secrets of Success

PEOPLE FORM HABITS AND HABITS FORM FUTURES.




Are you sick and tired of not getting what you want? How much has procrastination cost you emotionally and financially?

Being “run of the mill” is the bane of most people’s lives, because the habits they have fallen into do not serve them.

Is there anything worse than being held back from achieving your deepest desires?

If your current habits are leading to procrastination then you are allowing yourself to be robbed. You must take responsibility for this and say “enough is enough”. It’s the first step!


People Form Habit and Habits form Futures.


Successful people make a habit of doing things they do not like doing. Success is challenging, it’s easier to watch TV and lounge around, than to work. It’s easier to be disorganized, irresponsible, undirected and at mercy of poor habit. Henry David Thoreau once said, “The mass of men lead lives of quite desperation”. If you want to remain in the mass, unrewarded, unfulfilled and ultimately unhappy then continue accepting habits which are not useful to your dreams and desires.

The great English novelist E.M Forster said, “Character is destiny”. Your behavior what defines what will become in life. Are you willing to take responsibility for your life and redefine areas of yourself if necessary?


Top Tips; Start small, introduce useful habits bit by bit and begin to eliminate poor ones as you gain momentum. Write down the intention for both your new habits and the poor ones and review them regularly. This gives your mind leverage to form useful habits.











THE “SUCCESS SIX”



Successful people do thing in order of importance. How many times have you put off something important which needed doing to spend your time on doing something unnecessary and unimportant instead?

I believe your time is precious.
Isn’t it worth taking little time to make sure you make the most out of what you have left in the world?


If it’s worth doing, its worth planning.

It’s worth spending 5 minutes planning out your next day.
(1) Write down the six most important activities for you to complete the following day. Mike Litman, No 1 best selling author of conversations with millionaires calls these, “The Success Six”.

(2) Then number them 1 to 6 in order of importance because the golden key to successful planning is prioritization.
(3) The following day start with a number one and continue with it until it’s completed. Don’t worry if you have not completed all of them by the end of the day. At least you will have completed the most important projects.

This is central to my 5 step action management system which I have included as a special bonus at the end of this report.

Stop right now. Get out a piece of paper and plan out tomorrow with your “Success Six”.

Top Tips: Get yourself a small legal notepad 5”x8” or some index cards. When you complete a task cross out the item straight away: I cross them out with thick red pen. Satisfaction guaranteed.







PERFECTION CAN BE THE ENEMY OF SUCCESS


This might seem controversial and may even challenge your beliefs. Being a perfectionist can be one of the most destructive habits when it comes to success.

Fear of not being able to do it right stops people from ever starting. However, nothing worth doing was ever done perfectly the first time!

It’s the decision to act which counts, to get going, to move in the direction you want to go, to just take that very first step!

“You don’t have to get it right…you just have to get it going”
Imperfection can be fixed down the track. I once heard someone say, “Perfect is the enemy of the good.” I understand its noble belief to do things right, however what’s the point in having goals if they are never achieved because they are burdened by this ‘Perfect” milestones?

Consider this quick step formula instead


1. Start immediately
2. Improve it until its good
3. Finish
4. Get feedback.
5. Polish it until it’s very good.

Remember, absolutely nothing happens until you start.



Top Tips: Just begin, even if what you start ends up nothing like the finished article. If you are selling to a market place, get something out there and then get feedback from the market place to perfect your product or service.










GUARD YOUR TIME LIKE A HAWK.


You can usually tell how success someone is by how much they respect their time. Your time on this earth is finite, it’s ticking down for you this very minute .Imagine your are in a rocking chair at the age of 90 when you look back on your life do you want to see you fritted it away or would you prefer to be able to smile and know you did what you truly desired?

It’s what you do with your time that matters. Remember, your time is precious. Time is unmanageable despite all the “time management” waffle in print. It goes on doing its thing regardless of you. The answer to ‘time management’ is to manage your actions instead.



Don’t allow others to take your time and break your concentration when they feel like it.


This means cutting out distraction when you are working and prioritizing your action. Do you think you can usually pick up the phone and get straight to someone who is very successful? I don’t think so; you need to make an appointment first which gets allocated to you by them. They are in control of what they do with their time.


Top Tips: Each day set aside at least one prime action hour (preferably more-I have) where you only work towards your most important goals.
Accept no distractions. Do not answer the phone, read the mail, read email talk to co-workers, friends, family or even pets!












