Re-wiring your brain by defining your chief aim

I just realized that the title of this post rhymes — that was an accident, I don’t think I could be that cheesy if I tried.

This is a highly effective tool that can help you achieve your goals and improve your productivity and bring you ‘success’ in all areas of your life. Some people call it a ‘scroll’, some people call it a ‘definite chief aim’, some people call it your ‘mission statement’, whatever you call it, it’s definitely a great tool to help you improve your self image and train your conscious and subconscious minds to focus on achieving your goals and getting what you desire in life.

Do you have a ‘Life Mission Statement’ or a ‘definite chief aim’? If not, you should really give it some thought, it might seem stupid or weird at first but so what, if it gets results isn’t it worth it? Writing your ‘scroll’ is pretty easy and if you follow the instructions below it’s almost a guarantee that you will begin to see improvements as you move towards congruency with your written ‘scroll’.

In other words, defining your chief aim and mission statement (or writing your scroll) works to develop new neural pathways in your brain and train it to think in a way that is more likely to get you the results you want. You could consider it ‘self reprogramming’.

What is a definite chief aim / mission statement / scroll ?

Your definite chief aim or ‘mission statement’ is a few paragraphs about what you’d like to experience. What kind of life would you like? This mission statement should always be written in present tense because right NOW is the only moment that actually exists, everything else is just made up creations in your mind, your thoughts about the past and the future are just that… thoughts, they don’t exist anywhere outside of your own mind.

If you were to write your mission statement talking about the future, what you are telling the universe and your subconscious mind is that whatever you desire you want it to remain in the future, you want it to remain as mere collections of thoughts in some distant fictional time instead of being manifest in physical reality where you can enjoy and experience it in the present moment. This is fundamentally important when you craft your mission statement or define your chief aim.

Be as broad or specific as you like when crafting your mission statement, but make sure that you truly feel and believe what you are writing. It’s okay if you’re writing things like “I’ve got the most beautiful wife on the planet” when you don’t actually have a beautiful wife, but the important part is that you know deep down that you deserve and can attain that most beautiful wife on the planet.

If you completely doubt your ability to obtain whatever it is you’re describing in your mission statement then you should probably replace it with something that you do feel is achievable. Defining your chief aim will help you achieve your desires, but if you are in complete and absolute doubt and think things like “there’s NO WAY I can ever have that!” then you’re never going to get it. If you’re thinking “I don’t know HOW I could ever have that, but I know it can happen.” then you’re in a much better spot for getting what you want. So be realistic with your mission statement but always aim high and ‘shoot for the stars’.

How to create your mission statement and define your chief aim

As I already mentioned above, your mission statement should be written completely in present tense. That might be hard to do at first, but keep reviewing it and if you notice any future or past tense references you can always edit or re-write it, and believe me, you’ll be reviewing this mission statement a lot so eventually you’ll have one that’s pretty much perfect as long as you keep at it.

Your mission statement can be as short or as long as you like, but it should include your goals over several areas of your life including financial, relationships, health, and creativity, as well as anything else you’d like to put into it. Try to stay to the point, but don’t be afraid to go into detail if you feel it is necessary.

You can type your mission statement out on a computer and print it off if you want, but it’s always better to physically write out your goals by hand. Writing out your goals by hand creates new neural pathways in the brain and solidifies it in both your conscious and subconscious minds. It’s far more effective than typing it out, but typing it will work too.

Using the scroll to re-wire your brain

Once you’ve written your scroll you should print it out if you’ve typed it on the computer, or take the papers that you wrote it on and leave them by your bedside. Read the scroll every night before going to bed and every morning when you get up. While reading you should really try to feel and believe what you’ve written. Try to imagine what it would be like if it was already yours, this will help attract it into your life.

You can read it to yourself or out loud if you would like. Reading it aloud will increase the effect it has by giving the statement an auditory quality when you review it each day. As long as you read it and truly believe what you’ve written down you will automatically begin to alter the way your brain perceives yourself and it will start to act in accordance with your mission statement.

For example, if you’ve written “I am full of confidence and everybody around me respects my ideas and wants to hear about them.” your brain will eventually start to believe it and that will become your main mode of operation, even if you are currently shy and lacking self-confidence. This won’t work over night but if you continue doing this every day and make it a habit you will start to see great improvements in all areas that you cover in your defined chief aim and mission statement.

Feel free to include anything you want in your mission statement, but I can’t stress enough that you must keep it in a present tense and positive, realistic tone in order for your mission statement to be effective.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to define your own mission.

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