Million Dollar Habits – Page 29
The first part of your self-concept is your
self-ideal
. This is the ideal image or
picture you have of yourself, as if you were already the
very best person you could
possibly be. Your self-ideal is made up of your wishes, hopes, dreams, goals, and
fantasies about your
perfect future life
, combined with the
qualities and virtues that
you admire most in yourself and in other people. Your self-ideal is a composite of
the very best person you could imagine yourself being, living the very best life you
could possibly live.
High
performing, successful, happy people have very
clear
self-ideals. They have
clear
ideas of what they like, respect and admire. They have clear ideals about the
virtues, values and attributes of the superior men and women that they want to
emulate. The most successful people have an uplifting,
inspiring vision of what a
truly excellent person looks like and how he or she behaves.
Because of the Law of Attraction, you inevitably move in the direction of
becoming that which you most admire. The greater clarity you have with regard to
the ideal
future life you want to live, and the ideal person you want to be, the faster
you will move toward becoming that person, and the more
opportunities that will
open up for you to make your ideal future vision for yourself a reality.
Develop Positive Role Models
In one study conducted some years ago, the researchers found that many men and
women who accomplished great things later in life had
been avid readers of the
biographies and autobiographies of successful people when they were younger. It
seems that you have a natural tendency to identify with the hero or heroine in any
