Tag: success

Keeping the Flame Alive

The way to keep the flame of your burning desire alive is through persistence. Cultivating a persistence state of mind is possible for anybody. The book Think and Grow Rich outlines four simple steps that lead to the habit of persistence. Time and effort are the only things needed to conquer these steps. They are a definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment, a definite plan, expressed in continuous action, a mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends, and acquaintances, lastly a friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage you to follow through with both plan and purpose.

Having a definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment is the first step towards cultivating a persistence state of mind within yourself, this means that you know what you what and have an intense desire to acquire what you want. Knowing what you want is essential to having persistence because it is what you started for in the first place. Some things take longer to get than others, so that is when you must keep your mind on what you want to persevere.

Having a definite plan, expressed in continuous action is the second step towards cultivating your persistence state of mind. Planning your work and working your plan allows for you to measure your progress as well as enable you to be able to adjust your plans if something is not working. The goal stays the same but plans may change. Keeping organized plans and updating your plans when needed will keep you going when things get tough.

Keeping your mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends, and acquaintances will cultivate your persistence state of mind. The people that are closest to you are sometimes the ones that try to keep you from going for the things that you want. Most of them are doing this in an attempt to protect you. Protect you from what you ask. They have fears and other hang-ups within themselves that make them believe that what you want to go for is not capable of being had. So, they want to protect you from disappointment if you do not achieve or receive what you want. If you have completed the first two steps, you can let them know that it is just a matter of time until you have what you want.

The final step is having a friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage you to follow through with both plan and purpose. The bible says where two or more gather in agreement the power of God will be there also. If working with someone to gain access to the power of God doesn’t cultivate a persistence state of mind for you, you may need to check your pulse. Having that extra person or persons there with you will also add to your willpower to push through tough times because you have some cheerleaders and helpmates.

Once you master the four steps, you will be able to keep any flame you light alive. You will have cultivated a persistence state of mind. You will have paid the time and effort dues that are required payments for its obtainment. Start now with a definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment, a definite plan, expressed in continuous action, a mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends, and acquaintances, lastly a friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage you to follow through with both plan and purpose.

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Running Toward Success and Running From Negativity


Earlier this year, I was invited to become a member of the Advisory Board for the Let Me Run organization. During the introductory meeting, all of the attendees were asked to go around and introduce themselves and answer the questions, “What are you running toward?” and, “What are you running away from?” I was sitting in the front of the room so I was the second person to go. Assuming you read the title, you already know what my answers were to the questions when I introduced myself. Take a peek to remind yourselves of it, if needed. Now, I will tell you why I gave the answers I did.

Running Toward Success

I answered, “What are you running toward?”, with “I am running toward success.” I choose to run toward success at all times. I continue running toward success, even when failures arrive because I see them as temporary. Failures are temporary because having enough knowledge, skills, and abilities we learn from failures and turn them into successes. There is at least one lesson to be learned from every failure. We have to be aware enough to recognize the lessons that our failures are attempting to teach us. If we do not recognize and learn the lessons; we are more than likely to continuously repeat that failure until we learn the lesson or quit and accept defeat, assuming that failure is permanent. I hope, we are all able to gain the wisdom needed to be able to learn from our failures and continue running toward success.

Running From Negativity

I answered, “What are you running away from?”, with “I am running away from negativity.” I choose to run away from negativity because success is achieved through a positive mental attitude. I run from negativity because it plants seeds of negative thoughts, that produce negative actions, that lead to negative results. In the same way, positivity plants seeds of positive thoughts, that produce positive actions, that lead to positive results. Think of our minds as gardens. We have to choose the purpose of our own gardens. Choosing the purpose of our gardens will help us decide the things we want to plant in our gardens. If we are not minding our gardens negativity will sprout
just like weeds and keep our garden from producing what we desired. I hope that we are all able to keep negativity out of our gardens.

Summary

When we are running toward success when failures knock us down we have to get up evaluate the failure learn the lesson the failure was teaching and continue running toward success. Running from negativity will allow us to focus on the things that we want in our gardens. If we are focused on our gardens we will recognize when the weeds of negativity sprout and get rid of them and far away from our minds garden.

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Desire is the Fire

Desire is always the starting point of all achievement. If we have a strong enough desire; we will begin to taking actions that will manifest our desires. Our desires should spark a curiosity that will have us researching, should make us analyze ourselves and put together a plan, and should make us execute the plan.

