A New Year always excites me! Without fail! Have you ever felt really geared up for new success in January only to find yourself surrounded by losers chanting “It’s no better than the old one – I tried a new start last January and this won’t be any different…”
The same old grind?
Few people realize negative thinking completely corrupts their outlook and sabotages their mindset so nothing good can possibly take place in their lives. If you expect bad things to happen constantly then you will suspect any good results to be a freak event. You get the results you expect!
If you have the attitude “Nothing good ever happens to me” then you need to look inside yourself and start again. It’s obvious that more good things will always take place in your life than bad things: you keep getting oxygen every time you breathe, don’t you? Tidy up your mind and sort your attitude out this January!
Choose two new projects to begin which you know you will enjoy and you know you will succeed at. Focus on these interests to exclude negative thoughts creeping in. Develop a routine to banish negativity: 20 press ups for every negative thought!
Take a look at your leisure activities: are these active or passive? Do you spend time gaming or reading your fortune? If you allow your mind to be dominated with belief in luck you will get little done this year! Luck says “Why can’t it ever be me?” and bad luck says “Why is it always me?” This type of irrational thinking is very destructive to your self esteem. So cut out activities which place reliance on luck and replace these with projects which develop your skills.
Learn to cook well, read some new books, join a society, cycle, swim, or learn a musical instrument.
These positive activities will flood your mind with hope and love of life!
You will soon dismiss the old reliance on luck and superstition. Just know that you can do any project you set yourself: it may take you some time but you can attain anything through persistent action steps. Find something that grips you and aim for this in 2012 to get your pulse buzzing!
Is there a mountain you want to climb? An island you want to visit? Do you want to buy a boat? Or a dog? Don’t allow any negative self doubt to creep in: simply imagine how empowering this new activity will be for you! Shut your eyes and imagine how good you feel on top of the mountain: the tremendous view, the rush of air. Wow!
Add some real WOW factor to your life in 2012!
You can attain everything you want!
The only obstacle is all the obstacles you have allowed into your life so far! Clear some clutter out from your life – move home if need be! Paint a picture, learn French, go orienteering – just do something new and enjoy being alive! No one cares if you do, so why stop yourself?
Power Tips for Exponential Success in 2012!
* Quit feeling sorry for yourself – who cares?!
* Choose at least 2 powerful new projects to get involved with immediately
* Stick by the decisions you make (learn to look ahead)!
* Finish things you start
* Grin at yourself in the mirror daily – why shouldn’t YOU enjoy life?
* Practice a little deep breathing daily – music is great for this!
* Revitalize your nutrition intake and drink more water
* Make time for outdoor exercise daily
* Positive self talk! Correct yourself if you say anything negative!
* See a bigger world – you can attain anything with persistence so what do you want?
* Nothing is impossible for YOU in 2012!
* Go gettem!
Boosting your mindset for exponential success takes daily practice just like constantly weeding a garden. A little neglect, a little loafing about, and suddenly there’s a lot of weeding to be done!
Develop Attitude & Activity
We always get the results we expect. When you go into the interview with complete confidence expecting to get the job – you get the job. So sort your attitude out first by deciding what is important to you in 2012 and then decide on the simple activity steps which will get you there. Saving $30 a week may seem no big deal but persistence brings you an easy $1500 in a year, and $7500 over five years. 20 press ups a day, an extra litre of water, an extra shower, a short walk before lunch: what can these activities accomplish over a year, or five years?
The daily dozen makes us what we are! It does matter, even when no one is looking! Life is a day at a time. Many days build a pattern – either success or neglect. You choose for 2012. You have no excuse to neglect anything this year: make 2012 your best year ever because your friends and family will thank you for it!
Here’s a list to start you on new projects:-
* Pets
* Garden
* Cooking & Nutrition
* Languages
* Travel
* Charity Work – read to someone!
* Music
* Art
* Chess or Bridge
* Vehicles
* Coaching
* Local Politics
* Write Your Own Book!
* Start Your Own Blog!
* Outdoor Pursuits
* History & Research
* Farming
* The Sea – Fishing, Boats, Swimming
* Crafts – Sewing, Knitting, Woodwork
* Nature & Wildlife – adopt a zoo animal!
