Everyone wants to know the secret to success. Unfortunately, too many in this world suffer from low self-esteem, a lack of self-confidence, and little motivation. In his self-help guidebook Reprogram Your Mind for Success and Happiness, author Cleophus Jackson shares inspirational methods that teach others how to discover their hidden powers and train their minds to begin believing that they too can become successful, happy, and self-fulfilled. Jackson believes that within each of us there is a power just waiting to be awakened-the kind of power that can help us achieve anything in life. With encouragement, any of us can change our methods of thinking that paralyze us and prevent us from achieving success. Jackson shares a step-by-step process that leans heavily on trusting spiritual guidance in order to make decisions, learn to love ourselves, set goals, change habits, take risks, and create a clear vision for the future. Reprogram Your Mind for Success and Happiness traces a path out of the darkness of insecurity and into the light of achievement, where dreams really do come true.

Reprogram Your Mind for Success and Happiness

A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming Physically, Financially, and Spiritually SuccessfulBy Cleophus Jackson

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright © 2011 Cleophus Jackson
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ISBN: 978-1-4620-3142-9

Contents

PREFACE...................................................................................................................................ixINTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................................xiLIVE YOUR DREAMS..........................................................................................................................1WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, THE BODY CAN ACHIEVE..........................................................................................5MOTIVATION................................................................................................................................9PROCRASTINATIION..........................................................................................................................11SELF-IMAGE................................................................................................................................12WHAT IS SELF-IMAGE?.......................................................................................................................13NEGATIVE SELF-IMAGE.......................................................................................................................13POSITIVE SELF-IMAGE.......................................................................................................................15DEVELOPING A POSITIVE SELF-IMAGE..........................................................................................................16CHANGE YOUR HABITS-CHANGE YOUR LIFE.......................................................................................................17HABITS THAT'S KILLING US..................................................................................................................19SMOKING AND DRINKING KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN ALL DISEASES COMBINED..........................................................................19YOU DON'T HAVE TO SMOKE...................................................................................................................34SOME OTHERS REASONS TO QUIT SMOKING.......................................................................................................35ALCOHOL NOT JUST A HABIT IT'S ALSO A KILLER...............................................................................................36BENEFITS OF DRINKING ALCOHOL..............................................................................................................36ALCOHOL POISONING.........................................................................................................................36FACTORS THAT AFFECT YOUR BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL..............................................................................................36SIGNS AND SYMPTON OF ALCOHOL POISONING....................................................................................................37DRINKING TOO MUCH.........................................................................................................................37THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF DRINKING TOO MUCH.................................................................................................38DO MORE, GIVE MORE THAN WHAT'S EXPECTED...................................................................................................38ATTITUDE..................................................................................................................................40SUCCESS...................................................................................................................................43DRESS FOR SUCCESS.........................................................................................................................46CHOOSE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IT IS A CHOICE....................................................................................................47SUCCESS IN THE FAMILY.....................................................................................................................48FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION..................................................................................................................51LOVE......................................................................................................................................55FOR MEN ONLY..............................................................................................................................56A MAN ROLE IN THE FAMILY..................................................................................................................56FOR MEN ONLY..............................................................................................................................58LOVE YOUR WIFE UNCONDITIONALLY............................................................................................................58FOR WOMEN ONLY............................................................................................................................60THE WOMAN JOB IN THE HOME.................................................................................................................60GET YOUR HUSBAND TO DO WHAT YOU WANT HIM TO DO:...........................................................................................66SUCCESS AND HEALTH........................................................................................................................67WATER.....................................................................................................................................68SLEEP & REST..............................................................................................................................70LIVING FOODS..............................................................................................................................72WHAT ARE SOME LIVING FOODS?...............................................................................................................72EXERCISE FOR YOUR GOOD HEALTH.............................................................................................................74NO PAIN, NO GAIN:.........................................................................................................................76LISTEN TO YOUR BODY:......................................................................................................................76STAYING MOTIVATED:........................................................................................................................78DON'T MAKE EXCUSES:.......................................................................................................................78DETOXIFICATION............................................................................................................................79COLON.....................................................................................................................................80THE LIVER.................................................................................................................................82LUNGS.....................................................................................................................................83YOUR SYMPATHETHIC SYSTEM..................................................................................................................83NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS...................................................................................................................84SUPPLEMENT REGULATION.....................................................................................................................85NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS DEBATE............................................................................................................85ONE OF THE MOST MISDIAGNOSED DISEASE IN THE WORLD.........................................................................................86"THYROID".................................................................................................................................86FINANCIAL 101, THE STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO GAINING CONTROL OVER YOUR MONEY THAT YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER DIDN'T TEACH YOU.....................88LESSON 1; PAY YOUR-SELF FIRST.............................................................................................................88LESSON 2; SAVING IS THE KEY TO FINANCIAL PEACE............................................................................................89LESSON 3; BUDGET YOUR WAY TO FINANCIAL SUCCESS............................................................................................90LESSON 4; EDUCATE YOURSELF CONCERNING MONEY...............................................................................................91LESSON 5; MOST DEBTS ARE DUMB, SO STOP THE INSANITY.......................................................................................92LESSON 6; DEBTS IS A TOOL, IF YOU USE IT TO CREATE PROSPERITY.............................................................................94LESSON 7; MANAGING YOUR RECORDS...........................................................................................................95LESSON 8; INVESTING YOUR HARD EARNED DOLLARS..............................................................................................97LESSON 9; BANKS...........................................................................................................................99LESSON 10; TEACH YOUR CHILDENS ABOUT MONEY AND CREDIT AT AN EARLY AGE.....................................................................101SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE INFLUENCED ME........................................................................................................102MAYA ANGELOU..............................................................................................................................103ANDREW CARNEGIE...........................................................................................................................104MADAM C.J. WALKER.........................................................................................................................105REGINALD F. LEWIS.........................................................................................................................107OPRAH WINFREY.............................................................................................................................108SAM WALTON................................................................................................................................110LES BROWN.................................................................................................................................114EARL NIGHTINGALE..........................................................................................................................115TONY ROBBINS..............................................................................................................................116RIP DANIELS...............................................................................................................................117GOALS.....................................................................................................................................118REPROGRAM YOUR MIND FOR SUCCESS IN 30 DAYS................................................................................................123MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES TO HELP YOU REPROGRAM YOUR MINDS......................................................................................128

