What does it take in our everyday lives to be successful?
It is probably safe to assume that anyone reading this article wants to be successful. However, only 5% of the population will ever reach their potential for all activities, 95% of the people will never truly be successful.
There are a few characteristics that you must have in common with other successful people in order to achieve true success.
Goals are the single most important factor in achieving success. Without a realistic goal, how will you ever know when you have reached your success level. All successful people set goals. All goals must be realistic, short term, measurable and obtainable within the bounds of your own perception.
A positive attitude is the second factor that successful people have in common.
I have never met a truly successful person who I would consider a "self made" success that did not have a positive attitude. These people relate to the world on a positive basis. They always look for the "can do" not the "can not do" side of every situation. "If you think you can or if you think you can't, you're right."
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." -Henry Ford
Man's ability over all other creatures on this Earth is the ability to think. All successful people use this talent to improve their lives and control their own destiny. Only you can take the initial step toward the unleashing of the power within your own mind. The power is awesome and at times can be frightening. However, man has abilities of the mind that many people can not or would not believe.
Anthony Robbins has written a book entitled "Unlimited Power" which explains in simple termsthe theories of Neuro Linguistic Programming, the power of the mind and how to gain control and use it. NLP was originally developed by John Grinder and Richard Bandleras a communication system using the central nervous system. Through this system Mr.Robbins has put forth a complete outline on how to unleash your "performance power"and achieve goals that before you probably felt were impossible.
The first step in using your true mental abilities is understanding what Mr.Robbins refers to as the seven triggering mechanisms that is sure success.
1. Passion - All truly successful people have a driving force within them that sets them apart from others. A desire, an energy that gives them thefuel to reach their true potential. This force is a part of them 24 hours a day, seven days aweek. It never subsides.
2. Belief - "They can because they think they can"-Virgil.
The truth of life is that man'slimits are self imposed by what the mind is given to believe. If you expand your belief of your own abilities, you will also expand your true realm of accomplishment.
A man of whom all are aware, lived his life with adversity, but he constantly believed he could achieve.
-Failed in business at age 31
-Was defeated in a legislative race at age 32
-Failed again in business at age 34
-Overcome death of sweetheart at age 35
-Had a nervous breakdown at age 36
-Lost an election at age 38
-Lost a congressional race at age 43
-Lost a congressional race at age 46
-Lost a congressional race at age 48
-Lost a Senatorial race at age 55
-Failed to become Vice President at age 56
-Lost a Senatorial race at age 58
-Was elected President of the United States at age 60
With all the adversity that faced him, President Abraham Lincoln had no reason to continually try other than the fact that he believed it was his destiny and measure of success to accomplish this task.
"Man is what he believes" -Anton Checkhov
3. Strategy - A strategy is your game plan of life. The road map you will use to accomplish your goals, ambitions and desires. The key to strategy is to design a proper strategy to achieve your success without the detours of life, to find the shortest distance between two points.
4. Clarity of Values - Man must first determine which things in life are most valuable to him. He must determine his feeling about such things as patriotism, pride,love, freedom, excellence, ownership and tolerance. These are values in society, the moral, ethical and fundamental judgements that we, as individuals, deem important.
Without a clear system of values for ourselves, it is impossible to believe in something with a passion that has no value to us. Once we have established our individual value system we are then able to determine how we can achieve success based on our priority ofvalues.
5. Energy - Great success cannot be separated from physical, spiritual and mental energy that allowsus, compels us, to accomplish the most with what we have to work with.
6. Bonding Power - We have all known people that have exhibited the ability to get along with anyone and everyone. The ability to be a chameleon is truly the ability to connect with and bond with others. The ability to build rapport.
7. Mastery of Communication - To take charge and run your own mind. To learn the techniques of NLP and no longer allow our mind to run our lives, but rather take chargeof our own mental abilities and cause them to work for our own accomplishment of success.
"There is only one Success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
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