HOW TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE?
“WINNERS DON’T MAKE EXCUSES”
Responsibility: Accountable for Something Within One’s Power
Defined by Websters as follows: noun, plural responsibilities.
1.the state of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one’s power, control, or management.
2.an instance of being responsible: The responsibility for this mess is yours!
What a simple, yet powerful word. This may well be the very first building block to success and happiness. Taking complete responsibility for your life is critical. Without it, you will be prone to complaining and blaming everyone and everything for your challenge. My parents, my spouse, my friends, my financial situation, the economy, other people, the government… you get the idea.
It is essential to lock down this concept. Accepting complete responsibility for everything in our life is the beginning of everything that follows on the path to reaching our dreams.
Check out this information from Brendon Burchard: How to Get Our Sh** Together — The Power of Personal Responsibility
I Started to SEE things to be GRATEFUL for
You’re going to get out of your life what you accept.
Ask yourself, what are you accepting.
Stack your gratitude.
Trust yourself.
You can do it!
CHANGE YOUR MIND & BECOME SUCCESSFUL
THE SECRET TO ACTIVATING THE “LAW OF ATTRACTION”
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You Will Make it Happen!
YOU HAVE POWERS WITHIN YOU — TALENTS WITHIN YOU THAT YOU HAVEN’T EVEN REACHED FOR YET!
Luck or Skill
LUCK
POSITIVE OUTLOOK + HARD WORK
“Some people have all the luck.”
You’ve heard that said, and perhaps you have wondered whether it is true. Professor Richard Wiseman, a research psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire in Britain, set out to test that proposition, and he subsequently wrote this book about his findings, The Luck Factor: The Four Essential Principles. His studies showed that people can improve their luck, or at least feel that they have, by changing their behavior and attitudes.
Getting luckier by changing your behavior and attitudes will not increase your chances of winning the lottery. Roulette wheels and slot machines won’t notice, either. Rather, your awareness of opportunities, your use of intuition/hunches, your resilience in the face of bad fortune, and your interactions with other people will improve–and their responses will likely be beneficial to you, making you “luckier.”
Dr. Wiseman’s findings uncovered four elements in the difference between those who believed themselves to have been lucky versus those who did not:
1. “Maximize your chance possibilities.” Be alert to opportunities, and act on them. He states this as, “Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.” Often extroverts, they network well. With a relaxed attitude toward life, they try new things, get out of ruts, giving themselves more chances to “win.” For example, my youngest brother accepted a temporary research assignment in Great Britain, and there he met a wonderful woman to whom he is very happily married.
Professor Wiseman tested his subjects for alertness to obvious clues in a simple reading experiment. The ones who had considered themselves to be lucky usually found the clues almost immediately. The faction considering themselves to be unlucky generally missed the clues. The lucky were simply more alert than the unlucky.
To gauge their comparative degrees of connection to others, their degree of networking, Professor Wiseman had his study subjects read a list of 15 common last names and then check how many of these 15 surnames were of people they knew personally. On average, the “lucky” fraction knew many more than the “unlucky” fraction, indicating that the lucky ones were more effective at building networks. Networks are likely to present opportunities.
2. “Listen to your lucky hunches.“ Follow your intuition, not just your reasoning, in personal, financial, and business situations. You can increase this faculty by meditation and by setting aside problems temporarily while your subconscious mind works on them. Falling in love certainly has its intuitive aspects. Sometimes, however, we get a feeling that something is awry, even though we do not know why. Heed both attraction and repulsion. “The heart has its reasons that reason does not understand.”
3. “Expect good fortune.” Create self-fulfilling prophecies by having positive expectations. Expect interactions with others to be mutually beneficial. You will be more attractive as a partner, more likely to establish a win/win outcome. Let your reach exceed your grasp: have high goals. You cannot win if you do not try. “You’ve got to be in it to win it.”
4. “Turn bad luck into good.“ See the positive side of failure: turn that lemon into lemonade; recognize that it could be worse; learn; adapt; forge on; don‘t dwell on temporary defeat.
DEVELOPING DAILY HABITS
DEVELOPING DAILY HABITS
I coach a lot about the importance of developing daily habits. As my mentor Jim Rohn clearly states, “success is a few simple disciplines repeated over and over”. (Like an apple a day!) Here are three of my favorite books about the critical importance of habits:
1. The Power of Habit- by Robert Duhigg (last weeks 5 Iron book)
2. The Slight Edge- by Jeff Olson
3. The Compound Effect- by Darren Hardy
I found the following article in Inc Magazine useful and interesting. I screened the 19 habits down to my most important 10, but included the link if you want to see the full article.
I hope you are in the habit of reading and referring this blog to all your friends, co-workers, family, or even to your enemy’s.
19 Tiny Habits That Lead To Huge Results Success starts with the little things. By Nicolas Cole
Success doesn’t happen in an instant. It happens through the progression of lots of little successes, strung together over time.
Livin’ the Dream
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