Chapter One

LIVE YOUR DREAMS

What if I told you that you can attain anything that this world had to offer? What if I told you that through faith anything including moving mountains is possible? One of the things that astonished me the most about life is people. Most people in the world have no self-realization. Most of us have heard someone says that "you can be anything that you want". We ourselves may have told a friend or family member the same thing. The question is when you hear or say it do you believe it? I've found that ninety percents of the people that I have met do not believe this; so they are normal, but there is that ten percent of wired individuals or the so called abnormal who do believe that God makes every thing possible for them. This is the main reason why they are successful and others are not. There are people who go to church faithfully every Sunday and sometimes doing the week, yet most of the faithful are struggling through life. Some have unhappy marriages, living from one pay check to the next one.

If you haven't to be one of these faithful, don't you think its time you re-check your faith? What God are you serving? I believe that if my earthly father was rich in money, I being his son could go to him and if nothing else I could borrow enough money to get me going in the right direction. I believe this whole hardly because I am my father son and he would want for me as much as he wants for himself. Most of you that know your father knows that if he was in that position that you could attain from him some of his richest. If you can believe this about your earthy father surely you know that your heavenly father who is trillions times greater, who made the world and everything in it, including you, knows your wants as well as your needs. All you have to do is ask and it shall be giving unto you. Knock and the door share be open unto you. Seek and you shall find.

For everyone who asks will receive, and anyone who seeks will find, and the door will be opened to him who knocks. Would any of you who are fathers give your son a stone when he asks for bread? Or would you give him a snake when he asks for a fish?

As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more then, will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him! Matthew 7, 7-11 and Luke 11, 9-13. This is not just lip services, this is the way that we are suppose to pray, and believe that we will receive what ever we ask of our Heavenly Father. So my concluding is that the reason why many of you are in the shape that you are in today with all of your church going, praising and shouting that you do is that you don't believe in the God that you serve. For the Lord said "if ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamore tree, be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you. Luke 17:6. You will hear me say this time and time again; even thou we didn't have anything to do with being born into this world, but our Father in Heaven loved us so much that he gave us a gift and a tool box. The tool box is for us to fix or work on the gift so that we can best serve God, for it come with many manuals and instructions. And if we don't know what our gift is, it is a guide or road map for us to follow to help us find our gift. When I need help understanding something or others, I always turn to the bible that I consider my toolbox, here is a sample of what it offer;

"THE WAY OF SALVATION" "COMFORT IN TIME OF LONELINESS" "COMFORT IN TIME OF SORROW" "RELIEF IN TIME OF SUFFERING" "GUIDANCE IN TIME OF DECISION" "PROTECTION IN TIME OF DANGER" "COURAGE IN TIME OF FEAR" "PEACE IN TIME OF TURMOIL" "REST IN TIME OF WEARINESS" "STRENGTH IN TIME OF TEMPTATION" "WARNING IN TIME OF INDIFFERENCE" "FORGIVENESS IN TIME OF CONVICTION".

