Success Is All I want

5 Steps to Being Rich

2014-12-03T04:32:00.000-08:00

THIS IS VERY NECESSARY IF YOU WANT TO RUN FROM POVERTY:

5 Steps to Being Rich

Do you want to be rich? Is being rich important to you? Are you wondering how to be wealthy? Well, here are five steps to help you on your way to being rich.

First, start saving. Rich people save all the time. They do not tend to spend money on lots of unnecessary items. They make sure that they put aside money and save it.
Being rich means a slow accumulation of wealth. Unless you hit it big you will not get all this money really fast. Therefore, if you want to be rich you need to start saving money.

Second, don’t buy luxury items. Studies show that rich people actually buy luxury items a lot less than poor people. Look in your garage. Do you have a Mercedes? Or, do you own a Toyota? Studies show that millionaires tend to own Toyotas much more
than Mercedes. What does this mean?
This means that they are not spending money on getting something just for status.
Instead, they are spending money and looking at items as things of utility. So, a Toyota and a Mercedes are both cars. They will both get you from one point to another. Why buy a car that is much more expensive? Instead, buy items that are useful and don’t spend extra to gain status.

Third, think of ways to earn extra income. Rich people work very hard. Money is not just given to them. Some of them work multiple jobs to save up. After you have additional cash to invest, you may not have to work multiple jobs. But in the beginning you will have to figure out how to make the most money as fast as possible. Get a second job. Do additional consulting on the side. You will never be
rich if you do not work extra hard.

Four-Stop passing over opportunities reapeatedly The full meaning of POOR is actually "passing over opportunities repeatedly" What most people are good at is
passing over opportunities reapeatedly, so tell, me why wont they be poor? I've shared several lifechanging info/opportunities with some of my subscribers within the last 3months.
But because of the meager N5,000/10,000 naira that they need to acquire this life changing info, some of them decided to tag it as scam and because of this, most of them decided to pass it over. Maybe you are even one of them. No wonder why the rich
would continue to get richer and the poor poorer, you know why? because the rich would always look for opportunities to multiply his/her wealth irrespective of the risk involved.
But Some people on the other hand ,would remain poor because they are so scared of risking the only money that they have got. Small time, they will start blaming the Government/parents for their poverty/joblessness. Your being poor/Jobless is your fault. Stop holding people responsible for it.

You expect people to pity you and give you things for free. Good things are not free and good things do not come cheap either. Life is all about risk. The rich are risk takers. If you want to be rich/wealthy, you must be ready to pay the price. You will
remain poor until you change your mentality. If every opportunity you see continues to look like a scam to you, then sorry to say this, you would only remain poorer. So change your mentality today. Every opportunity you see on the net is not a SCAM

Finally, learn to invest. Rich people know how to invest their money. Whether it is buying real estate or stocks or any other types of items, rich people know what to invest in and how to manage their money. If you don’t know how to invest, take a course or read up on line. Learn as much as you can about investing. It is important
to manage your money wisely. A rich person can turn one dollar into $10. Can you do that?

Being rich and prosperous is about knowing the right way to do things and having the fundamentals. Make sure you have the skills above so you to get know how to be wealthy

Success Tips For Maximum Achievement

2014-10-20T23:39:00.000-07:00

1. "Good is the Enemy of Great." Get rid of the good to make room for the great in your life. Instead of keeping the main thing the main thing, we major in too many minor things. In other words, many people do a few things that are good, a lot of things that are mediocre, but nothing that is GREAT. Find the ONE thing you can be the best in the world at and focus unrelentingly on improving that one thing, polishing it to perfection. Choose great over good in ALL areas of your life! It is far better to have a few great things than a lot of good or mediocre things. Instead of having six cheap shirts that you don’t feel so great in, have one fine quality shirt that you can feel proud to wear and that makes you feel like a million bucks! Instead of having five or six ho-hum paintings to decorate your walls, invest in ONE magnificent masterpiece that leaves you breathless and enriches your soul every time you look at it! Instead of going to the usual cottage retreat every long-weekend, save up your money and go on one GREAT vacation that you’ve always dreamed of like going on a European boat-cruise, snorkeling in the Red Sea, or taking an art class in Paris. Instead of many mediocre friendships, have a few great friendships that energize and inspire you and that you can spend quality time fostering deeper relationships. You get the point. Greatness is a choice! And choice is the democratic equalizer of all people. Everyone, regardless of their rank, social status or income level has the power to choose great over good.

2. Commit to an annual theme. Instead of making and breaking a number of well-wished but half-hearted New Year’s Resolutions, commit to an annual or lifetime theme. Pick a theme that defines your singular life purpose or what you are most passionate about and stick to it. For example, my theme is: "Write First!" I have this theme posted right in front of me above my computer. My purpose is to write. I write first and ask questions later. I focus on writing (or things related to developing my writing) first and then worry about the urgent but non-important interruptions (paying bills, answering calls and emails, responding to invitations, etc.) that plague everyone. This theme takes precedence over everything else except my spiritual relationship with my Creator. The only exception to this rule would be a genuinely important priority that falls in one of my top values in life or attending to a family emergency. Your main theme for 2006 could be "Family First!" or "Health First!" or "Listen First!" or "Service Above Self." Just pick one and commit to it. Beside your main theme, make a list of your top values such as love, health, giving, peace, wealth, etc. to ground yourself and distinguish between important and non-important but urgent matters. In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin listed thirteen virtues (Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Cleanliness, Tranquility, Chastity, and Humility) to which he governed his life and gave a week’s strict attention to mastering one virtue at a time repeating the list in order every thirteen weeks.

