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If you’ve been around online marketing, network marketing, MLM, Amway or even a corporate sales organization, you’re quite likely familiar with: “The power of positive thinking.” Some of the hallowed mottos of this cult are:
- “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
- “I am nature’s greatest miracle. I am the world’s greatest salesman.”
- “Your attitude determines your altitude”.
Proponents of the school of positive thinking believe that you should always be telling yourself like the Little Engine that could, “I think I can, I think I can.” Just pump yourself up with enough positive self talk and you can do anything.
It turns out there’s a better way to talk to yourself and that is by asking questions. Don’t say: “I can do it!” Instead say: “Can I do it?” researchers Ibrahim Senay and Dolores Albarracin of the University of Illinois along with Kenji Noguchi of the University of Southern Mississippi discovered that interrogative self talk was far more powerful than regular old affirmative self talk.
This is because when you ask yourself: “Can I do it?” your brain starts trying to answer the question. It starts providing you with answers. When you just say: “I can do it”, your brain is not activated in trying to solve a problem. It figures the problem is already solved and there’s no help needed.
Also, when you ask yourself questions, you discover your own motivations for wanting to achieve something and not the external motivation of others. Internal motivations are far more powerful than external ones.
Asking yourself questions helps you succeed far more than telling yourself that you can succeed. So:
- Can you succeed with your online business?
- Can you make big commissions?
- Can you achieve your financial dreams?
- Can you achieve location freedom? Money freedom? Time freedom?
Those are the questions you should be asking yourself.