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Using The Power Of
Thought To Create
Excellence
by Brian K Wright
I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Denis Waitley recently, and we discussed many great topics. Some areas
of discussion included overcoming limiting beliefs, the new movie How Thoughts Become Things, why taking
action quickly is so important, and much more.
Brian: Welcome, Denis! Did you reverse of what their problem was. So, the best thing to do is to
envision earlier in your life that In other words, we’d take what replace a negati ve statement with
you would be where you are right they were doing wrong, and fl ip it a positi ve outcome as if it were
now? to be the positive side of that. happening now—then internalize
that emotionally through
Denis: No, but I always felt a little And then we’d have them repeat repeti ti on unti l it overrides the old
different. I was raised with no TV, using what we call visual motor soft ware program.
so I’m audible-oriented and I read behavioral rehearsal. I’ll give you
a lot of books. an example. When Lindsey Vonn Brian: Let’s talk about the movie,
skis down a mountain in her room, How Thoughts Become Things.
I thought that I would either be she has a platf orm that goes up What is it about for those who
Rod Serling, a screenwriter, or an and down like skis would. And in haven’t heard of it yet?
author, but I didn’t picture myself her mind, she feels the weight. So,
standing in front of an audience it feels like she’s skiing and she Denis: I think it takes the Law Of
until I was 12-years-old. I began visualizes every fl ag, every gate, Att racti on a litt le deeper and a
to talk a lot when I was little, and and being inside the gate coming litt le more specifi cally. When some
found that talking and writing down in record ti me. of us were in The Secret, it came
were the things I loved to do most. out at a perfect time when people
Michael Phelps does the same were searching for something else.
Brian: How do we overcome thing by doing the swim in
limiting beliefs? advance. He’s been doing that How Thoughts Become Things is
since he was seven-years-old. a more specifi c follow up to The
Denis: The best way to overcome Andre Agassi has a 40-minute Secret telling you that when you
limiting beliefs is to take that shower before every match and think about something obsessively,
belief and reverse it. People talk he plays that match in the shower. specify it and get to know it very
about affirmations, but I talk So, to overcome a limiti ng belief, well. Talk about it, think about it
about confirming beliefs. With you have to realize that most every day, project it out. There
the Olympians, we would use self- limitations are psychological and will be someone somewhere who
statements and then give them the limits are physical or based on age. connects with that thought.
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