Everybody is familiar with the five sensory factors - see, hear, smell, touch and taste. Are you familiar with the six intellectual faculties that separate us from the other animals? All of the other animals are completely at home in their environment living on instinct, blending in. But not us. And that's because we are blessed with these intellectual faculties that give us the ability to create our own environment.

1. Perception

This is your unique interpretation of how you view a situation. Your unique viewpoint is filtered through your beliefs, habits, and limitations. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Dr. Wayne Dyer said, "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

2. Reason

Our faculty of reason is what we use to think—to analyze, compare, and evaluate ideas. It’s the primary way we choose, and we use it in every choice we make. No person or circumstance can cause you to think or have an idea that you do not choose. In any moment, whatever circumstances you’re facing in life, you can either react to it or respond to it. Reason puts you in control of your thoughts.

3. Intuition

This is the still small voice inside that speaks your truth. It is never rushed, never panicked, and never wrong. If prayer is us talking to God, then intuition is God talking to us.

4. Memory

There's no such thing as a bad memory. Like any muscle, we just need to train it properly. Anonymous quote, "Everyone has a photographic memory. Some people just don't have any film."

5. Imagination

The imagination is the workshop and the playground of the mind. Napoleon Hill referred to imagination as, "The most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known." Einstein called it the preview to coming attractions.

6. Will

The will is your concentration power. This is your manifestation power. Energy flows where attention goes. The universe recognizes your attention as your intention and delivers accordingly.

To achieve your goals and dreams and create the life you want, you must stop living from the outside-in. When a person allows outside stimuli (see, hear, smell, touch, taste) to direct their thoughts, they focus on what is, rather than what can be. They live from the outside-in. We call it report card syndrome, or bank account syndrome, or maybe the scale. If we want to live from the inside-out, we need to use our mental faculties.