Here are 10 simple success formulas – you don’t need to use all of them but if you were just to practice SOME OF THEM, I can bet that you will get better results to achieve your goals.
1. Picture Yourself Already Achieving Your Goal
Congratulations – You have achieved your goal. How does that feel like?
Maybe your goal is to make $200,000.00 by the end of this year. Think about how that will change your life. What will you do with the money? Settle all your debts? Treat yourself and your family to a much deserved vacation?
Or maybe it’s as simple as getting to enjoy a better quality of life in terms of the house that you live in, the food on your table and the amount of time to enjoy yourself doing the things you love.
Think about the END RESULTS. What will you accomplish by achieving your goal? Don’t worry about how you are going to achieve your goal at this stage.
Sometimes the key to get you started is to envision the prize awaiting. We all need to get motivated at times.
What motivates you? Is it money? Fame? Publicity? Envision it. There’s a reason why you are setting a goal – any goal – for yourself.
But you won’t get your hands on the prize until you fully achieve your goal.
2. Model Other Successful People
When you need that extra boost to stay motivated, conduct some research and learn how other successful people started out. The majority at one time or another waited tables, worked construction, or cleaned houses. They weren’t always successful but had to work their way up.
Seeing the success of people we admire is a great way to stay motivated. Each one of them had to be 100% committed or they wouldn’t be where they are today. Knowing that other people go through the same emotions and struggles, and learning what they did to get past those barriers, will help you out a lot.
Another thing you can do is look at HOW they stay motivated. Many of them share their “secrets” in interviews or books they have written. You can even approach some of them via email or telephone and ASK them how they overcome difficulties.
When you see something that works, try it yourself. Find out how others “made it” and do what they did.
3. Believe In Your Abilities
No matter what goal you set for yourself, it’s important to believe in yourself. At one time or another, every successful person needs learn the ropes. However, it’s critical that you know in your heart you can do whatever you set your heart to achieve.
There are times when I get frustrated and think that I’m not going anywhere with a project. At times like these I remind myself that I am running a successful business that continues to rake in profit for me. I’m not saying it because of my ego, I say it to remind myself that I am successful, and I know what I am doing. And it helps to bring my confidence back.
Maybe you have never run a business before. I didn’t start off with the business ready made either. It took a long time of testing the waters before things start to run smoothly for me.
But, that didn’t stop me. I BELIEVED IN MYSELF AND MY ABILITIES. In many ways, confidence is in your head. You must believe that whatever you want to achieve is something worthwhile and that you have the skills to achieve it.
There will be times when you will find yourself feeling completely stressed and second guessing your abilities. When this happens, and it will, take a deep breath and remind yourself that you are good enough and deserve what you want.
Feeling a bit overwhelmed is always part of the game when you are just starting out. But remember, you can always go back and rectify any part of your plan that didn’t work out until it runs like clockwork.
In the end, it will all come together beautifully.
4. Have a Purpose
To consistently stay on target of your objectives, you need a purpose, something that drives you. You need something that is waiting at the end of the journey – at the completion of your project.
Compare someone who enrolls in a MLM program in order to earn a side income to finance his university education and someone else who enrolls in the same MLM program because he thinks it’s an easy way to earn money. Both have access to the same support and materials from their teams but who do you think will become successful in his business? Of course the first person.
He had a purpose, a real purpose that drove him to succeed. Keeping your objective in sight is much easier when you’re excited about your work and strive to succeed at your goals. The great thing is that it’s never too late to get started.
Know something else? Your purpose doesn’t have to something great to strive for. It can be because you wanted to prove to the world and yourself that you can do something. That’s something to focus on was well.
One of the most satisfying things in life is to do something that someone told you couldn’t be done. When I first started my business, everybody, my parents included, thought I should just get a regular job because they never thought I could do it.
Looks like I proved them wrong.
5. Organize Yourself
You must get organized and stay organized if you want to achieve any goal. Each time you get ready to attempt a new task, ask yourself some very simple questions.
– What is the purpose of this task?
