The powers of mind determine our success in life. When the person succeeds in his work or his task then there is a reason behind it. The reason is hidden within the mind. When the mind has activated powers then it leads him to success in any area of life.
Powerful mind is a vague concept. When we go deeper into this concept then we can find that there are some skills within the mind that makes it powerful. When these skills are sharpened & mastered then they have the power to change the circumstances of life. They have power to overcome obstacles & reach to the targeted goals.
Powerful mind is a mixture of certain skills. When these skills are absorbed & topped then they result in manipulating the life situations. This can be in any arena like health, wealth, relation, sports, games, business or study. When the skills are available then the person succeeds in any arena of life.
Reverse happens when these skills are not available or mastered. Failure can be seen everywhere because mind has no powers so it loses again & again. It loses the battle because it has no powerful weapons to defeat himself. It gets killed very soon.
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Clear Thinking
Description
Clarity in thinking means to get clear about your goal, desire, problem or obstacle. It may be any topic in any area of your life that you are facing currently, you are probably not clear on that topic. Have you given a thought about it? Have you thought about it by taking aside your time to think exactly what is the concern & how do you solve it?
Few people are clear thinkers, and this is the reason why only few people become successful because success requires clarity of thinking.
Advantages
Clarity of thinking brings a change in the situation because becoming more aware of the topic brings an insight of many things that you were not aware before. Some things might be going on within your mind unconsciously, they trouble you every now & then. And when you choose to focus on them, they get released & you start feeling better.
Focusing on the topic gives a new perception & it brings into vision many different things that were already there but we never taken the effort to see them.
Here are some of the Benefits of Clear Thinking :-
- When you are doing clear thinking, you will find solutions while doing this process itself.
- As things become clear for you, there will be massive savage of time in useless activities.
- Feeling of fulfillment.
- Release of stress.
- It will save lot of time that may have been consumed for non essential activities.
- Inner energies get aligned due to one focus.
- You will be able to reach higher vision.
Action Steps
When you face any problem, First thing you can do is get clear about the Problem. Explain the problem in your own words. You can also write down a summary about the problem.
When you have a goal, write down on a piece of a paper or on Computer every micro detail about your goal. Write every specific detail & go as deeply as you can.
Take aside 10 minutes on daily basis for Clear Thinking. Take any topic & think about it without moving to any other topic for minimum 10 minutes.
Learning
Description
Learning is an act of understanding something new that is yet unknown to us. After grasping the new thing, the next step is to implement it by taking action.
Learning is always concerned about new. As we are usually busy in our minds thinking about the old incidences that happened to us in past, learning takes us to a new direction.
There are so many unlimited things around us for Learning. There is no shortage for learning, just the need is for the strong desire for learning.
Learning re-shapes the mind because it disconnects from the old patterns of day dreaming & drives the attention right back to the present moment.
Advantages
Successful people are continuous learners. Because of their strong desire for learning they invest most of their time in learning. And the hard work done in right direction pays off some day or another.
Learning will take you ahead than others because not everyone is involved in learning. Most people are involved in chit chatting, gossiping, socializing, time passing, procrastinating & wasting their valuable time on mobile phones.
Learning renews the mind, it fills the mind with new energy. New gives a refreshment as new is unknown to the mind, as a result the inner state of mind becomes alert.
Action Steps
Develop the skill of learning by devoting dedicated time every day for learning something new as per your interest & passion.
Make it a fun process without forcing yourself to learn something you don’t like. Choose something that you are passionate about or either choose something that is your weakness & will help you to overcome your weakness.
Grasping
Description
Grasping is the ability to understand any topic that is put in your front. Everywhere we come across new things that we are not aware about. To understand new things is done by the inner quality of grasping.
Grasping skills soaks the information accurately & this information becomes immensely useful in our daily interaction with others.
Book reading or listening to audios is nothing but grasping skill in action. When one is reading the content, what he is doing is sharpening his grasping ability. By reading every sentence, the meaning of the words is being grasped in the mind. This action of reading increases the ability to comprehend the content & understand the viewpoint of the writer.
Advantages
If you are a quick grasper then you will be ahead of the rest around you because when others will be struggling to grasp, you will be ahead with your solution.
When one is able to grasp more, he will have more knowledge for his subject at his disposal. This will help in so many ways because not everyone has enough knowledge.
If one is a student, he will be able to top his class because of the grasping powers.
Grasping will make you have answers for the questions as the answers can only come by grasping the concept & not through confusion or un-understanding.
Grasping will keep you aware of your environment & you will be able to master the things that are happening around you because your inner being is present & ready to grasp whatever comes around you.
Quick Grasping will increase your reading skills & you will be able to read with comprehension more books keeping you more knowledgeable in your field.
Action Steps
- Grasp through books – Read books every day for at least minutes with focus on grasping & comprehending the content.
- Grasp through learning – Learn some new skill that is new to you like a new programming language, cooking food, musical instrument, swimming, new gaming, learning to drive & so on.
Decision Making
Description
In our daily routine, we take many decisions & this happens unconsciously. There are small decisions, there are average decisions & there are major decisions.
