Quotes from Shad Helmstetter

Taking the time to consciously convince yourself to do the right thing has not only saved you time, it has done something else which is far more important to you in another way: it has created a minor success in the development of your personal credibility—a small but important gold star on your report card of self-esteem.

Of all of the ways we get programmed, it is our self-talk that plays the single most important role in the programming of the brain. If you have the wrong self-talk, your life will be a struggle, and cannot work well. If you use the right self-talk, you will wire your brain in the best possible way—and the results will show in your life.

Unless, of course, you stop, really think about it, consciously intervene, override your past programs, and choose the outcome of the vote for yourself.

Research in neuroscience has shown us how the brain gets programmed, and people want to know how they can use that knowledge to change their programming, and improve their lives.

It's not who you've been; it's who you decide to become—and that changes the story you're about to live.

it makes no difference where you came from, if you know where you want to go.

1. Programming creates beliefs. 2. Beliefs create attitudes. 3. Attitudes create feelings. 4. Feelings determine actions. 5. Actions create results.

Less on my plate means less on my waist." When I sit down to eat, at no time do I allow anyone else to influence, tempt, or discourage me in any negative way. What I eat, and the goals I reach, is up to me. And I give no one the right to hinder or control my success. Although others may benefit from my success, I am achieving my weight-loss goals for my own personal reasons—for myself, my life, my future, and my own personal well-being.

Mindfulness ?2. Choices ?3. Intention ?4. Focus ?5. Repetition ?6. Emotion ?7. Belief

Doing the same thing each day, day in and day out, doesn't work. ?Being bored, doesn't work. ?Never reading a book, doesn't work. ?Never reading a book outside of your personal interests, doesn't work.

Those who appear to be "luckier" than the rest have actually only gotten better mental programming to begin with, or have learned how to erase their old negative programming and replace it with something better. ?In

If enough of your programs are negative, your self-talk will also be negative. This is because your present self-talk is the result of the programs you already have that are the strongest. The rule is: Negative programs equal negative self-talk.

It is also because the brain stores––and wires in––repeated messages, that you end up believing things about you that you tell yourself most often. The complete 'you' that you believe you are today, is the combined result of years of messages, both from the world around you and, most importantly, from your own self-talk.

In most homes, the number one habit of distraction is television. As I've said, watching television is designed by its producers to be a habit, and most television viewing, as far as your brain is concerned, is mindless, not mindful.

Programming creates beliefs. 2. Beliefs create attitudes. 3. Attitudes create feelings. 4. Feelings determine actions. 5. Actions create results.

When I wrote my first book, I wrote all of it to a short list of very specific musical selections I sought out, music I found would bring out the right emotion or the right kind of expression in whatever I was writing at the moment.

When I completed my course work, it was my final opinion that you can never really get anyone to do anything they don't want to do unless you use force. I decided that in most of the world, "force" is called advertising

called thoughts. ?Every thought we think, every conscious or unconscious thought we say to ourselves, is translated into electrical impulses in the brain, which, in turn, direct the control centers in our brains to electrically and chemically affect and control every motion, every feeling, every action we take, every moment of every day. ?Whatever "thoughts" you

a natural law of cause and effect, when we improve ourselves, the things we would like to have in our lives follow naturally. Improve who you are, and by that same law, you will improve your life.

What you believe about anything is not a measure of its correctness. What you believe about anything is a measure of the programs you have that support your belief.

Your feelings about anything you do will affect how you do it. It doesn't have to be feelings of like or dislike, joy or fear; all of your feelings affect your actions.

your conscious intention to do something increases your brain's ability to wire in new ideas!

How you feel about your job, your mate, your family, your money, your health, your self, and your success, will determine how you behave in each of these areas. If your feelings are positive and productive, your actions will follow.

how successful you will be at anything is inexorably tied directly to the words and beliefs about yourself that you have stored in your subconscious mind.