Sunday, 12 September 2010

The 3 Success Principles That Successful People Practice That You Cannot Miss

If you want to be successful and to produce the outstanding results that you want in life, this will be the right article for you. What you are going to discover here are the 3 success principles that every successful person practices to help them achieve whatever they want in their lives. And if you do the same, you will be able to be successful as well.

However, you have to understand that you must make use of these principles if you want to be successful. If you are not applying what you are going to learn, you will never be able to create the results you want. Knowledge itself is just a form of potential power. The real power is in applying the knowledge. So here are the 3 success principles that can help you...

1. Know what you want and create a plan to achieve it. Do you know specifically what you want to achieve in your life? Do you have a plan of what you need to do each day to achieve it? Successful people are crystal clear about what they want and they have a plan that they can follow through each day. You must do the same. Remember this; you cannot hit a target that you cannot see. And if you do not have a plan, you will be planning to fail.

2. Once you knew what you want, you must play it full out and put in 100% commitment into taking action. The difference between a successful person and an ordinary person is that successful people will take action and make their dreams come true. Most people are living in mediocrity because they did nothing about what they want. They will tell you that they want to be a millionaire, but they are not doing anything about their dreams. So put in 100% commitment into your dreams today.

3. Finally, believe that it is possible for you to achieve what you want and never give up. Most people do not believe that they can be a millionaire, and this is the number one reason they fail. Whenever you fully believe in something, you can tap into your maximum potential and make things happen. Another key is not to give up no matter how tough the situation may get. You can go through the obstacle, break it, smash through it, fly over it but never ever give up.

Saturday, 11 September 2010

Top 5 Success Habits That Will Guarantee Your Success

Do you want to be successful? If you do, this will be the right place for you. What you have to do is to adopt these 5 success habits into your life. You have to understand that success is a journey and not a destination. Therefore, what you do everyday will determine the results you create in your life. As a result, your habits will determine your success. So are you ready to discover these 5 success habits?

1. Make sure you have a to-do list with you all the time. If you do not know what you need to do, you will end up wasting your time watching television or playing games. Whenever you know what you need to do and you have a clear direction, you will be able to be more productive and stay focused on your goals. Thus, write down at least 5 things that you need to get down everyday before the next day arrives.

2. Do something each day in order to move yourself toward your destination. If you are not doing anything that will contribute to the results you want, how can you achieve what you want? Most people will tell you that they want to be thin or they want to be rich, but they are not doing anything that will get them there. Do not let this happen to you.

3. Review your goals everyday. This is to help you to create awareness and to program your goals into your subconscious mind. The key to successful goal setting is to constantly reviewing your goals each day. Once you have adopted this habit, you will start to see amazing results in your life very soon.

4. Take 100% responsibility of yourself. Whatever results you created in your life, you have to understand that you hold the responsibility for it. If you are poor right now, it is because you are not doing anything about your wealth 5 years ago. If you are rich right now, it is because your hard work for the last 20 years has paid off for you. You must be responsible to take control of your life.

5. Put in 100% commitment to achieve what you want. Most people want to be rich and successful, but they are not 100% committed to it. It is when you are fully committed, you will do whatever it takes to achieve your goals and make your dreams come true.

Friday, 10 September 2010

How To Shortcut Your Journey To Achieve What You Want In Life

Do you want to learn the secret how you can shortcut your journey to achieve what you want in your life? If you do, this will be the perfect article for you. Read this article to the end to discover how you can do this.

Do you have a dream? Do you have any goal that you want to pursue? Do you want to be successful? And do you know what the fastest way to achieve what you want is? The answer is very simple, learn directly from those who have done it and apply their strategies into your own life. Therefore, you have to commit to constant and never ending improvement if you want to be successful.

Think about it, if you want to learn how to lose weight or how to become great in fishing, what can you do? The easiest and fastest way is to ask people who have successful lost their weight and model their strategies. They have done it and they knew how to do it. Thus, if you can model their strategies and apply what they do, you will be able to create the same amazing results in your life as well.

Just like if you want to be a millionaire in stock investing, how do you do it? For instance, you can read books written by successful stock investors. Or even better, you can attend seminars and workshops held by these experts so that you can learn directly from them. You will learn their strategies and avoid all the mistakes that most people did in the journey.

This is how you can shortcut your journey to accomplish your dreams and your goals. Of course, you may have to commit money, time and energy to learn from them. However, the rewards will be great. If reading a book can save you months of efforts and make you a better investor, how many books will you read? The answer is as much as possible.

In fact, this is the key that makes successful people successful in their lives. People who create amazing results in life are always ready to learn. However, make sure you apply what you have learned into your life and take action.

Thursday, 9 September 2010

Self-Improvement Lessons From Ben Franklin

Ben Franklin was truly an amazing human being. He was a statesman, an inventor, an economist, a philosopher and the list goes on. And of course, he was one of our founding fathers.

Ben Franklin also had a deep desire to make himself a better man than he was the day before. Self-improvement was a lifelong passion for him. We would all do well to emulate him in this regard.

Because he felt he had been irresponsible in his youth, he made four resolutions for being a better person.

