Do you know how to take a good experience and make it better?

Look at the picture in your mind of what the good experience was. In other words, relive it in your mind.

Now, when you've done that, look at how far away your picture is from you. Not the actual happening, but the picture you are imagining.

Bring that picture closer. Make it brighter. Put movement in it if there wasn't any, and see if you like it better. Put sound in your picture. Adjust the volume until you really like it.

Now, doesn't it seem as if the enjoyable experience was even better?

Now, how can you use that knowledge?

What about if you gave a presentation and you weren't happy with it? What kind of a memory is that? Not good. So, now, instead of looking at how bad it was, see how it *could have been.* When you have that memory to fall back on, it will make future presentations better.

See yourself giving a presentation now. If you enhance your picture, you will feel much better about it. If you don't take the time and effort to enhance your picture, chances are, you're imagining how bad the next presentation will be, because of how bad it was. Now, that's the picture you see, and that's the picture your brain will be responding to. Right?

Work with all your pictures. Make your memories good.

Maybe some of you don't want to do that. Maybe you are saying to yourself, *I need to see the mistakes I'm learning from. I need to get real here.* Or whatever.

All I'm saying is, you are always looking at your pictures. Believe it. If you don't take responsibility to change them for the better, you will be accepting the *worse.*

Take responsibility for it. Doing that is the best measure of a person's power and maturity. No matter how terrible a situation is, you can represent it in a way that empowers you. Making a past experience into an empowering experience helps ensure that your future experiences will be better.

In other words, represent the past in a good light so that your future has a chance to be good also. I think you can do it, and I look forward to hearing from you.

By the way, this article will be on the Technique of the Week, next week. To see it, click here: http://www.tameyourbrain.com/technique.htm

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