Monday, January 23, 2012

Six Strategies To Finding True Success

By Thomas Salatto


Your focus plays a HUGE role in your ability to become a success or for that matter your lack thereof! You see our ability to achieve success is a matter of the quality of effort we are able or willing to put forth! This effort requires that we stay focused to not only be more productive but to also filter out the distractions we encounter! Once we allow ourselves to be distracted then begins a subtle process that leads to our own self destruction in terms of failing to meet our goals!

Examine your natural gifts. Everyone has some talent or other that enables them to do something with ease and great quality that most other people have to work at. The gifts can be along an artistic line, such as singing, the visual arts, acting, or dancing. They may be related to athletic ability, or human relations, such as bringing encouragement or being hospitable. There are many other gifts one might have; discovering yours is a clue to how to have a successful life.

You need a very strong reason to keep going when you want to revert back to old habits and patterns of thinking and behaving. Make your reason "why" so great it will take you beyond fear and anxiety and onward to excitement and belief - it is possible for you.

Problems Get Magnified The more preoccupied you become with the little problems the bigger they get! As you allow these problems to magnify, at least in your mind, your doubts do the same and you begin to lose confidence! You now find it getting even tougher to make any progress at all due to your lack of confidence whether in your own abilities or perhaps even the goals you have set! Your preoccupation with any problem be it real or imagined now keeps you from investing the necessary efforts you need to achieve success by reaching your goals!

Negativity Sets In As the saying goes 'idle hands are the devils playground' and much the same can be said about a non-focused mind! As previously mentioned if you don't stay focused on what it is you need to do to reach your objectives you open the door to distractions. In many cases minor distractions can then become major obstacles that nurture the seeds of doubt within you resulting in a strong sense of negativity! This is not a mindset that will help you become a success at anything but rather one that fosters frustration and failure! You must learn to keep your eyes on the prize if the prize is to be yours!

You don't have to get there first. You don't have to be the fastest. Just be the best you can be. Focus on what you can do each moment of each day and you will find joy, gratification and the reward of progress. The satisfaction you feel from making progress will be a reward in itself.

By not focusing we now open ourselves up to distractions that can completely undermine both our efforts and mindset as discussed above! These 'seeds of destruction' initiate a subtle process that make it virtually impossible to achieve success at just about anything since now our own thoughts are working against us! Remember to become a success when undertaking any worthwhile challenges involves a coordinated effort of both the body and mind! It is in this way that your ability to stay focused on what it is you're doing will tremendously increase your chances of reaching your goals!




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