Steven Lorena
Dedicated to You
May my words bring the deepest happiness to your family
By Steven Lorena
Copyright 2012 Steven Lorena
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Table Of Contents
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Bonus Chapters
Dedicated to You
May my words bring the deepest happiness to your family
This is not a common parenting book.
You are not going to find here techniques for potty training or how to make cool birthday cakes.
Those who thinks that being a good parent means just to prepare a good after school snack for your kid or buying them a safe videogame are like people that try to move a mountain blowing on the surface.
It won’t get you anywhere.
The principles taught here are much more powerful and deep than you have ever thought. Reading and applying them will be the greatest gift you can ever give to your child.
Are you ready for the news?
Being a good parent is about YOU.
You have to change, you have to improve, you have to expand your awareness, you have to become the example of happiness and success that you would like to see in your children. You have to understand how the learning process works, you have to have clear in mind what makes a person happy and successful and what doesn’t.
Think for a moment.
How are you supposed to teach your kid how to succeed if you don’t know how success and failure work?
Have you ever thought of this?
Are you going to leave the topic untouched so he has to discover it by himself? Such a waste of time.
While other kids may be developing talents and confidence in an early age, your son will have to go through his life trying to understand how to succeed, maybe paying people or looking for people to help him.
Of course, you can be a mediocre parent and you kid can still have a happy life. But it won’t be thanks to you. It might be thanks to a teacher or another mentor that can do the job that you as parent were supposed to do.
Or he can do everything by himself working against all your mediocre parenting mistakes in order to reach balance and joy in his life.
Do I sound too harsh?
Do you want to quit already?
You can be a great parent. You can give your children confidence, happiness, talents, creativity, leadership skills, deep joy and self esteem, strength, health, huge wealth and incredible energy and positivity. You can give them all the tools they need in order to achieve anything they want in life. Anything.
Anything. Again, anything.
You can be the best parent a child can ever have.
If you are interested, keep reading.
So,
I’m telling you.
3 Steps to Confidence has changed the life of many people and it can change yours as well. Read the paragraphs, highline stuff, do the exercises, involve yourself into it. Practice and apply.
The happiness and the miracles you’ll get back from life will be your reward..
and my joy.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments;
tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may
become.
LOUIS PASTEUR
If you think you can or if you think you can’t you are
right.
HENRY FORD
Beliefs are really something magical.
Listen. Have you ever found yourself in a situation, maybe when you were a child, where your mom or dad asked you to go to the kitchen and get something out of the fridge – let’s say the jam - and you said:
But I don’t know where the jam is!
And maybe they told you:
Come on now, don’t be lazy, please go to the kitchen and get the jam from the fridge.
So you get up from your chair with your little angry face and whilst you walk to the kitchen you mutter to yourself:
I know I can’t find the jam I don’t know where it is, I can’t find it, I can’t find the jam…
Once there face to face with the fridge, you quickly open the door, shake your head with satisfaction and with a sour grin yell:
You see? I can’t find it, I told you!!! It’s not here!
Then your mom (grumbling) walks into the kitchen, puts her hand straight into the fridge and instantly picks up the jar of jam.
And what is this?
The jam was right in front of your eyes – but you didn’t see it.
Now, this is the question: did your eyes see the jam? Yes, they did.
Did your brain see the jam? No, it did not.
Why?
Because by repeating to yourself consciously or unconsciously that you couldn’t and wouldn’t be able to find the jam, you shut a door in your brain.
The jam was right in front of your eyes, but it’s as though the light from the object went through your pupil, met the optic nerve and just as it was on its way to reach the brain it found a door with a sign saying:
“Sorry, no jam here”.
The signal arrived to your mind but your belief made you blind because you “can’t see the jam”, you really “can’t find it”!! Can you?
Beliefs are wonderfully powerful.
Totally normal and respectable people can be moved to even kill other human beings in name of their beliefs.
Terrorists really believe “other religions are evil and must be destroyed”, Hitler believed “Jewish people are inferior and must be killed”.
On the other hand, the great Michael Phelps believed he could win 8 gold medals in a single Olympic games and he did it, for the first time in the history.
Pretty powerful stuff, huh?
Beliefs can make people do the worst of things, but we’re not so interested in that. More importantly, beliefs can really bring out the best in us.
Beliefs. Remember this word because you’re about
to find out they are much more powerful than you ever
imagined.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world
around.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
There are thousands of stories of people that have achieved
the most amazing things thanks to their belief that they could do
it. From professional
sportsmen and women to billionaires to inventors and world leaders,
a strong belief in themselves and their goals have gotten them to
the top of their respective careers.
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “believe in yourself and you can achieve anything”.
Well guess what? It’s true!
And I’m about to show you how to teach your kids that the sky’s the limit.
Understanding beliefs is a must as a parent for the reasons that will soon be revealed in this chapter.
To start with, I want to make sure you have clear understanding of what we are talking about. Some people associate the word belief with religion, or the verb believing with believing in God.
No way.
The concept is much more generic and it can involve any aspect of our lives.
And I mean any single part of your life!
