The Mirror Technique – Building Enthusiasm May 14, 2006
Posted by chazper in Success Journal.trackback
One of the reasons I decided to have this habit of blogging is to build other good habits and eliminate the bad ones. And the next habit I would like to develop in order to achieve success is to perform this Mirror Technique that builds enthusiasm. The following is an excerpt from “The Millionaires Seminar” by Foster Hibbard thru’ Mr. John Harricharan.
“You’ll never have the success you want without working on enthusiasm and making it a part of you, without saying over and over and over again until it just becomes a part of every cell, tissue and fiber of you body, till it tingles, scintillates, sets up a vibration called enthusiasm, enthusiasm, enthusiasm.
And taking words like “get excited, get excited, get excited” raising yourself up, standing before the mirror, using that technique that Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Carnegie, Billy Sunday, Napoleon Hill, all insisted that of all the self improvement techniques they ever tried, all insisted that the mirror technique was the most powerful. Just stand there in front of that mirror with you door carefully closed and tell yourself, “I am enthusiastic, I am enthusiastic, I am enthusiastic”, over and over again. Tell whoever is looking out at you from your mirror, whoever you see in that mirror of yours looking at you, and it doesn’t really matter who it is, just tell that person over and over and over again enthusiasm, enthusiasm, get excited, get excited, get excited. Work on enthusiasm, work on it as though it were a physical program. You wouldn’t expect your muscles in the stomach would tighten without doing muscle exercises, you wouldn’t expect the muscles in your legs to improve unless you did leg exercises, therefore accept the fact that these emotional, these mental exercises must be practiced, must be worked upon in order to achieve whatever it is that you want to achieve.”
How true Chazper. What you think is what you get. You’ve got to think positive to get the results you want. The habit of negative thinking needs to be overcome as it only brings about failure, but positive “I can” brings success. I like the mirror idea. Thanks.
Noel
Noel Kingsley
Working on ones enthusiasm seems to be an excellent place to start towards developing success in all our endeavors. A positive enthusiastic mindset will keep us on track and continually move one forward even through times of adversity. The mirror technique seems like a great idea to build and strengthen this emotional mindset.
I totally agree with the mirror technique. It’s much more powerful than just saying positive statements alone. The more times you tell yourself something positive in the mirror, the more you can feel the power of the universe flow through your body releasing negative thought patterns. This enables you to act in a more positive manner to achieve what you set out to do.
It is certainly a key to success.