3. Practice a policy of planned neglect. In other words, once you have established your theme or singular purpose (the one thing you can be the best in the world at) get into the habit of practicing your main habit FIRST before anything else. Everything else that’s non-important can get neglected and keep getting put-off. In other words, your daily to-do list will keep changing around your main theme which will remain constant – with very few exceptions.

4. Make a stop doing list. I’m not sure where I first heard this idea, but I borrowed it most recently from Jim Collin’s book, "Good to Great." Too many people have important to-do lists that keep getting longer and longer. But very few people have ‘stop-doing’ lists. Make a list of everything you are doing that is not contributing to your core genius or main purpose and core values – and stop doing it! Forget about your image and what other people will think, and STOP doing what’s not great in your life.

5. Be Simple. Get rid of the good to make room for the great. Literally! Get rid of the junk in your basement and file folders! Anything you haven’t touched or looked at in a year you probably need to get rid of it. Donate books and magazines you haven’t read and clothes you know you’re never going to wear. Empty your mind and physical space of unnecessary clutter and make room for abundance! (Daily meditation is a great way to empty the mind and allow new inspiration)

. 6. Make HEALTH a priority NOW! Get a full physical check-up at least once a year. If something’s bothering you or you don’t feel right about something, get it checked out IMMEDIATELY! Don’t wait, until it’s too late. Take a proactive approach to your health by taking preventative measures, eating healthy and exercising regularly. And make LOVE a top priority. If you haven’t taken the time to tell your loved ones how deeply you value and love them, then make time for it now. Are you still reading this article? WHY? Pick-up your phone, right now, and call your doctor to make that appointment! Call your loved ones now and book some real quality time together. Life is short and fragile. You may never get the chance again.

7. Dreams. The dream is a window into your soul, a gateway into the unseen world, giving access to the unknown and revealing the invisible behind all that is visible. In his book, "Psychology of the Hero Soul," (http://www.herosoul.com) Sharif Khan mentioned the importance of dreams and how to harness your dreams to awaken your creative potential. I can’t stress enough how important it is to get into the habit of jotting down your dreams and making an effort to interpret them. It is a great way to develop self-awareness and self-understanding and will enrich your life in many, many unforeseen ways. Self-awareness and self-acceptance is so important in developing your self-esteem. Take the time to seriously ask yourself, "Who am I and what’s my purpose in life?" Write down your strengths and weakness, your highest ambitions and deepest fears, and make a list of everything you enjoy doing and all your hobbies. Take some personality tests to gain deeper understanding of who you are.

8. Face the brutal facts! Never hide from reality. Always get the hard facts about any situation you are facing. It doesn’t matter if you have a Harvard MBA and are the world’s greatest optimist if you pick the wrong location to open up a retail business! Likewise, face the brutal facts about yourself. If you haven’t even come close to achieving your dreams and goals, you need to honestly ask yourself why you haven’t reached your goals and figure out what has been preventing you. A great way to accomplish this is to ask a few friends you trust and who know you the following question: "How do you see me limiting myself?" Once you have the facts and fully understand the problem, spend over eighty percent of your time focusing on the solution.

9. ASK for help! If you need help, ask for it. If you don’t ask, you don’t get. Ask for the sale, ask for the date, ask for support. Stop worrying about your image, reject the rejection, and ASK! But don’t just be a taker. Please also give. Earn the right to ask by being a giver. Be a generous giver because whatever you put out into the world will return multiplied. The hero’s journey is about following your bliss, and doing what you love to do in service to others. "Service above self," is a great motto to adopt.

10. Take Action! In my Hero Soul book, I have dedicated an entire chapter on taking action. The great succeed by taking continuous and concerted action toward a singular objective. And they continue to take unrelenting, consistent action for a period of years before becoming overnight successes. If you do just five new things every day towards achieving your biggest dream, you will one day be living your dream and as Thoreau once said, ‘meet with a success unexpected in common hours.’ But if you aren’t going to take action on the advice in this article, why the heck are you reading it? Move on to something else! One of my favorite movies is "The Shawshank Redemption" (based on Stephen King’s short story, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption) about a successful banker, Andy Dufresne, who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife. I’m sure many of you have seen it. For nineteen years Dufresne quietly chips away at his goal to escape by literally chipping the wall in his cell – a little bit every day – until one day he reaches his goal and escapes. His jail buddy, Red, comments that all it took "was pressure and time." I don’t think I’ve ever seen any movie replayed so many times on TV. It really intrigued me. So I did some research and found out that according to IMDB, The Shawshank Redemption is the second most popular movie of all time with The Godfather taking first place! That’s quite the accomplishment given how long The Godfather has been out. Why is this movie so popular? I don’t really know the answer. But I think it’s because many people feel like they’re living in a prison and have been given a life sentence to doing work they really hate. They want to break free from their shackles. More than anything else, they want FREEDOM! And Shawshank delivers that moment of freedom. It’s a beautiful story that makes the soul weep with joy and provides the hope and promise of being human. The great thing about Shawshank is that it also provides a solution: by quietly chipping away at your main goal and consistently taking action everyday, you will achieve the success and freedom you have been longing for. With ‘pressure and time’ you can take the darkest coal and turn it into the most brilliant, most magnificent diamond the world has ever seen.

