Motivation: Find it and Leverage it…

Motivation is the source of energy that not only get things done, but also done with great success. If you can find it and sustain it, I am sure you are on your way to success! It is so powerful that nothing can stop in your way, what’s impossible has become possible with motivation. All you need to know is how to find it, and make full use of it.

Passion is the word

Yes. Doing things you love is a sure way to find motivation right? It creates excitement and the feeling to quickly get it done. Have you encounter an occasion where you just can’t fell asleep, knowing tomorrow you are off on an exciting holiday? Yes! You feel excited and your body has already started preparing even the night before!

If you are looking for motivation in your work, you will probably need to ask yourself if this is the job you love? Most successful workers are highly motivated at work. Why? Simply because they are doing what they love! Work is no longer work, it is their passion their play. They are so happy to spend their entire weekend and burn through their night to work. If you don’t feel that energy, even part of it, then probably you are not doing something you love.

So knowing what you love and how it motivates you is the first step to success. Donald Trump does not feel motivated over the heap of money coming in, it is the work he is into, his passion to close deals and create new incomes. The amount of money coming in is just an indicator of how successful he is now.

Your past successes can be fuel for your motivation

Have you heard about the circle of success? When someone has been successful in what he did, he will find the energy and motivation to do it again. Simply because he truly believe in it. These are proofs that you can be successful again. If you have successfully make $10 from selling an apple, do you believe that you can do it again and get the same result? Yes. You have done it and proved it!

Going further, you can even leverage on someone else’s success stories too! If they can do it, so can you! This create possibilities and believing you can create the same thing, you will find motivation! If Edmund Hillary can reach the top of Everest, so can many others, who have done it shortly after Edmund succeeded.

So find out more about others’ success stories, and you can find motivation there.

Set challenges for yourself

Setting challenges is another way to create motivation. Set yourself some easy to accomplish goals, and see for yourself. Goal after goal, you will unknowingly accomplished a difficult task! A good way is to write them out and display them at a prominent place and everyday remind yourself of these goals.

The Very Best of April 2013

Over the month of April, I have received many emails requesting for certain personal development topics. I am starting to understand more about what are the topics and related issues that you might be interested in. And that itself gave me a great deal of motivation and energy, to write better articles and interesting topics that my readers really love. Keep those emails coming!

April is a great month, we have well over 2000 reads and audience come from all over the world, majority are from the US and Singapore and we are seeing more from Europe and Asia. Here are the top 3 articles in April:

#3: How to ask for a salary increment, this article talk about the necessary steps to effective negotiation for a salary increment. One of the hardest question to ask, but with good research and planning, you will be able to negotiate better, understand how much you are worth and plan out a good strategy approaching this topic to your boss.

#2: Controlling your state of mind, a great technique to program your mind to work the way you wanted to. By creating anchors, you will be able to enter the state you desired. Not only for better performance or motivation, it also helps to manage your emotions effectively. Anchors are powerful, as these are one of the key tools in very highly successful individuals. =

#1: What do you see in this picture? One of the most interesting article adapted from an ancient Chinese philosophy, we tend to focus too much on certain, obvious things and neglected a lot of other things that might have made the difference. Bad things happen and we remembered our entire lifetime, and we do not remembered the good things that happened during those times. We classify someone as a bad guy for one or two bad deeds done and forgetting the wonderful good deeds done. So broaden your perspective and look around you, before you conclude whether it is good or bad!

May is coming fast and the blog is going on the 3rd month soon. Thanks for all your support, and as promised, I will probably launched the ebook that I have prepared for you, absolutely free! Stay tuned and feel free to let me know if you are interested in certain topics!

Thanks!

Richmond

Founder – Dream Turners

Keep your work simple

Keeping things simple may sound easy at first. But in actual fact, simplicity is one of the toughest things to achieve and maintain! Many things in our lives will complicate over time naturally. It is how we handle these changes and tweak around to ensure we maintain simple things. But in short “Simplicity is not as simple as it is”!

Simplicity is one of sought after principles at work.

Simplicity actually means a lot at work. Being simple and straight to the point, you can help your company to save millions of dollars and investing too much time working on complex issues. Why simple things are more valuable than complex things? Because simple things are easy to understand, not understanding yourself, but anyone else! Customers don’t have to spend hours trying to figure out what you are trying to say, and your team mates can easily support your project or take over work from you without any loss of knowledge or information. Bosses are happy and very clear of your projects and achievements. Isn’t that great? It is so much better than creating an extremely powerful but complex system that you are proud of but no one else know how to use it!

