tiny habits to success

The first law that I discovered was the Law of Control. This law says that, “You feel happy to the degree to which you feel you are in control of your own life. You feel unhappy to the degree to which you feel you are not in control of your own life.”

Modern psychology calls this “Locus of Control Theory.” Psychologists 
differentiate between an internal locus of control and an external locus of control. Your locus of control is where you feel the control exists in each area of your life. This location determines your happiness or unhappiness more than any other
factor.

For example, if you feel that you are the primary creative force in your own life, that you make your own decisions, and that everything that happens to you is a result of yourself and your own behaviors, you have a solid internal locus of control. As a result, you will feel strong, confident and happy. You will think with greater clarity and perform at higher levels than the average person.

The next law I discovered was the Law of Belief. This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy and metaphysics. The Law of Belief says that, “Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.”

In the New Testament it says, “According to your faith, it is done unto you.” In the Old Testament, it says, “As a man thinketh, in his heart (his beliefs), so is he.” William James of Harvard wrote, “Belief creates the actual fact.” 

The fact is that, “You do not believe what you see, but rather, you see what you already believe.” Your deeply held beliefs form a screen of prejudices that distort your external reality and cause you to see things not the way they are, but the way you are

The next law that I discovered is the Law of Expectations. This law says that, 
“Whatever you expect, with confidence, becomes your own self-fulfilling 
prophecy.” In other words, you do not necessarily get what you want, but rather 
what you expect. 

If you confidently expect something to happen, this expectation has a powerful 
effect on your attitude and your personality. The more confident your expectations, 
the more likely it is that you will do and say the things that are consistent with what you expect to happen. As a result, you will dramatically increase the 
probabilities that you will achieve exactly what you are hoping for.

One of the wonderful things about expectations is that you can manufacture your 
own. You can get up each morning and say; “I believe something wonderful is 
going to happen to me today.” As you go through the day, you create a force field 
of expectations that surrounds you and effects the people with whom you come in 
contact. And in some remarkable way, a series of wonderful things, both large and 
small, will happen to you throughout the day. 

The next law I learned about was the Law of Attraction. This law says that, “You 
are a living magnet; you invariably attract into your life the people, ideas and 
circumstances that harmonize with your dominant thoughts.” 

This law of attraction has been written and spoken about for five thousand years. It 
is one of the most important of all principles in explaining success and failure. The 
law of attraction says that your thoughts are activated by your emotions, either 
positive or negative, and that they then create a force field of energy around you 
that attracts into your life, like iron filings to a magnet, exactly the people and 
circumstances that are in harmony with those thoughts

The summary law of the laws we have just discussed is the Law of 
Correspondence. This law says that, “Your outer world is a reflection of your inner 
world.” 

It is as though you live in a 360-degree mirror. Everywhere you look, you see 
yourself reflected back at you. People treat you the way you treat them. The way 
you think about your physical body will be reflected in your health habits and your 
appearance. The way you think about people and your relationships will be 
reflected back to you in the quality of your friendships and your family life. The 
way you think about success and prosperity will be reflected in the results that you 
enjoy in your career and your material life. In every case, your outer world reflects 
back to you, like a mirror image, exactly what you are thinking in the deepest 
recesses of your mind. 

When you put the Laws of Cause and Effect, Belief, Expectations, Attraction and 
Correspondence together, you arrive at the great universal principle that explains 
your life and everything that happens to you: “You become what you think about---Most of the time

So, our life reflects our unconscious programming. This is because the job of the subconscious is to create reality out of its program, ie to prove the program is true. So if you have negative programming in your unconscious, Dr Lipton says 95% of thetime you will recreate those negative experiences in your life. And as those of us who have ever taken the time to check out our unconscious thoughts know, most of the programs our unconscious mind runs are based in negativity – for example fear of what other people are thinking about us, fear of not being loved and respected as we are, etc, et

So… how to get out of this endless cycle of old programs and start to be more in the conscious mind? Because of the power of the unconscious mind (one million times more powerful than the conscious mind), and the amount of time it is running us (95 – 99%), Lipton says it takes a lot more than positive thinking to get out of it. Because as soon as you forget to be conscious, the unconscious is back in charge again. Sound familiar? He suggests meditation, hypnotherapy or other reprogramming approaches.

 the things that surround us all the time have a way of working deep inside our subconscious and becoming a part of us