no reason to expect your mind to stop doing this any time soon.
Your mind already has an agenda or goals defining what it will cre-
ate for you, assuming you continue thinking what you have been
thinking. Unfortunately, these goals are most likely unconsciously
chosen, and they may not be things you would most prefer or even
like. Everyone has goals. For some people they are unconsciously
chosen from personal history; for others they are based on their
true purpose and a sense of those values they wish to express.
A goal is a new idea. Unless it is trivial, you can’t prove you can
do it yet. Figure 8.4 represents the impact of a new goal. The
dashed rectangle represents your mind; it is dashed because ideas
come in and go out all the time. The X’s represent your limiting be-
liefs, thinking patterns, and experiences from your past as related
to this goal or to goals in general. The Xwith the circle represents
any new goal you have just added to your mind.
Notice that your past thinking greatly outnumbers the thought
representing your new goal. At this point, if you hold a mental elec-
tion about whether you could accomplish your goal, the results
would be an overwhelming no. The democratically obtained result
will always favor an outcome where your goal seems impossible be-
cause you haven’t accomplished it yet. Democracy may be a fine way
to run a government, but it’s poorly suited to mind management.
So, if you truly expect to make the changes you want, you must
make your mind a dictatorship, with yourself as dictator.
The same dynamic affects any new goal. Let’s say your new goal
is to climb Mount Everest—a lofty goal, accomplished by very few.
In this example, the uncircled X’s represent your past thinking on
Your Mind Is Not a Democracy 145FIGURE 8.4 Your Mind Is Not a Democracy