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Creating Multiples Streams of Income

2014-10-15T07:46:00.000-07:00

If you desire to create multiple streams of income in today's new economy you have to master the basics of wealth attraction according to universal law. Universal law says that whatever we sow, we reap. Now think about that for a minute. Creating multiple streams of income from home has now become a worldwide phenomenon for serious stay at home Moms, dads, retired people, even top business executives, who are now out of the work force due to their companies downsizing. All these people today has at their disposal a means of learning how to create multiple streams of income on part time hours.
The amount you can earn is totally up to you, which is why the idea of multi streams of income is attractive to so many different people. And if you are reading this right now, you are probably one of those people. No worrie's! There's a good reason why you attracted this information to you. Your value is what you bring to the market place.
Because of the rapid growth in awareness of the unending false sense of security in jobs today, people are beginning to realize that it is wise to create multiple streams of income as their "plan b" for safety. And I must say, it is a tough choice for most people to make that kind of shift. However, people fail to realize that inorder to create multiple streams of income, they have to give up something of a lower nature inorder to obtain something of a higher nature.
Let me explain.
The reason why someone wants to create multiple streams of income could be to:

take control of their financial future.
to travel all over the world
to work from the comfort of their own homes.
spend time with their loved ones
live out their passion and purpose in life.
perhaps even become a lifetime multi-millionaire

Now that we've gone through what some of those reasons could be, lets take a look at what something of a higher nature could give you? A wealthy lifestyle with the freedom to do what you want, when you want, with whomever you want.
What will something of a lower nature give you? can you take a guess?…
A mediocre lifestyle that puts you in the category of the 98% of the population who have no dreams, no visions, who rely on the federal government, their employer or family and friends for their main source of income. Now here is where you need to make the mindset shift. Instead of just settling for a regular paycheck from an employer (who dictates what your life is worth to them), you could be smart and invest that money strategically in a part time home based business that has the potential to create multiple income streams for you. That sounds pretty good, right? Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump who are money making masters, stated that your money should work for you…you don't have to trade your precious life for it!.

The main problem for many people is that they don't have enough money to make new money. If you don't change your mindset to that of the wealthy, it can seem as though you're never going to break that cycle of living paycheck to paycheck and get ahead.
However, investing in an online home based business opportunity is the best way to start creating multiple income streams. While most of us are familiar with how investing works, we tend to look at investing as though it is an evil thing, and something that should be avoided at all costs. While this is true to some extent, especially if you are using your investing in the bad way, there is a form of investing that is actually quite beneficial.
You can leverage good investing to gain something of a higher nature. Bad investing is money you spend on credit for things that are completely useless. For example: You can invest in stocks or a home business, and have it return your original investment ten fold, or you can go into debt to buy a flat screen television that is never going to do anything than provide entertainment and collect duvst. This is the main difference between bad and good investment. Using your money to make you money, is the key to creating multiple streams of income. The best stories of the self made entrepreneurs always include the part where they had to get a loan, either from the bank or a friend, to invest in something they believed in. Years later that investment paid off big time in the form of millions of dollars. This exact same technique will work for anyone, provided you know how to be a strategic entreprenuer and sow your seed in multiple channels where you can reap multiple times.

Dreaming Of Achieving Success In life?

2013-08-22T08:14:00.002-07:00

If the answer to that question is a resounding Yes!, you are not alone since billions of people out there in the world are having the exact same dream. If that's the case, how come the people who do achieve success in life still only represent a tiny fraction of the whole multitude?

Have you ever asked yourself why it is so? Well, I sure did and I found out that many of us are taking a lot of things for granted in our lives and this causes us to lose our own opportunities to finally taste success.

Do You Know the Formula Of Success In Life? To tell you the truth, there is, unfortunately, no such thing as a formula for success in life. If you think about it, that would mean that no rich person would have ever been a failure. To reach success, you must fight to reach it through extreme perseverance and determination.

Want to know another secret ingredient to success: hard work! In fact, success is a capsule combination, as without hard work, perseverance and determination will have no meaning at all. As in many other things in life, there is no doubt that success also comes at a price.

You will be among the few lucky ones if you find that price negotiable. But, don't forget that a great number of successful people realize that the price is sometimes too high. They will also find it quite difficult to bear, particularly when this translates in neglecting their spouse, letting life passing them by while they focus only on their goals and even neglecting their children.

