Food for your Thoughts

The Brain is not set up to fail it’s set-up to succeed but you must feed it the right information. When you start putting in thoughts that allow the brain to determine answers, than it will tell you how to solve your problems. But when you start putting in negative thoughts, fears and hesitations you will arrive at a point of feeling stuck, not knowing what to do or how to solve the problem.

Many people are secretly self- sabotaging. It’s the little things on the daily basis that we let ourselves down on that allow the bricks of fear and failure to build up. Having a book that you really want to read or finish reading, that you somehow haven’t had time to do yet, but it’s regularly on your mind, is an example of sabotaging. The fact that you are putting off something even that little and that simple that’s important to you is ceasing your growth.

The funniest thing happened when I was teaching a workshop to a group of entrepreneurs that want to start fashion related businesses. One of the ladies taking the class only showed up to the first session and not the remaining two. She later e-mailed me and said that she missed the other two sessions because her job offered her some over-time so she decided to take it. It was one of the funniest things I ever heard. Here she was taking a step toward something that was really important to her, what she really wanted to be doing. But she stopped before she got started because of what is probably the largest thing that has been holding her back from achieving her dream in the first place, her need for job security.

I remember arriving in London in the fall of 1997 it was the middle of fashion week and I wanted to attend. I went down to the tents and tried to convince a stoutly bloke at the gate that I was a buyer from America and so he should let me in. He kindly told me that without my credentials (a business card) that I simply could not be admitted. I told him that I left everything back at the hotel in Uxbridge (a suburb of London) and it was just too far to go back and get it. He still refused me, and knowing that I didn’t really have any business cards anywhere, it was time to come up with plan B. I took myself down to the quick copy which was like a Kinko’s of London and rented a computer for 30mins and made myself a business card, and had it cut and was ready to go.

I went back to the tent with my credentials this time broad and confident. I showed the gentleman my card which said I owned a boutique called “Nina Foire” (don’t ask me where I got that from I just wanted to sound important) and he kindly stepped aside to let me in. I just hit the bricks - without thinking about it twice I went and made the cards. Looking back on it now, I feel that it was a little crazy. Who knows what could have gone wrong if the card didn’t look real enough but the only thing that I ever put in my mind was – how can I get into fashion week? Certainly, with the right food for thought my brain processed and gave me the answers. Can you imagine your possibilities of your mind, if we just took the care to eat this well all the time?