MARKETPLACE STRATEGIST: BATTLE OF THE MIND

As a trained psychologist, I was made to know that being conditioning to a certain way of thinking overtime will produce a response of that particular mindset; it does not matter how you keep doing the routine. It was Ivan Pavlov, a Russian Psychologist who postulated this model of behavior known as ‘classical conditioning’ using dog as experiment. Classical conditioning is the ability of a neutral stimulus to elicit a conditioned response even at the absence of such stimulus.
Dogs normally salivate when presented with food which is a simple reflex. If a action such as bell ringing repeatedly occur at about the time the dog was to be fed, there is tendency that the dog will start to salivate whenever the sound of a bell ring is heard even if food is not presented with the bell ringing. This form of response or behavior is what encapsulates the maxim of classical conditioning.

So also we as human being have been conditioned in a particular way to response to a certain trait of behavior, this conditioning does not emerge in a day or twinkling of hour; this results from internalization of certain mindset. That behavior is stronghold implanted in the mindset, consciously or unconsciously the stronghold reflects in our thought pattern, action and lifestyle. Inherent in every human is potent seed of positive and negative thoughts, you possess the determinant power to decide the one you bring forth in the physical either it should be positive or negative. The product of our mindset in essence controls our life. You can’t outgrow the limit of your mind if you’ve already placed a limitation on it. There is no limit elsewhere except for the limitation one has placed over themselves.

Whatever pattern or trait you're accustomed to over times become the set of behavoiur that conditioned your mind shift and you follow suit in defining every of your action. A right attitude or mindset will shape your reaction and behavior. Nothing on the outside changes the direction of your life until it has produced an effect inside of you. The quality of your mind determines the direction your life takes, your life will only flow through the right course of the mind. Any inactive or stagnancy over a concerted period of time with no increase is trap that house frustration, sorrow and anger in your life. Such could become stronghold that is housed in the mind, “unrelenting disappointment leaves your heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around” says a wise king. That sudden break will be required at this point to format all stronghold implanted in the mind by learning with ability to relearn the needful substance and unlearn what is not necessary considered as junks or baggage in life's voyage.

There are people who at one point possess boldness, confident but down the line such individuals are nowhere to be found with those attitude. Two (2) things might be responsible: the state and quality of such fellow's mind might be attacked whereby it no longer have sense of discerning to life principle and secondly, such might have sign in to a wrong relationship or partnership that has wrecked the virtue.

Here are 5 practical measures or steps which form way out from this tragedy:

1. Envision a positive idea, pursuit of greater height or achievement first in your thought through the aid of your mind.

2. Keep pondering, confessing or ruminating on those good thoughts envisioned.

3. Create an enviable environment that is capable of boosting the idea into reality.

4. Begin to take little step in putting actions to those thought by getting it done in the physical. At first, it might not be conducive with favorable conditions but things will work out itself through opportunities you get since you are determined to see the dawn of your thought fulfilled.

5. Constantly take a mental walk and work by feeding on right information and format every wrong information inculcated in your mindset which as a result have formed your trait of behavior or action. This should lead to engaging the tool of a drastic change process.