Here are some ways to add simplicity in your work:

• Work with an end in your mind. It is very similar to creating vision and goals. If you are clear of how your product or presentation slides look like at the end, you will know how to achieve that. “Reverse engineer” your way back to the basics. This way will help you to be focus on your end-state and not stray away from your focus, ending up creating complex solutions that can be solved easily.
• Eliminate redundancy. Redundancy is one of the main contributors to complexity. Set yourselves various checkpoints, where you actually stop working and review what you have done. Eliminate any redundancy if necessary. Sometimes we tend to add a lot details, just to make it clear but at many times things can be intuitive enough to be understood without further details.
• Think and work in the shoes of your audience. Another important principle of simplicity. It means easy to use, easy to understand. Always ask yourself why are you including these details? Does it help my audience to understand? Do they need to know before they can make any decision or take action? The best way is to get someone to read through your documents or use your product and give you feedback on it. Knowing what they want, you will be able to eliminate a lot of the complexity from your work.
• Let others do the “dirty work”. At many times, things cannot be that simple. It simply just cannot be eliminated and yet everything look too complex. A great way to deal with that is to redirect or delegate something to solve the complexity, so your audience or customers don’t have to deal with the complexity that will put them away. Automate things that can be automated through simple excel formulas, instead of having the customers to put in a formula and values, why not create something really simple that they have just to fill in the necessary values and let the program do the dirty work? Simplicity in this case is enhancing user experience which is one of the most important aspect in product design or process design.

Over time, you can expect to lose simplicity. It is a natural process where things complicate when they age. New things pop up and taken care of, quick fix or enhancements needed etc. So constantly review and decide if a “simplification” is needed. I bet if you can make it a point to make things simple, others will be impressed by your work! Many others tend to just to get things done and move on, but being able to spend a little bit more thought and work, you make a quantum difference that distinguishes yourself from the rest.

       

 

Here are some great resources that worth investing your time in:

• Simple: Conquering the Crisis of Complexity
• Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
• Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

How to get someone to do anything for you…

Do you believe that you have the power and ability to get someone to do things that you want them to do? Yes! If you apply the right skills and the right message, they will work for you! The technique is a secret tool, or rather something that is subtle and require some analysis to bring our the characteristics of this existence of the secret technique.

You can easily find numerous books on persuasion and influence people, and they all have their own views and analysis of effective persuasion and influence. I stumbled upon a book that sums all up and put everything right in place. The book, Influence: Science and Practice (5th Edition) pieces the puzzle altogether. The book introduces the six “weapons of influence”. These are power techniques that can be so powerful that you can get people to do anything.

Consistency and Commitment. Another principle observe in almost everyday life. People can be conditioned that a certain belief is true or convinced about your opinions and in turn build their own.Once people start believing, they are committed to them and doing things consistently that relate back to their beliefs and commitment.

The Law of Reciprocity. This is a common technique you see in marketing, where companies give out free samples, trial periods of their products and know that people will come back and purchase the product, sometimes just to return the favor. It is also a form of human behavior, which build trust and relationships.

Social Proof. One of the strongest methodologies in social behavior. Simple way to describe it will be m=”monkey see, monkey do.” In many social activities when people faced uncertainties or doubts on anything, they tend to follow those who have been done it before and follow the crowd. You can observe this behavior from many marketing plans where they talk about positive experience or reviews and show videos or pictures of people using the product. Or when everyone is using the same mobile phone and others will tend to think that phone is one of the best and will eventually get one for themselves.

Scarcity. Another word that bears the same meaning “Exclusive”. People tend to do things when those things are exclusive. It can be either Time scarcity, “Limited time offer!” or Quantity scarcity which is like “2 left!” or “limited edition! 5 in the whole world” Marketers used this technique frequently as they work like magic on its own.

Liking. People tend to do things that they like, right? Same goes for anything, you tend to be easily influenced or believed in people you like. So if you can make yourself “likeable”, it will be easier to influence other people!

Authority. People tend to be believe in people of higher authority. Like you will trust professionals in their own fields. Like advertisements showing doctors and dentists promoting products, people tend to buy these recommended products. But in actual fact, these “doctors” or “dentists” are just actors!

With this six weapons of influence, I am sure you can get more out of it from other people!