To sum up:- the 2 mindset killers are relying on luck and chance of any sort, from casino games to fortune telling, and feeling that things will go on the same as before! Nothing goes on except that YOU choose it – you choose to work, you choose how to relax, you choose what to look forward to and what to invest your energy in. A New Year Ahead – no excuses!
2011 was a good year for me so how can I achieve even more this year?
OK so you already know the secrets of powerful self esteem and you cut negativity out of your experience long ago! How can YOU make 2012 your best year ever?
No matter how positive you are, sometimes you feel low, so you must develop the ability to swiftly change your state from bad to good. I do this daily by choosing a new focus – if my music practice isn’t going well I will go outside for a brisk walk! I use oxygen and water to boost my state so I feel total energy, focus, clarity and vitality.
Break your day into small patterns of work and relaxation and fun. Resist doing any one activity for more than one hour. Come back to it after a break for something quite different. Multitasking is just disorganization!
Very few things we do each day really matter so once a week revise what you are actually spending time on and make more time for fun leisure activities by refusing to waste time reading emails and tidying your desk! Lumberjacks lead a healthy outdoor life far away from desks! See how much office time you can dispense with.
It’s so easy to lose the buzz feelings of a NEW YEAR START as January marches into February so take time weekly to revise your progress and your horizons, and set yourself NEW MONTH RESOLUTIONS throughout 2012 to maintain the buzz of achieving activity steps! Constant renewal!
It’s so easy to assume we need more money to be happy when in fact we really need more quality time and to focus only on interests which really grip us. Often making money wastes valuable time when you could be surfing or relaxing! Lose your love of shopping so money assumes less importance in your life. Be aware of the preciousness of each hour of life and opt to do the things you really enjoy.
Eating less, eating more fresh foods, drinking more water and much less caffeine and alcohol, and exercising throughout each day will power boost your energy levels sky high! When you feel extremely vital you love life and feel very positive. I was looking at some old 1947 cricket photos of Don Bradman yesterday, and I noticed how his infectious vitality and love of life shone on his face, even amongst his team mates!
Do what you love to do!
Focus and refocus.
Set yourself weekly goals and targets but stop expecting too much of yourself. Do a little and enjoy what you do. Relax.
I know 2012 is going to be my best year ever! I have decluttered a lot of stressful activities from my life in the last 3 months and I intend only to focus on what I really enjoy this year. I have set myself some high targets to achieve but I am very relaxed and I know everything comes to me without stressing about my activity! Cut yourself some slack!
You’ll never get everything done, but get what you do get done, done well! Happy New Year!
It is vital for your profit continuity to build high expectation and then continue to exceed all expectations! Yes!
What's your expectation of your entrance?
Consider how you feel when you read a sales message – let’s say it is for a product you desire, such as a reliable autoresponder – you already understand what it does and how it will benefit your business: indeed, you have reached the decision point of realizing it is indispensable to your business and you can delay the purchase no longer! But still you hesitate. Which company will prove the most reliable? You check out some reviews to see how people respond to the provider’s service. Finally you read the company’s sales page: what expectations do they build up for you?
You see, the point is this: a successful company with an excellent track record are very proud of the service they can offer you so they pitch it really strong in their sales message. They know how many people love what they do so they can even throw bonus offers in for you because they are confident of your customer satisfaction and long payment continuity into the future.
Success breeds confidence and confidence sells because it builds high expectations within prospects! You are sold. Soon you are a happy customer recommending the service yourself.
Now see the other angle: you as seller. How can you mirror the feelings you have as a buyer so your prospects buy on the strength of the high expectations you build? Promote excellent products! Add value to your customers – find out how else you can serve them. Be friendly. Interact with courtesy.
To enjoy success in business simply focus in on what you rate in the companies you choose to buy from and emulate their service in your own marketing. You will definitely need to plan things out. Look ahead. Source the best materials and people to enable you to make your project a reality.
Once you have the end goal of building a successful business service that really helps your customers with a great friendly and reliable service then you will know that all costs are your up front investment to secure success.
Think of a company you rely on and really like and trust, whether it’s your local grocery store or an internet service you subscribe to: imagine you owned that business – would you feel successful? Why?
Determine to develop a business that you expect to be a success because you are able to offer a service second to none that is worthy of the highest expectations your prospects have – you know you can exceed all expectations!
