Are you taking small steps to success, or are you wasting your life?
Rude question? Let me rephrase it then.
How do you spend your time? Who is the person you have become at the end of each day when you turn in for the night? Are you the same person who woke up in the morning? No difference?
If there is no difference in who you are at the end of the day, then that day is lost forever, and we tend to forget that all our lives are made up of individual days. Don’t ever let 24 hours pass without adding something to yourself or to your dreams?
Determine everyday to improve even if it’s just a little. Learn something new. Master a new skill. Think of a new idea. Save some money. Invest some money. Add little things to your life and to yourself. Get the most out of every day.
In this way you will be taking small steps to success each day. Small things accumulate to add up to long term success. This is what all successful people do. This is how success stories are built. Short term accomplishments result in long term achievements.
Little things make a difference, and translate into small steps to success.
If you read 10 pages every day, you will be able to read a 300 page book each month, or 12 books a year.
If you write 1/3 of a page every day, you will have a 360 page book written in 3 years. What an asset that would be!
One of the primary features of almost every success story is the concept of continuous improvement.
You need to discover how to double, triple and even quadruple the results you are getting. Become a never-ending improvement machine. Always be searching both inside and outside yourself for better ways to do things. Commit yourself to continuous and never-ending improvement.
This applies to all areas of your life.
Insist on spiritual growth. Do little things each day to deepen your relationship with God, and find inner peace and strength.
Improve yourself personally. Increase your talents. Improve your career. Do an excellent job in even the smallest tasks.
Look for ways to achieve financial growth. Save, invest and give to charity.
Grow socially. Spend quality time with your family and friends. Increase your circle of contacts.
Make progress in your health. Exercise, eat whole foods and make sure you are getting enough water and sleep.
Never forget. Small steps to success DO make a difference. Continuous improvement is the key to long term success. Have you heard the famous saying? “If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always gotten.”
If you want to see a significant change in your life, you have to start by making small changes in your daily actions. Always improve. Don’t stop, and never, never settle for less.
If you are improving and taking small steps to success every day, your future will take care of itself.
Today’s topic is vital. It is really the number one success secret. If you give this article some serious thought, and take action on it, however small, you WILL be closer to realizing your dreams.
Lets study for just a moment, the life of Bill Gates. I think you would agree with me that he is a great example to study if your goals are in any way related to finances.
What is Bill Gates’ secret to success?
Is it his intelligence?
Is it because he stumbled onto a product that basically runs the world?
Is it a huge dose of financial genius?
Perhaps he is extremely lucky?
Simply because he is the founder and CEO of Microsoft?
Guess what? If any of those answers were somewhat related to yours, you are on the wrong track. Bill Gates’ success has very little to do with any of those things.
Simply put, Bill Gates is successful because he’s one of the most valuable people in the world. He’s providing a valuable service to all of us. I doubt if there is one person on the planet who has not benefited in some way, either directly or indirectly, from his services. He has added irreplaceable value to the world.
Bill Gates is serving the world in a way and on a scale that no one else has come close to, and that’s why he has held the title of the richest man in the world.
The ultimate secret of success can be expressed in one word – SERVICE.
Success is all about service. The more you serve, the more you will succeed. The more value you add to yourself and to the world, the more success you will experience.
Focus on activities that will increase your value, and then make that value available to other people. Ask yourself, “What is the most valuable use of my time right now?”
How valuable are you right now? What actions could you take to increase your value just 1%? Small step by step actions that increase your value to others will compound over time and will produce enormous results.
Focus on adding more value to yourself and others. This will give you a wonderful head start toward leading a highly successful and wealthy life.
That being said, you have to realize one very important and universal truth that is also part of this number one success secret.
You will not be able to serve others or make a significant difference in the world until you follow your uniqueness. This is non-negotiable. You are in this world for a purpose, and have been given unique talents, abilities and potential. You purpose mixes your talents and gifts with your passions and desires and then matches them with a world need that you’re here to fulfill.
Knowing your true self, and acting on your particular call is a sure and undefeatable way to obtain your goals, make a difference and leave the best possible legacy behind you.
There you have it. This my friends is the number one success secret. Express yourself, boost your personal value, and make a difference in the world around you.