1. Live frugally so that he could save enough to repay what he owed to others.

2. Be honest and sincere in every word and action.

3. Be industrious to whatever business he was involved in.

4. To speak ill of no man, "not even in a manner of truth," and to "speak all the good I know of everybody."

From these 4 resolutions, Ben Franklin put together an actionable plan. He developed what he called his 12 virtues:

1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

2. Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

3. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

4. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.

5. Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

6. Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.

7. Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.

8. Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

9. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

10. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

11. Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

12. Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation

Supposedly, he showed his list and his plan to live by the list to a friend and his friend replied, drily, that Ben seemed to think much of himself and perhaps Ben should add humility to the list. And the 12 virtues become 13.

13. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

He wrote each virtue on a separate page and evaluated his conduct with regard to that virtue on a daily basis. Further, he focused on one virtue each week and practiced at improving his behavior with regard to the virtue for the week.

This is powerful. Hundreds of years ago, Ben Franklin practiced a simple, yet profoundly powerful self-improvement technique that made him a better person, little by little, every day.

And also, his plan for improving himself is a textbook example of planning. His life goal is to live a good life. He began by writing what he wanted to do and be (Stephen Covey's "begin with the end in mind") with his 4 resolutions. Then he developed an actionable plan by writing down his virtues with daily and weekly follow-ups.

Absolutely tremendous.

I would highly recommend looking into his life and emulating this great American.

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Awaken to Your Life Purpose With Creative Visualization

"Creativity is a process of transforming the raw energy, information, and material of the universe into something that has never before existed." -Deepak Chopra.

When the prospect of transforming your life using creative visualization seems daunting ponder for a moment how once, eons ago, there was nothing but raw energy. Then came the big bang. And then, over billions of years, the raw energy of the universe transformed itself into the world we see and touch and smell and taste every day.

Think of the magnitude of creativity that would be required to make this entire universe and this gorgeous planet of ours in all its breathtaking beauty and diversity. Think of the finely balanced web of conditions that had to be created so all that exists here on earth can thrive!

At the macrocosmic level there is this awesome creative God force capable of such mind blowing artistry. And at the microcosmic level - there is you - and your creative visualizations. Well actually it's not just you. Its you and a speck of that very same force that exists within you, co-creating your big bright beautiful life!

Thankfully our creating something that has never before existed doesn't need to take untold billions of years. (Of course it might take that long if we never get started!)

There are two ways in which creative visualization can be used in relation to our life purpose:

1) The first is when we are very clear on our intentions - when we know our life purpose!

When we have a clear vision for our lives we can create a mental image that details what form the raw energy of the universe must take to align with our vision.

This mental image depicts our vision as if it already exists.

What we are seeking here is that rush of hot and heavy emotion that calls itself excitement! Nothing less will fire up our awesome magnetizing and creative power. Nothing less will set in motion the shift that we desire. Nothing less will begin to reshape the raw energy of the universe in our favor.

We can add fuel to our visualization fire by making physical vision boards which depict whatever we desire as creatively and with as much passion as possible.

Alternatively we can use vision board software to build a moving pictorial with sound that includes images of what we desire along with motivational and inspirational slides.

2) The second less common way of using creative visualization to create our lives is useful when we are not clear on our intentions - when we DON'T know our life purpose or the direction we want our lives to take

This form of creative visualization begins by acknowledging that we know the question but not the answer. Using this method we create an imaginary sacred space - our very own spiritual powerhouse. There we can access our own personal speck of the God force - the One that knows who we are because it IS who we are. When we spend a little time each day in this sacred space we will gain all the clarity, guidance, insight and enlightenment that we need and eventually awaken to our life purpose.

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Attempting to Overcome Suffering

Everyone suffers. It is an indubitable fact of being alive. Every religion and philosophy, every school of psychology has written tomes on the subject. Suffering is the central fact of both Christianity and Buddhism. Indeed, it seems obvious from our perspective that suffering is a central experience to all life, not just ours.

To ask, "How do I end suffering in my life?" is a deceptively simple question that is both straightforward and yet hopelessly contradictory, innocent but at once audacious. The question has the danger of leading one down endless dead ends of fruitless hope but if handled correctly also glimmers with the promise of liberation. In such a fundamental question, in such a possibility, therefore, one should see immediately the trap of the question simply leading to more questions. A simple way to look at it is this: it is while suffering that I wish suffering to end. I seek relief.

If we look to people who have seemed to overcome suffering, we often want to know how they got there and entertain the possibility that if we, too, do what he or she did then over time we might be free of suffering as well. Unfortunately, there couldn't be a greater illusion. Overcoming suffering requires transcendence, and transcendence requires abandonment of all doctrine (formula). Experience, in other words, is created and not repeated. You must go through this your own way: others can merely help you get started.

However we can also clearly envision a state of being of minimal or no suffering and deem it to be far preferable to our present life. That is fine- as a vision. But it is something that is true here and now or not true. The reality of this path (for it is truly a path and not a process), is that for all of us who live in suffering is the surprisingly frightening yet obvious fact that we must go through and confront suffering directly in order to transcend it. We cannot fear it if we are to let go of it.

I believe that suffering in this life can indeed be conquered. But it cannot be escaped.

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