GO AFTER THE CARROT.


We are often motivated away from pain first and towards pleasure second. This is a HUGE mistake to make when it comes to achieving your desires.
Often people get bogged down in how to do something rather than what they get from achieving the outcome they have set themselves
People think about the pain involved in the process instead of visualizing the pleasure of the reward on completion.

If you focus on the reward rather that the process you will find procrastination away simply say to yourself:

1. What is the one thing I don’t want to do and yet if I did it, it would move my life and/or business forward?
2. How will I benefit from doing it?
(Answer)
3. Do it now. Do it now. Do it now.
(Act).

By going for the carrot you focus your concentration towards success rather than allowing various reasons for failure to confuse your mind.




Top Tips: Write down your major goals in life first thing every day and visualize yourself attaining them. Add as much detail as you can really bring the pictures alive in your mind. Let the emotion of excitement and pleasure build up inside you. Use this as motivation towards your goals.



















THE CONSISTENCY PRINCIPLE




Everyone has at least one moment in their lives. When they were ‘great’ for a while. It might be the first few steps as a child. Perhaps it was an exam they sat and passed.
The point is we have ALL tasted success at some point. The different between the average person and the very successful is therefore consistency.

It’s not rocket science. People who are very successful do things which move them towards their goal on daily basis. They keep doing the things which bring them the result they want.

It’s easy to do something well once. It’s easy to something you don’t want to do once.

Real power lies in repeating these moments again and again. A wealthy businessman once said, “You are either consistent or non-existent”

We already have great consistency in our lives. Most of us regularly breathe, move, sleep, eat and drink like clockwork. You know how to do this.
The successful see no difference in taking regular action to feed their dreams as they do to feed their stomach. You either become consistent towards your desire or you end up wasting most of your potential.


Top Tips: Find someone you can be accountable to. Each week send them a list of what you have achieved during the week and include what you also planned to do yet did not complete. Then write down your general goals for the following week and repeat the process 7 days later. Get them to respond likewise. There’s great power in getting accountable for your action.











INCH BY INCH AND ANYTHING IS A CINCH


Hot on the heels of the consistency principle is the law of growth. In fact these two success secret when used together form the basis of almost ALL long term success.
The law of growth states that if you increase your efficiency or concentration or applied knowledge or your understanding by just 1% each and every day then the improvement over an entire year will be colossal.

If you simply added the 1% up over a year you had have improved 365%. The actual amount when compounded is substantially more! Success is a progression of small steps, one building on another eventually creating monumental momentum.


Inch by Inch and anything’s a cinch

For instant, before you can become a millionaire, you need to earn $100,000. Before that you need to earn $10,000. Before that you need to earn $1000. Before that you need to earn $100 and before that you need to earn $1.

The law of growth is achieved by taking things step by step. You only get to take the big steps once you have done the smaller ones first
The key to continual improvement and growth is enthusiasm. You have to get passionate at what you do. Couple this with good habits and consistency and you will be shocked and amazed at what you can achieve.


Top Tips: Keep an ideas, discovery and progress journal, Refer to it regularly. Visualize yourself improving before you go to sleep. There is phenomenal power in setting the rest of your mind to work while you sleep!













CONCLUSION: AN IMPORTANT UNDERSTANDING

Our minds are a wonderful resource of knowledge packed with information from our lives experiences.

Although we have this wonderful source of knowledge, we are consciously limited to considering a certain number of different pieces of information at any one time. So if we want to be affective then we must direct out thought, seen, heard, tasted, smelt or felt. Now imagine your conscious attention is like a torch which can illuminate a very small section of the dimly lit library at any one time.

Since you do not know how to consciously recall all this information at once, you need to be selective with what your concentrate on the trust your unconscious minds to supply the resources you need from your library.
Most people never achieve the success they desire because they are scattered, flashing their torch from one thing to the next.

To be successful you must concentrate and focus. This means directing your torch your ultimate goals.
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Einstein discovered the theory of relativity. Alexander the Great conquered what was then his known world and beyond…

They were all wildly successful at what they did and achieve their place in history through passion and intense concentration.


Top Tips: print out these success secret and put them up where you can regularly refer to them. Introduce them one at a time. Start by forming some good habits like getting up a little earlier and focusing on one of your goals.
If you find yourself not achieving what you want in life, then go over these principles and take an honest look at yourself. Which ones are you not properly implementing?

Most of all remind yourself your time is precious