100 Ways To Motivate Yourself, Third Edition

49. Remind your mind

Perhaps you have noted an idea in this book, or another recent book you’ve read, that you want to hold on to. It might be an idea that you knew, the moment you saw it, would always be useful to you. You might even have underlined it for future reference. But what if the book goes on the shelf, or gets loaned to a friend, and is forevermore out of sight and out of mind? This is a very common experience, but there is a remedy: start treating self-motivational ideas as if they were songs.

You can find ways to rewind these ideas so they’ll play again and again until you can’t get them out of your head. That’s how belief systems are restructured to suit our goals. Place the thought you want to remember into the jingle track in ...