Encourage Your Brain: Post-April Fools Ideas to Help Your Brain Believe in Your Dreams

Hey there, bright lights! It's Susan with The Academies with an Encourage Your Brain tip. We just had April Fools' and I read a headline that fooled me, and it was something about Vail Resorts saying that they were banning the sale of alcohol at all 19 of their properties. I thought, wow, that's amazing! And my brain immediately went to thinking, why would that be? And I thought, well, it'd be safer, right, to not have alcohol on the slopes or as people were driving afterwards. And so my brain found a good reason to believe that particular headline, and then I'm embarrassed to say how much longer it took me to realize that it was not true— maybe 20, 30 seconds. And then I looked at the news headline and it said something like unofficial networks, and then I realized, oh, you've been duped, Susan. But I started to think, like, what could you do to coax your brain into thinking that something was true that you want to come true? So maybe some goal that you might have for your career or life or leadership or your business. And so that's the brain-friendly tip for today, is to write out some sort of headline that you would love to see come true. Like maybe you're interviewed by Forbes or selected for some prestigious award, or you see your clients growing their businesses or their leadership or whatever it might be. And as you write that title or that headline out, the other really important thing is to give yourself a good reason for why it might be true. And from there, you've sort of opened the door a crack for your brain to start believing in something that previously might have looked too big or too hard to achieve for yourself. All right, so enjoy encouraging your brain today.