09 Mar 2008 03:49:55 | Emmanuel SEGUI
"I'm a failure" "I'll never make it." That's the kind of
affirmation we hear people say. To overcome this feeling of
worthlessness you need to make 3 little steps that will help you
discover the genius within you.
1. You need to motivate yourself.
First of all, remember that great people learned a basic and
essential quality you need to acquire: persistence. Very
successful people failed many times, like most of us. But they
get up right away and they begin again and again until they
eventually succeed.
We can motivate ourselves by seeing the result in our mind as if
it has already occurred. Feel what you would feel if you have
better grades. Name this feeling. Amplify this feeling until it
becomes very pleasant. Now, you are going to add some new
feelings upon this first feeling. Do you remember a time when
you were really excited about something? When you have this
excitemant in you, add it to the first very pleasant feeling as
if you put a coat of excitement over the coat of 'very pleasant
state'. Let this feeling of excitement diffuse in you and notice
how you feel.
Notice how feel very motivated, calm and confident. And for a
moment, you know that you will succeed in school. But something
holds you back. You need to make this second step....
2. You need to get rid of the beliefs that hold you back
Consider the law of belief: whatever you believe becomes your
reality. Once you understand and appropriate this belief in
yourself, you discover that you can do many things and
especially have better grades.
Throughout your life you learn. It's a never-ending process.
School is just the beginning of this process with its special
rules and rewards, which can sometimes seem unfair.
You begin to change by being aware that you are a potential
genius and that you CAN do better and you WILL. What do you
learn from having bad grades? Consider that it is an opportunity
to learn. And most important, it's a chance to learn that you're
not the problem; it's only your strategies. That's why you need
to take the last lesson... You need to learn how to learn
3. You need new strategies.
If something doesn't work, do something else. First, be aware of
your learning style. Are you visual, auditory, kinesthetic?
Remember that you have multiple intelligences and when you use
them as much as possible you increase your chances of having
better results.
Have the end in mind. Act as if you already had the solution.
Now you only need to fill in the blanks. If you already know
where to go, your brain will help you find the solutions. Use
mind maps, movement and imagination. Learning how to learn is a
necessity for children and adults to perform better in life.
These three steps are important to succeed in school. One step
takes care of your beliefs, another of your emotions and the
other one of your strategies to have better grades and to
perform better in life.
About Author :
Emmanuel SEGUI Author of "Moving from Vision to Action" NLP
master-practitioner and neuro-semantics practitionner.