Everything in your life is a trigger of some sort – the things you see, hear, feel, taste, read, and touch, the people you mix with, the places you go, the things you wear, what you eat and drink, your car, your home – everything is affecting you, whether you know it or not.
Peak performers carefully monitor their input, associations, diet, and environment. They control their self-talk, and set high standards for themselves.
Making the Right Adjustments
- You know how you feel if you wear dirty or creased clothes, if you don’t groom yourself well, if you spend time with losers, or if you don’t get enough exercise or sleep.
- And you know how you feel if you associate with winners, wear smart clothes, look your best, and go to top restaurants.
When you feel good about yourself, it’s because you have systematically created that situation, and you will achieve a lot more. Simply making the right adjustments in your life will go a long way to improving your self-esteem, and we earn money in direct proportion to our level of self-esteem.
How We Learn:
- Taste 1%
- Touch 1.5%
- Smell 3.5% (yet it is the most emotional sense)
- Hearing 11%
- SIGHT 85%!
Because visual triggers are so important (ask any advertiser), I designed a few triggers you might want to take advantage of.
Carefully Design Your Environment
My office is very carefully designed to visually trigger motivation, work, belief, optimism, feelings of well being and success, joy, and peace of mind.
I remove anything that has a negative trigger for me. Photographs of people who hurt me get removed and replaced.
Everywhere I look, I see multiple triggers. I surround myself with:
- Gifts from people I like, respect, and love.
- Reminders of past victories.
- Reminders of future promises.
- Symbols of success and strength.
Our entire home is like that. Rika and I are careful about our triggers, and we’re highly disciplined. Cleanliness, orderliness, and high quality are important to us.
Do Some Spring-Cleaning
Take a good look at the triggers in your life, from people to things, and do some spring-cleaning. After all, it is spring, and every day is the first day of the rest of your life. Create an environment that makes you happy, healthy, and successful.
