind wandering around... but no more.  These are constant triggers that remind me what I'm supposed to be visualizing many times a day.

Now this is a weird part, when you have established a picture in your head of what you want you need to 'pass' this to your subconscious mind.  Now I use the diagram above to visualize my mind, and I know that I need to pass the image of what I want to my subconscious, so what I do is a visualize my subconscious mind as a pool of water in my head, and then I actually visualize the object of my goal sinking into that pool.  It seems to work for me, I know it's a little odd, but hey you do what works.  If you can keep up a habit of doing that dozens or hundreds of times each and every day then you are well on your way to getting your goals.  To be honest the universe has no choice from this point on!

Now last week I talked about the 30 day trial period for a change in your behavior... well I am pleased to tell you that since that day (30th March) where I committed to walking for 30 minutes each and every day and have been able to do it!  It's actually really exciting to know that I am already 10 days into my trial period.  The vision of a thinner person in my head makes it easy.

As always your comments are welcome.