This book, Influence: Science and Practice (5th Edition) is available in Amazon through this link. Author of this book, Robert Cialdini is a renowned psychologists in the field of influence and persuasion. Do get one and find out more of the concepts and ways to persuade and influence others!

Related books:

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)
• How To Win Friends and Influence People Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
• Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others

Do you know you already have what it takes to succeed in anything?

Do you know that? You are born with the extraordinary determination to do anything and everything, and guess what? It is still working very hard this every moment.

Your own body immune system! Your very own body is built to work in the way that it do whatever it takes to ensure you survive. Your immune system is the incredible force that fights off all enemies, like bacteria, virus, fungus or anything that will harm your body, every single day, every minute. It response 24/7, and very quickly, your body is determined to protect you!

Now that you know you have the ability and determination within you, why not leverage on this special energy and go out to succeed? All you need is to control your mind! When your mind is set, your body will do the necessary adjustments to overcome any obstacles along the way.

How about some deadly virus that your body simply cannot protect yourself to? There are cases where our immune system fails. Well, that’s true, your body is not prepared against such viruses. But, in the case of overcoming new obstacles or failures, you have the advantage to pre-empt and prepare before its too late! How do you get immune to some viruses or bacteria? Create antibodies in your body, through multiple exposure to your enemy! Vaccines are actually weakened or dead viruses that are injected in your body so that your immune system can produce anti-bodies to over come it. So you can do the same to your mind! Create scenarios, or attempt test runs or even get exposed and learn from failures. Not too long, you will be immune to it.

So build up your mind’s “immune system” today. Successful individuals never fall “sick” and they are always ready to go out and succeed. Having strong mindset not only mean you will be unstoppable, but it gives you encouragement and confidence that you can do it! You will start to understand yourself better and discover the ability to harness the extraordinary power that not many people have ever done before. If you need some help or more information on how to tap into such resources, I strongly recommend Tapping Into Ultimate Success: How to Overcome Any Obstacle and Skyrocket Your Results, which talks about concepts and tips to start achieving results you desire. So go out there and start your immune system training now!

You may be interested in:

Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond

Why People Fail: The 16 Obstacles to Success and How You Can Overcome Them

The Very Best of March 2013

Wow! One month had just past in a blink of an eye and I have posted 26 posts in March 2013. Thanks for all your support and I hope that these posts provide you with a good idea that everything is possible. Today’s post, I will list out some of the most popular posts that is a must read for everyone!

Your Guide to Goal Setting is #5 in the month of March.It is important to have goals or else you will be wandering around aimlessly. Goals helps to put you in focus and goals are derived from your vision, something you see yourself as a successful person, living your ideal life. When your vision is clear, you will see the necessary steps to success and goals are actually steps you need to accomplish in order to succeed. Knowledge on how to set good goals is important, so that you can narrow down all your efforts to the desired road to success!

The Four Habits of Very Successful Individuals is #4 on the favorites, which touch on the habits of high achievers. What’s the sure way to be as successful as them? The best way is to learn from them! Find out what drives their decision making and how they handle issues and over come challenges will shed some light on their secrets to success.

Next on the list is First step to positive cashflow. Are you ready to change for the better? . The easiest way to start creating positive cashflow is to manage your expenses. Reducing negative flow is not about stopping you from spending money, but it is more about how to spend money wisely. This post shows three different categories of expenses and how to manage them effectively.

#2 on the March’s list is the How to be 10 times more effective at work . We always talk about who is better at work and how can we be better as well.  This post shares three learning points on how to be more effective at work. Effective at work doesn’t mean spending your entire day at work, it also doesn’t mean sacrificing your meal times or family times, but really is how to leverage the time at work to produce better work. In fact, you can be 10 times as effective with a shorter number of hours!

And the #1 post of March 2013 is … 3 ways to excel at work… !! Wow it is another post on how to be better at work! Good habits and mindset will help you to become one of the top workers in your organization. Three simple tips to follow, this post will guide you on the way to better up chances on promotions and increments. No extra efforts needed, but really its a change of mindset and the way to do things…

Here you go, the top posts of March 2013. I felt really accomplished when I saw a good number of page views and I know there are people out there trying their very best to succeed. I hope I can help you one way or in another to get you there. Do stay around again and you will expect more posts in the coming months and also will be launching an e-Book, The Mind Booster Handbook, real soon!

