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Empower Your Dreams

A Personal Power and Success Course
by
Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
www.quantum-self.com
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Session 9 ~
Ten Steps to Solving Any Problem
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Hello Friend,

This lesson is tightly focused on refining your problem-solving skills, I hope you find it useful.

Step 1. Start with Some Focused Questions
The first step to unleashing your true problem solving potential is to begin to ask yourself some very focused, challenging questions.

Here are some very powerful questions to ask yourself:

• What am I really trying to do?
• How am I trying to do it?
• What assumptions am I making?
• Could there be a simpler, better way to accomplish this?
• If I were to start all over again today, knowing what I now know, what would I do differently?

Step 2. Question your Answers
The next step is to question your answers.

Ask yourself:

• If my assumptions are untrue, what should I do differently?
• Should I drop what I am doing now, and take a different approach?
• Is all of this in my best interests?
  

Step 3. Apply the "Theory of Resistance"
One effective way to get some creative solutions to achiving your goals is to apply the “theory of resistance.” This theory says that: In every
activity, there are one or more resisting factors.

The resistance you encounter often controls how fast you’ll move from where you are today -- to where you want to go. The good thing is this:
Identifying the resistance standing in your way often triggers insights on how to overcome it.

Suppose your dream goal is to double your income over the next three years. Begin by identifying the resistance that stands in the way of your goal by asking yourself: “Why is my income not that high already?”

Step 4. Analyze the Resistance
Next go after your answers to Step 3 ruthlessly. Be totally honest with yourself. Ask those hard, painful questions, and demand an answer from yourself.

In the case above you could ask: Exactly why am I not making twice my income right now? Exactly what is holding me back?

Step 5. Take a Look at the Outside World
One way to immediately determine if your resistance is internal or external is to see if someone else is managing to accomplish the goal you desire. If they are doing so -- then you can safely conclude any resistance could be internal to you.

Step 6. Identify your Primary Internal Resistance
As a consultant to world class leaders and executives, I have often discovered that usually 80% of what holds us back lies within ourselves -- and only about 20% is actually in the outside world. So if you haven't achieved what you desire, the best place to look for the source of the resistance is within yourself.

Plus -- since it’s so tough to create change in the outside world, it’s far more effective to focus on yourself anyway. You’re far more likely to get the results you want!

Superior achievers tend to ask one question when they’re not moving ahead: “What's inside me, or what I am doing or thinking, that's holding me back?”

Step 7. Get Ruthless
There’s a powerful old saying that’s very appropriate here: “When a man’s fight begins with himself, he is really worth something.”

So sharpen your teeth and bite into your primary internal source of resistance. Demand answers from yourself. You NEED to know how you are placing limitations on your desired achievement, and look it right in the eyeballs.

Step 8. Turn on the Lights
The more often you repeat this process, the better you will get at it. This process switches on your mental headlight, and you’ll gradually begin to spot internal resistance before it grabs you by the ankle and throws you onto your face!

Step 9. Constantly Examine your Goal
Now that you have your mental headlight on, take a good close look at your goal. Make sure you’ve set a clearly defined goal that you have a burning and passionate desire to achieve. If you'd like to refine your goal setting and achievement muscles => Click Here!

Combining your goal with the intense emotion of desire or excitement puts you into the upper level of probability of achievement. The more excited and enthusiastic you are about achieving your goal, the more rapidly your mind will go to work to bringing that goal into your life.

Continue to ask focused questions to generate more ideas about to achieve that goal. The more intense your questions, the more ideas you will generate! And once you have sunk your teeth into your key internal resistance, you have placed your feet solidly on the high road to success.

Step 10. Become a Professional Problem Solver
Brain Tracy says, “A goal you have not yet achieved is simply a problem you have not yet solved.”

I agree. No matter what your goal, your real job is to solve any and all problems that stand between you and the achievement of that goal.

Your success in life, your career, your relationship, and your financial success all depend on one thing – your ability to understand and solve problems.

So from now on just view yourself as a professional problem solver, and watch your goals fall in place easier than you could have ever imagined.

Action Tips:
(1) Make a list of the problems that stand between your and your dream Goal.

(2) Pick one of the smaller problems, and solve it NOW. Then go to the next one up.

(3) Continue to reduce that problem list until you have only the major problems on your list, then break each one down into small solutions ... one at a time.

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To your success,

Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
co-founder of www.quantum-self.com