Neutral colors are no longer a necessity in Austin real estate. Buyers are writing contracts on Austin homes featuring various colors. They feel it gives their "soon-to-be" Austin home character, personality and a unique element that a neutral hue cannot deliver. Color is not just essential inside, it's also making its way out. Shades of blue, teal and green are popular colors for a front door. They give individuals a calming feeling despite being outside is the Texas heat.
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Writing down your thoughts is important because it transforms what is vague and general in your mind into specific bite-sized and attainable tasks. But you’ve got to be specific about what you write. Writing down on paper what is floating around in your mind is like trapping exotic butterflies and examining them up close in order to identify them. While they are flitting about, we only get passing glimpses of their beautiful colors and wing patterns. We sense that they are there, but we don’t know exactly what they are, where they came from or where they are going. They are more like a fantasy than a reality. When we capture these specific thoughts with pen and paper, we can examine them more clearly. You give your mind something concrete and “tangible” to focus on. Remember, what you focus on determines what you believe. If you are not focusing on something narrow and specific, then your beliefs will be vague and nebulous.
When you create a very specific picture in your head of who you want to be and what you want to accomplish, and focus on it every day, the mind does an amazing thing. It turns this image into a blueprint of what you will become. A perfect example comes from the life of well-known comedian George Lopez.
When he was only a child, George Lopez was abandoned first by his father and later by his mother. He was raised by an abusive grandmother and an alcoholic grandfather. On top of that, he was raised in poverty. To escape his misery, he chose to focus on comedy. He favorite comedian was Freddie Prinze, Everyday after school, he watched episodes of Chico and the Man. He hung a picture of Freddie Prinze on his bedroom wall and stared at it every night.
What he focused on began to shape what he believed. This was the First Law of Critical Focus at work. He began to say to himself, “I can be a comic. I can do what Freddie is doing. I want to make people laugh.” When he was still a teenager, he wrote these words on a scratch piece of paper: “I know at times I can’t make it but eventually I will. And I will hit the American people like a hammer. I will be the best.” These were powerful words because he spoke as if what he was saying was fact. He didn’t say “I hope to” or “I would like to.” If you look carefully at what he wrote above, you will see that he said used phrases such as, “I know . . .” He said, “I will . . .” “I will . . . ” “I will . . . ”
What he didn’t realize was that he was imprinting in his brain an exact image of what he would become, and he was burning it in deep – with words and pictures.
This imprint was burned so deeply into his mind that even though he bombed at club after club, and even after he had abandoned his dream for years and come back and quit again, the imprint was still there. It would ultimately determine who he would become – against all odds.
Eventually George Lopez went on to become one of the best-known comedians in all of America. He has performed for the President of the United States and other celebrities. He went on to have his own prime time comedy show, which was named after him, The George Lopez Show. He even wrote a book about his life called Why You Crying?
This was not a miracle. It was not the product of fate or divine intervention. It was the result of all of the principles explained in this book. What you focus on determines what you believe. What you believe determines what you expect out of life. What you expect determines what you see. What you see determines the options that are available to you. George Lopez set his destiny in motion when he chose to focus, over and over, day in and day out, on a specific, tangible and literal image (a photo) of who he wanted to become. Then he set that focus in concrete by using powerful words to seal it in. You too have the freedom to choose what to focus on no matter what is going on in the world around you. This is the Seventh Law of Critical Focus. You too can choose to use the power of your imagination to focus on a specific, tangible image of who you want to become. You have the power to choose the words you need to help you keep that focus.
The more narrow and specific the picture, the easier it is to create an imprint in your brain. The more specific the imprint in your brain, the more likely it is your life will conform to that image.
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind
of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
William James
In order to help narrow your focus, sit down and itemize the specifics of what you are seeking. Create a picture of it in your head. Find a picture of it and tape it to your bathroom mirror. Make a list of the details, the colors, the people, and money it will take to get there. What do you see yourself doing in ten years? More importantly, who do you see yourself being? Who are the people that surround you? What kind of car do you drive? What kind of house do you live in? Where is it? What color is it? Is it stone or brick or wood? How big is it? What do you see when you step outside your front door? Dream it. Love it. Live it. Act as if it is real and it will become real.
“What if you slept?
And what if, in your sleep you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven
and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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