Don’t underestimate the power of patience in your road to success.
Can’t wait to get what you want? Do you run out of patience when you don’t see results right away?
How do you react when you don’t see immediate gratification from your efforts? Do you persist, or do you get frustrated and lose hope?
When times are hard, and the road to your dreams seems long that’s when the power of patience kicks in. You mustn’t lose hope. Life is a series of small steps, and big success or change is often a series of small steps. Until your success is achieved, by definition, it will always be in the future, and you won’t be enjoying the benefits yet. That means that patience and hope will be necessary the entire time you are working to achieve your dream.
So the question is, how can we maintain hope when we are waiting for the results of our efforts, that seem to never come? How can we incorporate the power of patience in our lives?
The answer, oddly enough, is all around us in nature. Just look out your window and you will see the answer. You see, one of the greatest success principles is “You reap what you sow.”
If you put an apple seed into the ground, you will always, without fail, get an apple tree. In the same way, if you sow positive thoughts, they will led to positive actions, and when you sow positive actions, you will invariably reap positive results.
If you expend a great deal of effort trying to achieve something, and you don’t get the desired result, there can only be one reason. You planted the wrong seeds. That’s why there is always a hidden benefit in failure. It shows you which seeds were the wrong ones, so you can get rid of them, and turn around and plant the right seeds the next time.
Another lesson you can learn from this principle is that everything takes time to grow and mature. Nothing of value happens overnight. Your seeds need time to grow and produce fruit.
If you dig up the ground to see why your seeds aren’t growing, you will destroy the whole process. Don’t rush this process, just be sure you are planting the right seeds, and never underestimate the power of patience.
The most valuable seed you have is a positive attitude. If you sow a positive attitude, the harvest you reap will be valuable beyond words.
Everything you do will have a result. Every action is a seed that corresponds to a certain outcome. Be careful how you sow your time, money and energy. Everything does matter. Plant good seeds that lead toward realizing your dreams now, and trust that sometime in the future, you will reap the rewards of your efforts.
Use the power of patience to your advantage. And always act boldly.
If you have been trying for a while now, and can’t seem to reach a level of success, it very well could be that you simply haven’t made a decision to succeed yet.
Making a decision to succeed is the critical step that must be taken before achieving anything in life. So if you haven’t been living a successful life up to this point it’s quite likely that you haven’t decided to.
If you are still blaming circumstances and making excuses, then perhaps you are either afraid of change or you don’t know exactly what you want. Indecisiveness is one of the biggest obstacles that holds people back from success.
You will remain as you are now until you know exactly what you want and then make an unwavering decision to go out and get it.
It’s been proven in many circles, both religious and not so religious, that when you make a decision to succeed and step out to begin achieving it, knowing you will never turn back, an amazing thing happens. You are given the tools and ability to actually make that thing happen. On the other hand, if you wait until you have the tools and ability to start working toward your goals, you will never reach them.
Decide that you are going to rise to the top of your field. Study success, and apply the tested and proven strategies for getting what you want. Develop success habits through practice and repetition until they become as natural to you as breathing.
When you are clear about what you want and make a decision to succeed the payoff for you will be tremendous.
Resolve today that you are going to become successful. Make a decision to succeed, and you will be given to tools to reach your goals. Take them with gratitude, and do whatever it takes to realize your dreams.
Are you interested in achieving success? If so, the power of persistence can’t be emphasized enough. If you want massive success, you will have to take massive action, and this can’t usually be achieved instantly. You will have to be persistent, and make sure you are taking some action toward realizing your purpose in life each day.
Real success will never be achieved without persistence. But some very persistent people don’t ever achieve success. Why is this? Simple. Persistence will not work if you’re not doing the right thing.
I’m not talking about finding out what works and chipping away at it. That’s a great idea, but even that kind of persistence won’t work if it isn’t “you.” It takes a lot of effort and energy to put the power of persistence to work for you, but it isn’t a burden if you’re doing something that means a lot to you.
If you’re going after your dreams and doing what you love to do, then you can easily be persistent and motivated. But if what you are trying to achieve doesn’t match with your talents and passion, you will find it almost impossible to maintain a sufficient level of persistence and motivation.
