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2. Thoughts And Speech
Your daily input will determine your thoughts & the way you think. If you’re listening to the news all day and keep reading about how terrible everything is, how the economy is in turmoil and the unemployment rate is growing; you’ll think negatively.
If you cut out all of that from your life and change your brain’s input; crap won’t come out. Your whole way of thinking will change and it will have a profound effect on your life. Your thoughts and speech directly affect and almost control your beliefs. Your beliefs control everything. They control how your brain perceives the world on a biological level via the reticular activating system.
When your thinking changes, your speech changes. You’ll go from saying “that’s impossible” and “yeah right” to “that’s awesome” and “really? cool”. From “I can’t do that” and “that’s a lot of money” to “easy” and “pfff, that’s chump change”. How you speak about money is critical. If you speak like a poor person, you need to stop it RIGHT now.
STOP talking about how expensive things are, STOP talking about how you can’t afford things and start talking about how you ARE getting them. Not how you’re going to get things, but how you ARE getting them. You have to believe that your goals and “things” are coming to you no matter what. That it’s inevitable.
If you listen to rich people, a lot of them speak like a success book. Like attracts like. If you change your thoughts and speech, you will change your beliefs and values; from which you will change your entire existence from the inside out.
3. Action
Your action is how you use your energy. Your behavior, what you do during the day to get the results you want. With the right input, mindset and therefore thinking and speech; it’s hard not to get results in whatever you’re doing. Your actions will be determined by your thoughts/speech and their underlying beliefs.
However, if you’ve got a terrible business model or plan in general; you’ll just be making things more difficult for yourself. You need to have a vision. A powerful vision of what you are setting out to accomplish and the thing you’re going to solve and the people you’re going to help in the process.
The fundamental element of success is your reason why. Why are you doing it? For what purpose? Have a purpose, have a vision; make it BIG.
4. Commitment
Once you have that vision, an exact goal and know how and why you’re doing it; nothing can stop you. You just have to focus on it like nothing else exists. You have to commit to your vision. Every day, of every week.
In Prosperity,
David Wood
Comments
Alexandra Grayson
This post is fantastic! I completely agree with how changing your thoughts and speech can lead to changing your beliefs. It’s such a simple yet powerful formula. Keep up the great work, David!
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Marcus Lee
I find it hard to believe that just changing thoughts and speech can have such a profound effect on your success. Do you have any evidence or examples where this approach has worked for others? Would love to hear more!
Naomi Tucker
This is great advice, but I have a question. What would you suggest for someone who has been stuck in negative thinking patterns for a long time? How can they make the shift to more positive thoughts and speech?
Ryan Benson
While I appreciate the positive message, I feel like this post oversimplifies the complexities of success. Not everyone has access to the same resources or opportunities, and changing your mindset may not be enough for some.
Jessica Lang
This post reminds me of our last conversation! It’s great to see your insights laid out so clearly here. How have you been, David? Let’s catch up sometime soon.
Eric Palmer
I had a similar experience with changing my mindset. When I stopped focusing on negative outcomes and shifted to a more positive outlook, I started seeing real changes in my life and business. Great post!
Sophie Hernandez
For those who are looking for tools to improve their mindset, I highly recommend checking out Mindset Mastery, a great website for learning how to cultivate a positive outlook. It’s been really helpful to me!
Victor Wong
Thank you, David, for sharing this! I’ve learned so much about how my speech and thoughts impact my daily actions and beliefs. This has really opened my eyes, and I’ll definitely start applying these tips!
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Had a cook once who’d mutter “can’t afford it” about everything from vanilla extract to his own rent, and sure enough neither ever came easy to him. So I don’t doubt that the words people use shape what they expect for themselves. Where this loses me is the leap from watch your language to your beliefs control everything, on a biological level no less. That’s a bigger claim than a kitchen full of complaints can prove.
One correction, Birdie, the reticular activating system doesn’t control beliefs, it filters sensory input based on what you’ve already flagged as relevant, which is closer to confirmation bias than mind control. The underlying point about self-talk shaping behaviour still holds without the neuroscience doing extra work it wasn’t built for.
Sorry if this is a silly question, but is there a difference between changing what you say out loud and actually believing something different underneath, because I’ve been saying the confident version of things for a few weeks now and some days it just feels like performing.
It’s not a silly question, Bonnie. Look, the post assumes speech drags belief along behind it automatically. Sometimes it doesn’t.
Marla’s onto something corporate training loved to skip past too, twenty-two years of “change your language, change your culture” workshops, and the ones who actually changed were the ones with a reason underneath the script, not the script itself. Words without a why behind them are just better manners.
Marla’s framing can be drawn as a loop rather than an argument. Input: chosen speech. Output: observed behaviour over time. Feedback: does behaviour change enough to reinforce the new speech, or does the gap between what you say and what you do collapse the loop back to the old pattern. The post treats step two as a straight line into step three, speech becomes action, when in practice it’s this feedback loop that either closes or doesn’t, and nothing in the four steps tells you what to do if it doesn’t close on the first pass, which for most people it won’t.
We called this “fake it till you make it” in the eighties, Bonnie. Worked about as often as it didn’t.
I think what’s being missed here is that Bonnie’s question is really the whole post in one line. Marla and Gus are both right that the words alone won’t do it, but I’d say to Bonnie specifically, the performing stage is not nothing, it’s where the habit gets built before the belief catches up, and most people quit exactly there because it feels fake, right before it stops feeling fake.