YOU GET WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
Posted on September 06, 2012 by Sheryl Westergreen, One of Thousands of Performance Coaches on Noomii.
Why it is important to train your brain to detect and recognize opportunities that may further your business and personal goals and intentions.
YOU GET WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
The brain processes over four hundred billion pieces of information per second, yet we are only aware of about two thousand of those bits of information. So what will determine what you become aware of, and what will be processed outside of your awareness?
The part of your brain that makes the decisions, moment by moment, of what you will ‘see’ is the reticular activating system (RAS). It is the network of nerve pathways that connects the nerve pathways, cerebellum, and cerebrum. This network acts as a filter for all of the sensory input that your brain draws from your external world. This system picks up all of the sensory information from your environment, filters it, and if it is important to you, sends a message to your brain.
What does this have to do with coaching and achieving your goals? Let me give you an example. Let’s say that you have a pattern of taking on too much and overstepping your responsibilities at home and work. Although you are generally competent and successful, you end up working way harder than you need to. You tend to be stressed about deadlines, anxious, and internally resentful of others who “don’t do enough.” Because this is an embedded pattern for you, your RAS, your reticular activating system, filters your encounters with your environment and feeds your brain with messages that correspond with your beliefs about what you must do to succeed. So you end up ‘stuck’ in this pattern of operating in your world. The same applies for any other pattern, such as self-defeating thoughts, underachieving, and problems with finances and relationships.
The great news is that it is entirely possible to reprogram your RAS, your reticular activating system, to serve you in a manner that makes achieving your business, financial, creative, and personal goals much easier and faster. You can learn to train your mind to search for excitement, fulfillment, and satisfaction, not worry, doubt and fear.
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