The God that I served is all things and his power is immeasurable. Who else could make a covenant with a ninety-nine years old man and bless his wife at ninety years old to bare a child? I don't know if you are religious or not, but in these times especially now, it help to believe in something a little higher than you are. For the first time in the United States of America we have a black president. This could not have happen if not for the will of God. There are many things that I do not know but one thing for sure is tomorrow is not promise to you. If you don't follow your dream today then when? If you have not set down and talk to yourself about what it is you want out of life, then ask yourself, why not? Have you ever dreamed or played the game of make believe? I think where the two different is that make believe is controlled by the conscious, and dreams are controlled by the subconscious. Make believe or imaginations are moved by emotions that go off on self-inspired tours.

Trying not to confuse you so just remember this key thing, anything that's controlled by our conscious is limited where ability is concern. Then there are dreams that had no limitation. The key point here is that anything that is controlled by the subconscious is closer to infinite intelligence. Anything where God is concern had no limitation. You are reading this and you're properly wondering where I am going with all of this. I am talking about your dreams. Some years ago a study was conducted on some people concerning dreams. These people went to sleep but when ever they started to dream they were awaking. Most of them got over eight hours of sleep but because they were not allowed to dream they became very disoriented, irritable and perturbed. Dreams are important. In order to get a good night rest you much dream.

We all dream, not only doing the night but dreams doing our waking hours are important too. The dreams that we have when we are asleep are the ones with unlimited boundaries. They are so powerful that obstacles becomes opportunities. There are no end. The characters are illusion yet the reactions are real. At some point in your life you have had what we call a wet dream. The feeling of ecstatic as a result of our dreams. Why you are mentally dreaming your body is going through all of the changes as if it was the real thing. For example, out blood pressure changes, heart beats a little faster. If you are a male you will have an erection. And if you are a female your nippers will harden. While you are asleep and dreaming the dream is real. The only way that you find out that it's not real is to wake up.

Have you ever dream about having lots of money only to awaken the same broke person you were when you laid down? Doing the dreaming phase, the money was so real, you could feel or smell it. What if you could bring on anyone dream or imagination of your choosing, whenever you wanted to? I hate to disappoint you, but you can. Anything that you wish to improve upon, change or accomplish in this world just set the precise image in your mind before going to bed. You should also practice this several times throughout the day. The thing that you want to make sure of is that you are setting a positive image. For example if you want to loose weight, then see yourself having already lost the desired amount of weights.

WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, THE BODY CAN ACHIEVE.

No matter how good our intentions are, what we would like to accomplish in life, there are some obstacles or forces that tried to stop us from being all that we could be. Life can be treacherous, sometimes down right nasty. There are times when the only thing that holding you back from becoming the man or woman that you would like to be is the man or woman in the mirror. The mind, our mind, a force within a force. So powerful that ninety-nine point nine percent of us only use approximately five percent of it. Yet God gave us power over our own mind, but many of us don't believe it or know how to tap into this perpetual gold mine. When it come to the mind there are some dysfunctions that many of us have as individuals that we much overcome in order to become successful at anything. I called these dysfunction enemies of the mind. Some of them are LOW SELF-ESTEEM, LOW SELF-CONFIDENCE, LACK OF MOTIVATION and PROCRASTINATION. Before we talk about low self-esteem, let's talk about self-esteem period.

What is self-esteem? SELF-ESTEEM is a tangible or visible representation of oneself. Most importantly, it is the way you see yourself. SELF-ESTEEM had a lot to do with an ideal. This ideal is based on your self-image. What ever you tell yourself, the mind will believe. If you tell yourself that you are bad or poor in reading continually, the mind will start to believe and will perform accordingly. To get anywhere successfully in life you much believe in yourself. A man or woman who do not believe in self or see themselves in a negative way have already failed the first law of success. Your self-esteem can be programmed for you by your love ones, friends or others. They can either cause you to have low self-esteem or high self-esteem. Often times your mind will be programed in a negative way instead of a positive way. Let me give you an example; I have a friend, his name is mike. When mike was just a child, his parents would always feed him with statements such as the following:

"You are stupid",

"You are no good",

"Nobody wants you" and

"You will never amount to anything".