That is the secret to business success. It’s not the “make money fast” attitude: it’s the customer service attitude. How can you better serve your customers? What value can you add? Take time to ask your clients about their hopes and dreams for the future.
This approach will build you an evergreen marketing platform that grows beyond your expectations! You can make money today and spend it by tomorrow, or you can focus on building a deep level service to help people’s lives. Branding becomes meaningless when you are developing customer rapport. You no longer need to tell the world how great you are: your customers will tell the world for you!
Testimonial recommendation is the most powerful advertising and it’s free to you so long as you put the nuts and bolts in place first. Never cut corners or costs. It all begins with YOU taking the time to dream of owning and developing a successful service based business.
You may be selling a product but what counts is the service your product performs for your client. If it is excellent your client will continue to purchase from you long into the future. That’s the lifetime value of a client to you. Make sure you are giving lifetime value to them in return!
You can invest your time wisely by studying retail and marketing and business strategy: what makes the big brands stronger year after year? Advertising? Or excellent service?
Quit aiming to make money online – quit hoping to quit your job. Instead have high expectation of sure success deep within you as you envision yourself developing a customer network of satisfied clients who actively recommend your excellent product and service. Quality sells itself.
Associate with quality. Have a huge vision. Nothing can stop you unless you choose to apply the brakes. Why should you? Expect great success, do what it takes, build high expectations, exceed in your delivery.
Say I join a wine club and order a case of 12 wines. The company deliver me 15 bottles! Every one is excellent. Will I order again? Yes! Over delivery pays off. It sets you apart.
Build a business like that. Keep your profit margin low so you can add bumper value. I prefer $10 from 100,000 customers than $100 from a hundred customers! Big picture vision. Be unafraid. Expect huge success. Do what it takes. You know you can!
They are pretty fascinating definitions and may get you thinking about the order in your own life, and your priorities?
I’m going to introduce my own quick definitions here for the purpose of this post.
Consumerism – the basic lifestyle of Western society which underlies all our experience, belief systems and dictates the way we live each day and is responsible for the decisions we make, the values we hold, and the priorities we prize! It’s the concept of consuming goods in order to promote our feeling of well being. Economics is obsessed with the whys and wherefores of this materialistic outlook. What do YOU think?
Affluenza is our response to consumerism when we seek to fill our lives with ever more consumer based values. We want to own more, and consume in greater quantity, in order to feel self fulfilment and contentment and to foster a sense of achievement. We are addicted to consuming, on an ever greater increasing upward scale. The more prestigious consumer goods we own, the more affluent we feel. And buying more and more stuff is good for the economy! What do YOU think?
Some people will even go into alarming amounts of personal debt in order to continuously purchase luxury consumer goods so as to appear “successful”!
That’s not really MY concept of the “Success Mindset”, however!
Now, be assuerd, I am NOT in favour of frugal living. No. Because to me, frugality reeks of self denial in an ever increasing downward spiral. I like and seek upward spirals! The phrase “upwardly mobile” appeals to me. It suggests a persistent state of improvement. If frugal living saves you money, then what exactly are you intending to do with that money? Save it for your old age? Give it away? Frugal living seems too miserly for my consideration.
But one sure method to step away from the debilitating effects consumerism and its resultant mental captivity, affluenza, bring upon you, is to downsize your material life.
Having less stuff, owning fewer material objects, is not about frugal living – it’s about FREEing up your human energy!
Just consider how much of YOUR human energy each waking moment is centred on providing for your basic material wants, and then on enabling you to purchase luxury consumer goods. Why? Because you want to look successful and wealthy? Or because you know of no other motivation in life?
Our motivation determines our priorites.
Now imagine you own the property you live in free and clear, and you have ample money to pay your utilities, and you have no further yearning to purchase any more consumer goods!
That is the mindset we normally associate with old age and contentment in retirement. Supposing you could retire NOW! What would you do? So many people work because it fills up their time since they haven’t thought of anything else to do, and because they suppose working is “normal”.
But the successful person disregards “normal”.
Let’s get to the crunch!
Suppose your life actually consisted of going out and meeting people and taking part in exciting activities so you had no time to work! You might fill your week with dining out with friends, visiting beautiful places, playing golf or any other sport, reading to an older person, teaching night classes for the fun of sharing your knowledge – for free, writing music or a book, visiting friends and relatives, walking, enjoying your hobby activities, joining a debating society, playing bridge, travelling – I’m sure you could fill your week pretty effectively!
