Succeed On Your Terms

We all want to be successful. Success however is an individual thing. Therefore, what it takes for each person to realize their individual vision for success and the life they imagine, will be varied.

There are however, some general principles associated with being a successful person that will be useful regardless of what your individual vision may be. Check these out, get access to The Happiness Handbook and learn about the 3 stumbling blocks to achievement, on this edition of our newsletter.

6 SUCCESS PRINCIPLES

• Develop a method for making the most of your time. Most people identify the need to manage their time as a key goal. Regardless of what method you decide to use, it is important that you identify a way to schedule and plan your activities each day. Successful people always have a clear plan for what they want to do each day.
• Identify the things that help you to manage your energy effectively throughout the day. You need to start with a good morning routine. Identify what it takes for you to start your day right so that you raise your energy levels up and your mind is primed for the productive needs of your day. Make sure that you also have a strategy for raising your energy back up throughout the day. You may need to listen to music you like, or find something funny to make you laugh or do something kind for someone else. These are some steps that can help you to manager your energy effectively. Whatever you decide to do, ensure that it is one that is easy for you to complete and one that you will stick with on a continuous basis.
• Use your brain effectively. Plan to complete your most creative activities early in the day when your mental power is at its highest. Never use this time to complete less productive or less important tasks like reading your email or checking social media. You want to ensure that you are nor responding to other people’s priorities and missing out on your own.
• Adopt the attitude that you will take action whether you are feeling like it or not. If something is important and it is necessary that you complete it, you cannot leave the decision to your feelings. Be prepared to do it anyway.
• Stop being guided by other people’s opinions of you. It does not matter what others say about you. It only matters what you say and what you believe about yourself.
• Engage in personal mastery.?You need to be invested in continuously developing yourself. Personal mastery means that you have an honest awareness of your strengths, your weaknesses and what it will take to create improvements.

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3 STUMBLING BLOCKS TO ACHIEVEMENT

According to motivational speaker Les Brown, there are three things that are stopping most people from achieving what you want in life. These things are:

• your habits
• your fears; and
• other people’s opinions of you.

Your Habits

Your habits are what you do repeatedly.?As you may already know, your brain likes routines. The action of doing anything over and over again, in response to stimuli, builds up connections in your brain.?The more you use those connections, the stronger they become and the easier it is for you to take the action the next time and the next time, and so on.

As the main organ for ensuring your survival, brains are always striving to be efficient.?Therefore, most of you have built-in automatic reactions to most of the things that you routinely encounter. This is so because the brain is always striving to have quick responses to stimulus, because you never really know when your life may depend on it.?This is why it can be so difficult to break the ‘bad’ habits that you have. As anyone who has ever tried to change knows, trying to stop doing something is almost impossible. Trying to help your brain unlearn what is basically a survival mechanism is a waste of time.

Instead, if you want to ensure that your habits are supporting your growth and development rather than stalling it, then you need to develop new habits.?You need to start doing the thing that you would prefer to have as your innate reaction.?The more you repeat that, then the more natural it will begin to feel and ultimately it will become easier to choose.?Over time it will become the new pattern of behavior that is associated with the stimulus.?New neural pathways would have been formed.

Your Fears

Like most people you may be afraid of the future outcomes of your current actions.?You may even be afraid that you will have strong negative outcomes to your efforts.?Some one else might be afraid that they will have strong positive outcomes to their efforts.?In short, some people are afraid of failure and some are afraid of success.

In either situation, you may find that you are worried about being overwhelmed by the circumstances that you will encounter. You may be afraid that you are not up to the task of dealing with the things that will come your way. The most important part of your fears that most of you may forget, is the fact that your fears are not present. They are feelings or responses to imagined, future realities.

You therefore have the potential to change your reactions to the factors when you actually encounter them. You can choose to change your perspective. You can decide that you will not face the situation with fear in your heart. Instead you can choose to be curious. You can choose to not see failure as an end-point but rather as a stepping stone.

Other People’s Opinions?

You are the only one who has the right to decide who you are going to be.?You are also the only one who decides whether you will listen or accept what others say about you.?You do not have to allow someone else’s opinion of you to become your reality.?The number of people who have done things that others thought would be impossible for them to achieve, is remarkable.

Therefore it is a well known fact that you do not have to accept the message when someone tells you that something is hard or impossible.?You can smile politely and move on.?Many of the people who share these negative perspectives are doing it out of love because they have your best interest at heart. Often they are trying to spare you from the heartbreak or disappointment that they 'see coming down the road'.?However, just because they have good intentions, that does not make them right.

You can decide that you are not going to listen to other people’s opinions or allow them to influence how you see yourself and your capabilities.?You have the power to stop doing that.?You can decide to create an inner monologue that develops and reinforces positive perceptions of yourself and what you know that you are capable of achieving.?You can choose to change your mindset and develop a new self image of a powerful, accomplished individual who is capable, curious and willing to learn.

These are some of the strategies that you can use to help you improve your thinking, get out of the rut you feel that you are stuck in and get empowered to achieve the kind of life that you want for yourself.

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