I am often asked “how do you achieve success?” My answer is that it is a simple three step process:

Success Step 1 – Decide What You Want

This is the biggest reason why people are not successful. If you ask people what they want from their life, most will hesitate in their answer or maybe even say “I really don’t know” It takes just too much effort for people to decide what they really want and one of the reasons for this is that these days we have just too much choice. Let’s face it we live in an instant gratification world. We want everything NOW! And we don’t want to get off our spotty rear ends and put any effort into getting it – whatever it is!

Now the point of this is to show you the power of narrowing down your choices. It will force you to decide on a course of action and then you can direct all your energy into this. So take some time out thinking about what you really want. Do you want more money, better health, financial independence, to be a champion mud wrestler? So cut out the dross from your life and decide what you want.

Success Step 2 – Plan How You Will Get It

There’s an old saying “if you fail to plan you plan to fail”. Let’s assume that your chosen desire is to make $100,000 by this time next year. So how exactly are you going to achieve this? Well I don’t know your situation but I will assume you have a job at the moment and let’s say that this nets you $30,000. So you need to find another $70,000. Ok so we break that down into 12 months which equates to $5834 (roughly) a month. Now you need to think about how you can find that extra money every month. A home business perhaps, gambling (ouch!), change your job to a much higher paying one, investments….. and so on.

People tell me that they find it hard to plan for to achieve their desires – well I’m going to tell you that it isn’t. There is a wealth of information available on how to achieve just about anything – yes on our old friend the Internet and also in many books and other publications. Do a little research – even better ask other people who have succeeded in your field of endeavor.

Success Step 3 – Do It

This is the second biggest reason for success failure. To make sure that you do it you need to control your thoughts. If you have heard this before then I really don’t care because you are going to hear it again and one more time won’t kill you – “The only reason you are not successful now is YOU” Everything that you have or don’t have in your life is a direct result of your thoughts. Why? Because your thoughts drive your emotions, which in turn controls your actions - good or bad.

You have two minds, your conscious and subconscious minds. Your conscious is awake when you are and is responsible for the constant dialogue going on in your head. Your subconscious is awake even when you sleep and is the key to your success. I want you to imagine your conscious mind as the gatekeeper to your subconscious. Whatever thoughts you let in will be stored in your subconscious and retrieved later for your benefit or detriment.

So there you have it. Just control what goes into your subconscious mind and you have the world at your feet. Can you control your thoughts? Of course you can they are YOUR thoughts. If you can’t control them nobody else can.

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