And the more you get out and meet with like minded people to share activities of mutual interest, the more fulfilled you become! Playing in a band, or sharing a charity project, or participating in a team sport are all incredible for your state of mind and for building your self esteem!
So the more you get out, the less you’ll stay in!
Which leads to the question: why do you need so much stuff?
I’m going to introduce you to Jay Shafer of Tumbleweed houses now: this guy walks his talk, and his concept for simple lifestyle success blew me away! Jay designs the ultimate in space aware eco houses ready for you to throw away your mortgage cares and move into right now!
The more outward looking your life is, the less consumer junk you require! At first you may feel living so simply is unrealistic, but please, please consider deeply how this affluenza downscaling through living in eco houses may benefit our materialistic society, and how you too might revolutionize YOUR life!
What is consumerism except our response to a feeling of inadequacy and the lack of any alternate purposeful way of living than going to work to earn money to pay for an exorbitant consumer lifestyle? What if YOU could enjoy simple lifestyle success for yourself?
And the real ease of developing a hands free marketing business online brings this possibility ever closer to you. At least give this some thought: who knows where you might be ten years from now?
Wow!
Jay Shafer in his own words: see inside his house AND right inside his life! This guy walks his talk and shares his concept of a bold new way of approaching daily reality – I hope you really enjoy this short but enlightening video!
How could YOU react to affluenza downscaling – would a shift towards eco houses play a huge role in determining essential new priorities for YOUR life? Could you get more life out of living by decluttering and scaling down, whilst living more of your daily life elsewhere than your home or workplace?
You could still rent an urban office to run a simple business, or you could build an internet marketing project from your laptop, perhaps selling information courses on affluenza downscaling and how to enjoy simple lifestyle success!
What is consumerism? It is slowly killing you by channelling your human energy into projects designed solely to support your current level of expenditure. Get out! Downshift! You will be amazed at how healthy you become as you extract the dross of materialistic acquisitiveness from your soul!
Relax, don’t do stress, and enjoy!
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I was listening to the Brian Tracy audio on Time Management today from month six of Jim Rohn’s One Year Success Plan. I can certainly say I have enjoyed positive new results in 2011 as a result of studying this excellent personal and professional development course.
Brian Tracy speaks of the need to establish your top priorities each day and he gives numerous tips to avoid procrastination.
His big theme is planning your activities by creating step by step action plans.
He suggests you delegate the smaller tasks so you can focus on the more vital tasks only you can do. If you want to earn $100k in a year divide that amount by 2000 work hours and you’ll see you need to earn $50 per hour.
If you continue to spend your work hours at the copier, on the telephone, or by the water cooler, do you realistically expect to earn $50 an hour for these activities? No, instead you have to focus on the $50 per hour activities whether you work in a corporation or run your own business.
So hire someone to do the small tasks and give yourself time and space to focus on the contract building.
Redefining Your Personal And Professional Development
Where do you aim to be in ten years from now? Doing what with whom? How much property do you aim to own? Time management is essentially understanding that your main 40 hour working week is the strength of your life and you must do the vital activities during these hours which put you on track to achieve what you really really want.
Of course it is worth taking a week out to really focus in on what you do truly want! Listen to your innermost intuitive thinking. What do you enjoy? What makes you fell really good? What would you really like to be doing ten years from now, wildest dreams included.
In fact, your wildest dreams probably say more about you than anything else so don’t neglect these. If it gives you a serious thrill, go there!
Redefining Your Success Mindset
Although the traditional corporation time management skills sound well and good, such as breaking big targets into small action steps, and doing a certain percentage of the week’s work daily, this never cuts edge for me.
I’m not a corporation worker.
Traditional time management skills teaching is totally task orientated. I’m not task orientated – I’m results orientated!
How about you?
What is your focus?
Do you focus on the tasks and manage your time well, or do you focus on the results you want and concentrate instead on your intuition?
When I look ahead and feel good about a result then I find I can intuitively move towards that end result without planning, without daily tasks, without managing my time at all!
I just keep in mind the picture of what I want to achieve, remind myself why, and allow my inner creative mind to prompt me to do what it takes. Develop your intuitive thinking. Some days I lounge around and dream bigger dreams! And some days I do a lot of research. Other days I do a lot of creative sales writing or contact potential business partners.
