Personal Development,
Is Biology Keeping You From Success?

You know, sometimes it just seems that on the road to success we are just sitting in the backseat, wondering, “are we there yet?”. It seems that, no matter what we do, there is always something sitting in the road blocking our progress. Many of us turn to one or more of the many success systems that are being published almost daily. These “systems” for success usually consist of a compilation of techniques to alter our behavior and ways of thinking about success. Unfortunately, they address mostly only the symptoms of failure, and not the causes. Techniques for success often turn up some unexpected results, as they are capable of changing only the symptoms, while leaving the main problem unrecognized, and untouched.

Instructions for finding “focus” and planning “goals” often result only in forums of people yacking so endlessly about focus, and goals, that they often have little time to actually focus long enough to achieve their goals. Often, prescribed techniques for list building can result in compulsive addictions to building goals lists, but offer few, if any, answers as to how these lists will help one to achieve success outside of creating more focus on list building to post about in forums. The cycle deepens as more steps are added, but the answer really never even enters that cycle. Even some of the success “gurus” never quite achieve the levels of success they claim to be able to teach. No matter what these courses teach, they often lack the ability to correct the very factor that keeps you from achieving success in the first place. Even the wildly talked about “Secret” video never gets to the base of the problem of being unable to achieve success. The missing factor is biology.

We humans have a few instincts, such as language, but most of what we know is fashioned through experience, and communication. Animals, on the other hand, have many more innately programmed instincts, but they also can be programmed through experience and communication. Most of us are familiar with the experiment labeled “Pavlov’s Dogs”. Pavlov would ring a bell when providing food to dogs. Eventually, the dogs became so programmed to expect food when they heard the bell, that its ring would cause salivation. The dogs, that is, developed an instinct that  bells produce food.  Humans become programmed against activities and  ideas in much the same way. Once programming produces biological reactions, it becomes very much like an  instinct.

A child who never has experienced success in an area can easily become convinced that they are not able, and will never be able, to attain success in that area. With lack of empirical evidence, that is an experience,  that a contrary idea is not correct, they have no defense against it.  If a person receives constant negative reinforcement regarding any idea or action they can’t disprove through experience, eventually their body will produce a chemical warning at the very idea of what has been negatively reinforced.  When the body becomes programmed to physically recognize something as negative,  the chemical reaction becomes the same as that we release when in danger, and it becomes instinctual to avoid the danger.  Once this chemical is released a person  will subconsciously work against being exposed to the danger – even when they are not aware that they are doing so.

When the particular idea that has been programmed into our system as a “danger” is success, even while we consciously think that we are working toward success, we will actually be sabotaging our own actions to stay away from it. It becomes a survival instinct to be unsuccessful. This reaction is why list builders get stuck on creating lists, and those who are “learning to focus” get no closer to focusing than to talk about it constantly. Once you build an instinct against success, there is no program, no technique, or any other remedy that will allow you to achieve the necessary success producing energies as long as your body is producing chemical warning signals against success.

The body’s ability to build danger instincts explains why you see some people succeed at just about anything they do while others, even when making valiant attempts to copy the experts, continue to avoid being successful no matter what they do. Successful people’s bodies simply have not been programmed to shut off any success energies, that success is a threat to its existence.

If you are one of the people who have been studying success techniques and attempting to apply them with no success you may be one of those who has instinctualized into being unsuccessful. With enough work you may accidentally fall into success, but the odds of doing so are about as great as those of finding an emu standing on your back porch when you open the door. It happens, but it sure doesn’t happen often. Science has now acquired knowledge about the chemical reactions you are experiencing. There is finally a program that addresses techniques which will work to change your body’s chemical reactions and allow you to produce the correct energy patterns to allow you to achieve your goals, rather than to just talk about them.

You can learn more about this program by visiting the Personal Development Audio Series website.