Richmond

Dream Turners

Using the power of your subconscious mind…

It is an untapped potential of the human mind. We have yet to fully utilize the power of our brain. But today, we witness its overwhelming power by tapping into 1% of it… Learn how to harness the power of your subconscious today…

1. Autosuggestion
Reality distortion, a psychological technique that professionals uses. It it by emphasizing on the greatness of a certain object, using powerful adjectives that create a kind of distortion in your brain. Our subsconscious mind cannot distinguish the truth and the lies. If you repeat on it again and again, your sub-conscious mind will believe it it true!

2. Write out your dreams, your goals
Again, frequent “reminders” and repetitive reception of certain beliefs can empower your mind to do something. The untapped potential will energize you to work towards your dreams.

3. Dreamboarding
Have you heard of it? It is a graphical kind of representation of your dreams and goals.I bet you have done it before, using your dream cars as your wallpapers, pictures of your dream house, pasting them around your room and in your wallet. A proper dreamboard can be done through using magazine or online graphics, arrange them properly and printing them out. Place your dreamboard at a visible place that you will see everyday.

Create a dream board for yourself today. You will be amazed at the results!

Think and Grow Rich , elaborates on concepts of autosuggestion and harnessing your mind’s power. Exposing yourself to multiple resource of these concepts also reinforce your beliefs of achieving success. In fact you are using your subconscious mind right now!

Richmond
Dream Turners

Your guide to Goal Setting

Goal setting is essential if you want to realize your vision. A great plan comes with many milestones and every milestone is a goal. So by achieving all your goals, you simply turn your vision into reality! Here are 6 questions you have to ask yourself which will help you to gain more clarity on your vision and how to set your goals properly.

1. What is the most important thing in your life?

Is it personal development,health, financial or material achievements? Or family? Is it about having a great career? a lot of friends? Identifying your most important thing helps you to find focus and set goals based on your priorities.

2. S.M.A.R.T. ideology

Is your goal:

Specific

Measurable

Attainable

Realistic

Timely

Set goals with great detail, because the more detail you have, the more clarity you gain and easier for you to plan.

3.Identify the Pain and Pleasure

If you can identify the pain of not achieving the goal and pleasure of achieving the goal, you can empower yourself by gaining vision of your future state. It gives you motivation for you achieve your goals.

4. What are your plans and resources you have to achieve your goal?

Having a clear vision will help you see and design your plan. Focus on questions with “Hows”. What are you going to do to reach your goal? Setting up a business? Through real estate? What are the steps needed to move closer to your goals. Your “How” is important but it is not as important as your “Why”, because once you know your “Why”, somehow you would be able to figure out your “How”.

Think about resources too, focus on people and skills, lists them out.What skillsets you have that you can leverage, list them down. Who are the people that can offer you advice or provide aids that help you to move closer to your goals, write them down.

5. What are the possible obstacles you will face?

Knowing what you can achieve may not be enough, it is less than 40% of your goal setting. Think about possible obstacles too. Think about what you can do when you face some challenges. It may be hard to identify them because you did not experience them before, try reading books and case studies on what others face and learn from there!

6. Lastly, how badly you want to achieve your goal?

There is a huge difference between wanting to achieve your goal and having a must to achieve. All of us want lots of things, dream cars, dream house, high paychecks or dozens of properties. But why do many of us don’t achieve it? Simple, just mere desires. You can settle for something else easily. Unless you make your goal a must, it is very likely you would never achieve it.

I hope this will shed some light for you on goal settings. There are many resources out there on goal setting. I bet you have experience it in school or at work before. But trust me, they are not as detailed as explained here. You have yet to feel the potential of it, so try out these questions and you will see your goals much clearer!

Most important thing to remember. Always write out your goals! Paste it on your walls, your ceilings or your desktop or iPhone wallpapers!

It will remind you on your goals that you have set!

 

Richmond

Founder, Dream Turners

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Dream Turners

Taking Control & Going with the Flow…

Successful people always have things under their control. You will always see that they are able to manipulate, or make things happen in their favor. Today, I will go share with you their secrets… Generally speaking, their actions can be categorized into two, Taking Control of Things around them, and Going with the Flow of Things happening around them. Such actions are driven by a millionaire habit, “Be proactive!”. We will talk about this in this post.

Taking Control of Things

You must of heard of “Winners make things happen…”. Yes, being in control means controlling things that will happen around them. They are 100% committed to themselves and their visions, and take every step to ensure that things happen in their favor. Once things start to drift away from their ideal state, these people will go all out to turn things around, like influencing others, micro-manage certain minor tasks, fix issues themselves. They are always proactive to look out for things that they can manipulate and drive things to work for them. That is why you will see them very good at spotting opportunities.

