The Three Key Ingredients to Success—Part 2

In a previous message, I shared with you the first of the Key Ingredients for Success:

Ingredient #1. WOW NOW—How to Make your Dreams more Real than Your Fears.

The Second Key Ingredient

The second key ingredient in any success recipe—from better health to greater wealth— is to make friends with your Inner Winner. There is an inner world inside all of us that few people have learned how to manage. Are you aware of what is going on in there?

As we speak to audiences around the world, we ask a few simple questions.

“How many of you have a critical voice—a nagging, negative part of you that often brings you down?” The vast majority of every audience raises their hands. Then, we ask, “How many of you have a true voice—a part of you that whispers to you, encourages you, supports you, leads you in the right direction?” Once again, most everyone raises their hands.

Everyone has at least two inner voices. All of us have a nagging, negative or critical voice that tries to talk us out of almost everything that we do to better our lives. Have you ever berated yourself for thinking about doing something to improve your life and then gotten down on yourself for not doing it? We call this the Inner Whiner.

How prevalent is this critical self? Experts say that EVERYONE has one—although this critical voice is louder in some of us than in others. If you were to listen in to the conversations that people have with themselves incessantly throughout the day, you’d wonder how anyone got anything done.

Where does this critical voice come from? There are dozens of psychological theories. Did it come with you at birth? Is this part of your personality? Is it your ego? Is it a mechanism you learn in childhood to protect yourself? Is it your ‘anti-self?’ Frankly, who knows? No matter where it originates, this one thing is certain: this critical voice definitely affects your life—primarily for the negative. It slows you down, sometimes even stops you.

What about that other voice—your true voice? Have you ever had a hunch where you just knew something was going to happen? Have you ever heard a faint whisper encouraging you to do something that would be good for you? Have you ever found yourself being nudged toward something positive or away from something negative? Most likely this was your Inner Winner.

Sometimes we don’t hear our Inner Winner because the Inner Whiner is so loud. You’ll be amazed at what you hear when you become more attentive to your true voice. Your true voice IS your friend. That still, small voice you hear wants you to win, to succeed, to triumph.

Could it be that most of us are held back in our pursuit of success by an “inner critic” that talks us out of it? Could it be that the most successful among us have learned how to silence their critical voices, while listening more to their true voices?

The really interesting question to ask yourself is: where are these voices? Generally speaking, the critical voice is heard in your mind. It’s a “mind” voice. The inner winner, your true voice is heard in your heart. It’s a voice you feel in your heart.

In future messages, I’ll teach you techniques to remove the unwanted ingredients from the field of your mind—such as the bitter messages from the critical voice. Then, I’ll show you how to learn to the sweet assuring heart whispers from your true voice, your Inner Winner.

In the next message, I’ll share with you the third essential ingredient to success.

Your Friend & Mentor, Robert G Allen