Let’s say you have a big goal or aspiration.

A mega life achievement you wish to come true. Or simply to solve a long standing problem.

Typically, you have in your mind a final outcome – fame, money, awards, freedom to live your life, less struggle and more success, issue sorted forever, you happy.

Your endgame is lodged in your mind and so you set about considering how to make that happen. To do that the normal approach is to think about what you want to accomplish, how you go about getting there, what’s in the way, who could help, what resources you will need, and a proposed timeframe it will take.

Regular or normal logical thinking we can call it.

But, there’s a new radical kid on the mental block that’s busting up this thinking. And it’s not only a surprise approach, it’s completely counterintuitive to how thinking has previously been done.

Welcome to Reverse Thinking.

How to NOT get what you think you want.

Take a look at that header line above again.

Re-read it and take it in. It’s not as confusing as your head first thinks. That’s because yours is currently a mind that is set in rational thinking mode. One that’s been set to operate in only that process. This phrase is anti in nature to its thought recognition and calculation. You feel befuddled.

This, though, is where we start moving into the reverse mindset world.

Default thinking is often at fault. It regurgitates the same old advice that has been around for some time. Tried and tested, you may shout. But, firstly it may not have been updated for the modern world (you wouldn’t advise a Victorian the same as a Gen Z would you!!). Secondly, established thinking doesn’t fit everyone. Some people require more creative approaches or are seeking success in an unusual field or packed market place and need to stand out as different. Or they face a unique complication with various factors causing headaches.

At this point I take it you are reading this blog post because you yearn for success. Or, more likely, you have been trying to break through in some way and it’s just isn’t coming together. Either way, you have an interest or skill or product you want to make more popular (and yourself with it).

And I bet you have looked at, or even been through, the usual routes to promoting it/you. With nada results.

Excellent.

Because now we are going to flip the thinking on its head.

Flip Reverse Thinking.

Let’s go rogue in the mind!

We are going over to the other side.

Marketing traditionally is based around promotion, advertising, profile building and customer acquisition through pushing out your message. The accepted manner by which you sell a product or individual. But, in 2009 Scott and Alison Stratten took on this concept when they wrote a book called, ‘Unmarketing’. Their chief premise was to focus instead on building relationships with customers and people through engaging, listening, and communicating with them rather than chasing sales and profit growth. Giving big value gets their big value multiplied back.

It was a raging success. It broke the mould on the way many approached business thinking.

This flipped mentality is how you can win at life too.

Take your common thinking over a matter and ‘go opposite’. Come at it from the other side. Or it often only takes a changed word or two to succeed at this. Don’t overthink. Simply think tails instead of heads. Learn to think the other way round.

Like this….

Don’t imagine a dream life to inspire you, dream what it would be like in ten years if you did nothing and everything stayed the same as now.

Don’t study how to find love, be more loving ‘as if’ you already had a life long partner.

Or don’t try to be rich and make money for yourself, look to create money for the good of everyone by what you set up or do.

Reverse thinking covers virtually every subject you can think of.

Think again in reverse.

Now it’s your turn.

Take any situation you want to improve or are stuck fast on and apply the flip factor. Reverse think.

How do you stop drinking too much alcohol becomes how to start enjoying different drinks without alcohol (by tasting drinks from around the world).

Desperate to lose weight is reversed to be enjoying fresher natural food (by trying good food of 5 different colours each day).

You can almost make a game of it (TikTok channel anyone????).

It really is endless. I spent years attempting and failing to write a book until last year when I stopped trying to write long meaningful passages and simply wrote ONE PAGE a day and no more. I thought it would kill my creativity. The total opposite actually happened. Every day my mind was ready to go again and full of ideas. The book was written and with it a fully edited second draft in 11 months!

**(I later found out that Ernest Hemingway wrote in a very similar style)**

It was like a firework of possibility going off in my mind. BANG!

So, go activate your own BANG. Reverse your thinking and with it reverse your fate that appears stuck and your prospects slipping away. If you change your mind in the reverse progress will start coming back to you in a myriad of mega ways.

Reverse thinking gets you going magically forward in life again!

References – UnMarketing.com

Turnerstories.com – Ernest Hemingway’s Tips on Writing.

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