Claim you're on a diet then eat muffins when no-one is looking and you won't shed much weight.
Start your journey to financial freedom but keep thoughts and actions that don't fit with your desire and the same applies.
Follow these steps to give your mind a work-out for financial freedom: Give Yourself a Mental Check-Up What thoughts fill your mind right now? Are they mostly positive or negative? What about your actions -- do you eagerly work on your organized plan for financial freedom or do you procrastinate and avoid getting started? How do you really feel about your journey: are you confident of success or afraid? Identify the things that are holding you back right now then get to work to remove them.
Here are some areas that often need attention: Diet Identify then remove those things that tempt you to give up on your burning desire.
While negative thoughts, fear and doubt remain in your mind you will never succeed.
Work actively to replace negative thoughts with positive ones.
Get to the root of your fears and doubts so you can expose them as attitudes of mind, then replace them with positive attitudes that support your goals.
Cut procrastination out completely.
Avoid people who indulge in negative thinking and avoidance.
Exercise In Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill explains that everything that has ever been achieved began in someone's imagination.
Space travel, splitting the atom, building adventure parks, creating the worldwide web, achieving financial freedom -- everything starts in the mind.
The clearer the picture, the more likely it is to lead to success.
Exercise your creative imagination: dream huge dreams, practice in blue-sky thinking where anything is possible and failure is impossible.
Train yourself to be comfortable with this by doing it regularly.
Your imagination will become accustomed to freedom from constraints and when you need it to help you develop your organized plan it will have more ideas to offer.
Tone Your journey to financial freedom is going to encounter setbacks and challenges, but these aren't a problem for the mind that is ready to deal with them.
Problem solving skills, effective decision-making, flexibility and resilience are all important attributes for success.
You already use these skills in daily life; make sure you embrace these events as opportunities to tone your skills.
Forget sitting in front of the TV; read stimulating books, do puzzles that get different areas of your brain working.
Build Muscle Napoleon Hill identifies persistence as a key requirement to achieve financial freedom.
Persistence helps you pick yourself up after those knocks, and get back on track.
Think of those tasks you don't enjoy doing and usually try to avoid.
Change your attitude and stick with them until they're finished.
Better still; seek out extra tasks that will help you build your stickability.
The more often you succeed, the more you will see yourself as someone who can stick with things through thick and thin.
The devastating impact of negative emotions is also explained in Think and Grow Rich.
Divert the energy of strong negative emotions into positive actions.
Instead of wallowing in anger, irritation or frustration transmute it to determination, commitment, persistence and strong self-belief.
Recovery Recovery after physical exercise is important to ensure long term benefits are made.
The same holds true after your mental work-out.
A tense or tired mind does not make effective decisions or deal well with details.
Mistakes become more likely, creative thinking and problem solving skills become poor.
Always allow time for mental relaxation.
Many people find it difficult to switch off but it is a skill that is worth learning.
If you don't like being inactive, find a physical task that will allow you to focus your mind on something different.
Working in the garden or doing household chores, walking in the countryside or playing a sport.
Use your brain in a different way to allow the creative areas you need to achieve financial freedom time to recharge their batteries.