Gradually I move towards my target within the time span I set myself. It gets done. I don’t work a normal 40 hour week – I work when I feel like it.
That’s the beauty of working from home!
Feeling relaxed and able to break off whenever you wish to.
So build your success mindset through believing in your ability to achieve all you want through intuitive thinking and allow your inner creative mind to prompt your actions via your feelings and I feel you will go a long long way towards redefining your personal and professional development.
The experts can’t get it right for everyone. Do what proves effective for you. No one can say there is only this one right way to do this, or only this method is truly effective. We are all different in our approach to life so tune in to your inner creative mind and find solutions that work for YOU!
So how can you leverage your personal power to achieve outrageous success for yourself or your company?
What does your self talk sound like? Do you talk of yourself as a successful person? Do you apologize often? Are you strong and confident?
Do you work on developing your persona? What first impression do you make? How do people assess you as they become more familiar with you? How are your people skills progressing? Are you obsessed with personal development?
Your thoughts and actions today determine your future results!
You really can become the successful person you want to be – what is preventing you? Choose your own destiny and stick to it! No matter what happens, determine to act out the part of the character you wish to become!
Who will be drawn to you? What opportunities will be magnetized to you? Be the success you believe in and you will become irresistible! What you wants wants you! Head confidently towards your ambition and let nothing hold you back. Allow yourself no distractions! Plot your future and stride expectantly towards your destination!
We achieve that which corresponds to our expectation.
When you expect success because you believe yourself to be successful then the world parts to give you access to that which you want. Fuel your ambition and go where you will! Whatever you expect to achieve will make you the person you want to become. Are you truly aware of who you wish to be?
Whom do you admire? What qualities inspire you? Can you develop your own character to take these qualities on board for yourself? See yourself making confident powerful decisions in two, five, ten years from now – how does this feel? What must you now do to achieve this? Where will you be?
Achieve Outrageous Success!
You want success in all you do but what exact measure of success do you expect? I want you to leap outside your box - a quantum leap into a whole new world of super success you have never before believed in! We all have 168 hours a week, both the non achievers and the super successful. It’s partly how you use the hours: what actions you take, what plans you fulfil. But essentially it’s your Success Mindset at work to determine your outcome!
Do you fly your own jet airplane? Own your own golf course? Run a commercial hotel chain? Live in a palace? There is a quantum measure of super success you have not yet dreamed of that awaits your attention. Your rapt attention fuels your expectation and nurtures your ambition.
Why settle for so little? Choose a big dream! Head out west. Go max!
Are you really and truly living exactly where you have dreamed to be? Have a bigger dream! Own properties in paradise locations around the world! Learn what you must know, and do what it takes! Develop your self belief.
Leverage Your Personal Power!
Are you a magnetic personality? What kind of results do you attract? Do you work on developing your Success Mindset? Become all that you can be. Stretch your horizon! Open your eyes to a new world of challenging achievement. Learn a new sport. Learn a new language. Learn a musical instrument. Learn to pilot an aircraft. Learn to dive. Get bigger and better.
Stand upon the shoulders of your former self. What do you see? Further afield? A new destiny? New people? New results? If it’s true you are using less than 10% of the potential of your brain, it’s also true you are enjoying less than 10% of the world you could be experiencing!
You already attract certain results so determine to leverage the power of your personality to gain greater rewards for your time and effort: develop your people skills and build your character as you achieve your ultimate ambition. Is your ambition even worthy of you? Is your ambition too small? Too easy to achieve? Opt for a greater goal achievable in no less than ten years! Write a series of books, invent a gadget, visit far away places, learn to create beautiful mosaics!
Having beautiful and worthy leisure pursuits is a perfect way to develop your character! Do something extra to help someone achieve a goal of their own. Be aware of the hopes and dreams of the people around you and build them up! Share your wisdom gently!
Work a little less, yet more effectively. Prune the 80% effort which brings in 20% results! Fire that department permenantly! Use the time you free up to enjoy more life! How much of each day do you currently employ in fruitless activity?
Ultimately you alone are responsible for the life you lead, the results you get, and how others perceive you. Make promises you can easily fulfil to others, but to yourself: make one big promise to become so much more! Nothing obstructs you – blocks are but phantoms of your imagination! Open the windows of your mind and let the sun pour in!