Sometimes, we have desires that we will not know how to get. Our desires should spark curiosity. Curiosity will force us to want to find out how to get what we desire. If we are curious enough we will research the things we desire. Today’s technology has made it easier for us to do the research step than ever before. We have tools like google. A google search will give us articles, videos, and pictures of whatever we want to know. We can find someone who has what we want to have or done what we want to do. We can also see what they did to get it or do it. We can now analyze the paths that our research suggests. From that information, we can determine the path that we want to take.

Once we have done our research, we should start planning out our steps to manifest our desires. To help with planning we have to analyze ourselves and what resources we have available to us. We can do a SWOT analysis of ourselves and our desires. We have to ask ourselves a few questions. What are our strengths that will help us get our desires? What are our weaknesses that need improving or get assistance from someone that has a strength in this area that will help us get our desires? What opportunities can we take advantage of that will help us get our desires? What are the threats that could prevent us from getting our desires? Knowing the answers to these questions will help us formulate a plan for success.

Following our research and planning, it is time to execute our plans and watch our desires manifest. We have to start planting the seeds from the research and analysis performed earlier. We have to take care of those seeds. Making sure that we do everything that is needed, so our seeds can become plants. When we have plants; we must give them regular attention. The plants we give the most attention to will continue to grow and begin to bear fruit. We can now enjoy the fruit of our desires. The best thing about the fruit of our desires is that they have new seeds inside of them. Be grateful for the process that it took to experience our desires.We can do this process over and over again.

Everything starts in the mind with an initial desire. The difference between a wish and desire is the action put behind the thought. Our desires will spark a curiosity that will have us researching, will make us analyze ourselves and putting together a plan, and will make us execute the plan.

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Working With Others

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“Alone we can do little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

There are times that working with others will be necessary. To be successful we have to be able to interact with others and work on a common purpose. When working with others remembering the acronym TEAM (Together Everyone Achieves More) will allow us to put forth our best effort while working with others. People that work with others the best all share these characteristics: They are dependable and always deliver their share of the work. They are good communicators, they listen, effectively comprehend others and articulate their ideas well. They are cooperative, flexible and teachable. They are respectful, friendly and encouraging. If we all embody and display these characteristics we will be able to accomplish anything. Jim Rohn used to say, “If two or three agree on a common purpose nothing is impossible”.

Goal Setting is Necessary for Success

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“A goal without a plan is just a dream”

If you have a desired outcome it would be beneficial to have a plan to help you reach that goal. That plan allows you to evaluate your progress, it lets you know how much further you have to go and also shows you what is and is not working. This is important because knowing what is not working gives you the chance to make corrections that will work. Once you have executed every part of your plan the outcome you have desired manifests itself in reality. Working your plan can be hard. Stay consistent in working your plan and never give up on accomplishing the desired outcome that got you started in the first place will have you enjoying the fruits of your labor.

 

 

Don’t Stop Running Toward Your Dreams

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Life is a marathon. Getting our dreams will call for us to have endurance. We must never stop running to get what we really dream and desire. We must keep that dream alive by continuing to run in the direction of that dream. Pain will be involved and the body will want to stop but we must use our minds to make the body keep running when there is nothing left. The only thing that remains is the dreams that we have, faith that we will liver our dreams and the momentum that we have gained by running in the right direction. It will almost be like we are running down hill. We can put the mind in control of the body like putting the body on autopilot. Our minds will get us to our dreams without us really having to do anything. The desire in our minds will start attracting the help and support needed for us to live out our dreams. The person we are in our dream can be us in reality as long as we do not stop running toward our dreams. I will let you run toward your dreams. Let me run toward my dreams. We may reach our dreams at different times and that is okay. We will still see each other at the finish line no matter who gets there first.

See you at the top.

Reinvent Yourself

All of us are stars. Some of us are unaware of that. If we reinvent ourselves into the stars who we truly are then we can inspire others to be the stars who they truly are. Do not be afraid of being seen doing something good that other people will not do at all. When others see us perform acts of kindness it triggers something that ignites an urge within them that makes them want to perform an act of kindness of their own. Let’s shine bright today so that we can show others how to shine as well.

Life is a Game of Inches

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Every inch of it is important. In life we are going to have to struggle for every inch that it takes to reach success. There are levels to success so the struggle never ends. Success is obtainable for every person alive. We have to be willing to struggle to gain all the inches required. It is up to the individual to push inch by inch to obtain success. Gaining inches will never get any easier but our minds will trick us to believe things are getting easier when in actuality we are getting better. Consistency is what makes us better. The consistency of always pushing gets things moving for us. An object in motion stays in motion. Consistency builds the momentum that allows us to break through barriers and knock down obstacles when they arise. The barriers and obstacles are there and always be there but they no longer stop us like they used to. They may only slow us down. The only thing that can stop us now is ourselves. So, continue to fight for every inch you can get from life.