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janie
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How do I go about fulfilling my dream to start an organisation which helps people discover the full potential of their minds using neuroscience? #Fall22
I am very passionate about positive thinking and I believe that you can change your life by changing the way you think.
I have always found the biology of psychology very interesting.
I also have an entrepreneurial mind and I know I want to start an organisation that will empower and send people with equipped minds, knowing the power that their minds hold and also strategies to continue bettering and utilizing their minds.
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John Husband
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Hi Janie,
What a great life goal. I love it!
There are two facets of what you want to do. Luckily, they are related. They are starting a business and human neurological potential. To start a business successfully you must master the inner war of the brain that tells you, you won't be successful. It encourages you to give up and do something safer. To which you must have the personal neurological power and or tools to tell yourself to just watch and be quiet while you do what the doubters (including yourself) say can't be done!
Perhaps we can discuss in the comments a little bit what exactly you imagine yourself doing. For example, do you want to be the next Tony Robins? Or Tim Ferris? Or do you want to pursue a more traditional route like a Dr. Oz or Dr. Phil? If you don't know any of those a quick search on the internet will get you their bios. The reason I ask this is it may make a difference in how you approach the learning phase of what you want to do. If you want to be a Dr. I'm sure you can figure out the schooling you'll need for that. If you prefer the route of life coach or systems builder (e.g., Tony/Tim) the path is just as clear, but less people go down that route. Imagine the difference between a 4 lane highway (dr.) and a well marked hiking trail (coach). Both can be traveled. Both have many people who've done it before. One has more infrastructure to support you along the way that the other.
Regardless of which path you take, eventually you will get to the entrepreneurial phase. And the building the organization phase. If you take the Dr. route, the 4-lane highway will get smaller and smaller until at some point you are on the well-marked trail of the coach pathway. I know this highway path talk must sound like I'm talking around the topic and not to the topic. But bear with me. I'm going to make it real right now.
4 Lane Highway
Basically, means going to school for 7+ years getting the education you need to have the licenses to practice in the medical field as a doctor. After you become a doctor and get some experience you can start your business or organization (could be non-profit) where you switch from being in the system to inventing the system. When you leave the system to re-invent it, people will tell you you're crazy and taking unnecessary risks. You will even doubt yourself. To which you have to ignore all the doubts and proceed with confidence even faith.
Well-Marked Path
There are so many self-help gurus (I say this with respect not as a slant) with origin stories, learning how to grow your own and other people's human potential is well easy. There are literally thousands of books on the topic. Here are 3 steps you can follow that will nearly guarantee your success. 1.) Read them all. Read all the books out there on developing human potential. They are printed faster than you can read them. So, if you get yourself on a pace of a book per week that should probably do it. 2.) Take immediate action. It's not enough to read the "Four-Hour Work Week." You have to DO what the book teaches you to do. Here is a simple pattern you can follow that will yield results. Read a book. While reading take notes on what you are going to do or change as a result of reading that book. When you understand what you are going to do, stop reading and do it immediately. As soon as you have kicked off the new action or updated process, continue reading the book. Finish the book and the updated process every week. Over the course of 1 year, you'll have read 50 books on human potential and implemented 50 things to improve your or someone else's productivity. That's more books in 1 year than most people will read in a lifetime. If you were to follow this pattern for 5 years, you'll have ready 250 books! At that point it's time to start writing your own first book. But that's another article.
So, Dr. Janie or Coach Janie? Is there an obvious path for you? If not here is what I'd recommend. Do both. Go to school until either you graduate with the terminal degree or until school doesn't make sense anymore. There is value in being able to but Janie, MD on the cover of your books. In the meantime, while you are going through school start reading the productivity books. You won't be able to go through them as fast as you could if you weren't in medical school. But you can read a couple books per year. I'd put YouTube in place of books also. There is a great channel of a guy who talks about his tips and tricks for getting through med school which can be leveraged in many other parts of life.
This is a big topic. Hope this article was helpful to you. If you'd like to discuss more, please comment below!
Wishing you lost of working hard and some working smart,
-John
On a 3x5 write out your goal. Keep it with you and read it every day.
Become formally educated on human performance as much as you can.
Read one human performance book per week
Take one major action each week as a result of your reading
Put in the time and the work to build something great. It's not fast and it's not free. But it is worth it!
What a great life goal. I love it!
There are two facets of what you want to do. Luckily, they are related. They are starting a business and human neurological potential. To start a business successfully you must master the inner war of the brain that tells you, you won't be successful. It encourages you to give up and do something safer. To which you must have the personal neurological power and or tools to tell yourself to just watch and be quiet while you do what the doubters (including yourself) say can't be done!
