how to succeed . no matter what (part 1)

1. be fully convinced
no matter what you see, hear, the thoughts in your brain or what others might say. you are the only person who knows what it is you want out of life. if you are not FULLY convinced of what you want, you will never see anything happen.
did you know every subatomic particle in your body is designed for you to do extraordinary things? Yup, it's true. Imagine harnessing the power of your mind and applying it to everything you do. Imagine what you will achieve.

2. pick your success
you know the saying, too many eggs in one basket? yeah, it's a cliche for a reason.
too many people pick more than they can handle or try to do too many things at once. you can't fly a plane, run a marathon and read a book all at once can you? no, so why not pick one at a time. as you succeed in each thing you willl grow stronger and understand how to filter what you need v. what you want.

3. stay away from losers
ouch. that was harsh, but true. you know the salesman's bible says that the only difference between a closer and a loser is a "C". so true. just one little character can destroy your dreams or many characters who can put you in a sea of confusion. A closer is someone who is convinced that what they are doing is what they want and they are not persuaded by people who say otherwise. Closing on a deal is easy if you know that you will have successful results no matter what.

4. don't deceive yourself or others
probably the most important and most ignorant thing people do is deceive themselves and others. maybe because they really don't care or believe in what they are doing. no matter what reason they have, deception is just wrong. especially self deception. here's an example: you are at a hospital, dressed like a doctor, talk like a doctor, know really fancy doctor terminology and maybe even know how to read a DNA chart, but you know you are a football player. Now let me ask you this: would you want a football player operating on you? of course not. so why deceive yourself into thinking you're a doctor when you're a football player.
the reason people do this is -again- they do not know what they want or they want too many things at once. nothing wrong with being both a doctor and a football player, but in order to do both, you need to finish med school and then finish football training camp. that way when people see you at the hospital or on the football field, they can say yeah, that guy operated on my kid the other day, it was amazing and he is also a great quarterback.

5. follow through
no matter how things look or feel, people have a tendency to quit, pause, stop, change course, hesitate. something about it appeals to our laziness. people give up faster than they can say bobs-your-uncle. often the reason is simple: they never truly believed in what they were doing or were in it for the wrong reasons or even worse, only did it because some else did and they didn't want to be left out of the loop.

if you are honestly convinced you will succeed, then you will follow through no matter what.

in fact, let that be your motto from now on: NO MATTER WHAT i am going to succeed. No matter what I think, see, hear, feel; no matter how tough it is or how long it may take, i am fully convinced that i will have what i really want because i am doing what it takes to have what i want. i am a closer not a loser.

here is a quote written some four thousand years ago that applies to this:

and he did not consider his age -being 100 years old- nor the deadness of his wife's womb but was FULLY CONVINCED that the promise would come to pass.
(and it did. Abraham's kids are as many as the stars in the sky -in fact we all are descendants of him and Sarah.)

. success is not measured by how much you have but how much you apply .

in the first part, we touched on the subject of succeeding by choosing what we want to succeed at, focusing on it, removing anything that would convince us otherwise and people who would keep us from it, as well as not deceiving others or ourselves. in short being fully convinced.

in this part we will focus on the difference between measuring success.

most people can relate success by finances so it makes sense to use this analogy.

so you are on the path to success no matter what it is.
you gain the skills you need to be successful how?
well some say get an education. good, makes sense too. information is vital for your success. but not all information. you could read a thousand books on how to bake a cake but it doesn't make you a baker. you get my point.

choosing the ingredients for success is the most important thing you will ever do.
here are the ingredients ever person needs to succeed.

1. the idea.
2. the plan.
3. the skills.
4. the support team
5. the reward
6. enjoying the success
7. the sharing

1-6 are pretty much self explanatory. in order to succeed you need an idea or vision, a plan to succeed, the skills for the task, a support team of people who believe in the idea.
you also need to see results or the reward for your success otherwise you become discouraged and that's where the self deception thing starts to happen and we don't want that, now do we? of course not.

number 7 might be the last thing on the list and on most people's minds on the road to success, but it is perhaps the most important -and should be first on the list.

sharing. ( a lot of cringing going on out there ). Why?
first, realize that unless you can share your success with others you can never actually measure that success. you could say well i can measure it by how much i have, how much money i made, how popular i have become...everybody wants to be like me.