Leverage your personal power through developing your Success Mindset and learn to be aware of the hopes and dreams of people around you, and build your self esteem so you confidently expect to achieve outrageous success: envision a yet vaster world of achievement and fire up your ambition!
Do you have a favorite book that opened your mind to the greater success you can become and enjoy? Share the title with us in the comments below.
What does the future hold for you and your business? Who can tell? Certainly you can forge your own destiny by careful planning and deciding what areas of business and marketing and innovation you want to focus on, but to a large extent we are all called to account by the ever flowing pace of time and fashion: what works well today probably won’t in two years’ time. Be prepared!
You can opt to build forecasting of trends into your business vision: go with the market flow. Adapt – be flexible and prosper!
What does the Future hold for YOU?
But the most exciting buffer to change and the unknown is to build your Dream Team for Success!
Napoleon Hill, in his popular evergreen philosophy “Think And Grow Rich” encourages you to form your own Mastermind group. Click here to get Think and Grow Rich ebook free! I simply call this your dream team for success! Gather about you a like minded group of enthusiasts and experts to guide you and advise you. Even Julius Caesar saw the wisdom in this – arguably he chose rashly.
Sometimes in Life you opt to go and discover a dream team anew: when you leave home to go University you are making tracks towards surrounding yourself with learners and the learned. Later you may choose to return to your home town, or perhaps decide to stay on in your University city to build a new life there. Alternatively you may go elsewhere in search of employment.
It may be that once you have left your seat of learning and commenced your first job that you find you are missing the active support of a Mastermind group which you found with your fellow students and your lecturers. So now is the time to ponder “What does the future hold?” or what do you want to aspire to? And now you choose to go where you will find the sort of people who will encourage you further to achieve all you aspire to.
It is very likely that the very people whose company you crave are already meeting together, not far away at all! This happened to me very recently, within the last year: I met an old school friend locally who introduced me to the orchestra she plays in – I am now the musical director with an awesome new social life and a lot of music work to focus my energy on! We do a lot of charity concerts too. Very rewarding!
So be alert to opportunity since you simply can’t tell: what does the future hold? Be ready to meet with people sympathetic to your aspirations, whether in business, leisure, charitable causes or intellectual circles. The right people can build your self esteem and heighten your enjoyment of Life beyond your present expectations!
Build your dream team for success – believe in a greater good for your social life or your business, and decide what type of people would help you journey towards your goals? Maybe an online mentor from afar, maybe a neighbour – it’s up to you! Go ahead and get the best from your every waking moment!
You’ll be amazed how many horizons open to you as you seek to broaden your activity and attainment.
Adwello is a business writer specializing in Success Motivation techniques for building self esteem in order to become the very best you have it within you to be.
Is there a way to fast track success and get rich quick?
Everything has a price!
What amount of money is rich?
How fast is quick?
It has taken me twenty years to get rich quick! Twenty years of researching what exactly money is and what it can achieve, twenty years of defining what success really means, twenty years of studying wealthy people, and twenty years of figuring out how to get rich quick with a solid business model. Guess that makes me about 100!
Invest and envision -
It’s a very good idea to invest some of your spare time collecting and reading books on business, money, investing, marketing skills, biographies of wealthy and successful people, and enjoying reading glossy real estate magazines so you can envision your own wealth. How do you define wealth for yourself? What does success mean to you?
Wealth and success may well be two totally different concepts to you. That’s fine! So long as you know what you want and you are researching how you can make your ambition become reality. The wonderful thing is, that in being ambitious we can actually make the world a very much better place by providing value, service, and great products that solve problems and make people’s lives more enjoyable.
If there is an easy fast track to success then please tell me! I have taken the long slow route of painstakingly developing wisdom and routines which bring me great results time and time again. I learnt to play several musical instruments and the beauty of this discipline is that you soon realize any goal can be accomplished with step by step tested routines. It’s excellent to realize a little progress daily!
Slow, but consistent. That’s my proven method to get rich quick!
Is there a way to fast track success?
Yes! Develop your own system of putting step by step routines into practice – learn what works and what doesn’t and eliminate wasted time and effort by following proven plans. Read success stories, work with a guru mentor, find out how this project has been accomplished successfully in the past, and dedicate yourself to discovering the most reliable methods to achieve the goals you set yourself.