Small decisions don’t take time & they are taken very rapidly without giving a conscious thought to it. Average decisions require conscious thought and Major decisions are taken carefully by taking advice from others.
Decision making is required frequently & it is vital to take right decisions because a small decision can change a life. Taking accurate decisions is the quality of leaders. Decisions finally come to a conclusion, either they can result in failure or they can result in success or they can result in learning.
We have to make decisions, either we make them consciously or we procrastinate to take a decision & that also is a decision which finally leads to failure.
Advantages
Making the right decision leads to success & this is what everybody wants.
Decisions save a lot of time, indecision consumes a lot of time & finally some decisions have to be made so why delay the decision.
A small decision can make a great impact on life & bring transformation.
Mastery in Decision making skill can make you the leader as the leaders are the decision makers & others just follow the decision.
Decision making will bring a clarity of the mind & there will be no confusion.
When you are able to make your own firm decisions, others cannot influence you & others cannot push their decisions forcefully on you.
Taking the right decisions will bring quick results in life. It is just like choosing the correct path to the destination.
Action Steps
Write on a piece of a paper the topic on which you need a decision. Write with complete clarity the topic for your decision. This topic is to be written in the top center.
Dividing the page into 2 sections, write the Pros on the left section & Cons on the right.
After writing & going deeper into the topic, you can now take the decision that best suits you based on the details you have written.
Problem Solving
Description
Problems are the part & parcel of everyone’s life. There isn’t anyone who has no problems. Even the great kings, rich people, healthy people, spiritual people & all living people have problems. There is no escape from problems, they are going to come just like the night comes after day.
Problems occur to everyone, and not everyone reacts to the problem in a similar way. There are many different ways to react to the problem & this reaction determines the solution of the problem.
The mental state reaction towards the problem is the aspect that takes a human being to success or failure. Achievers are the problem solvers, they master the art of solving problems.
Non achievers are complainers, they complain about the problem, they are saying that why did the problem come to them. They are unknown to the rules of life. They are not aware of the fact that the problem is going to show up with different faces, by this way or any other way.
Advantages
Solution of a problem gives a relief & takes away the worries.
Problem solving will bring harmony in the inner system because the mind is in panic when any problem arises.
Problem solving will accelerate the speed towards the goal.
Quick problem solving will set you free from many troubles that can be caused with the existence of the problem for a longer time.
Problem solving will generate happy vibrations in your mind. One always feels happy when a problem is solved.
Mastery in problem solving can make you wealthy because problems are everywhere & the harder problems you are able to solve, people will pay more to you.
Problem solving will grow your confidence & you will be able to achieve more & set bigger targets with a confidence of achieving them.
Action Steps
- Problem solving skills can be sharpened by consciously solving problems on a day to day basis. Keep a tracker of how many problems you solve per day. Set a target to solve problems per day. Choose a problem solving pattern so that when a problem comes, you can simply follow the pattern.
- The more problems you solve, the more satisfied you will feel. It will be a fun process, you will enjoy solving every problem, and you will be up & ready to solve the next problem.
Reasoning
Description
When we say No to anything, people will first ask why. If we do not have any proper reasons for our No then people will enforce their Yes on us by giving their reasons.
Person with powerful reasoning wins even if he is wrong or even if he is lying. The more strong the reason, the more dominating one becomes.
Reasoning is the simple act of giving explanations on the topic. If you are saying something then it requires reasons to prove it as valid. If you are not able to give proper reasons then it will result in falsifying your statements even if they are true.
So it is necessary that reasoning skills are developed so that you can lead the conversations & convey your ideas to other people.
Advantages
Sharp reasoning skills have the ability to convince people to manipulate their decisions.
The more reasons will keep you ahead in any conversation, may it be a business conversation, sales conversation, group conversation or any other conversation.
Reasons act like a motive to walk ahead towards the goals. You will be working towards your goal only because of some reasons.
When you have enough strong reasons for your topic, you will always win in any discussion.
Reasons can be used in forcing us to take action. Action needs reason & the more stronger, intense the reasons, the more actions will occur.
Having a genuine & intense reason for doing anything will result in success. Reason acts like a fuel that drives the vehicle fast towards the destination.
Action Steps
- Take one topic & find 10 reasons as advantages or pros for the topic.
- Take any goal & find 10 reasons why you want to achieve that goal.
- Take any discussion topic & find 5 reasons in favour of the topic & 5 reasons as cons of the topic.
- Take any new thing & find 10 reasons as benefits of that new thing.
Conclusion
Mental strength is just like body strength. Body strength increases by making the body work in a planned manner. The strength increases by performing the right action on a daily basis. Bit by bit the strength increases day by day & one day the body becomes powerful & dominant.
Mental strength will also require a mental effort in the right direction. Mind has to be given a plan & structure so that it can repeat itself multiple times & produce a power that will lead to success.
In this blog, we have provided a new structure for your mind in the form of 6 qualities that you can master by taking action towards every skill.
Once you hold on to these skills & achieve a mastery of them then these skills will be your most powerful weapons that will make impossible things possible for you.