Going with the Flow

Although they are powerful super beings, there will be inevitable events that happen which spoil their plan and disrupt the progress to their ideal state. But you will never see them ranting or complaining that their great plans have failed. Inevitable events are like when stock market suddenly plunges to rock bottom, or a change in government law, or a natural disasters. No one can be powerful enough to make such events change, but successful individuals are dynamic and willing to change their strategy and plans to continue on their journey to success. They accept that things can change and so they have to change to stay in the flow with it.

Many people failed because they are not proactive enough, allowing things to drive their decisions and their plans and in some cases, resulting in big losses. They miss out a lot of good opportunities or decision to take real action to rectify the problem, and ending up waiting for “miracles” to happen. Instead, many will start giving excuses that things are not happening in their favor and they had not choice to give up.

Remember, you have the ability to change things and decide how things will happen! Be proactive in every thing you do, you will feel the difference. If you haven’t heard of this famous book,The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide , I strongly recommend you to get it for yourself. I had several editions of this book and I had benefitted a lot every time I read. Other related books are useful too, you might be interested in: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , which is one of the BEST self-help book everyone should get. Get this if you want to start making a difference in your life today!

    

The Blueprint to wealth and happiness…

It's true.

Wealth and happiness actually does have a blueprint that you can follow.

For most of us, getting what we want seems like a mysterious process that we can never figure out.

But there are strategies and techniques you can follow... laws of the universe that will lead you to where you want to go, and they work every time.

But first you have to know how to clear your subconscious of all the past garbage and lies that other people put in there throughout your life, usually without your consent or knowledge.

This video tells you more

Most of us aren't aware of it, but our subconscious mind is being activated and reprogrammed all the time.

Your subconscious makes no value judgements. It takes whatever your conscious mind puts into it, and runs with it.

So you need to be really careful what you feed to your subconscious. If you're in a constant negative mindset, then that's what you get in your life.

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Bigger Perspective = More Opportunities

I bet you have heard of others saying, “I am waiting for an opportunity, and I will make my move.” Many times, most of them end up “waiting” too long and gave up, or some make their move at the wrong opportunities. In fact, opportunities are everywhere. It is out there NOW and for you to discover. But the question is, how do we spot opportunities? Here is one Chinese ancient story that talk about this…

There was one farmer who was trying to explore new land and he stumbled upon a big Bottle Gourds Plant. Bottle gourd plants are famous for their fruits which can be hollowed out and used as water bottles. This particular plant grow amazingly BIG bottle gourds, what an opportunity the farmer thought! The farmer thought they can be used to make giant water bottles but only to realize that these giant fruits have skin that is just too thin to hold water. Water bottles made from these fruits leak and break very easily. Feeling very disappointed with his so-called “opportunity” and returned home.

He shared his findings to an amateur farmer and the amateur decided to see the “useless find” himself. The amateur finally saw the giant gourds and said “Wow! I can make good use of these big fruits!”. He dug out the entire plant and transported it back to his backyard and harvested all the giant fruits, tying them together. A few weeks later he had crafted out an extremely strong river raft, making use of the hollowed giant gourds as floats and the rafts soon become a profitable product! A useless material for a bottle turned out to be an useful and profitable material for a river raft! Certainly, the farmer missed out a very lucrative opportunity!

So what’s the secret? The answer lies in what the amateur see! The amateur had a bigger perspective, not by just looking at the conventional use of bottle gourds but looked far beyond that, and he saw a lot more uses of these giant gourds. Opportunities are everywhere, its the matter of whether you can actually see it or not…

Here’s a question for you to try out…

What will you do if you managed to buy a big piece of land at a ridiculously low price?

Think about it and have an answer before you read on.

It’s an opportunity right? So what will you do?

• Some people see it as a sure way for quick profit, buy low and sell high! Instant profit!
• And some others try to reap more out of it by turning it into a big farmland where you can harvest a lot all year round and making profit every year. Good perspective! Better than a one-off profit just by selling the land off.
• Others with bigger perspective see the opportunity to create more passive income, by investing money to build apartments and buildings on it and renting them out for more money!
• And you know what? Someone actually did a quick check on the soil and rocks and found out that there is a gold vein under it! Its a gold mine!