Success in life also depends on other factors. Think simply at the ability to stay focused even if the worst obstacles come in your path, the ability to believe in yourself when things don't go as planned, the ability to see your goal clearly all the time and, best of all, the ability to dream and do everything you can to reach out for that dream absolutely convinced that it can become a reality. If you interview some people who have achieved success in life, the majority will tell you that they never courted success. No. They simply did what they loved, but did it well. Success just happened during that process. So, you want a formula for success in life? Well, this might be the closest you can get to having one. Simply be passionate about what you're doing. It might be work, relationship, a better you, sport performance, etc. Do what it takes to be the best there is in your field; success will just happen along because you believe it can. Do you know the biggest difficulty out there in achieving success in life? It's not the obstacles that you will encounter in your path. Rather, it will be the temptation to quit and stop struggling. The greatest difficulty that you will ever encounter on your road to success is fighting against this temptation. However, if you can fight this temptation and the day that you'll be in complete control and stop considering quitting, I can promise you that you will be able to achieve total success in life. Published at: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=293350&ca=Self+Help - See more at: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=293350&ca=Self+Help#sthash.zuIE5wu4.dpuf

Achieving Success In Life

2013-08-22T07:30:00.000-07:00

Achieving success in life is a journey, full of trials and tribulations, ups and downs, the good and the bad but most of all its one big learning experience. When you realize that you are not the only person who goes through bad circumstances or bad situations, things become a bit clearer. Everybody has negative impacts of some kind in life and that should help you realize that you are not alone in this world. Achieving success is largely about how you respond to those negative situations and how well you pick your self back up and continue fighting for your dreams. It is your dreams and nobody else is going to fight for them for you. It is up to you to define those dreams and fight to achieve them.

Defining Your Success Your success story cannot be built by anybody else, it cannot be written by anybody else because you are the one with the pen. You must define your own success. Figure out what it is that you most enjoy in life, where you see yourself years from now and what you want to accomplish in life. These are the questions you need to ask yourself in order to define your success. Take time out to really find out where you see your life going and what direction you really want it to go in. Your life is much like a game of chess, checkers or even dominoes, you have to think ahead of time about what you want to achieve.

Then you have to figure out how you can achieve that within your next couple moves. When figuring out what you want to achieve in life and what you view being successful in life really means to you, you can then use that as your definition of success. Once your success is defined then you make the necessary steps to attaining that success. Knowing Your Value and Purpose Every human being is created equally but also created uniquely as well.

Do you believe it was just by chance that you were born with the qualities you have? With the faults that you have? Or do you believe it was an accident that you were blessed with the family you were born into? I don’t think chance or accident are words that cover my life and all the variables in my life and I don’t believe you should denounce your life to chance or accident. I wake up every morning and open my eyes, breathe fresh air and I thank the Lord for waking me another morning. After thanking God for another day I take a moment to appreciate all of his creations, the birds, the trees, the land and the sky. All of these things have a life of their own and they all play an integral part in this great universe that we live in. All animals, reptiles and insects play their part in the food chain, even when we think certain insects may simply be useless (i.e. mosquitoes) but in the grand scheme of things they play a part. Everything with a life force on this planet does what it is suppose to do effortlessly and harmoniously with the universe. Man was made in the image of the Lord, birds weren’t made in his image, neither was any other animal but we human beings were blessed and made in his image and placed here on Earth to rule over all his creations.

We were made the most unique and complex of all his creations and we were made with a purpose. Everything else has a purpose and a reason for being here and so do we, it is for us to find out what that purpose is so that we can spend more time working to fulfill that purpose. Once we understand our purpose, our dreams will become clearer to us. How do you find out what your purpose in life is? You ask your creator. Only the creator of an invention can tell you what the function of that invention is. You are totally unique and like nothing else in this world, so stand out to the world like that, shine the way that you were made to shine, fulfill your purpose! Accomplishing Your Goals Since you were crafted to perfection by the greatest craftsman of them all and you were so uniquely made that there is nothing else like you on this planet, you should believe in yourself. I mean you are unique which makes you just as special as any other person out there. So why is it that other people should be allowed to enjoy the benefits of being successful and wealthy but not you? There is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to reap the benefits of success.

You must admit to yourself that if you are not as successful as you want to be at this very moment you are probably doing something wrong. if you can admit that your own way is foolish and you are no longer interesting in living how you were living before then we can truly start to see some progress. Accomplishing your goals is a matter of discipline and determination. “The reason so many people fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place.” – Denis Waitley

You first need to set your goals and understand the work it is going to take to achieve those goals. Even if you have no idea what exactly you are going to do to achieve them. Knowing what your goals are is a big enough step at first. You want to set long-term goals for your self as well as short-term goals. Long-term goals for trying to accomplish your lifetime goals and short-term goals as progress points and milestones to keep you focused on achieving your lifetime success. You need to have more than just a good idea as to the amount of work necessary to accomplishing your dreams and goals. You want to make an effective plan. Your plan will be your blueprint to achieving success and accomplishing your goals. “People don’t PLAN to FAIL, they simply FAIL to PLAN.”

