The Modern Logic and Science of Ancient Success Strategies

The Modern Logic and Science of Ancient Success Strategies

 

The modern science of neuro-science coaching.

 

There are an increasing number of organisations popping up like mushrooms on the internet with dynamic marketing methods to sell their amazing secret. These are their secret discoveries of guaranteed success in achieving anything you want in your life.

 

Many people see these services as scams and false promises. Then again there are thousands more who are clambering for a slice of their knowledge and secrets.

 

Well, those scam seekers may have just reason to feel as they do because non of those fantastic claims of passing on secrets are secrets. They have been around for hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of years. These so called secrets were exactly what drove ape-man to become modern-man. So lets fast forward to just 4,000 or 5,000 years ago when the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese and Indian traders were doing with great success. It is what every business school and BMA course teach around the world.

 

So what are these great secrets that everyone knows but don’t seem to know they know unless they pay varying amounts of money to learn?

 

Well, first of all, probably the best kept secret is that the secret is what you did when you were a tiny baby and you never stop doing it until the day you die.

 

Hold on! In that case we should all be fantastically rich and have all the good health, happiness, freedom from stress plus everything else we want in life.

 

Ah yes. Now you are touching the critical point. The secret is not the knowledge of what to do, you already know that. The secret is how to best to use that knowledge. Accept it is not a secret. It is more the case that with the open market and more and more people realising they can do their own thing, mastering this knowledge has suddenly become the number one interest. So its not so much a secret than pulling the veil of non enlightenment away from obscuring the resources you already have and know.

 

OK, so let’s look at what these so called secrets are. First we go back to when you were a baby and you decided that lying in in your bed all day was a bit limiting. After all, you had things to do in your life and really could not afford to lay around all day. So you focused on those tall people in your world and decided that was what you wanted to be and do. That was the first germ of the idea and you were excited about it. Every day you focused on that one goal and little else other than food, drink and having fun, that is except for bath time, oh yuk. So all day long, even when asleep you dreamt about what you wanted to do and planned every detail of how you were going to do it. Now checking the detail of what you had to do was the first action plan. There was lots of time to do that so you were relaxed about it and decided to do it properly. You realised that some effort was necessary and that you had to develop other resources such as better muscle power. Frankly, the resources you had were not up to the task or the goal. Therefore you decided to work out at the gym every day to build those biceps, a decent six-pack and some nice thigh muscles. You didn’t yet have the financial resources to hire a personal body building coach, so you used what resources were around you and freely available.

 

First of all there was a constant flow of helpers who would voluntarily assist by holding out a finger or two. These you latched onto and started your daily pull-ups to work on your biceps, triceps and six-pack. Then usually in the evening these helpers would start bouncing exercises, which you converted into your own secret muscle building exercises to develop the strong leg muscles you needed to crawl, stand upright and then walk.

 

Fair enough, I think you have the idea now. You spent your time totally focused on the detail of your plan with all the effort and action necessary to make the dream a reality. Certainly it was not all smooth going and at times you were reduced to tears because of the frustration of the time it was taking. Yes, there were some mistakes, errors and setbacks not to mention the occasional painful experience when things did not quite work out as expected.

 

You were tenacious, you persevered, you observed how those tall people stood up and walked and you reworked your progress strategy and dream detail. You learnt from your mistakes to avoid doing those again as they hurt also you kept up the body building exercises. You worked on the dream and the detail until you achieved the first stage. Now you were crawling. Great, first a quick celebration with a glass of champagne then back to the dream, ultimate goal and perfection of the detail and best action plan.

 

Now you have broken through the first barrier things start to progress a little quicker. The body building is taking more of your time. However you are taking regular rest periods and naps during, which time you consciously and unconsciously work on the dream and creating a mental image of you standing upright and walking.

 

Fantastic things are developing very well and suddenly one day, wheeee! You are there. You have done it. Success and another glass of champagne. Now this is very exciting and certainly you are getting a lot of attention and lots of grownups seem to be coming to study your technique and skill. It clearly seems they want to learn something from your magnificent capability.

 

As all this success and back slapping is going on you realise that the more planning and effort you make brings greater success. The more success and the more you grow. Thus, the more people seem to want to come and see you. So they clearly value your capability and what you have to offer. From this observation your deduced that the more you work on perfecting your dream and goal and the more effort you put into realising it as a new reality, the more people keep crowding in to see you. Something else you realised was that the more successful you became the more they seemed to want to share your dream.

 

Another thing you observed was that this was show time. That is, if you did the wrong things your growing audience were not pleased and likely would leave quickly. But repetition of what those grownups like and want, meant that bigger numbers arrived to see you more frequently. Yes you got more attention. In a nut shell, you realised that the secret was to give your public what they want. Furthermore, when they want it and in the right packaging to suit their beliefs and hey presto, life is just one big giggle and another glass of celebratory champagne. Now with this new found success strategy you developed a more sophisticated taste and started adding a few luxuries with a little caviar, a bigger apartment and a new car. Well you don’t actually remember organising or paying for those things, they just seemed to arrive and you presumed these were natural rewards for effort, right thinking and success.

 

You see, I have just explained exactly what you will relearn in any business school and from any one of these new businesses promising you long held secrets of how to achieve your dreams.

 

Secrets? No, that’s not what they are selling at all. Oh yes, certainly they will give you some reminders of what you already know (unconsciously) and some of it you will realise you already are doing. Certainly these are nicely repackaged as secrets. So what are they really selling? First they are selling; support in how to make the most use of your resources and secondly coaching you to stay focused on the best thinking patters.

 

Why are they in such demand, so successful and why are they mushrooming now? The simple answer is that the time is right. The longer answer is that social beliefs, values, behaviours and environments are changing fast. People around the world are facing fundamental shifts in the need to perform in different ways, higher levels and developing their lives with different goals. Many more are realising that by taking responsibility for themselves and their futures, there are many benefits. Many more are realising to be rich is no longer an unachievable dream. The evolutionary process is now so fast most people need guidance and support to change ideas, values and behaviours. Rethink their beliefs about their identity, image also what is the meaning of authenticity.

 

All these issues are the new science of modern neuro-science. Modern neuro-science understands more about how the mind works to achieve goals and turn dreams into reality than understanding how the brain is constructed or how it functions at the mechanical level. This modern neuro-science is more in the hands of a new generation of life performance coaches and mind performance coaches than in the hands of the psychologists or scientists.

 

Robert Denton    Mind Power Performance Coach