Attributes of the Success Personality
Posted by: Rob Saxe // Category: Your Success Begins Here
The next two articles will be from a book that has helped me to alter my self image and brought me closer to all of my goals. In fact, this website came about as a result of studying this book. It has changed my life dramatically and it will help you too if you make the effort and are committed to becoming better at whatever you do or whoever you are.
The book is called “Psycho-Cybernetics” by Dr. Maxwell Maltz. I was lead to it by a program from Bob Proctor on self image called “The Winner’s Image”. As I’ve said before, I recommend all of Bob’s material.
Everything Seemed Out of Reach
I was struggling to reach my goals and I couldn’t figure out why. I was trying but it wasn’t happening. Due to the experiences I had in my life, I was promoting my “failure mechanism” by thoughts about myself I had accepted as true (conscious mind process). Once accepted as true, those thoughts were passed along to my subconscious mind. These thoughts then became integrated into my image of self. Once passed onto my subconscious mind, I began to act on this image automatically.
The subconscious mind controls the functions of the body from a “program” so to speak. You’re born with a success program built in. One side of it operates the system, the bodily functions, and another side of it serves to help us adapt to our external environment. All beings are wired this way. It’s our creative imagination and
our ability to choose what environment we want to adapt to that separates humans from all other animals. Our interpretation of the external environment comes from our life experiences also called “conditioning”.
It takes NO effort on your part to get the results you’re currently getting in your life. You are acting on what your self image identifies with. Change the self image and your results begin to change automatically and without effort. That is not to say that one will sit back while the world falls at his/her feet. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
When your self images changes, different thoughts will be attracted to you and from those thoughts and ideas, new actions will develop and your results must change. It’s universal law.
The Success Type Personality
Dr. Maltz uses the word “success” as an acronym describing the qualities of successful people. They are:
S = Sense of Direction
U= Understanding
C = Courage
C = Charity
E = Esteem
S = Self Confidence
S = Self Acceptance
The purpose of this acronym is to give you something from which your creative imagination can create an image of the success personality. There can be barriers to accepting this image of yourself. Harsh self criticism, believing that you are less than you really are, a feeling of unworthiness. Develop the feeling that these qualities are possible for you. See yourself as someone who fits this description. “I am the kind of person who”…. and fill in the blanks. Imagine yourself to be this sort of person - now.
Dr. Maltz writes, “Accept yourself. Be yourself. You cannot realize the potentialities and possibilities inherent in that unique and special something which is “YOU” if you keep turning back upon it, feeling ashamed of it, refusing to recognize it.”
The next article will be the attributes of the failure type personality. Stay tuned!
Tags: mental images, personal development, psycho cybernetics, success personality