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Welcome to Genius Sparks by Paul R. Scheele
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Do you ever find that you've adopted the
mannerisms or sayings of someone else --
without having realized it?

Perhaps it's a goofy face often exhibited by
a coworker seeking to ease a tense situation
or a common or quirky phrase of a close
friend or loved one.

The old adage "You learn from the company
you keep" is profoundly true.

As infants we learned by modeling those
around us. This natural learning method let us
acquire language, speech patterns, mannerisms,
and general orientation to our world.

You can use this same modeling technique
today to acquire new behaviors that help you
more effectively achieve your goals. It's a
process we use on our New Behavior Generator Paraliminal.

Modeling can help you develop personality
characteristics, patterns of self-motivation,
attitudes, and behaviors that distinguish
successful people from failures. Even highly
complex skills such as playing the guitar or
golf can be enhanced through modeling.

Here's how you do it.

* Identify a specific goal. Let's say you
want to improve your golf game by 10 percent or
give a presentation that will influence a
client to buy your product or service.

* Identify the behaviors that will lead you
to the goal. These could be personality traits,
emotional responses, or specific identifiable
actions, such as the body posture of a perfect
golf swing or the voice inflection of an
influential speaker.

* Select a model -- someone who consistently
demonstrates the behaviors that will lead you
to your goal. Ideally, this should be a
real person, possibly someone you personally
know, or someone you admire such as golf pro
Tiger Woods or the top account executive
in your company.

* Close your eyes, relax, and visualize your
model demonstrating the behaviors you have chosen.
Notice specific elements of behavior you desire,
the muscle movements, posture, rhythm, or voice.

* Now, see yourself in place of your model,
as if you removed their body and substituted yours.
Imagine you can see and hear your body, fully
demonstrating the exact behavior your model demonstrated.

* Finally, imagine stepping inside the image
of you to experience the new behaviors, the feeling
of your muscles, your posture, the rhythm and tempo
of your movements, or the quality of your voice.

Your brain can construct and step into any
resource. Modeling allows you to translate an
abstract set of neurological resources
into something more tangible. Your brain
accepts as fact that these behaviors can be
performed and will help you learn them.

Use this exercise to bring out your full
inner resources to achieve more success in
every area of your life.