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In continuation to our what it takes to be successful? series, We have explained why people fail? in last article. We will explain how can people succeed? in this articles. This article also shows how we can reset our brain towards success by transformation.

It can very much possible that we can transform ourselves from being unsuccessful to be successful one by self-awareness, dedication, persistence and patience. Change is possible only if we want it.

Strategies To Overcome Negative Bias

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapeutic approach which helps individuals challenge and change unhelpful thoughts, behaviors and emotional responses. It can help counteract the negative bias by altering our perception of adverse events.

Mindfulness and Meditation

It can help us stay present and avoid getting lost in negative thoughts. They encourage acceptance of our feelings without judgment, fostering a balanced perspective.

Positive Social Interactions and Environment

Surrounding ourselves with positive individuals and environment can help mitigate the negative bias. Positive experiences and emotions, when shared, can be powerful antidotes to negativity.

Neuroplasticity

It can help transform your brain. It is your brain’s ability to reorganize yourself by forming new neural connections throughout life. It can recognize that positive exercises or habits like expressing gratitude or practicing mindfulness, can help rewire your brain and decrease negativity bias.

Above techniques can help us not only to improve our mental health and but also, enhance our relationships, decision making abilities, and overall quality of life.  It will allow us to embrace full spectrum of human experience without overbearing weight of negativity.

Start Your Journey towards positive thinking

You have the power to change your brain. Start small. Each step towards positive thinking is towards a brighter, more positive life. Remember it is a journey, be patient, celebrate your progress along the way. The goal is not perfection but growth.

Proper Nutrition and Physical Health

Proper Nutrition fuels brain function, and physical activities like exercise increase blood flow to the brain, which can help enhance cognitive function and mood. Visualization and affirmations can help align your subconscious mind with your conscious goals, making it easier to maintain a success-oriented mindset.

Embracing A Growth Mindset for Success

A growth mindset, the belief that abilities and intelligence can be developed, is crucial for success. It encourages resilience in face of failure and promotes a love for learning, both crucial for achieving your goals.

In continuation to our what it takes to be successful? series, our focus will be to showcase habits which will restrict anyone from being successful and help anyone transform their brain for success in this article. This article also shows how brain contribute to your failures? The habits and daily routine shapes our lives through influencing our behaviours and ultimately determine our success level.

Rich Mindset People takes every faillure to learn and advance. They see possibilities in crisis and use it as opportunities for growth. They are not afraid of taking calculated risks in pursuit of their goals. On the contrary, Poor mindset people let fear capture them and dictate their risk taking ability. They tend to lack self-confidence and always find ways to avoid taking responsibility and to blame external factor for the failures.

Habits that dictate Poor Mindset

Lack of Goal Setting and Planning

Un-successful people overlook the habit of not setting goal and not planning for it and live without clear direction. Studies have shown that it is important to have goal to become successful.

Fear of Taking Risks

They harbor an excessive fear of failure or loss to inhibit risk taking ability. They tend to miss out opportunity to remain in their confort zone.

Halting Learning and Self-Education

Unsuccessful people halt their learning process after formal education, stunting their growth potential. If you like to stay relevant, competitive and ahead of times, you need to embrace your knowledge as change is the only constant in modern world.

Blaming External Factors

Unsuccessful people often blame external factor for their failure and setbacks. It hinders personal growth and inhibits the development of problem-solving skills.

Live Beyond Means

Unsuccessful people often fall into trap of instant gratification, spending more than their earnings and accumulating debt, leading to financial instability stress.

How brain contributes to failures ?

Scientific Explaination

There is scientific explaination to why people fail?.  Actually It is due to our brain’s negativity bias. Negativity Bias is a psychological principle suggesting that we are more likely to recall and be influenceed by negative experiences than positive ones. It can be seen from interacting with others to perceiving the world around us.

Why the brain is wired for negativity?

Our Ancestors needed negativity bias to survive in prehistoric times as it was matter of lif and death. Thus, Brain evolved to priortize negative experiences as they are significant implications for survival.

Scientific study showcasing negativity bias impact

Research has shown that brain react to negative stimuli more strongly, lighting up more areas in resopnse to negative images than positive images.

How negativity affects our life?

Negative bias impacts our relationships. We often dwell on criticisms and disagreements, letting them overshadow the positive aspects of our relationships. Further, It sway our decision making and risk assessment and making us overly cautious and hindering us from taking potentially beneficial risks. Chronic negativity pave way for mental health issue like anxity and depression.

Negative thinking Feedback loop

Negative thinking feedback loop is a cycle of negative thoughts and feelings that can be self prepetuating and hard to break. The process starts with a single negative thought which triggers negative feelings, further, leads to more negative thoughts, creating feedback loop. This pattern grained, resulting in negative thoughts in response to positive events.

You might be thinking that why there is place of failure in our what it takes to be successful? series. Please take it as this, Poison comes before Amrit during Samudra Mathan as per hindu mythology. Hence, we have talked about failure in this article. Next article will explain how these failure can turn into success?.

What It takes to be successful ?

Always remember that General Management applies everywhere.

When it comes to application, it is up to you:  

• When to use it  
• Where to use it  
• How to use it 

Every situation in life summaries these 3 Q’s: When? Where? & lastly How? If anybody wishes to be successfully, he/she needs to have answers to these 3 Questions. 

Anyone as an individual can neither exercise control over the first 2 questions When & Where nor their outcome as all these are momentous but he/she can exercise some control over 3 Question How using general management application. 

General Management applies through five principles or concepts: 

1. Planning 
2. Organizing
3. Leading
4. Staffing
5. Controlling

You need not to be involved in every aspect of it but rather in where your expertise applies but you need to look at everything. Since your expertise will be applied to only one aspect of it. You need a strategy to cover other portions, that is to look at everything.

Simple strategy as it defines

For anything in life, General Management is a continuous rather than momentous process because life will bring different challenges at different levels in front of us and Success is all about overcoming those challenges posted in front of us. 

Planning

It is picking the right mixture of goals and strategies to pursue, required to achieve goals. 

Organizing

It is about establishing relationships between resources to achieve goals efficiently. 

Leading

It is about supervising, articulating a vision, motivating people to achieve goals. 

Staffing

It is about picking the members to constitute a team to achieve goals 

Controlling

It is about Evaluating how well we are achieving our goals, improving performance, taking actions. Put processes in place to help ourselves establish standards, so you can measure, compare, and make decisions. 

To summarize and to be successful, one needs: 

• A Goal. 
• A Simple Strategy as it states.

• A Great Team. 
• Good team members who can give their 100% effort for an articulated goal. 
• An Excellent Manager who will lead through motivating other team members. 

It is not a simple thing to answer the question “what we aspire for?”. Everyone aspires differently as per his or her surroundings, upbringing, opportunities, and life learning curve. One aspires to be a government official, another to be a private company official and the other to be a professional or an entrepreneur. But one thing is common that everyone desires to be successful. Everyone does everything or anything to be successful be it hard work, smart work or any other thing. 

To be successful, one needs: 

• First, to have a goal. 
• believe that the goal is achievable. 
• Next, expect that the goal is achievable 
• Then, experience hardship, apply persistence. 
• Finally, achieve the goal. 

There are no shortcuts to success since the path we choose to achieve our goals; the things we experience while achieving those goals, defines our success or success story. What would be anyone’s success story without hardship or life changing experience or anything which would define our success, in it? 

The Hardship we do, life changing experiences we have gone through not only defines our success story but also us as an individual. There are no freebies in life, it is only barter system which applies to life or success journey. We get to achieve our goals in exchange for hardship we put, persistence we apply.