Wily Walnut's Blog

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Delayed gratification is the highway to real success....

Most of us are suckers in the West -- we want everything now!

Suck, suck, slurp, slurp, gimmee gimmee! I want it now!!!!!

What the hell have we become?

...Junkies looking for the next hit of food, drink, drugs, sex, product, entertainment.

There is a difference between living in the moment and living for the moment.

Brian Tracy, in 'Getting Rich Your Own Way', reveals what economists believe is one on the main reasons why people retire poor: the inability to delay gratification. By spending all you've got, and more on credit, you never build up a pile of moola.

W. Clement Stone said, "If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you."

Maybe you don't want to be rich. But do you want to be poor?

Mastery involves wise management of what you do have.

If you are going to be in the desert for 10 days and you only have enough water for 5 days ... you need to manage that water so it lasts and enables you to survive.

Another way of looking at it is that you need to develop a time perspective. I've had difficulty with this one in my own life. I never thought about being 30 or 40 back when I was 18. It just seemed so remote. I figured that the Universe would sort out the details and I would be a success somehow.

Oops.

You live in the eternal present. But the future is just queueing up ready to slot into place. If you are 18, you will soon find yourself as a 38 year old with a partner and kids and all of the needs and requirements of that. If you are 40, so sorry, but you will be hitting 65 before you know it, and oh my gosh, I bet you wish you had contributed more to your pension plan now, huh? If you are a Mickey D's junkie at 21, better watch out because you'll be a bloated 41 year old on heart medication in no time at all, reaping the harvest of all that fat and junk.

Here are 3 reasons why delayed gratification rocks:

1. Delayed gratification builds personal power.
If you staunch the impulse, you are exhibiting control. Just as if you channel a river into a narrow conduit, the force of the water builds up and becomes more powerful, so you become more powerful from controlling your urges, appetites and unconscious drives.

2. Delayed gratification multiplies power.
Whether it's energy, desire or money, if you let it accumulate, the sense of increase makes your life richer and more fulfilling. If you put a portion (yeah, 10%) of your income aside each month into an interest paying "wealth" account, that you will never touch, you have created a money magnet. The month by month sense of increase and growing wealth becomes magnetic to more. If you channel your sexual energy into productivity or into chi kung practices, you become more and more charismatic, sexually magnetic and with very high energy. Chi kung practitioners build sexual energy and transmute it within their bodies into spiritual energy. It's very powerful, like a kind of bio-alchemy (yeah, I know, I'm stretching there ... just picture The Matrix... special effects... and all that woo-woo energy swirling around -- all good stuff!).

3. Delayed gratification carves character into your soul.
There is something tremendous about a man or woman who has achieved a certain rank in life through long hard work and discipline. They experience a deep sense of power, mastery, and personal fulfillment that the lottery winner millionaires or reality show instant fame contestants will never appreciate. We look for the short cuts all the time in our fast paced society but sometimes the long way is a better route.

Delayed gratification means foregoing something now for something even better later. It's a mark of maturity, adulthood and mastery. The successful people of the world are savvy in that they take the long view and build towards that future, sacrificing in small ways now so that they can enjoy greater rewards in the future. While it can seem that delayed gratification means that you will be 'missing out' in the present, there are intangible rewards that you will just have to experience for yourself. And the snowball effect (compounding interest -- it works in all things not just money) means that your momentum will quickly take you into realms of achievement that you cannot dream of while you still squander all you've got.

To your self-improved future,
Wily Walnut

Labels: mindpower, success, wealth

Hey, what are you thinking about?

Here's what I am thinking about. A technique that I read about for personalizing your subconscious mind power so that you...

i) get it's attention
ii) put it to work for you
iii) manifest what you want faster

Sounds good so far, right?

Okay so here's what you do.

Name Your Subconscious Mind

That's right. You give your subconscious a name. Not just any name. It's got to be a totally unique name that you've never heard of before and are unlikely to ever hear anyone else using. Go ahead make one up right now. Don't over think this. Just do it. Whatever comes up will be right. (Unless you thought of calling it 'Sh**head'. In that case, I would suggest you go for something more positive and friendly and without other meanings!)

Here's how easy it is. I'm looking out the window. I see pine needles. I see a crystal hanging at my window. So I could come up with the name 'Pinecrys' (Pin-ee-chris) or 'Pinstal' or something like that. Those are pretty unique names. Just do it and get a name that you are okay with.

Use the name to get your subconscious mind's attention

Sound's a bit goofy, doesn't it?

Well, screw that thought. Just give it a try. Be open enough to experiment with these things. What have you got to lose? Life is an experiment, so go with it. Here's what you do to calibrate your subconscious mind to it's new name.

1. Simply say aloud, "Subconscious mind, I hereby call you _______ (whatever you came up with eg. Pinecrys). You will respond to that name."

2. Repeat 3 times.

You have now created a bond with your subconscious mind and now you can boss it around. It will happily work for you. In fact, it will joyfully work for you.

Putting your subconscious mind power to work

The author suggests that you start out by using Pinecrys (or whatever YOU called it) to retrieve memories.

Eg. Remembering the name of your first little boyfriend or girlfriend at your first school. "Pinecrys, tell me now, who was that little girl that I fell in love with back at Wilyworld Primary School in 1803?"

Repeat the command 3 times and then stop thinking about Pinecrys or the little girl. Leave Pinecrys to rifle through his memory files and don't bother him with other demands while he does that. Get on with other stuff and then when you don't expect it, the name will pop into your head.

When it does, be sure to say "thank you Pinecrys, you did a good job!" Everyone loves to be appreciated -- even your subconscious mind power. :-)

This technique is said to be good for locating lost items like keys, recalling important anniversaries and so on.

Honing your relationship with your mind power

Another way given to hone your subconscious mind response is the three cups trick. With this training routine you get three identical cups, turn them upside down on the table and put a coin under one of them. Then like a street corner hustler, you shuffle the cups around so fast that you can't keep your eye on the one with the coin in it. Your subconscious mind, Pinecrys, will remember.

Stop. Say, "Pinecrys, tell me now, where is that coin? Is it under cup A? Is it hidden beneath cup B? Or is it under cup C?"

Repeat three times. Then walk away. Forget about it. The answer will pop into your head or you will feel an attraction to the right cup.

Actually I met a dowser recently who was telling me she used the three cups routine with her dowsing training. Dowsers externalise their subconscious responses through a pendulum using yes/no responses. This particular lady had done hypnosis training and had done away with the need for a pendulum and was instead using micro-movement body cues (there's some fancy name for this which I forget now.... "Hey Pinecrys!"). In her case, she used blinking -- one blink for a YES response, two blinks for a NO response.

Okay back to the training.

Apparently as you hone and get familliar with using your subconscious mind in this way, you can start to have telepathic influence on people... as in, "Hey Pinecrys, get that hot girl to turn around and look at me!"

Good luck with that sort of play. For me, I think I will stick to using Pinecrys to get great ideas, come up with creative solutions to problems, and better understand the mysteries of the mind.

Think up a storm,
Wily

Labels: mindpower, subconscious mind power