That’s why it’s so important to start by discovering your purpose in life. Know what you love, and design your life based on that. You have come to this life for a purpose. Energy flows in the path of least resistance, so if you choose the path of your particular purpose and passion, you will find the power of persistence working for you naturally.
Chose the path that’s right for you, and then persist into you get where you want to go.
If you’re trying to do something that sucks your energy and turns you off, you will suffer a lot, and never find satisfaction.
Living a purposeful life is the only true path to achieving success and satisfaction. Imagine what it would be like if:
You live with passion.
You have a meaning for your life and work.
You make a difference in the world.
You excel at what you do.
You do what you love and love what you do.
It’s safe to say that purposeful living is the secret ingredient to achieving success. Knowing your purpose will help you to take bold massive action steps that will help you to get where you want to be. Your life purpose will provide you with the ultimate power of persistence.
Find out what it is you want, and why you want to achieve it. They map out an action plan to get you there. You’ll find the power of persistence working on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.
All successful people live with a purpose in mind. I’m reminded of the song. “Do you know where you’re going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you?”
The Bible says it even more firmly. “Without a vision, the people perish.”
If you are unsure of what you want out of life you won’t be able to live with a purpose, and you will most likely never achieve anything of great value.
If you move through your life not knowing where you are and where you want to go, you will get lost. You may end up at a place where the only feelings you have are disappointment, depression and regret.
If you aren’t clear about what you want, and you don’t live with a purpose, you are sabotaging your own future. Once you determine what you want and where you are now, you need to chart a course of action to get you from point A to point B. What steps will you take to get where you want to be? Once you have the steps you need to take clearly in your mind, you will always be conscious of whether you are progressing toward your goal, or just spinning your wheels.
Having trouble defining exactly what you want in life? Try jotting down the first thing that comes to mind for each of the following questions, then circle the answer that jumps out at you as the most important one.
What do you want to do?
What do you want to have?
Who do you want to be?
Where do you want to go?
How do you want to spend your time?
What do you want to learn?
Who do you want to meet?
Who do you want to marry?
How much money do you want to earn, save and invest?
What will you do for your health?
What contribution do you want to make?
Once you know what it is you want, you need to ask for it. Then start taking advantage of opportunities that come your way. You will soon notice that you live with a purpose, and before you know it, you will be achieving more and more success.
George Brown is launching his first ever product – “Google Sniper” tomorrow, October 15th.
Why should you care?
Perhaps because George is only 18 years old and is already making $15k a month? How did he figure it out so fast? I’ve looked at his intro videos (where he tells you a ton of his secrets for free, but only until the launch, so you have only one day left to get them) and I think I know the answer. There’s absolutely no fluff. It’s exactly what you need to know, and not a word more.
I suspect George is laser focused on what he wants to achieve, and that’s why he’s so successful.
Or perhaps its because it’s all of our dream online? He has a system that requires no maintenance. None. You CAN track and tweak and make it perform better, but you could presumably just create the sites right, and never think about them again, except to cash the checks you recieve.
Whatever the reason, he’s got my attention. I’ve devoured the pre-launch videos, and can’t wait for the product to actually launch. I want my share of the set it and forget it kind of income he’s talking about!
That’s the Google Sniper. You may want to take a peek as well. Just remember, the intro videos, (which are packed with great content) will disappear after the launch. Then you’ll have to pay to get all that great info. Go check it out.
Have you ever written out a list of things to do, scheduled all the activities, and then realized at the end of the day that you hadn’t accomplished even one of them? Tell me, if this is a regular phenomenon, how soon will you reach your goals? Never.
Why is time management so hard, and what can you do to solve the problem?
Stop and think about this question for just a moment. What are your priorities and values? Chances are those things that are so hard to get started doing are not related to your main priorities at all. You are trying to do something that just isn’t important to you. If this is the case, you may want to rethink whether you should be doing them at all.
On the other end of the spectrum, you may feel like that activity you just can’t find time to do is the most important thing of all. Fear of failure is often the culprit in that case.
Of course priorities are important, and most people realize the need to list what their main priorities are from time to time. And yes, that does help some. But it’s not enough to motivate you to do what’s important, or to solve your time management issues.
