“One way to define priming is the act of taking time to adjust your thoughts and emotions so you can live your life in your peak state. Priming is most powerful when completed in the morning to set a productive and powerful tone for your day.” — Tony Robbins
Priming in psychology is a phenomenon that occurs when exposure to a stimulus influences our thoughts and behavior in response to another succeeding stimulus. In other words, if you focus on the bad, more bad things tend to happen. If you focus on the amazing things, more amazing things happen. It’s not what’s happening, it’s about what your focus on.
The most important thing about priming is to write your goals and dreams in the present tense. Never write your goals in the form of “I want…” or “I need…” You can’t have what you want or need. If you prime your subconscious mind that way it starts to sabotage your thoughts, feelings, and actions in a negative feedback loop. This makes your subconscious mind believe that someday something happens – and if every day you think it’s someday – someday never arrives.
Write your goals in the form of:
• I am…
• I am becoming…
• I have…
• I am getting…
In this way, you program your mind to look for ways to make the outer reality match your inner reality. Writing down your goals in the present tense and feeling you already have achieved them helps your subconscious see opportunities and create change faster. This is the difference between wanting and being.
Write it down multiple times each day, every day for the next 90 days for maximum benefit.