The Story of Stuart and Frank: How You Can Achieve the Results You Really Want. Paul Browning
using the Stuart and Frank theme and often referring back to Stuart and Frank to illustrate essential teaching points we begin to dig a little deeper into the primary cause of our results. The last leg of our journey together concerns you. I am going to provide you with techniques, methods and skills which you will be able to use to govern, control and direct your life and consistently produce the successful results you so much desire. These techniques, methods and skills which you will be able to use every day will enable you to create your own personal life journey, a life journey of health, wealth and happiness.
Here are some of the fascinating areas we are going to explore together –
•The primary cause of your results.
•Your attitude and the circle of responsibility.
•How do we think?
•What does your mind look like?
•Your 5 physical senses.
•How to use your mental tool kit to achieve any result you desire.
•The Path To Results model to success.
•Give yourself the V.I.P. treatment. Repeat this simple
3 step exercise for 30 days and create the life of your dreams.
The Story of Stuart and Frank does not provide instant results. But I do promise you that if you read the entire book, meditate on the entertaining and colourful illustrations, and apply the material you will quickly feel and see changes happening in your life.
The Story of Stuart and Frank has universal application and it definitely works. It contains powerful lessons for personal and corporate change. It can rapidly assist any individual, group, team, organisation or business desiring better results.
The Story of Stuart and Frank is a powerful teaching metaphor at the heart of many of my training and coaching programmes.
It is based on many years of intensive research into why we behave the way we do, and why we don’t do many of the things we want to do.
The Story of Stuart and Frank will enable you to grasp a basic understanding of why you do what you do.
It will give you an insight into why you get the results you are getting and more importantly, how to achieve the results you really want.
“If you hold your VISION with a burning desire for long enough in your IMAGINATION and PERSIST with your PLANS on PURPOSE to completion, in spite of all opposition you will achieve all that you desire.”
Paul Selwyn Browning
Saturday 27 February 2010
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
I would like to introduce you to two families who live next door to one another in a nice part of town. Both families enjoy a substantial income, own a couple of cars, take nice holidays every year and they show all the outward appearances of a comfortable lifestyle.
Take a look at the illustration. Here we see our two happy and contented proud mums-to-be. Both are really excited at the prospect of giving birth to their first child in a few days time. As responsible parents they will want the very best for their children, but how do they know what the very best is? Both parents will have great expectations for their child. But will those expectations be met?
You see, all responsible parents will love their infants; they will keep them warm, comfortable and well fed. But is that enough?
We could conclude that because of all the external appearances the outlook appears very rosy for both babies. This may or may not be the case. A child born into an underprivileged family could become very successful, whereas a child born into a rich upper class family could turn out to be chemically addicted later in life. Family background, whatever it might be, is not necessarily a guarantee for success or failure.
But the first few years of a child’s life is going to be profoundly affected by its parents’ style of parenting. As The Story of Stuart and Frank unfolds you will notice the differences in the behaviour of each child.
Stuart and Frank will, without any shadow of doubt, become a product of other people’s habitual way of thinking and acting.
SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESS…
Like so many people, you may have been brought up to believe that you shouldn’t think too much of yourself or expect too much of yourself. As a youngster whenever you attempted to express some innate talent, you may have been told, “Stop showing off” or, “You are a big head, will you please pipe down?”
This kind of thinking is very limiting and needs to be changed. So, begin to train your mind to have great expectations for yourself, great expectations for your loved ones, great expectations for your friends, work colleagues and all those you meet along the way.
Expect the very best, and guess what? The very best will suddenly appear.
There is a sound principle to support this last statement and this principle is revealed to you in the next chapter.
TO BE, OR NOT TO BE A GENIUS? - THAT IS THE QUESTION
TO BE, OR NOT TO BE A GENIUS?
THAT IS THE QUESTION
Like all infants born with mental and physical perfection, Stuart and Frank have exceptional power and ability of the mind. This is in fact, a definition of the word, genius. Each child is born a literal genius.
Stuart and Frank are born with an equal opportunity or chance, to be, do and have anything in life.
As infants they will have goals. They are tiny creative goal achievers. Growth and change will be the order of the day and they will quickly learn to eat, crawl, communicate, walk, talk and run.
In the first few years of their life Stuart and Frank would rather learn than play. They are a lot smarter than we may give them credit for. For example, they could be taught to speak more than one language fluently. They could be taught to swim confidently, both on and under water before they could even walk.
So with all of this innate talent we would expect both Stuart and Frank to develop into hugely successful adults. But do they? The answer is no, only one of them does as we shall see as the story unfolds. This raises the question, “Why is there such a huge difference in the results youngsters achieve at home, at school and in their social environment, and why does this difference often extend into and throughout adulthood?” Because as infants they are waiting to be moulded. Stuart and Frank do not yet have the ability to control what ideas enter their subconscious minds. Neurological development of the conscious mind is not yet complete.
So despite their genius-like abilities at birth, Stuart and Frank are to be controlled by others and become a product of their environment over the next five or six years. We shall see, as the story continues, that this will have a profound effect on their individual outcomes.
The bottom line is this. Stuart and Frank will believe and accept everything they see and hear without question. The quality of that input will determine the eventual output of the child a few years down the line.
SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESS…
Read this second chapter several times and get used to the idea that you have exceptional power and ability of the mind, that you, yes you,