Planning is an essential part of achieving success because no business, no corporation or no state was built without a plan. Many people have dreams, many set goals but without a plan to execute, in order to work towards those dreams and those goals, you merely have nothing. Action has to be taken in order to get through your journey to success. Have a clear definition of what success means to you and have a clear vision of yourself being successful. Understand how much value you offer to this world and figure out what your purpose is and your vision of success will become clearer. With a definition of success and a vision, you only need to equipped yourself with a plan and take action by executing it. Your success is only just around the bend. Learn to be successful, live in success and empower others through your success.

To Your Success!

HOW TO BE THE BEST AT YOUR WORK PLACE

2013-01-25T03:00:00.000-08:00

Tip #1 – Don't Make Enemies
If you want to be successful in the workplace, there's a good chance that you'll end up locking horns with a few people on the way. However, at the end of the day, it is vital that you don't take these disputes personally; and work hard to avoid making enemies.
Tip #2 – Generate High-Quality Work
At the end of the day, the quality of work that you produce will determine whether your boss thinks that you are barely fit to carry out your current job; or whether you are over-qualified and should be promoted.
Tip #3 – Share Your Work and Ideas with Others
If you have good ideas, then share them with others. Let your co-workers and bosses benefit from your insights. Occasionally, you might get no credit for this, but over time, the praise you receive here and there will help to improve your profile within the company.
Tip #4 – Be Honest with Follow Co-Workers and Higher-Ups
Above all else, honesty is an important quality in the workplace. Being honest with your co-workers and your boss means that they can trust you and come to you for advice in the future.
Tip #5 – Be a Self-Starter
One of the most clearly identifiable traits of successful individuals is their ability to self-start. Instead of needing to be pushed around by bosses, they take action immediately and accomplish tasks on their own. If you want to get promoted, you should also get in the habit of doing this.
Tip #6 – Collaborate When Asked
Team work is an essential component of success in any business endeavor. This is why it is essential that you learn how to collaborate with your peers and colleagues and practice it regularly.
Tip #7 – Always Be Early or On Time
When you're late to a meeting, everyone notices, including your boss. This is why it is vital to be early or on time, so that you don't stick out as a bad example.
Tip #8 – Think and Contribute Critically
When you're at meetings or when a co-worker or boss asks for advice, think critically and try to make an important contribution. Don't let the words go in one ear and other the other.
Tip #9 – Don't Sit Quietly at Meetings
If you want to be successful in the workplace, you cannot sit passively at meetings. Instead, you must take charge and make comments. Get recognized; and make important contributions.
Tip #10 – Empathize with Co-Workers and Higher-Ups
Empathy is important. Getting it from others makes you feel wanted and cared for. And giving it to others will improve your status within the company. It will show people that they can come to you if others do not understand their position.
Tip #11 – Don't Make Enemies
If you want to be successful in the workplace, there's a good chance that you'll end up locking horns with a few people on the way. However, at the end of the day, it is vital that you don't take these disputes personally; and work hard to avoid making enemies.
Tip #12 – Generate High-Quality Work
At the end of the day, the quality of work that you produce will determine whether your boss thinks that you are barely fit to carry out your current job; or whether you are over-qualified and should be promoted.
Tip #13 – Share Your Work and Ideas with Others
If you have good ideas, then share them with others. Let your co-workers and bosses benefit from your insights. Occasionally, you might get no credit for this, but over time, the praise you receive here and there will help to improve your profile within the company.
Tip #14 – Be Honest with Follow Co-Workers and Higher-Ups
Above all else, honesty is an important quality in the workplace. Being honest with your co-workers and your boss means that they can trust you and come to you for advice in the future.
Tip #15 – Be a Self-Starter
One of the most clearly identifiable traits of successful individuals is their ability to self-start. Instead of needing to be pushed around by bosses, they take action immediately and accomplish tasks on their own. If you want to get promoted, you should also get in the habit of doing this.

SUCCESS TIPS - ATTITUDE & DISCIPLINE

2011-10-06T11:34:00.000-07:00

1. Be persistent and give yourself time for momentum to kick in.

2. Make up in numbers what you lack in skills.

3. Celebrate success at every step.

4. Learn to manage the opinions - everyone has a right to have one - never make it personal.

5. You are not the message, you are the messenger.

6. Your family and friends may not understand the journey you are on.

7. Everything works when we work.

8. If you get overwhelmed and confused, go back to doing the basics.

9. Pass the three-part test - loyalty, work habits, consistency.

10. Have a warrior spirit. Set objectives and take action every day.

11. Make a commitment to any new activity. Succeeding at something is about taking not making a decision.

12. Being successful is the ability to continue with your plan long after the emotion and circumstances surrounding your original decision has passed.

13. Your confidence is what makes you attractive in the market place. People buy people they know, like and trust.

14. Avoid negative thinking and negative people that bring you down and steal your dreams.

15. FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real. Feel the fear and do it anyway. Growth comes from stepping outside your comfort zone.

16. Run to your fears. The place where your greatest fears live is also the place where your greatest growth lies. (Robin Sharma)

17. An ounce of action is worth a ton of ebooks.

18. All excuses are equal and none of them count.

10 Success Tips For Maximum Achievement

2011-09-13T22:10:00.000-07:00

First off, I would echo the voice of 18th century French philosopher Voltaire, made popular and relevant in today’s leadership lexicon by "Good to Great" author Jim Collins, who said, "Good is the Enemy of Great."