Sure enough, the bigger perspective you have, the more things you will see and the more opportunities you will discover. It also determines the level of success, or the amount of output you will gain from the opportunity. You can definitely gain something out of it, but is that the best you can gain from it? Do you see a small local business that can sustain your lifestyle or do you see a regional chain of outlets that can bring you heaps of money? Your talent of painting allows you to earn a name in your country or do you see your master pieces on a world tour that will make you a world famous artist? Your perspective of things determine your results!

Here are some books on broadening perspectives and see more opportunities. Spotting Business Opportunities and The Business You Can Start: Spotting The Greatest Opportunities In The Economic Downturn (Pathway to Business Success Series) gives you quick, proven methods to improve your ability to see more opportunities. Easy to follow methodologies provide you certain rules or guides that can lead you to see what others may not see. Not only to see, but how to act on them to make gains out from it!

 

  

 

Don’t wait! Opportunities are all out there now! Discover and act on it before others will!

 

Richmond

Why some are more successful… The story of two stones…

I heard this inspiring story a few years ago, and it is very meaningful to me, on my views why some people are really successful while some do not. It is a mythical fantasy story of two stones who each have a different fate. Here it goes…

In a certain part of China, there is a majestic temple where thousands from all over the world come to worship. The entire temple was made with stone, all from the same mountain. The pillars, the Buddha statue, the roof are all finely crafted with stone.

One day, one of the stone slabs which made up the stairs leading to the temple was talking to the stone which is crafted into the Buddha. It exclaimed “Life is so unfair! We all came from the same mountain and why am I always get stepped on by thousands of people and you are placed high up and being worshipped by them?” Other stone slabs, also started ranting their anger and their dissatisfaction to the stone Buddha.

Finally, the stone Buddha spoke. “Can you see the difference between us? You are rectangular stone slabs that only need to endure 6 slices of the blades that made you today… I myself have to take thousands slices, hundreds of chippings and months of grinding to make me today!”

A short but truly meaningful story right? Success mostly happen after countless of failures and obstacles. People who are afraid of failure and unwilling to move out of their comfort zones are the many stone slabs in the temple, will see success or wealth befall on them. High achievers fail more than any other people. But they do not give up, they accept that failure is part of the process to achieve success, and they keep trying. Here are two points for you to think about:

Always plan to fail. Expect failure 99% all the time. Think about what you will do after each failure. If you do not plan or set your mindset right, you will be constantly disappointed. Many people expect themselves to succeed on the first try and they felt terribly painful and gave up when their first try turned out to be bad. If you are expecting failure all the time, you will be pleasantly surprised and happy when success finally happen! If you watch the interviews of millionares and successful people, you will hear them say they  didn’t expect this kind of success or result when they started. They plan to fail and they worked out plans to try again. They fine tune their plans and avoid making the same mistakes until they get it right. Truly, it is the formula for success!

Having a plan is not good enough. You must take action! Many people had great plans and said their plans were perfect and bound to succeed, but truly the fact was that the “perfect plan” was not executed because they feared failure. You can read all the books to success and agreeing to all ideas, understanding all methodologies to success. But if you did not try them out and see for yourself, you are in fact yet to fully understand it. “To know and not to do, is not yet to know.” You don’t have to have great success plans for a start, try something simple and achievable, apply the techniques and skills. Taste how success is like, and before you know it, you wanted more of it again. Being successful once can mean being successful again. You will be motivated and truly believe that all you had learnt are indeed true!

Overcome your fear of failure can bring you to great heights. Understanding that countless of failures are not true failures, but just feedback. Take that feedback and turn it to lesson learnt and try again, you are on the right track to success! There are million of ways to overcome failure, I strongly recommend these two wonderful books, Why People Fail: The 16 Obstacles to Success and How You Can Overcome Them and ,The Power of Failure: 27 Ways to Turn Life's Setbacks Into Success. These books cover numerous case studies and different ways to overcome them. Learn from their stories and cut short your journey to success.

          

 

You might be interested in these too:

• Why We Fail: The 101 Best Ways to Overcome Failure and Achieve Success
•  Conquering the Fear of Failure
• Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes and Thinking Big
• The Achilles Syndrome: Overcoming the Secret Fear of Failure

 

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Self Confidence ! – Know Yourself first

An Ancient Chinese proverb, “If you know yourself and know your enemies, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss ” . Very true!

Before we can really talk about self-confidence, we first need to talk about “self”.

What is “self”?

Who are “you”?