These statements are called enforcements. After awhile mike starts to believe what his parents was telling him about himself. So whenever he made a mistake he would say something like I'm just stupid or I'm no good. Even if he didn't say it out aloud, just to think it, they are then called reinforcements. I would like to think that no-one intentionally would tell someone that they love these types of negative things. But life being reality, it does happen, more often then we know. Make sure that you don't be like mike parents. But on the other hands if you are on the receiving end of these negative statements, then you much immediately began some type of treatment; to re-wire or reprogram yourself. If your self-esteem is in anyway damages where you don't like your self or think you're not as good as the next person you must get some help. In some cases a little self help is all that's required. Then there are other cases that require a professional. It seen funny if not ironic that low or high self-esteem is a result of how other people treated you in life. As I said early in this chapter your parents, siblings, even your superiors, peers and other significant people have shaped your self-esteem for you. Through their psychological messages you have determined your worth.

More often people with low self-esteem have been lied to. Instead of positive reinforcement some one gave you negative ones. Then you grew up believing that you are worthless. This is not true, but you end up believing it anyway. Most people with low self-esteem see themselves in an unduly and negative way. But they view others in an unduly positive way. Now that you know all of this; let's fix this problem and hope that it will last forever. None of us are perfect. Every human on this earth has faults, problems and some misgiving about something that's going on in their life. Treat yourself with respect: behave the way you would like people to treat treat you. Believe in yourself.

Loving yourself is the first step in believing in self. You must believe that you are special for this time and place you were put here o n this earth for a reason. You much believe that if someone else can do great thing-so can you. Don't accept put down or allow others to make you feel bad. It been said that misery love company that is universal true. No one control how you think or feel but you. No matter what someone said it still up to you as to how you are going to-receive this, make you feel or how you are going to response to it. Stop looking at just the bad things in your life. You are important and everyone in this world is good at somethings and is bad at others. We are all weak in some area or another. Rather then focusing on how bad you are why not focus on improving some of the things that you know you are good at.

I once heard someone say "I don't have any friends". Well let's take a closer look at the word friend. You know there are two types. One is called associated friend: someone you like to hang out with because they are so cool, going to the mall, playing some sort of sports. Someone you like to talk to every now and then. While they are in your present you are the best thing since slice bread; but boy, behind your back you are worthless. On the other hand you have a true friend: This person make you angry at time because he or she speaks the truth about you to you. No matter what time day or night they are willing to lend you a helping hand.

You keep hurting their feeling or letting them down times and times again but yet they are still around. In short a true friend will be with you to the end no matter what you do. If you are like most people you would rather have a true friends. They are hard to come by because they give it to you straight. If you have one in your life, you are blessed. So don't feel bad, now that you know what true friendship is; be a true friend to your self first, and you just might find that you're all the friend you may need. Don't spend time with people who mistreat you for no reason at all. Find people who give you recognition and just make you feel good to be around them.

I told you early that misery love company. Most of the times when people say something to make you feel bad is because they themselves are suffering from low self-esteem and are trying to take it out on you. If they can make you feel bad then they feel good because they have accomplished their goal of not feeling bad all by themselves. Remember you are important there isn't but one of you and no-one on this earth is exactly like you. If you are feeling kind of special, "great because you are".

MOTIVATION

This is one of my favorite subjects, because without it, success isn't the only thing you will not achieve. A lack of motivation could be the determining factor in failure.

MOTIVATION: Is a powerful emotion that inspires and inculcates aspiration and values. Concerned with an individual's representation of his or her environment as a determinism of how he or she strives for achievement. Motivation is the get up and go of any goal, mission or your willingness to succeed. Frustrations can be an important comportment of motivation. Simple put, you must become angry at your approach to success if what you are doing is not working. This is more on the line of negative emotions, but you must be able to view this in a different light and start using them to get ahead, if you tell yourself what I am doing is not working then you need to find a better way.

HIGH ACHIEVERS: Most high achievers say that you must condition your mind to focus on what you are capable of. The more of your abilities you can tap into the better you will see your self capable of doing. Reviewing previous successes is a powerful way to shift how you think and feel. Surround your work area with evidence of your previous successes. Place certificate, awards and photos in a prominent location. Keep letters and newspaper clipping that highlight your achievements. When you remind yourself of what you are capable of, you will naturally start to demand more of yourself and you'll feel inspired to achieve greater results. You may think that these high achievers intuitively knows how to get motivated. But that is not the case most had to learn motivation techniques, which anyone can learn. These skills are developed through a need or desire to make one dream come true. Let's look at some of these techniques. Remember that the more you use them the successful you will become and through the eyes of others the wired you will be.

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