1. "Good is the Enemy of Great." Get rid of the good to make room for the great in your life. Instead of keeping the main thing the main thing, we major in too many minor things. In other words, many people do a few things that are good, a lot of things that are mediocre, but nothing that is GREAT.

Find the ONE thing you can be the best in the world at and focus unrelentingly on improving that one thing, polishing it to perfection.

Choose great over good in ALL areas of your life! It is far better to have a few great things than a lot of good or mediocre things.

Instead of having six cheap shirts that you don’t feel so great in, have one fine quality shirt that you can feel proud to wear and that makes you feel like a million bucks! Instead of having five or six ho-hum paintings to decorate your walls, invest in ONE magnificent masterpiece that leaves you breathless and enriches your soul every time you look at it! Instead of going to the usual cottage retreat every long-weekend, save up your money and go on one GREAT vacation that you’ve always dreamed of like going on a European boat-cruise, snorkeling in the Red Sea, or taking an art class in Paris. Instead of many mediocre friendships, have a few great friendships that energize and inspire you and that you can spend quality time fostering deeper relationships. You get the point.

Greatness is a choice! And choice is the democratic equalizer of all people. Everyone, regardless of their rank, social status or income level has the power to choose great over good.

2. Commit to an annual theme. Instead of making and breaking a number of well-wished but half-hearted New Year’s Resolutions, commit to an annual or lifetime theme. Pick a theme that defines your singular life purpose or what you are most passionate about and stick to it.

For example, my theme is: "Write First!" I have this theme posted right in front of me above my computer. My purpose is to write.

I write first and ask questions later. I focus on writing (or things related to developing my writing) first and then worry about the urgent but non-important interruptions (paying bills, answering calls and emails, responding to invitations, etc.) that plague everyone. This theme takes precedence over everything else except my spiritual relationship with my Creator. The only exception to this rule would be a genuinely important priority that falls in one of my top values in life or attending to a family emergency.

Your main theme for 2006 could be "Family First!" or "Health First!" or "Listen First!" or "Service Above Self." Just pick one and commit to it.

Beside your main theme, make a list of your top values such as love, health, giving, peace, wealth, etc. to ground yourself and distinguish between important and non-important but urgent matters. In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin listed thirteen virtues (Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Cleanliness, Tranquility, Chastity, and Humility) to which he governed his life and gave a week’s strict attention to mastering one virtue at a time repeating the list in order every thirteen weeks.

3. Practice a policy of planned neglect. In other words, once you have established your theme or singular purpose (the one thing you can be the best in the world at) get into the habit of practicing your main habit FIRST before anything else.

Everything else that’s non-important can get neglected and keep getting put-off. In other words, your daily to-do list will keep changing around your main theme which will remain constant – with very few exceptions.

4. Make a stop doing list. I’m not sure where I first heard this idea, but I borrowed it most recently from Jim Collin’s book, "Good to Great." Too many people have important to-do lists that keep getting longer and longer. But very few people have ‘stop-doing’ lists. Make a list of everything you are doing that is not contributing to your core genius or main purpose and core values – and stop doing it! Forget about your image and what other people will think, and STOP doing what’s not great in your life.

5. Be Simple. Get rid of the good to make room for the great. Literally! Get rid of the junk in your basement and file folders!

Anything you haven’t touched or looked at in a year you probably need to get rid of it. Donate books and magazines you haven’t read and clothes you know you’re never going to wear. Empty your mind and physical space of unnecessary clutter and make room for abundance! (Daily meditation is a great way to empty the mind and allow new inspiration).

6. Make HEALTH a priority NOW! Get a full physical check-up at least once a year. If something’s bothering you or you don’t feel right about something, get it checked out IMMEDIATELY! Don’t wait, until it’s too late. Take a proactive approach to your health by taking preventative measures, eating healthy and exercising regularly. And make LOVE a top priority. If you haven’t taken the time to tell your loved ones how deeply you value and love them, then make time for it now.

Are you still reading this article? WHY? Pick-up your phone, right now, and call your doctor to make that appointment! Call your loved ones now and book some real quality time together. Life is short and fragile. You may never get the chance again.

7. Dreams. The dream is a window into your soul, a gateway into the unseen world, giving access to the unknown and revealing the invisible behind all that is visible. In my book, "Psychology of the Hero Soul," (http://www.herosoul.com; Chapter 14; pg. 77)I mention the importance of dreams and how to harness your dreams to awaken your creative potential. I can’t stress enough how important it is to get into the habit of jotting down your dreams and making an effort to interpret them. It is a great way to develop self-awareness and self-understanding and will enrich your life in many, many unforeseen ways.

Self-awareness and self-acceptance is so important in developing your self-esteem. Take the time to seriously ask yourself, "Who am I and what’s my purpose in life?" Write down your strengths and weakness, your highest ambitions and deepest fears, and make a list of everything you enjoy doing and all your hobbies. Take some personality tests to gain deeper understanding of who you are.

8. Face the brutal facts! Never hide from reality. Always get the hard facts about any situation you are facing. It doesn’t matter if you have a Harvard MBA and are the world’s greatest optimist if you pick the wrong location to open up a retail business!

