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Five Steps for Success

Written by: Roger Ellerton

Article Overview: Most successful people follow (either consciously or unconsciously) five simple steps for whatever they do.

Five Steps for Success

Most successful people follow (either consciously or unconsciously) five simple steps for whatever they do:

1. Have an Outcome.
2. Take Action.
3. Use Sensory Acuity.
4. Be Flexible.
5.Have a Physiology and Psychology of Excellence.

Taking some but not all of these steps is just not good enough. What use is it to have an outcome if you do not take action? Nor is it useful to take action, if you are not paying attention to the results you are creating. And how often have you missed achieving something important by not being flexible? And then you wonder why your life is the same today as it was yesterday, last month or last year.

1. Have an Outcome.

You should have an outcome in mind for everything you do. Choosing to do nothing or to wander through life is an outcome itself. If you have not set an outcome for today and you meet a friend who has, most likely your friend will enlist you to help her get what she wants. And you may (silently or otherwise) become angry at her for taking advantage of you, when in reality you set the stage for what happened.

2. Take Action.
Many people with a clear outcome do not take action to achieve it. How many times have you heard a friend (or even yourself) talk passionately about building/achieving something, and yet they never fully commit to it and it remains but a dream, year after year.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
-- W. Clement Stone

3. Use Your Sensory Acuity.

You need to be continually aware of your outcome; as well, you need some form of measure to know whether you are making progress toward it. If you don’t, how will you know if or when you have actually achieved it? Perhaps you are going in the wrong direction!

4. Be Flexible

Some of us actually notice that life or business is not working out as we would like and choose not to admit we need to change course or alter our behaviors. Other times, we may stop and berate those who draw this to our attention before continuing in the same direction blindly hoping that it will all work out.

Doing the same things over and over, hoping for a different result.
-- Definition of insanity.

5. Have a Physiology and Psychology of Excellence

Finally, live your life as if you already have achieved your outcome. Walk, talk and think in ways that support and maintain your desires.

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