What are your core values and beliefs?

What do you love to think about?

Tough questions? Let me help you with this. Self is who you really are inside, and you have to understand this self. If you can’t understand your Self, then how can you have faith in yourself?

If you don’t have a good understanding about yourself, you will be prone to external factors that will affect you. There are hundreds and thousands of messages hammering you each day from media or people in your life. These messages will define who you are instead unless you understand yourself.

You want to reach your destination rather than be tossed about like a ship without a sail. So start taking time to get to know yourself.
Learn to enjoy your own company. And...dare I say it...fall in love with yourself.

Then you will have the confidence that will carry you forward.
So get to know your Self. Sometimes outside encouragement is helpful. So here are videos that you can watch effortlessly to help you get in the right frame of mind to grow and get to know your Self.

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But note, having a strong sense of self doesn't mean you have to become arrogant and full of pride. It means being completely content and confident with who you are. And when that happens, look out, because your income will grow too.

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Free Video: The Power of Your Action… You will be amazed!

Do you know that any of us have the ability to take control and make changes in our lives? Instead of believing in Fate or Destiny, why not believe in yourself and start creating your own future? This is one principle of a millionaire mindset, be 100% responsible for your own action! For all things to change, I must change first! Believe in this and I know you are already halfway there.

The first step in making changes in your life is always the hardest thing to do! I bet many will agree with me.Knowing where to start or ‘how’ to start is often the toughest challenges that we face. Just to get you started with any changes that you want to make in your life, here is a great video for you to watch.

Watch it here absolutely free: Start your Video here.

This is not just some kind of inspirational video, but it is more of a blueprint to success! A purely instruction handbook to success. It empowers you to start doing the right things and soon you will see all your efforts turn into amazing results. Isn’t that awesome? I had my own share of such an experience before and I wanted to share that remarkable experience with you.

If you are going to help yourself to be successful in your life, this is a must watch.

It’s only for a few minutes, but it’s very powerful because it explains how to start taking action. So take a couple of minutes for yourself to watch this video and then take some action on your journey towards achieving all your life’s desires and goals! Take your first action today!

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The Four Habits of Very Successful Individuals

What is the best way to achieve success? The quickest and most effective way is to model someone who had succeeded! Not only we should research on their steps to success, we also need to study and learn from the mindset of these people. Thousands of scientists and psychologists have spent millions of hours to understand their way of thinking, the decisions they made and the actions they take that allows them to outperform the others. After reading numerous books on success stories and methodologies, I came out with a simple list of habits that many successful individuals have.

1. Take control of everything happening around you. Yes. These super-individuals take control of how things happen, being proactive and influential in their daily life, they inspire others to follow them and take initiative to act when they feel that their method or thoughts are better than others. And because they are putting their thoughts into action, these people are 100% committed. Whenever you talk to them on their future plans, you will find out that they go to great extend to get things done, in their way. Many had micro-manage mediocre tasks, just to ensure that they know everything is working right. When things go wrong, they take full responsibilities to ensure that things are rectified, and change their strategies according. They do not give excuses to themselves, and they believe that they have the power to change things.

 

2. Passion & Commitment. Successful people do things they truly love doing. Not for the sake of money, but the satisfaction they gain from their actions. Many great businesses start out as a passion, and because of the passion is the driving force, it attracted money too! Money is secondary to them, so don’t ever do something that you won’t enjoy for the sake of getting rich. It is a hard and torturing journey for yourself. Do something you enjoy a lot, and you will eventually feel very committed to it. Because of your passion, things you do is no longer a “want-to-do” kind of thing, it’s more like “must do!”. Because you seriously enjoy every moment of it and will dedicate your time and energy to enjoy every bit of it. It is this kind of driving force you should have to be successful. Make everything a “Must” and no longer a “wish” or a “want”, which is much weaker desire.

 

3. Create value. Be sure that there are always people out there doing the same thing as you are doing right now. Competition is almost inevitable in any thing you do today, Internet and communications are closely knit together and you are no longer competing around you, but really across the globe. If you don’t create value, you are as good as out-of-business, because millions of people out there can do better than you!  In other words, what ever you do, you will need to surpass people’s expectation. Selling fruits is not going to last long, but selling high quality fruits will do better. The best thing is customers out there are willing to pay for a premium for these higher value products!  So always do things above expectations and create value, not only you will attract the right people, right resources but also more opportunities to you.