Knowing you can succeed at everything you try is the fast track way to enjoy success because more than half the battle is believing you can succeed! That’s where music really helped me: at first I simply had a strong desire to master an instrument – I wasn’t sure that I could. But I persisted: I took lessons with a professional tutor and practised the daily routines they advised – I loved hearing my own progress week by week!
Learning music as an adult had originally seemed a huge and impossible mountain when I first began, but gradually I saw progress through persistent action. And you really can succeed in any project you set yourself with this kind of approach. Be willing to have a go, listen to the advice of an expert, put in the daily application, and keep believing in yourself by imagining what the end result will feel like!
There isn’t a mountain in the world can’t be conquered with determination.
The journey may seem slow but every time you master a difficult task you build your self belief to achieve the next project far quicker. Think of all the projects you have already succeeded in, all the skills you have already mastered! Start your journey to fast track success from your last point of successful departure. Get your self belief on your side.
Is it your ambition to get rich quick?
This is a worthy ambition since there is no point in getting rich slowly if you could speed things up! But remember that everything has a price and you pretty much get what you pay for. If you pay $50, $100, $500, $1000, $5000 for a method to get rich quick what exactly do you expect to get in return? An ATM?
You would be better to read some success stories of real life business men and women, read about running a business and about marketing, ask all the business people you know for their tips, and spend the money instead on beginning a real business for yourself.
A real business will offer services or products to the public or to other businesses in return for cash. We must add value to the world in order to realize a profit. We always have to invest money before seeing a return, and most businesses will cost you $1000′s to set up. So invest wisely and read all you can before jumping in.
Be prepared to lose a lot of your hard earned cash in the school of hard knocks. Losing your little all will soon teach you to be more wary of a ‘sure thing’! Don’t give up! Failure is the blind corner on the road to success. All roads lead to a destination sooner or later so keep going!
Gambling is an example of a venture that adds no value to the world. If you try to take value without giving service in return you will not enjoy any true measure of success. Forget gambling and chance, and quit buying into make money schemes. Just focus on one real business based upon selling something you love and know about and your enthusiasm will ensure your results.
Get good advice but be ready to act on your hunch when the time is apt. You know best ultimately since your venture is unique and completely dependent upon the market conditions now. These will change for the worst if you delay. Do all the wise preparation you need to, but be ready to start without being over cautious.
There is a Law of Acceleration to ensure Success
The worst thing is that your business venture fails and you lose money. You can get more money. You can start again, wiser. Determined persistent endeavour will win the day for you!
It all depends what you envision as riches! If you want $500 a week you may well achieve this goal before the person who wants $5000 a week, or $5,000,000 a week. Money is acquired through acceleration: the more you can invest, the faster your profit will turnover.
We’ll consider this Law of Acceleration in a new post very soon! Stay tuned in!
There seems to be a simple difference between success and chaos.
Focus versus distraction.
Each day presents a worthy set of glamorous distractions. You can waste time and energy on these or you can ignore them and choose instead to focus in on your tasks for the day.
Focus is the only method to achieve all you want since not only is each day limited to a bare number of working hours, but within those hours your energy wanes and your motivation falls as the day wears on.
“Seize the day” is not my favourite maxim but it certainly contains a kernel of urgency. Seize the beginning of your high energy level for the day and wring all you can from it! Know yourself in terms of your energy peak so you can get the best from your hours of peak performance.
Set yourself a strict list of tasks for a future date and accomplish these: every potential distraction can be scheduled for attention at a future date – I place irritating letters in a drawer to be assessed 6 weeks later. I highly recommend this trick - Henry Ford gained much by it!
Once we learn to eliminate distraction, what then is focus?
Sort your daily task list. You may be led in new directions which will produce tomorrow’s tasks! Take time to consider how your work is fitting into your bigger picture: are you leading towards or away from your ambition? Adjust as necessary. Money can be spent and replaced but value your time so as to waste not and want not!
Develop your success mindset by choosing to eliminate distraction in order to totally focus on your ambition.
When you have nothing to focus on take the day off, away from your work! Go drive some golf. Swim! Throw your energy into something fun!
I’m loving my new clarinet! Music is so therapeutic!
