It’s been over a month since I last posted. So, what have I been up to? I’m in the process of setting up my new business. The idea of my business is conceived when I think back on one of my biggest realizations while I was a financial analyst.
I noticed there are plenty of parallels between developing an outperforming investment portfolio and creating a successful life (however you would like to define “success”) I am the equivalent of the portfolio manager of my life and I can apply the money management strategies to any and all the areas of my life.
I observed that the key to having a successful life portfolio can be summarized into two ingredients. First, we need to consistently and persistently follow a proven system that can help us reach our goals. All portfolio managers follow a variation of the same fundamental system. They set their investment objectives, plan a strategy, take action, review and revise, and continuously learn new ideas.
This same system is applicable to our lives, beginning with goal setting. If we don’t know what we want, chances are what we won’t get what we want. Skipping over any of the steps in the proven system will only reduce our chances of making it to our goals. I have adapted my interpretation of the system for our life portfolios. You’re welcome to opt in for a complimentary copy of my Create Your Life Portfolio Starter Kit.
You may think, big deal with this system. Nearly all portfolio managers out there follow some kind of system but only a handful of them consistently deliver stellar results. If you’ve ever invested directly in the stock market, you’ll know that two persons can buy the same stock at the same time, same price and it is possible for one to make a profit while the other takes a loss.
What it boils down to is the second ingredient: a success mindset – this I believe is the more important of the two. I believe that people with a success mindset but not a system will eventually develop his own and not vice versa.
Henry Ford once said, “If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you are right.”
The question is whether or not we know what we ourselves really think.
We have more than one level of mind – the conscious and the subconscious. What we are aware of is only our conscious thoughts and beliefs. And yet, did you know that 95% of our conscious behaviors, what we think, feel, say or do, are originated in our subconscious mind?
Our conscious and the subconscious thoughts don’t necessarily have to be in agreement with each other. When they don’t, guess which one is more likely to dominate?
Our subconscious thoughts and beliefs act like a thermostat that sets the limits of what we can achieve. We can momentarily run above or below the preset limit but over time, we will always come back to the preset limit. In other words, our subconscious beliefs set the limits of what we can achieve.
Just think about how often you couldn’t make yourself do something you know you should, like sticking to an exercise schedule, eating a healthy diet and getting to that one item on your to-do list that you’ve for months procrastinated. How many times have you continued to do something you know you shouldn’t – and yet you can’t make yourself quit that bad habit?
The missing link, I believe, to producing the results we intend to create with our actions is to be able to find out and convert our self limiting subconscious beliefs into supportive thoughts. But how, you might ask?
I’ve been in search of this answer for a number of years. The multiple blows to my career during the 1997 financial crisis have dealt a negative impact on my mindset. It’s been a journey for me and now, I’ve been blessed with the knowledge of how to access and change these self limiting subconscious beliefs for myself and for others.
I truly believe that our life is a perfect reflection of our thoughts. My goal is to share this knowledge with as many business professionals and especially with my fellow financial analysts, to help them remove the unbeknown limits they have placed on themselves so they can reach their peak potentials in their career and personal lives.
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