Likewise, face the brutal facts about yourself. If you haven’t even come close to achieving your dreams and goals, you need to honestly ask yourself why you haven’t reached your goals and figure out what has been preventing you. A great way to accomplish this is to ask a few friends you trust and who know you the following question: "How do you see me limiting myself?" (I have Jack Canfield to thank for this great question).

Once you have the facts and fully understand the problem, spend over eighty percent of your time focusing on the solution.

9. ASK for help! If you need help, ask for it. If you don’t ask, you don’t get. Ask for the sale, ask for the date, ask for support. Stop worrying about your image, reject the rejection, and ASK!

But don’t just be a taker. Please also give. Earn the right to ask by being a giver. Be a generous giver because whatever you put out into the world will return multiplied. The hero’s journey is about following your bliss, and doing what you love to do in service to others. "Service above self," is a great motto to adopt.

10. Take Action! In my Hero Soul book, I have dedicated an entire chapter on taking action. The great succeed by taking continuous and concerted action toward a singular objective. And they continue to take unrelenting, consistent action for a period of years before becoming overnight successes.

If you do just five new things every day towards achieving your biggest dream, you will one day be living your dream and as Thoreau once said, ‘meet with a success unexpected in common hours.’

But if you aren’t going to take action on the advice in this article, why the heck are you reading it? Move on to something else!

One of my favorite movies is "The Shawshank Redemption" (based on Stephen King’s short story, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption) about a successful banker, Andy Dufresne, who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife. I’m sure many of you have seen it.

For nineteen years Dufresne quietly chips away at his goal to escape by literally chipping the wall in his cell – a little bit every day – until one day he reaches his goal and escapes.

His jail buddy, Red, comments that all it took "was pressure and time."

I don’t think I’ve ever seen any movie replayed so many times on TV. It really intrigued me. So I did some research and found out that according to IMDB, The Shawshank Redemption is the second most popular movie of all time with The Godfather taking first place! That’s quite the accomplishment given how long The Godfather has been out.

Why is this movie so popular? I don’t really know the answer. But I think it’s because many people feel like they’re living in a prison and have been given a life sentence to doing work they really hate. They want to break free from their shackles.

More than anything else, they want FREEDOM! And Shawshank delivers that moment of freedom. It’s a beautiful story that makes the soul weep with joy and provides the hope and promise of being human.

The great thing about Shawshank is that it also provides a solution: by quietly chipping away at your main goal and consistently taking action everyday, you will achieve the success and freedom you have been longing for. With ‘pressure and time’ you can take the darkest coal and turn it into the most brilliant, most magnificent diamond the world has ever seen.

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Six Secrets Of Motivating Yourself For Success

2011-09-05T13:11:00.000-07:00

Are you creating your foundation of success? Are you motivated to take on challenges that others are not willing to do? The following is a story of someone who did and achieved great success in his life and how you can, too!

There once was a young man who grew up in Crawford, Mississippi. His father worked as a brick mason building home foundations. Everyday after school and during the summers, this young man would help his father build foundations. It's not the most glamorous job by any stretch of the imagination, but it's an honest, backbreaking, and low paying job that put food on the table and paid the bills. The father would start by throwing bricks towards the son in the area where they would build a housing foundation. Under the hot, sweltering Mississippi sun, his son would catch brick after brick with his hands, day after day. While most other kids were enjoying their summers or working in less strenuous jobs, this young man was motivated to work long and hard with his father, while catching those bricks and building a foundation for success in more ways than one.

You see, each time that young man caught bricks, he was not only making his hands stronger, he was building character and the foundation for success in his later years. With each brick he caught, he was even more determined to be successful in life. When he wasn’t helping his father and going to school, he was pushing himself through football workouts to be better than any other football player. You see the young man's name is Jerry Rice, and he went on to become the most successful NFL All-Pro wide receiver of all time with the San Francisco 49ers. Some of you non-football fans may know him as a contestant from the television program, “Dancing with the Stars.”

The following are the six success secrets that Jerry Rice used that can easily motivate you to achieve success in any aspect of your business, career, and life:

1. Motivate Yourself to See Opportunities in Every Challenge – Jerry could have looked at the job of catching bricks as a chore that was a waste of his time. But he saw the big picture and made the chore more enjoyable by developing games out of the activities. Many times in life, we are thrown bricks and complain and miss the opportunity it presents to us. The person who can find solutions in the challenges they are faced with can write their own ticket for success. When you take on a challenge, it’s preparing you for an opportunity in the future. You may not know when the opportunity is coming, how it is coming, or what the opportunity will look like, but it is coming; and will you be prepared? Embrace your challenges so you will be prepared.

2. Motivate Yourself to See That It’s Normal to Experience a Little Pain – As Jerry was experiencing the pain of catching bricks each day, this pain was actually building him to becoming a stronger person. Each brick was fueling Jerry’s internal desire to be successful. Think of some situation at work, in business, or in life that was painful. Your pain may be an embarrassing moment, it may be a learning experience, and it may be a setback. How can you use this setback to motivate you to become more successful? We achieve success in our businesses, careers, and life when we develop the success tools of using our “pains” as a learning experience and a springboard to success.