That’s really important to parents, because after you become aware of yours and your children’s beliefs and the power they have in shaping your lives, you will naturally begin to drive your children towards healthy, wealthy and empowering beliefs.
But not to worry, it’s not as difficult as it sounds.
There are different ways to describe our beliefs.
You can say that a belief is a feeling. A feeling of certainty about something.
And there’s no need to get fancy with your examples.
How sure are you that if you go to your bathroom now you will find a sink there? I feel pretty sure about it. I am actually absolutely certain that if I get up right now and go to the bathroom, a sink will be there.
I really believe the sink is there. No doubts about it.
Now, are you as sure about your ability to get that job you’ve always wanted or to find the house of your dreams as you are about the sink being in your bathroom?
I think you know the answer.
Let me tell you a quick story.
Before the 1960’s everyone thought that running 1 mile in less than 4 minutes was impossible. Then you know what happened? A guy named Roger Bannister came out of nowhere and said:
I can do it. I can run a mile in less than 4 minutes.
The doctors at the time said he was going to die. Pretty funny eh?
Not only did that guy do it. He ran it in 3 minutes 58.
But most importantly, after Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute limit, people started believing that it was actually possible to do! An impossibility suddenly became a realty.
So, you know what happened next? That year 37 other people did it.
Imagine. No one had ever even attempted before then, and now? In the following year 300 people did the same. Now they felt it was possible and they did it.
I wonder if you are becoming more aware of the power beliefs have and how they open and close doors in our lives, because we want to open the doors to success, money, love and happiness in our children’s lives. Don’t we?
Now, we know how crucial beliefs are, we know how they feel
and that they permeate every single aspect of our lives; our money,
our love life, our happiness, our performance in sport,
etc.
At this stage I want to give you an idea of how we create beliefs in our minds and how to recognize the beliefs you already have.
This will give you the tools and the secrets to build exciting, wonderful and enthusiastic beliefs for your child.
Why is this important?
90% of parents unconsciously build uninspiring beliefs in their children’s minds. These beliefs are later blamed for their children’s “bad luck” and inability to achieve their goals. They also build the foundations for a bland life where the children grow up to have few aspirations and little initiative.
We want to see our kids succeed.
If you agree with me, keep reading.
I’ll try to keep it simple.
You don’t need to know everything in order to use these concepts to enhance your life and to set up the foundations of a marvelous future for your kids.
The way human beings create beliefs is absolutely fascinating to me.
It’s something so amazing and powerful at the same time!!
You see, beliefs are thoughts about thoughts.
We create a belief by putting a layer of confirmation on a thought we have. It’s as simple as that.
For example, one day you can think you would actually be prettier with red hair than you are with dark hair and you dye it. So, you go out and your boyfriend looks at you in a certain way and tells you you’re looking very attractive today. So you think: you see! It’s true I look better as a red head (confirmation).
Then maybe later on you are at a party and you notice that a couple of men are looking at you, they might be looking at you for other reasons, maybe you look like someone they know, but in your brain that’s another confirmation. You think: I really don’t know why I used to go around with dark hair, I am definitely much better red!
Done.
Congratulations! You now have a new belief: you believe you are prettier red than as a brunette.
Nice story, isn’t it?
But I want you to pay attention to something. This is not math. Ok?
The belief could have been created at the first confirmation, or after more and repeated confirmations. It’s not about numbers, but, very importantly, it’s about emotions.
When the confirmation creates a feeling of certainty (most of the time this is unconscious) you are done, belief is made.
The ease with which this happens depends on many factors, for our purpose it’s important to know that creating this feeling of certainty in a child is much easier than in an adult.
How easy was it for you to make your children believe that Santa Claus exists and that he flies through the night sky with his reindeers giving presents to good little children?
The simple reason why it is more difficult for an adult to set a new belief is that adults already have established beliefs that were created when they themselves were kids. So, if their parents made them believe they weren’t smart enough to go university, if they now try to believe the reverse, it will probably take a fair few confirmations in order to work.
Just for your information:
If you don’t take control of your beliefs, someone else will be more than happy to do it for you. All you have to do is take up your most comfortable seat on the couch, reach for the TV remote control and… “enjoy”.
What you may not realize is that you’re in a relaxed almost hypnotic state in which the advertisements on TV are able to create beliefs in your mind, and when these ads are repeated over and over again, you unconsciously begin to believe that this perfume will make you more sophisticated or that this beer will make you more attractive. They show you a short clip in which everything from the background music to the colors and the camera angles are designed to set specific marketing beliefs in your mind in order to take as much money out of your pockets as they can.
And it works! And very well too. Why do you think companies spend millions of dollars in ads? Because they get hundred of millions back in revenue!
So, while you leave your children in front of the TV, your son will learn that buying a convertible will make him attractive and successful, and your daughter will unconsciously begin to think that she’s not pretty unless she wears heavy makeup and fake eyelashes. Are these the beliefs you want to install in your kids?
If you don’t think about establishing beliefs in your child’s mind, the big companies will do it for you. No worries. Just buy a big TV.
Do you like this scenario? If not, read on and learn how to take control of your life and how to give your kids the mental and physical edge they need in order to succeed in whatever path they choose in life.
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