“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
Micheal Jordan
Only those who have achieved success know that they had to fail just to succeed. Mistakes and failure are our greatest assets for determining how to succeed. I don’t know a single successful person that hasn’t failed numerous times. The difference between being defeated and succeeding is whether or not you accepted your last defeat as the last one and gave up. Only then have you truly failed. Those who succeed never accept their last defeat as the last say and use the lesson learned to go on and succeed.
You can’t chase success or catch it in your hands. Some people try endlessly to obtain success and left disappointed, while others seems to obtain it quite easily. There are reasons why success comes easily for some and not so easily for others. I could write books upon books about this, but I narrowed down 3 very common themes that exist among those that are very successful:
1. You need to acquire the beliefs of the successful. Everything begins with a thought. We cannot create anything without the thought first. Therefore, thoughts are things. Thoughts are powerful. Ask yourself what beliefs you have acquired as a child. Did you learn money doesn’t grow on trees, to save for a rainy day because you never know when disaster will hit, and that you must work more to get more. Or were you taught there is enough money to go around for everyone, that opportunity is everywhere and you must work more efficient not harder to obtain more wealth? Your beliefs deep in your subconscious actually dictate how easy or how hard it is for you to obtain great wealth. This is a subject where you must be totally honest with yourself and really think about your beliefs.
Take a little challenge and pick 2 or 3 people that have what you want. What do they believe about wealth? What do they do or not do that helps them obtain it? Write down your discoveries and mimic what they do.
2. Realize that success is a process. It is never an overnight process. Take all of your failures and write down on a piece of paper for each one: “What is great about this and what did I learn.” As I mentioned, we all fail from time to time. We all make mistakes from time to time. Those who succeed value and appreciate those mistakes because they light the path to success. Don’t ignore your failures, if you do you are ignoring clues to succeeding.
3. You must see the “End in Mind.” Visualize the end result that you want to create. Then picture the steps going backwards that got you there. Plan strategically the necessary goals that you need to create to get you to that “End” that you visualized. Write weekly goals, monthly goals, and yearly goals. There is no such thing as an unrealistic goal, just an unrealistic time frame. For example, if you don’t have two pennies to rub together and you set a goal that you will have $1 million by Friday you might disappoint yourself (that is of course unless you win the lotto or all of sudden get a large inheritance). And it should be mentioned as well that setting a goal to have $1 million is too vague. How are you going to make that million? What necessary steps do you need to take to obtain it? Be very specific in each goal. Each weekly goal will allow it to be easier to obtain the monthly goals which will make it easier to obtain the yearly goals. It will soon be very feasible to see your 5 year goals being achieved and even your lifetime goals if you start with one step at a time.
And it must be said, ALWAYS remember that you are capable of achieving far more than you ever imagined. Go ahead, write down grandiose goals and obtain all that you have dreamed of. And DO IT NOW! There is no better time than right now to straight living your dream. What are you going to do today to further your success?
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