How to think correctly?
So, the scale of your thinking is proportional to the scale of your income. How to ultimately manage your “money machine”?
- Firstly, know the very rules of the road that will allow you to easily get to the desired point, that is, energy monetary laws.
- Secondly, your personal energy is important here - what physical and psychological shape you are in. How ready and flexible is your thinking? Your energy structure must be in balance.
- Third, start working with the context of your reality and money blockages. The context of reality is the history of your reality, where you started your journey, what you lived with all your life and how you got to point A. Money attitudes and beliefs are what you are currently with at point A, what prevents you from reaching point B.
- Fourth, neutralize these identified negative money beliefs so that the journey from A to B is smooth and efficient. In the “Money Thinking” course, I teach a lot of techniques on how to do it correctly, and meditations to help.
- Fifthly, having dealt with your limiting beliefs, you can move on to the most inspiring stage: forming your goals and dreams, a picture of the reality you want to end up in. It is important here that your external goals are tied to your values - internal goals, otherwise your desires will not come true. And in general, you need to be able to set goals correctly. This is also a separate large and important topic.
- To make all your desires come true, you need fuel to achieve them - resources and energy. We need to find their sources and release the energy. There are also separate techniques for this.
- It is also important for you to learn to determine and manage the focus of your attention, since your thoughts depend on attention. You've probably heard: “Where attention goes, so goes the vector.” In working with financial well-being, this is one of the key ideas, because it is attention that directs our focus, which in fact determines our surrounding reality and the space in which we live.
There are many more techniques and principles for working with your thinking, which I share in my course, and which can also be studied in books and trainings. But the points described above are already an excellent base from which to start. This alone will give you a powerful impetus for change.
Remember that thinking is the key to everything. I went from living in an ordinary family in a small town to my own business and traveling around the world thanks to working with thinking. You can find your own ways of working. For example, I restructured my thinking by communicating with rich and successful people, studying their behavioral strategies.
It is important to assess how much your environment is pulling you up or down, it is useful to be inspired by the success stories of different people, to expand your context of reality, and most importantly, do not forget that you need to take care of your thinking no less than your body and health.
Life hacking
Psychology books
Mathematician Gyorgy Pólya has a book called “How to solve a problem.” Unfortunately, the examples are mostly mathematical. But if you abstract a little from mathematics, there are wonderful heuristic strategies that can be used in a variety of areas.
An equally nice book is “The Art of Problem Solving” by Russell Ackoff. He was a remarkable American scientist and worked in the fields of operations research, systems theory and management. Russell Ackoff was good at telling people how to deal with problematic situations. The book is filled with his personal stories and at the same time some theoretical ideas.
It is also very useful to read about negative results. In Russian there is a work by the outstanding German psychologist Dietrich Dörner, “The Logic of Failure” - about how people do not know how to solve problems. The book is very sobering, and since it is written wonderfully, you want to study, study these things in order to prove Derner that he is wrong.
Well, accordingly, there are some of my books, for example, “Psychology of Thinking: Solving Problems and Problems.” They are always written in one way: half research and half talk about practical recommendations.
Several years ago, Maria Falikman and I compiled two anthologies - collections of original texts written by prominent psychologists. One is about the history of cognitive psychology, and the second is about modernity and trends in cognitive psychology. The anthologies contain many good texts, many of them translated into Russian for the first time.
Art books
A psychologist is a professionally intelligent being. This means that he knows a lot, has read a lot and knows how to handle these complex matters. Therefore, it is very useful for a psychologist to read and understand complex texts. Books by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jorge Borges and Julio Cortazar fit this criterion well.
Movies
In the old fashioned way, I recommend Italian neorealism. For example, “Eight and a Half” by Federico Fellini and “Family Portrait in an Interior” by Luchino Visconti. The directors of that generation were amazingly good. And they make you understand what is happening in front of you, why the characters behave this way and not otherwise. Fellini and Visconti provide everything that is required for the development of the personality of a thinker and just a normal person.
