Past/Present/ Future Filters
Some people have a penchant for the past. Some people are enamored with back testing, and many will tell you that back testing will only tell you what the price action did in the past under those circumstances. Others prefer to be in the present, the only time frame in which you can live. Also, there are those that live in the future. For instance, questions like: What’s for dinner? How long until we get home? What’s next on the agenda? All of these examples focus on the future. They all present a filter for how you communicate with yourself regarding what you see and how you process the information.

Towards/Away From Filters
If you have a goal it’s important to be aware of how you are thinking about the goal. Are you envisioning what it would be like to have the goal (how it feels, looks, smells, tastes, and sounds)? Or, are you overwhelmed by all the ways that it might fail and haunted by what that failure will feel, look, smell, taste and sound like? This is a very important filter to be aware of. A towards filter engages your subconscious, especially if it is in a sensory rich fashion, and the subconscious relates to it as though it were real. Those who have this filter are much more likely to attract and achieve their goal. Those who think of what they don’t want are more likely to attract or achieve just that. This is especially important when putting your purpose, mission, goals, and profit objectives together. Remember, in the words of comic Flip Wilson “What you see is what you get.”

The important thing here is to become aware of your filters and when appropriate to deliberately and by design use those filters to more easily direct you to the results you want. Here is an example of how to use filters to help you: Identify your goals and make them time specific, detailed, results oriented and measureable. Next use a “towards” filter to catapult you in the direction of the goal with focused intention. Then associate, that is, float down into the body of your future and see, hear, and feel through your body’s senses what it will be like to experience achieving that result (this is done in preparation for a challenging task and is different from being caught up in the future). This is living by design and not by default. Take control of your life one event, one tool and one deliberate action at a time.

We teach these and many other powerful, fast acting and highly effective tools, techniques and concepts in our coaching program. Also, get my book, “From Pain to Profit: Secrets of the Peak Performance Trader.”