There’s a very simple (although perhaps not so easy) solution to the problem. Here it comes. The one thing that makes all the difference between people who have mastered time management and priorities, and those who just can’t no matter how hard they try.
It’s the “why.” If you don’t have a clear vision of WHY your priorities are important to you, you will never develop the discipline to make them happen.
What is your life all about? What is driving force behind all that you do? What does your soul long for? What is your Life Purpose?
Knowing your life purpose will help you chose the priorities that really matter to you and will allow you to live with passion every day and every moment,. If you know your life purpose you will be able to resist the winds of the urgent or more fun to blow you off course, and you will reach your destination. You will have no choice but to accomplish the goals you have set out for yourself.
First know your life purpose, then set priorities based on that. You will find you are not distracted from doing what is important, and if you do get off course, a quick review in your mind of the purpose for those priorities will bring you back to the road to success.
Knowing your priorities and backing them up with your life purpose will form a defense against procrastination and distractions, and give you full use of your time. Time management will no longer be an issue.
Find something that will remind you of your life purpose – a photograph, and object or a quote perhaps, and place it somewhere near your work station. In this way your life purpose will lead to priorities,, and your priorities will be strong enough to help solve the time management problem. This will lead to razor sharp focus, which will in turn bring you to the fulfillment of your dreams and goals.
My daughter and I went to Hirao Dai, or Hirao “High Plateau” on Monday.
It’s an interesting place with unusual calcified rock formation all over the hills. After we clambered around for hours, we drove down into a ravine and walked through a cave. The cave went on forever, and was lighted for the first 900 meters. We encountered several bats on the way out. One of them was headed straight for me, so I ducked, and daughter Elizabeth, who was right behind me got a mouthful of bat wing. I guess she was pretty alarmed.
Here’s a quick video collage of some snapshots we took.
Do you have the millionaire mindset? Studies have shown that all successful people share certain qualities. It would follow, then that in order to be a success, you will have to develop these qualities. Read them honestly. You will know instantly whether you are destined for success, and if you aren’t you’ll know what you have to work on.
People with the Millionaire Mindset take 100% responsibility.
If you haven’t succeeded at life yet, I can almost guarantee you are doing one of two things. You are either blaming or justifying. You blame others for your mistakes and failures, or you blame yourself. Or worse yet, you make excuses. You are too young, too old, too busy or too poor. Some obstacle has stopped you, and that’s just the way it is.
People with the millionaire mindset don’t make excuses, and they don’t lay the blame on others. Sure there are obstacles in our past or present circumstances, but successful people take responsibility to make changes in their lives. This isn’t always easy, but honestly, there is no other solution. No one is going to make those changes for you.
You are the only one who can make it happen.
People with the Millionaire Mindset control their thoughts.
You may have heard the axim: “You become what you think about most of the time.” This is the ultimate success principle, and all successful people take it very seriously. If they dwell on the lack in their lives, that lack will take control, and they will spiral down in to worse and worse poverty.
So, they choose carefully what they will think about. They spend their time thinking about what they want instead of what they don’t want.
One study has shown that 85% of our self talk is negative. This is NOT the millionaire mindset.
In order to change what you think about, you need to learn to ask the right question. Don’t ask “Why is this happening to me?” ask “What can I learn from this challenge?” or “How can I benefit from this opportunity?”
People with the Millionaire Mindset search for mentors and build strong networks.
The only people who can help you are the ones who are more successful than you are. You need their influence and advice in order to succeed. Look for people who have the power to help you, and develop your relationship with them. Build a team around you with the same purpose you have. Meet regularly to share ideas, and hold each other accountable.
Surround yourself with positive, successful people and honest friends. Search for mentors, and learn from successful people as much as you can.
There you have it. The three basic secrets to developing the millionaire mindset. Don’t wait for the perfect time to start changing. It will never come. Take responsibility. Choose what you will think about, surround yourself with successful people and build strong networks starting today. You will be amazed at the results.
Time management is a universal problem.
Do you have the millionaire mindset? Studies have shown that all successful people share certain qualities. It would follow, then that in order to be a success, you will have to develop these qualities. Read them honestly. You will know instantly whether you are destined for success, and if you aren’t you’ll know what you have to work on.