 

4. Accept failures as lessons. Success does always come from a single try, you should be considered lucky if you can succeed in a few tries! Failures are considered as part of the steps to success. Successful individuals expect failures to come and they accept them as good lessons. Also, trying again and again is not going to help if you continue doing the same thing. Learnt from the failures and be ready to change your way of doing things and try again! They are persistent and never give up until they succeed. Like myself, I don’t grow beautiful plants that earn envy from every other gardeners around in one go, I probably killed more plants than anyone else before I know the right way to grow them well! So the thought that successful people succeed in a single attempt is false.

 

These habits are important elements for success. Without them, you will be lost and start to procrastinate and settle. Or you will just gave up and start giving excuses that it’s just too hard and difficult. One good way to cultivate such habits is to keep reading on success stories, whenever I feel stressed and wanting to give up, the success stories showed me that others persevered in more difficult scenarios to succeed. That kept me going, even today.  These apply to everything you do, and you will see the difference. You start to see more opportunities around you, regardless in work, hobbies, business!

I strongly recommend you to find out more about the mechanics of success. The Success Principle is a great resource to start with, understand the principles of success and ingredients to it. Different perspective of successes and shed more light to enlighten yourself. Another good interpretation of habits, Success Habits Generator , gives you more success stories and perspectives of achieving success. Find out more about them in the links provided, you will be amazed. I become really enthusiastic as these materials made me realize that success can be easily achievable, it’s really yourself that is stopping you. Trust me when you tasted success, you will be “addicted” to it. Invest your time and resources to this and I am sure you already getting more of it back in the near future!

Great plans come from Great Vision… Can you see clearly what it takes?

Most successes doesn't come from pure luck, in fact most of them are through careful planning and leveraging the opportunities to happen. Mark didn't make Facebook more than a million users overnight, Larry didn't make Google one of the best search engine ever. All of them have a humble beginning and a great plan.

Your plan truly determine the probability and level of success. It gives you clarity to make the correct decisions and drive towards success. Making wrong decisions either stall your progress or even destroy the entire plan. So planning is a critical step that you have to do it in order to succeed. Planning is an art, many learnt from their mistakes, which took them on long detours before they finally succeed. Other learn through following successful plans, which is a great idea, but always be ready to change according to the opportunities happening around you.

Before you can start planning, you need to know what's at the end of the road, things that you want to achieve. In short, Vision. Great plans come from great vision. Crystal clear vision can show you every step you need to make to succeed. Vague or vision with little details are almost useless, because you cannot plan effectively, ending up going in circles or wrong direction. A vision " Setting up a supermarket in my town" is too vague to give you good details to plan. "Setting up a 10,000 sq foot supermarket with products from 100 vendors in the downtown area in 2 years time" See the difference? This will guide you to plan appropriately. You will devise a plan on how to work with 100 vendors, and also search for potential rent space in downtown. Do you think it is easier to succeed than saying "Setting up a supermarket"? Yes it does!!

Vision is what you want to achieve and different levels of success will require a whole new vision and plan. A vision and plan of setting up a supermarket will be different from setting up a global chain of supermarket. You will also need to think about expansion and regional distributors, how to manage a chain of outlets etc.

So how high should you aim for success? Of course as high as possible! The higher you aim, the better your rewards from success! You shouldn't be saying "It's too difficult" or "I don't think I can do it". You already got a great vision and plan! You are almost halfway there, you are far better than the majority of them. Don’t settle for less, it limits your ability to grow. And if your big plan doesn’t turn out as well, you will still be far better than you used to be! A global chain may not work or fail to take off, but your plan is already good enough to sustain a regional chain of supermarkets, does it sound good too compared to nothing?

So always set a clear vision, only then you will see the goals you need to accomplish in order to succeed.  With these, you will be able to plan in great details, almost like a blueprint to success. There a lot great resources out there, but the hidden message of great vision and great plan is something that not many resources actually talk in depth to it. I hope you are enlightened by now. Here are some books that help you out on goal settings, proven methodologies and systematic approach to achieve your goals. I read many of such books, but it is really the hands-on, practical application of vision that make you realize that everything is possible. Nevertheless, these books are going to help you a lot, reducing your learning period to succeed,  so read them and apply them, you will be amazed. If you want to learn from success stories and analysis of their methodologies, i recommend Goal Setting: 13 Secrets of World Class Achievers, great resource! If you want more in depth knowledge on accelerated goal achievement, this is something you will be looking for, Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible .