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Simple Steps to Success
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Article Overview: Whether you are looking for financial freedom, want to live healthier or aspire to own a multi-million dollar business, this article will show you the traits that many successful people such as: Tony Robbins, Warren Buffet and Oprah Winfrey all have in common.
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Simple Steps to Success
The son of an alcoholic
mother and a step-father who’s rarely around awakes to the bright rays of the
sun streaking through his bedroom window. He looks up and focuses his eyes on
the $100 bill he has taped to the ceiling. He smiles contentedly at the three zeros he put on the bill to make
it into a make-shift hundred thousand dollar bill. It is the goal that propels
him forward with vigor each day. He doesn’t know how he will achieve this goal,
he just knows he will. That is the story of Jack Canfield, the originator of
the New York Times best selling Chicken
Soup for the Soul. The series first rejected by 140 publishers as
“un-sellable,” and which Time Magazine ultimately called the
“publishing phenomenon of the decade.”
What
made this former teacher
such a huge success? Is he any different from you or me? Whether you are
looking for financial freedom, want to live healthier or aspire to own a
multi-million dollar business, this article will show you the traits that many
successful people such as: Tony Robbins, Warren Buffet and Oprah Winfrey all
have in common.
DESIRE AND DETERMINATION
The first step to becoming
successful is deciding how badly you want it. The more reasons and incentives;
the more intense a desire you will have to achieve your goals. The desire to
succeed has to be deep within you because success doesn’t come overnight and
isn’t due to a single effort. It’s the accumulation of small efforts and
sacrifices over an
extended period of time. You have to be
determined and willing to go the long haul. Will
eating an apple for desert instead of ice cream really aid weight loss? It
will if you are determined to succeed and do it repeatedly.
A way to maintain a burning
desire is to visualize what you want. If you want to lose weight, picture yourself
standing in front of the mirror with a new slimmer you looking back. How does
this vision make you feel? Bask in that feeling. Being successful is a state of
mind. Thinking about your success long before you achieve it in reality is
the necessary precursor to becoming successful.
Daily visualization exercises will help you focus on your
goals and keep you plugging away even if you fail or come across a set-back.
DISCIPLINE
It also takes discipline to
become successful. You may need to make sacrifices or delay gratification today
to get what you want in the future. Keeping your functional older car instead
of leasing a fully-loaded newer model may be the sacrifice you need to make in
order to obtain financial freedom. But having the self-discipline to say to
yourself that, although this would make you feel good right now, it won’t
ultimately get you where you want to go, is difficult. Accepting
that there will be a lot of sacrifices along the way will help you take charge
of your self-limiting habits and negative behaviours. You will also become more
aware of the low/no value activities taking you away from your goals instead of
towards them.
By becoming more future
focused you will better understand the long term consequences of your
decisions. Most people think in the short term, but people who are successful
continually think 5, 10, or even 20 years ahead. Every decision they make – big
or small - is based on these long-term goals.
Once you start thinking far
into the future it will be easier to control
the way you invest your time, energy and talents. By establishing priorities,
creating action plans, eliminating counterproductive behavior and engaging in
effective time-management, you will develop more future-focused habits.
LIMITLESS THINKING
Get rid of self-limiting
beliefs. Having confidence and a positive attitude will give you the
unmistakable belief anything and everything is possible and that you can, and will
ultimately achieve your goals. Most people stay in their comfort zone. Be prepared to take risks.
Strive for, and do that
little bit more. Don’t settle for good or even excellent. Go for outstanding.
Challenge yourself. Don’t just make a goal that you want to become a successful
entrepreneur. Decide you want to become
CEO of your own company generating revenues in excess of $1 million. Once you
achieve your goal then continually raise the bar higher.
Set-backs and failures are
there to test your level of commitment and should be welcomed as important
learning opportunities instead of insurmountable obstacles. These opportunities will give you the skills
and experience you need to move forward. They challenge you to think about the
situation and open your mind to other possibilities.
A POSITIVE ATTITUDE
Finally, attitude is everything.
Your attitude can either be the key contributor or the biggest barrier to your
success. As with magnets, like attracts like. If
you develop a positive and enthusiastic attitude then you dramatically increase
the opportunity for positive things to happen to you.
Focus on developing a positive outlook. You can train
yourself to think positive thoughts. When you have a negative or self-limiting
thought, see it for what it is – destructive. Remove the negative thought from
your mind and replace it with a positive one. Keep doing this until all your
thoughts are positive and there is no more room for negative thoughts. For
example, replace, "I can't do it" with "I can do it" and
you'll find your attitude and your life will greatly improve.
Whatever it is in life
you want, you have to start with a burning desire and unbeatable determination.
Once you have that, discipline, limitless thinking and most importantly a
positive attitude is what will guarantee you unlimited success.
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Re: Success
- I study success intently, and would like to share:
Here's two excellent and nearly identical success-formulas from a couple of the world's masters.
FIRST FORMULA:
1. Passionate Desire
2. Clear, Definite Purpose
3. Committed Decision
4. Take Action In Faith
(Bonus Secret Sauce: 5. Repeat Consistently)
I made a video about this, but am not allowed to link it yet. Google "Ryze Success Steps" for it.
Oh, and this is Napoleon Hill's (Master Of Success Laws)'s Formula.
SECOND FORMULA:
1. Passionate Desire
2. Understand It Is Already Done (Faith)
3. Relax & Allow It To Unfold (Go about your life calmly)
This one is courtesy of Abraham-Hicks (inspiration for the movie The Secret).
Hope that helps!
Re: Drop out Billionaire
- I reveived Bill Bartmann's DVD "9 Steps To Achieve Any Goal" as part of my monthly pack from Success University a few months back.
It is a great presentation. I've watched it several times but not for a while so I'll view it again in the coming week.
He is one of the greats. Like the best success mentors, he speaks with authority because he has come through much tribulation.
His program sounds like a great bargain at $100 a year.
Success Strategies
- How to get the results you want now?
Success Strategies and Action Steps I have used are:
The Power of Choice
Where you are at this present moment, is exactly perfect from the choices you have made. If you want to be somewhere else, you have to decide clearly what that is (your goal/outcome) and create action steps to achieve this.
The Power of Focus
The book "The Power of Focus" by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Hewitt, is one of my treasures in my Entrepreneur Library. If you focus on what you want versus what you do not want, your conscious and sub-conscious mind will direct attention to this. The movie, What the Bleep, Down the Rabbit Hole, explains this in detail about quantum physics and what we create in our lives.
The Power of Commitment
This is not about commitment to others. The first step is the commitment, your word, you make to yourself. Accountability and responsibility are additional success strategies and ingredients to creating the success, defined by you, that you want. The commitment to others reflects your integrity, your word and the team you work with. Co-workers, clients, yoru family, friends and community.
My Success Acronyn in Success Breakthroughs(c) is:
S pecific & self-directed
U nlimited opportunities & possibilities
C reate powerful outcomes
C onsistent measureable results
E xperience pwoerful transformation
S olution and action-oriented
S uccessful habits and outcomes
Break Through to
Powerful LIfestyle & Performance Choices
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