You have all the Resources for Success

You have all the Resources for Success

Presupposition 6: People have all the resources they need to succeed and to achieve their desired outcome.

          What are resources? Resources are the source of wealth, aid, support, input materials, tools and tackles including professional skills required. We are talking about the personal resources required to succeed in life and to achieve the desired outcome. Resources required for personal achievements comprise internal and external resources. Knowledge, beliefs, values, decisiveness, skills, talents, abilities, confidence, thinking power etc are internal resources. Property, manpower, money, education, profession, political power, family, friends, relatives etc. are external resources. There is no limit or demarcation for the resources and anything required to achieve the desired outcome can be considered as a resource.

           

            You can’t achieve a desired outcome without the required resources. When we talk about the resources required for a student the first instant we usually think of books, notebooks, stationery and resource persons (teachers) with teaching aids but we know that it also include money, food, school uniform, a guardian to take care, healthcare etc. However the most important is the internal resources which include the student’s thinking power, beliefs, values, skills, talents, confidence, decisiveness etc.

          Complaining against the lack of resources is one of the human weaknesses. It is the common nature of people to equate one’s property with others and make the balance sheet! We always look what we don’t have and we never look what we have. It says ‘count your blessings not your troubles’. Resources are like treasures.  You have to make a treasure hunt to discover it. Sometimes we forget about our resources due to our ignorance. Winners are hunters of resources and choices! They find most of their resources and utilize it systematically to achieve their desired outcomes.

          Do you know the most fundamental resource that we have? It is the ability to dream, making pictures in mind. It is the essential requirement for a powerful internal representation. Without this resource you can’t become an engineer, a designer, an artist or a planner. Using this resource we travel through time and place and have memories. We can see the mental pictures using our inner eye.

         

          Another important thing is that we can make these pictures live providing sounds, emotions, smells and tastes! Thus your internal representation is more powerful. Waltz Disney has created the entire Disney world first in his mental screen. Then he transformed it into drawing papers. Later on after corrections he converted it into a movie. He has watched the movie and updated it. He has commissioned the Disney World first in his mind! Upon utilizing all his internal and external resources wonderfully he became world’s number one entertainer.

          Most of our internal resources are given by God or the nature free of cost like the natural resources in the earth. People have all the resources they need to succeed and to achieve their desired goals or outcome. They have deep storage of possibilities, strengths and powers but are hidden and unknown. Many of us are limited by what resources we believe that we have and what is possible for us to achieve. Limiting desires is in one hand a good thing to avoid risks but in the other hand it is the biggest hindrance against our growth. People with limiting belief either have not identified the resources or they don’t know how to access it.

          It is not the lack of resources but the lack of control over the resources and ignorance about resources building walls against success. To make a resource available to us we have to label it and consider it as part of our identity. Say for example if you ask a small kid “baby, are you confident about it?” The word ‘confident’ may be a new word for the kid. But at the moment the kid replies that “yes, I’m confident” he recognize one of his internal resource! If he says “no, I’m not confident” doesn’t mean that he can’t be confident.  We can help him to create confidence and that’s the duty of the motivator, the teacher and the parent. Using the available resources one can create or bring in new resources both internal and external. This is applicable to every person in their life.

          NLP intervention is to help a person to identify his resources and make use of it. Most of the personal problems we face in life are the lack of utilizing resources and choices. Let us think of ‘stress and anxiety’ which is a common issue for most of the people especially in the middle class society. I hope after you have gone through the previous sessions you understand that stress is the result of negative thinking about future events! What will happen to my children? Whether they will reach safely? Can he pass the exam? What my friends will think of me? Can I get the promotion? Whether my wife comes to know it? What will be the result of the lab test? Whether the pilot is a terrorist? Whether the lift stops at mid way? What the audience will think? Am I cute? Whether they accept me? All these kinds of negative thinking patterns results in subsequent thinking process which stacks up more and more negative conclusions.

          You can think in a thousand ways to become stressful or anxious. That’s what we discussed earlier that ‘you are what you think’. Depression, phobias, traumas etc are nothing but the results of a series of negative thinking. NLP intervention helps the client to change the thinking pattern and to think positively. It helps the client to discover the internal resources like self-confidence, will power, self-esteem, positive beliefs, values etc and utilize it to think differently.

          So remember the presupposition People have all the resources they need to succeed and to achieve their desired outcome.