Cut and Paste Success

Here’s a secret about success that empowers you to go from success to success.The feeling of success is transferable. This means that you can “cut and paste” the feeling of one success experience to another. Therefore, any past success becomes the seed of a future success.Here’s why this is good news. Suppose you want to accomplish something that is unprecedented in your life. Perhaps your inner dialog sounds like “I’ve never done anything like this before.”This may be true. You’ve never accomplished this specific project before. However, you have experienced the feeling of success before. And since this feeling is transferable, the fact that you haven’t done a particular thing before is largely irrelevant.What you haven’t previously experienced is the skill set, the length of experience, the history of trail and error, and the series of inevitable adjustments along the way that relate to this particular success experience. However, you have experienced the feeling of success albeit from an unrelated activity.And the feeling of success, even though it is from an unrelated activity, is what puts the new success within your grasp. Get clear on this and every past success becomes a valuable resource for future successes.So here’s how to “cut and paste” the feelings of success into future successes.Take a deep breath. Elevate your gaze as if looking at a point just above a distant horizon.Recall a success experience. This experience can be from any time or place in your life. The date, location, subject matter, and circumstances are unimportant.See this success scene as if through your own eyes. What did you see, hear, and feel from the perspective just behind your eyes? That’s the most powerful way to replay and re-experience this success memory.As you relive this scene from this point of view, let the success feelings well up inside. Once again, feel the confidence, satisfaction, and sense of accomplishment you felt in that past moment. Let your mind double these feelings. Let your mind double them again.After all, they are good feelings, are they not?When you feel the success feelings peak, clap your hands once. Then let your mind wander to any random and unrelated thought.After a moment, clap your hands again. The success feeling will rush back into your awareness.Now you are ready to “cut and paste” these feelings into your new success activity. Call to mind the next time you will engage in this new activity for which you aspire to succeed.In your mind’s eye, see, hear, and feel the scene as if through your own eyes. When your imagination has placed you in this future experience, clap your hands once. Notice the enhanced feelings of success from your previous experience.Notice the difference these feelings make as you visualize your future success. Notice the sense of confidence and empowerment. And perhaps you notice a flow of ideas about what you will do in this future moment and how you will do it.Essentially, the feeling of success frees your mind to do what it could do all along. This “cut and paste” technique merely jumpstarts your success potential. This potential already exists and is ever-present. It was there even as your inner dialog droned “I’ve never done anything like this before.”Use this technique whenever a new task seems overwhelming or intimidating. Fortunately, the feeling of accomplishment, the rush of confidence, and the sense of personal empowerment doesn’t care what the new task is.Harness these past success feelings as the seeds of future successes. You will stride from success to success with a speed and ease that will amaze you.