These are six points which, stand as common traits of the successful. When you talk to successful people or read auto-biograhies from well known entrepreneurs, you very often see these 6 things in play. Let’s address them one by one.
See yourself achieving your goal.
You have likely heard about the importance of visualizing what you’re going for. What you have to do is SEE yourself living out your ideal day. This has to be a day which you could live over and over again and be completely happy. Where will you live? What will you do? How do you feel? What is the food you’re eating? Who do you wake up next to? What’s your house look like? What’s it smell like? Sit down and do this on paper in as much detail as you can possibly come up with. It might even take you a few hours to complete. Here’s what you’re doing…
You will begin to THINK in this reality. It will become a part of you.
Don’t compare yourself to others. Compare to who you could be.
It is natural to look at people who have accomplished more than you or who have more than you, and feel a bit down. You wonder what’s wrong with you. Why haven’t you accomplished that? Look at what you’re doing when you think these thoughts. You are invalidating yourself. You are making less of yourself.
Also, keep this in mind: You get what you flow power to. You, as a spiritual being, are a source of immense power. You have the power to create new realities by simply VALIDATING THEM. If you validate your incompetences, you’ll get them. If you validate your shortcomings, you’ll further them. On the other hand, validate the SUCCESS of others, you’ll see more success. Validate your strengths, you further them.
Associate with like-minded, success-minded people.
It just makes sense to surround yourself with people who support you and aspire to achieve the thing you, too, want. This is why mastermind groups are so powerful. Even if the people in the group are in different businesses, they all aspire to success. On the flip side, this means you need to control or get rid of people in your environment bent on getting you down. Do you ever get around a particular person and just feel a bit disturbed or down? You need to make a decision: handle it or part ways.
Build a Success Library.
Most successful people read a lot. They build a library. And we’ll call it a success library if that material serves to improve our lives. If we look at most people, they don’t have a success library. Hell, most don’t have a library at all because they hardly read anything. Their libraries consist of the latest copy of Cosmo or the daily newspaper, complete with its headlines of death and controversy. There is nothing redeeming about reading about a plane crash, learning about the latest bout of insanity from Washington, or reading about the asinine ramblings of celebrities.
Fill your head with good stuff.
Let’s look at television, for instance. The 24-hour news channels are full of nothing but controversy. It is mostly people yelling at each other. Look at News Channel. You’ve got people talking about how we’re all going to die and the world is ending.
Why would you let that into your head? If your reaction to watching that stuff is to get angry, WHY DO YOU WATCH IT?!?! Today’s news is a cancer on our society. These people outright ignore good news and instead zoom their cameras into every bad thing in our world and make it seem as if that IS the world.
Only you can control what goes into your head. If you let it in and think about it, you’re validating it. You’re giving it energy.
Draw success from other like-minded people. Draw strength.
We validate success in others, and hence validate success in ourselves. When you go to a conference, you go to network with people. For example, one of the reasons I recommend Blogworld to every blogger is because it allows them to network with others who have the same ambitions. These are like-minded people. They have varying levels of success at it, but all the vectors point more or less the same direction.
The author is David Risley. Click on the link “6 Success Principles Which Will Help You Achieve Anything You Want” and read full post on his blog. There are more great posts worth reading.
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