Ten Keys To Success:
Set Specific Goals:
Trying to "be the best that you can be" is a laudable aspiration, but in order to actually accomplish that lofty goal, you may find it helpful to first set smaller, more easily attainable, mini goals such as:
Losing 3 pounds per week
Earning $50 more per week
Consuming less alcohol
or whatever incremental improvement that you think that you can realistically accomplish in one attempt.
Get Started Right Now:
It can be nice to imagine yourself improving your life, but in order to actually Do it, you must first be willing to Take Action and there is no better time to take action than Right Now.
Accept Total Responsibility for Your Life and Your Level (or lack) of Happiness:
Unfortunately, there may some times be negative societal forces opposing our efforts to be come successful in life, but there are things we can do to help dissipate those abstract oppositional forces, such as completing the socially beneficial action steps outlined on the "Wa" page of this web site, which you can navigate to by clicking:
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After we have done what we can to try to help dissipate some of those abstract, oppositional phenomena that may be impeding our efforts to be come successful in life, we must then take as much personal responsibility as we possibly can for the happiness (or lack of such) that we personally experience in our lives... be cause (in the final summation of things):
We are the ones who have to live our own lives (and as such: we are the ones who have the most to gain {or lose} by what we do {or don't do} to improve our selves {and our lives})
and so:
By working relentlessly to accomplish admirable goals we can increase the probability that we will experience more positive experienced out comes in our futures.
Seek Out (and Accept) Only Positive Encouragement:
There may all ways be people, circumstances, and stimuli that appear to be trying to discourage (or prevent) us from accomplishing our goals. One way to adapt to (and over come) that opposition is to intentionally seek out other people, situations, and stimuli that encourage and inspire us to keep striving to accomplish our goals, be cause (as automobile mass manufacturing legend Henry Ford insightfully advised):
"Whether you think you can (or whether you think you can not) you are right."
Focus On One Realistically Accomplishable Goal at Each Particular Time un Till it is Completed:
Only you know (or can discover) what specific degree of aspiration you can strive to accomplish at any particular moment in time. If (for some reason) you find that you didn't succeed at accomplishing that goal the first time you tried, then you may want to attempt to divide that original objective in to smaller (more easily attainable) mini goals (ir-regard less of how "simple" they may appear to be) and by doing so per haps you will be more likely to succeed the next time you attempt to do so?
Only Allow Your Self to be Influenced by People who Can Help You to Accomplish Your Goals:
There will all most all ways be people we meet who have different goals than we do but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are intentionally attempting to hurt (or sabotage) you (or I) during our attempts to accomplish our own goals. They may be merely attempting to accomplish a different set (or type) of goals, than you (or I) are.
So, knowing: who you are, what you want, and what you should do in order to obtain who (or what you really want) is crucial to successfully accomplishing those goals and so is avoiding engaging in to conflicts with others who we may be tempted to incorrectly perceive as trying to "hurt" us or "drag you (or I) down". Most people are usually not attempting to do any thing of the sort. In fact (in most cases) most of the people that we paranoically perceive to be attempting to "hurt" us are simply pursuing their desire to accomplish a different set of goals than we are and so (in most cases) it is usually best to diplomatically avoid associating (or interacting) with such people if (and when) at all possible.
Don't "major in Minor Things":
When we encounter resistance from other people during the course of our efforts to accomplish our goals we may feel tempted to "fight back"... that isn't very intelligent. In stead let us keep our minds (and thus: our energies) working for us (rather than against us) by refusing to allow our selves to be come up set nor to do (nor say) any thing that we may later on regret.
In stead: it is usually better for us to simply ignore people (and phenomena) that we may not like and return to contemplating our larger, over all, abstract goals for our lives that we conceived of before we divided those general goals in to the smaller (more easily accomplishable) mini goals that we were attempting to accomplish just prior to any particular interruption(s) and by doing so we will be more likely to find it easier to regain our focii (and thus) our momentum.
"Set Your Self Up" To Succeed:
Some times it is the little things that we do (or don't do) that cause us to fail (or succeed) during the course of our efforts to accomplish our goals. For example, if you desire to:
Burn out some fat from the in side of your body,
or to:
Build some new muscle mass in side of your body,
When you are at the grocery store choosing food to purchase, try not to even gaze up on "foods" that you know will cause your body to manifest circumstances diametrically opposed to those which you desire and try your best to not even allow such "foods" in to your living (or dining) space(s).
If you know that you want to start spending less money, leave the credit and debit cards at home, and only bring a certain, predetermined amount of cash with you when you go to the store to shop. By intelligently preparing yourself to succeed before you do anything, you'll be more likely to actually attain the goals you have determined for yourself.
Cultivate The Intensely Focused Frame of Mind Referred to as "Tunnel Vision":
When we are alone in front of a computer, at a desk, or other wise psychophysically integrated with the tools that we work with during the course of our attempts shape our chosen media of creation in to the final products or services that we are attempting to create for others, creating a state of mind that is intensely focused may often be very help full to us be cause such states of consciousness often all us to focus on only one important task at a time un till it is completed. If, during the course of an attempt to accomplish a goal you find that you are not getting very much accomplished, try turning off all proximal tell lie visions and raydeos and in stead insert one (or both) of a set of ear plugs to block out all (or much) extraneous noise so that you can stay focused on your chosen task and you may find it easier to more effectively accomplish your task.
And finally:
Believe In Your Self and in Your Ability to Accomplish Your Goal(s):
One man I met claimed that: "there are no unrealistic goals... only unrealistic time frames",
While a writer whose work I be came familiar with loftily proclaimed that:
"what ever a mind can conceive (and believe) it can achieve".
Which ever ultraoptimistic paradigm you decide to adopt, try to have faith that you can accomplish your goals and that your goals are worth accomplishing and you will be much more likely to succeed.
(paraphrased from a Spanish language study guide).