yes, you could, but that is completely untrue and deceitful.
you didn't magically become successful all by your little old self, did you?
sure you did the work, but that only means you did something, it doesn't mean you were successful. see the difference?

unless you can share your success you will never succeed.
ironic? no, factual. you can't measure success until you succeed and until you learn to share your success you have not succeeded.

ask yourself these questions: where did you get the idea, where did you learn your skills?
a school, a book, the web, a mentor perhaps? so you didn't do it alone.

sadly, most people will try to convince you of two things:
you don't need anyone else to succeed
you don't have to give anyone credit for your success

even more ironic is this (watch closely) 9 ou of ten people -when something goes wrong- are quick to point the finger at someone else or INCLUDE others in the failure! But when it comes to success those same people won't even acknowledge another person openly in a crowd.

funny how we are taught by our parents and teachers when we are very young that we should share. yet when we get older we seem to turn away from that concept and become selfish and miserly.

sharing your success with others means sharing everything. sharing the spotlight, the work, the joy, the benefits and yes, even the money.

by doing this you are not only succeeding yourself but helping others to succeed.

pretty cool thing if you ask me. now you can measure your success.
how many of those ingredients are you using? how many of them are you applying?

which is better: to measure only one ingredient and hope for the best outcome or measure them all together and have a great recipe for success.

yeah, the second one.

the next part of success is included here and has to do with the reward portion aka the $$$.
this is an area many, many people fall short or get too caught up in.

first, financial reward is only ONE ingredient to your success NOT THE WHOLE RECIPE.
generally speaking, financial rewards -depending on your concept/idea- has different outcomes/levels. the reason being is simple:

some things take longer than others.

let me give you a few examples:

1. you go to the store and buy a package of mint, some sugar and some lemon juice; go home and make some nice lemonade and enjoy the immediate reward.

2. you can buy some mint seeds and two lemons. plant the mint seeds and the lemon seeds.
I can guarantee the mint seeds will grow within 21 days and your house will smell amazingly minty. Those lemon seeds will sprout up, but you're going to have to wait three years to get lemons. THREE YEARS? yup. so you'll have to keep that mint alive until then.

the obvious reality is some things take longer to grow.

but notice something, you make an investment in both cases. either way you bought mint and lemons so your investment will produce a reward at some point. that level or measure depends on what you work on and how long you are willing to wait.

now here is the real meat of it.

the reason most people have short term or low rewards when it comes to their financial gain is because of one teeny-tiny problem: early withdrawal.

take for example that mint. when the mint starts to grow for the first time, we get so excited that it grew that we use up all the mint for everything we can think of. mint candy, mint tea, mint potpourri, whatever.
when the mint is gone, we are like WHOA! what happened to all the mint?!
(like we didn't know in the first place).

what happened first off is that they picked the mint too early. if they had waited a little longer, the mint would have produced more minty-fresh seeds. Instead, they took all the mint out before it was time.
most people would argue and say, 'well i can just go buy more seeds'. and they're right. so each time they are rewarded, they have to start all over again, from the beginning. seems silly when you think about it, right? why do double the work for the same measure of success.

mint v. lemon

i object! overruled!
the mint versus lemon theory is not a novel concept, but it lends very well to success.
you SHOULD plant both mint and lemon seeds.
mint represents short term rewards
lemons represent long term.

a good investor invests in both because they want success now and later, plus they want CONTINUOUS success, not just a one shot deal.

ask yourself this:

would you rather make a thousand dollars a day or 365,000 in one year?
well that's the same thing?!

Objection! Move to strike!
they are not the same thing. they have the same number, yes but are entirely different.
one is a continuous reward, the other a single shot.
who wants to wait a whole year to get 'the big' payout?
why not do both.
build small successes . SHARE THEM. and build the long success and share that as well.

think of it this way: you could have 365 small parties AND one big bash or you can have either a small okay party or or only really big bash (which you probably won't enjoy as much because it took so long and you had nothing in between.

now this is the last portion of this segment. ready?

. leave some for others .

huh? that's right, leave some success for others. don't be one of those people who sucks all the air out of the room and chokes everyone else out. that is not a measure of good success but of greed. sure you could go out and buy ALL the lemon seeds and mint seeds and have a monopoly on them, but you won't see any real success. in fact you will lose your support team, your plan will fail and the reward will rot in the warehouse right before your eyes and there won't be a damn thing you can do to stop it.