Make your life a grand adventure says Brian Tracy, the author of the books, success is a journey, how to master your time, the science of self-confidence and the psychology of success. Through the reading of his book and some articles from him, I came across THE 11 ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR LIVING A SUCCESSFUL LIFE. We are going to read some of the points he raised. Let's start -
Brian Tracy said, "spend 80% of your time on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday." Now the points
- Change your self-image.“The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image''
“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”
Most people look down on themselves. The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image. Learn from your past mistakes, and let go all negatives including bad people. Learn how to better let go of your past self-image and other things in your life. Move out of your comfort zone, that's how to grow and develop into a great self-image.
- Create helpful habits.“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” Pretty simple. Our habits are what we tend to do consistently in our
day to day life and so they control our success – or lack of it – very
much.
What are successful habits? Some you can find in this article. A few others are:
Do the most productive thing right now.Do one thing at a time.Do things even when you don’t feel like it.
- Luck is predictable. People who take the action and more chances in life tend to get the luck. If you never take chances or action you don’t get the opportunity to get lucky. You might just sit around doing nothing and rationalize it as “being unlucky”. Also, if someone focuses on what s/he wants s/he tend to find more opportunities and other useful things that someone with a negative focus will simply not “be lucky enough” to see.
- Focus on what is useful. The bad will make you appreciate the good and useful things. Focus on it, the useful. What you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire and not things we fear. Clear all your fears. Robert Schuller said, problems are guidelines and not stop signs. Have courage and build it as you focus. I like the way Mark Twain put it, let me quote it,"courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear- not absence of fear." The useful things are worth perusing. Stay focus.
- Ask yourself helpful questions.“After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: “What did I do right?” and “What would I do differently?” The questions you ask yourself in life determine much of your outlook and success. If you ask disempowering questions like “what sucks about this?” in any situation then you are creating a lot of unhappiness and victim thinking. If you on the other hand keep it on a useful and empowering level with questions like the ones from Tracy then your chances of succeeding goes up.
- Set clear goals. And write them down.“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”To be able to focus consistently on what you want you can use goals. If you use them, write down so they transform from thoughts into something physical and real. You can use that piece of paper as a reminder – posted on a wall for example – later on to keep your focus in the right place each and every day.
- Realize that you have to pay the price.“The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.”
Nothing you really want in life is free. You have to put in hard work
to get it. And usually over a long time period. You have to make hard
choices and sacrifices.
Now, doing so can produce a lot of happiness along the way and when you reach your destination. But when you take the step from comfortable dreams about success and happiness to actually start doing things then there is always a price to pay. So be prepared for that.
- Focus on the activities that brings you results.“Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.” This is very true. People love to just take it easy or relieve tension – and create more of it – by procrastinating and complaining instead of doing. It seems easier on the surface but in the long haul it tends to cause you more pain. Of course, you must take time to relax too. But find a good and helpful balance for the two aspects of life and the best ways and most positive ways to relieve tension. Three suggestions could be regular exercise, meditation in some form or just watching a good movie.
- Keep going.“Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.” How do you put in all that time and effort if no will reward you right
now? Well, you find things you love doing, things you do for yourself –
rather than to get someone else’s attention and appreciation – and when
things feel rough you just do what you know is the right thing to do
anyway. You keep going with persistence but also simple the joy of doing
what you love as two supporting friends.
- Make a decision. “Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.” Just make a decision. Try something. The sky will most likely not fall
if you fail. You will just feel bad for a short while and learn a few
things from asking the question a helpful one. Then you make new decision
based on what you learned and take action again.
- Take responsibility for your life.“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely
terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of
accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”
“The more you like yourself, the better you perform in everything that you do.”
“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem and personal satisfaction.”
A lot of the tips in this article are based in taking full responsibility for your own life. When you do that you will start doing many of these things naturally like making decisions, putting in hard work and really trying to keep your focus in the right place.
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