– How does this particular task contribute to my ultimate goal?
– What do I need to accomplish this task?
– How much time should I devote to this task?
– What must I do to tackle this task?
Once you’ve answered those questions honestly, you will have better focus to begin.
There is just no other way to get started than to have a game plan and to stick with it. We’d be lost without it.
Invest in a good planner or organizer. Trust me, it’s money well spent. It is critical to your success simply because it helps you to stay on target and complete each task.
6. Understand Your Goals
If you want to get serious about achieving success, sit down and actually write a mission statement. Identify why achieving a goal is important to you, what you expect to get out of it, and what results you want from it.
• Do you want to earn money?
• Do you want to experience a sense of accomplishment?
• Do you want recognition?
• Do you want fame or credibility?
• Do you want to be able to help others?
• Do you want ALL OF THE ABOVE?
• And more?
When you need motivation, look at your mission statement and re-read what it was that had you aspiring to be successful in the first place.
For the person who finds great success, it’s perfectly fine to be proud of your accomplishments and awards, but don’t get so caught up in things that you lose sight of why you started in the first place. A mission statement will also help keep you grounded.
7. Write Objectives Down
This is an extremely important step and one that shouldn’t be missed. If you don’t write your objectives down, you will quickly lose sight of them. Keeping them as a visual will help you achieve them.
The most important objective is to identify WHAT YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE with your goal. What is it that you want to gain once you have achieved your goal?
Staying on track means looking back over what you’ve already done so far and determining if it does meet your objectives. In other words, if you want to lose weight, how much have you managed to lose so far, if any?
If our actions and results are in keeping with your objectives, keep moving on. If not, then what areas need fine tuning?
8. Create a Plan of Action
To help you achieve your goals and stay focused on the objectives, you should have a well laid out action plan. This plan will cover the steps you need to take to get you from where you are currently, to the ultimate goal of where you want to be.
Many people tell you to set high goals and try to get to them. Personally, I think that’s a recipe for discouragement. If you set ten goals and you only get to one of them, you’ll feel like a failure.
On the other hand, if you have ten REACHABLE goals and you nail them all, you feel like a success. And that feeling fuels you on to accomplish more and more.
Try to set for yourself realistic, reachable goals then try to go “above and beyond” them. In other words, your goal for today might be to make 5 sales. Then try to make 10 sales. If you get 10 sales, then hooray! But, if you only get the 5 you originally planned to get (which is very realistic) then you’ll still feel like you’ve accomplished something.
It’s all in your mind. Keep your mind happy and feeling victorious.
9. Use a Checklist
Another great way to stay focused on your objectives is to use a checklist. Write down your entire action step for a project. Do this in VERY DETAILED steps. Why? Because you get to check off completed tasks much more frequently which again makes you feel like you’re accomplishing more.
Have checklists for everything. Part of that is to stay organized, because there are usually so many things going on at the same time. But, part of it is to MARK THROUGH the tasks you have completed. Nothing feels more than being able to see a sheet of paper with a whole page of tasks checked off as completed.
The more you are able to visualize that you’ve accomplished, the more you will stay focused and get your objectives accomplished.
10. Tackle One Goal at a Time
Closely relating to that is HOW you tackle that checklist. While sometimes it’s important and necessary to look at the big picture and not so much the little things, you might try focusing on only a few goals at a time. If you start looking at everything at once, you can become confused and frustrated, and might lose sight of where you want to be.
Instead, concentrate your efforts only until THE NEXT ENTRY ON THE CHECKLIST. Don’t look at the entire checklist, just what’s next.
When we travel, we take a look at the full map to see where we will be going and to get an idea of which way we’ll be traveling. BUT, during the road trip itself, we focus on ONE ROAD AT A TIME. All we need to know is which way to turn NEXT. What’s important during the journey is the next step.
Same thing applies to achieving a goal. Yes, take a look at the whole map and see where you are going. But focus on the next entry on the checklist. You can’t complete the journey until you take the next step in front of you.
To your success,
Patric Chan
www.successtrace.com
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