Perhaps we can discuss in the comments a little bit what exactly you imagine yourself doing. For example, do you want to be the next Tony Robins? Or Tim Ferris? Or do you want to pursue a more traditional route like a Dr. Oz or Dr. Phil? If you don't know any of those a quick search on the internet will get you their bios. The reason I ask this is it may make a difference in how you approach the learning phase of what you want to do. If you want to be a Dr. I'm sure you can figure out the schooling you'll need for that. If you prefer the route of life coach or systems builder (e.g., Tony/Tim) the path is just as clear, but less people go down that route. Imagine the difference between a 4 lane highway (dr.) and a well marked hiking trail (coach). Both can be traveled. Both have many people who've done it before. One has more infrastructure to support you along the way that the other.
Regardless of which path you take, eventually you will get to the entrepreneurial phase. And the building the organization phase. If you take the Dr. route, the 4-lane highway will get smaller and smaller until at some point you are on the well-marked trail of the coach pathway. I know this highway path talk must sound like I'm talking around the topic and not to the topic. But bear with me. I'm going to make it real right now.
4 Lane Highway
Basically, means going to school for 7+ years getting the education you need to have the licenses to practice in the medical field as a doctor. After you become a doctor and get some experience you can start your business or organization (could be non-profit) where you switch from being in the system to inventing the system. When you leave the system to re-invent it, people will tell you you're crazy and taking unnecessary risks. You will even doubt yourself. To which you have to ignore all the doubts and proceed with confidence even faith.
Well-Marked Path
There are so many self-help gurus (I say this with respect not as a slant) with origin stories, learning how to grow your own and other people's human potential is well easy. There are literally thousands of books on the topic. Here are 3 steps you can follow that will nearly guarantee your success. 1.) Read them all. Read all the books out there on developing human potential. They are printed faster than you can read them. So, if you get yourself on a pace of a book per week that should probably do it. 2.) Take immediate action. It's not enough to read the "Four-Hour Work Week." You have to DO what the book teaches you to do. Here is a simple pattern you can follow that will yield results. Read a book. While reading take notes on what you are going to do or change as a result of reading that book. When you understand what you are going to do, stop reading and do it immediately. As soon as you have kicked off the new action or updated process, continue reading the book. Finish the book and the updated process every week. Over the course of 1 year, you'll have read 50 books on human potential and implemented 50 things to improve your or someone else's productivity. That's more books in 1 year than most people will read in a lifetime. If you were to follow this pattern for 5 years, you'll have ready 250 books! At that point it's time to start writing your own first book. But that's another article.
So, Dr. Janie or Coach Janie? Is there an obvious path for you? If not here is what I'd recommend. Do both. Go to school until either you graduate with the terminal degree or until school doesn't make sense anymore. There is value in being able to but Janie, MD on the cover of your books. In the meantime, while you are going through school start reading the productivity books. You won't be able to go through them as fast as you could if you weren't in medical school. But you can read a couple books per year. I'd put YouTube in place of books also. There is a great channel of a guy who talks about his tips and tricks for getting through med school which can be leveraged in many other parts of life.
This is a big topic. Hope this article was helpful to you. If you'd like to discuss more, please comment below!
Wishing you lost of working hard and some working smart,
-John
John recommends the following next steps:
Rabiya Zahid
clinical psychologist
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Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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Rabiya’s Answer
Hello Jania,
You have a good dream. I hope you will succeed in this mission. I only suggest you find a way to ask yourself what is the appropriate way that you achieve this goal, take small steps first, and will get the big goal. You can do it.
Just find ways to get the goal while achieving all the knowledge. What is the appropriate pattern for success?
What is the appropriate way?
What steps do you take to achieve that?
If you have a thought like that big, all the best answers will come inside you.
You also know how to achieve this.
Find ways to search for it, work for it, take little steps, and make appropriate plans to fulfill.
You achieve it hope for the best and work for that.
Success didn't achieve instantly. It will take time but prolonged
I wish you all the best for your coming future.
I wish and hope you work hard and will succeed.
RABIYA ZAHID
You have a good dream. I hope you will succeed in this mission. I only suggest you find a way to ask yourself what is the appropriate way that you achieve this goal, take small steps first, and will get the big goal. You can do it.
Just find ways to get the goal while achieving all the knowledge. What is the appropriate pattern for success?
What is the appropriate way?
What steps do you take to achieve that?
If you have a thought like that big, all the best answers will come inside you.
You also know how to achieve this.
Find ways to search for it, work for it, take little steps, and make appropriate plans to fulfill.
You achieve it hope for the best and work for that.
Success didn't achieve instantly. It will take time but prolonged
I wish you all the best for your coming future.
I wish and hope you work hard and will succeed.
RABIYA ZAHID