3. Motivate Yourself to Take on Unpopular Tasks – Catching bricks all day is not the most glamorous job in the world. Many times we are thrown bricks in life and avoid them like the plague. Volunteer to catch these bricks while others decline. This will allow people of influence to see your special skills and offer you opportunities for success. It is what I always say, “It’s not what you know, it’s not who you know, it’s who knows what you know.” When you volunteer to catch those bricks, you allow others to now know and see the special skills and talent you exhibit.

4. Motivate Yourself To Take Action – Just the simple act of taking action will make you more successful than 98% of other people. Many times people are waiting for “just the right moment” or “more resources.” Motivate yourself to take action where you are at today and make the appropriate corrections as needed.

5. Motivate Yourself to Go the Extra Mile – Jerry Rice’s off-season personal football workouts were legendary. He would train six days a week running five miles, along with running wind sprints up the steepest mountains in his community. He didn’t need to do this grueling workout, but he wanted to be in better physical shape than any other professional football player. He went the extra mile to be the best.

What are you doing to go the extra mile? Do you have a continuous learning program in place? Do you give of yourself to make your employees better? Do you give your clients something extra to show appreciation of their business? These are all opportunities to put you above the rest and to succeed in your business, in your career, and in your life.

6. Motivate Yourself to Create a Masterpiece – Jerry Rice wanted to be the best professional wide receiver ever in football, and he achieved that title. He was motivated to pay the price to achieve that goal.

Are you motivated and ready to create a masterpiece? Do you have a vision of what your business, career, or life masterpiece looks, feels, or sounds like? Are you willing to sustain the quality effort, attitude, and determination to create your masterpiece? What are you willing to give up in order to achieve your masterpiece? Until you are ready to answer these questions, you can’t lay the foundation for achieving your masterpiece.

After you answer the above questions, create S-M-A-R-T-E-R goals as your roadmap for success. If it’s not on paper, your goals don’t exist. Be motivated to create, write, and act on your goals.

Follow these six success secrets and you, too, will be motivated to lay the foundation for your success.

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Important Notice

What You Need To Do To Be Successful

2011-09-05T11:50:00.000-07:00

What do you need to do to be successful? If you are searching the net you may feel that you need to sign up for the latest affiliate marketing programme. Or perhaps you need to be a member of the latest MLM scheme. On the other hand it may be that you need to follow the directions of the latest web marketing guru. Each of theses routes give you the opportunity of being successful but without courage, zeal and enthusiasm you will join the ranks of the 80% plus who fail.

You need the courage to identify your dream. Your passion. You need the courage to stick with the process while you concretise your focus and then to stay the course when others are telling you that it is a stupid idea and will never work.

To start your own business is difficult enough. It becomes virtually impossible when you select something that only looks good or looks interesting and you don’t have passion for. To be successful you must identify your true calling in life. Your passion. Can you imagine what the result would be if you allowed your passion to be your focus in life? So. What is it that turns you on? What motivates you? What do you constantly talk to yourself and others about? What excites you?

Once you have identified your focus, your calling, you now need zeal and enthusiasm to carry it through. To be successful. Zeal and enthusiasm is more than determination. It’s about commitment, fun, enjoyment. Something you want to do because you believe in it. A natural way to reach your aim and objective in life. A belief that means you are willing to live with your dream 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

You need to see life the way a sportsperson does. Can you commit to working day in day out with the sole purpose of working towards your dream? Can you keep going when nothing appears to be happening? Can you hold onto the slightest increase in your ability as a sign of success? Are you dedicated to continually improving your personal best? Can you believe in yourself and your passion enough to rethink the formula when the business reaches crisis point? Can you step back and honestly analyse your actions when you have just lost a potential sale or the time you spent on a marketing campaign was wasted? Can you be a totally focussed individual?

However, zeal and enthusiasm alone are useless. It’s like driving a car at full speed without knowing the destination. Alone they will not bring you success, but coupled with an aim and objective, a focus, a passion, a desire to constantly improve and courage then, like the sportsperson, the world is your oyster.

When you do something you love doing, time is immaterial and happiness and personal growth naturally follow. You work because you want to and enjoy it. You are fulfilling your passion and boy it shows. People buy your enthusiasm, your excitement. They can see the excitement in your eyes; they can read it in your writings.

Look at your business and materials:
Do they show excitement, passion?
Would you buy from you, your site, if you were a customer?

The secret to success in life is simple:

If you have the power of determination in your thoughts, every task is possible.

Those who are successful in their chosen field have an extraordinary degree of self confidence. They know they are living their passion. The only thing on their minds is to be the best. To give their best at every opportunity. They know that the key to success is their mental toughness.

What about you? There are no shortcuts. You can only be successful because you have a passion and the zeal and enthusiasm to work hard and conquer your inappropriate habits. The talent to focus and refocus your activities. The courage to stand out from the crowd. It’s not the money that drives people to success it’s the game, it’s wanting to be the best. Do you have what it takes? Can you do what you need to do to be successful?

Graham and Julie
www.desktop-meditation.com

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