"Using Train Your Brain, in two years, I've gone from zero to a million dollars a year in my business and paid off $30,000 in debt!" ~ Sarah Thomas, Basehor, K.S. When Dana Wilde began her direct-sales business, she realized that education for entrepreneurs typically consisted of endless "how-to" explanations: how to market, how to pick up the phone, how to manage your time, how to increase bookings or sales. There always seemed to be a new system to learn, a new surefire method or cutting-edge technique for entrepreneurs to master. In an effort to teach her team members a better and easier way, Dana Wilde created Train Your Brain, a tested and proven system combining elements of both mindset and action . . . or as Dana likes to call it, Intentional Action. What Dana discovered by using Train Your Brain is that mindset can be "taught" and that learning simple mindset strategies not only allows you to understand how the brain works but also shows you how easy it is to change your thinking and, as a result, change your outcomes. In Train Your Brain, Dana breaks down the Cycle of Perpetual Sameness-the number one reason why most people only experience incremental change in their lives. More importantly, she also provides the much-needed blueprint to help you get off this counterproductive cycle quickly. Train Your Brain, with its twenty easy-to-implement "Mindware Experiments," gives you all the necessary tools needed to get off . . . and stay off . . . the Cycle of Perpetual Sameness, so you can transform your life and grow your business in record time!

Train Your Brain

How to Build a Million Dollar Business in Record Time

By Dana Wilde

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2013 Dana Wilde
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4525-7156-0

Contents

About This Book............................................................
ix
Chapter 1 – What is going on here?.........................................
1
Chapter 2 – The Road to Success Begins and Ends in Your Mind...............
5
Chapter 3 – Rising to the Top: The Million Dollar Club.....................
10
Chapter 4 – The Power of the Mind..........................................
16
Chapter 5 – The Conscious Mind.............................................
19
Chapter 6 – The Unconscious Mind...........................................
22
Chapter 7 – Beliefs........................................................
26
Chapter 8 – Our Best Friend, The Unconscious Mind..........................
31
Chapter 9 – Is It Real or Imagined?........................................
33
Chapter 10 – The Reticular Activating System...............................
38
Chapter 11 – The Reticular Activating System in Action.....................
42
Chapter 12 – Thought Precedes Emotion......................................
47
Chapter 13 – Emotional Primer..............................................
51
Chapter 14 – The Cycle of Perpetual Sameness...............................
54
Chapter 15 – Making Change.................................................
64
Chapter 16 – The First Steps to Change.....................................
68
Chapter 17 – Implementing Mantras..........................................
72
Chapter 18 – Understanding Perfect Language................................
77
Chapter 19 – Heidi's Story.................................................
85
Chapter 20 – Dana's Mantra Story...........................................
89
Chapter 21 – Frequently Asked Questions About Mantras......................
93
Chapter 22 – Transitory Statements.........................................
97
Chapter 23 – Keep The Image, Change The Message............................
100
Chapter 24 – Link the Change to an Event or Action.........................
104
Chapter 25 – State the Change as though it's in Progress...................
108
Chapter 26 – The Power of Questions........................................
112
Chapter 27 – The Word "Because"............................................
116
Chapter 28 – The Stories We Tell...........................................
121
Chapter 29 – Beyond Positive Thinking: The Emotional Scale.................
125
Chapter 30 – How Should I Feel Today.......................................
131
Chapter 31 – Are Bad Emotions Bad?.........................................
135
Chapter 32 – Feelings As Signals...........................................
139
Chapter 33 – Emotions in Motion............................................
144
Chapter 34 – The Power of Knowing..........................................
153
Chapter 35 – Knowing in Action.............................................
155
Chapter 36 – Intentional Action............................................
159
Chapter 37 – How Anyone Gets Anywhere......................................
163
Chapter 38 – Where You've Been.............................................
173
Chapter 39 – Where You're Going............................................
179
Part 2 Mindware Experiments................................................
1 – Thoughts Control Feelings..............................................
187
2 – Staying Aware: What Thoughts Am I Thinking Right Now?..................
191
3 – Observing Thoughts.....................................................
198
4 – Turn it Around.........................................................
202
5 – Create your Own Mantra.................................................
205
6 – Bombard Yourself with Post It Notes....................................
209
7 – Create Your Own Transitory Statement...................................
213
8 – Ask a Better Question..................................................
216
9 – Eliminating Automatic Negative Messages................................
221
10 – Create Your Own Because Statement.....................................
225
11 – Asking a Better Question: The Sequel..................................
227
12 – Tell a New Story......................................................
230
13 – Travelling the Emotional Scale........................................
232
14 – What is Knowing?......................................................
235
15 – Beyond Belief.........................................................
237
16 – The Hope Exercise.....................................................
240
17 – Change Your Breathing.................................................
244
18 – Change Your Body Language.............................................
248
19 – Asking Better Questions: The Remix....................................
251
20 – Beyond Reason: Generating Your Own Positive Expectation...............
255
Acknowledgments............................................................
260