Success Principles
- Make an I want list: 30 things you want to be, 30 things you want to do and 30 things you want to have.
- What’s the potential opportunity in this … I believe the world is plotting to do me good today, I can’t wait to see what it is.
- Reread your goals 3x a day – in the morning and before going to bed.
- A goals book = a binder with pictures of your goals.
- Make a list of 101 goals.
Chunk it down using mind mapping:
- Center circle = your goal
- Outside circles = major categories of tasks you’ll need to accomplish to achieve the greater goal.
- Spokes – draw spokes radiating outward from each mini-circle and label each one. Write every single step you’ll need to take. Break down each one of the more detailed task spokes with action items to help you create a master to-do list. See The Mind Map Book by Tony Buzan and Barry Buzan.
- Make a to-do list: convert all of the to-do items into daily action items by listing each one on your daily to-do lists and committing to a completion date for each one.
The One Minute Millionaire – Robert Allen
Nine guidelines for creating effective affirmations
- Start with the words I am
- Use the present tense – describe what you want as if you already have it.
- State it in the positive – affirm what you want, not what you don’t want. “I am enjoying the thrill of flying.”
- Keep it brief – think of it as an advertising jingle.
- Make it specific – I am enjoying driving my 1965, white Ford Mustang.
- Include an action word ending with –ing. “I am confidently expressing myself openly and honestly.”
- Include at least one dynamic emotion or feeling word. Include the emotional state you would be feeling if you had already achieved the goal. “enjoying, joyfully, happily, celebrating, proudly, peacefully, enthusiastic, lovingly, triumphant.”
- Make affirmations for yourself, not others.
- Add or something better – sometimes there is something or someone better that is available for us.
How to create affirmations
Visualize what you would like to create. See things just as you would like them to be. Place yourself inside the picture and see things through your eyes. If you want a car, see the world inside the car as you are driving it.
- Hear the sounds you would be hearing if you had already achieved your vision.
- Feel the feeling you want to feel when you have created what you want.
- Describe what you are experiencing in a brief statement, including what you are feeling.
- If necessary, edit your affirmation to make it meet all of the above guidelines.
Affirmations and Visualization
Review your affirmations one to three times a day – morning, middle, end of day.
- Read out loud if appropriate
- Close your eyes and visualize yourself as the affirmation describes. See the scene from inside yourself as if you were living it.
- Hear any sounds you might hear, include people congratulating you and telling you how pleased they are with your success.
- Feel the feelings that you will feel when you achieve that success.
- Say your affirmation again and then repeat this process with the next affirmation.
- Record your affirmations and listen to them.
- Repeat your affirmations in the first person (“I am”), second person, and third person.
- Use this question in both your personal and business life:
- On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the quality of our relationship (service/product) during the last week (2 weeks/month/etc.)
- Anything less gets the follow-up: what would make it a 10?
Keep score of what you want more of – decide where you need to keep score in order to manifest your vision and achieve your goals. Keep score in all areas of your life: financial, professional, school, recreation and fun time, health and fitness, family and other relationships, personal projects, and contributions to others. Post your scores where you can see them.
John Kremer’s 1001 Ways to Market Your Book
Five specific things that move you toward your goal – if you would go to a large tree every day and take five swings with an axe, eventually, no matter how large the tree, it would have to come down.
Begin inventorying and keeping track of your major successes – start by dividing your life into three equal time periods (for example, for a 45 year old, from birth to 15, 15 to 30 and 30 to 45). Then list three successes you’ve had for each time period. The second step is to list 100 or more of your life successes.
Create a victory log – keep a written record of your successes. By recalling and writing down your successes each day, you log them into your long-term memory, which enhances your self-esteem and builds your self-confidence. When you are about to take a big step, for example, negotiating a multi-million dollar deal, read the victory log to build self-confidence.
Display your success symbols – a valuable technique that will help build your self-esteem and motivate you to greater future success is the practice of surrounding yourself with awards, pictures and other objects that remind you of your successes. Make a special place, a shelf or a victory wall that you will see every day.
The Mirror Exercise – do this for a minimum of three months. Just before going to bed, stand in front of a mirror and appreciate yourself for all that you have accomplished during the day. Start with a few seconds of looking directly into the eyes of the person in the mirror. Then address yourself by name and begin appreciating yourself out loud for the following things:
- Any achievements during the day.
- Any personal disciplines you kept – dietary, exercise, reading, etc.
- Any temptations that you did not give in to – desserts, staying up to late, TV
- Maintain eye contact throughout, finish with “I love you.”
The Daily Success Focus Journal
At the end of the day, identify five things that you accomplished during the day (or do this weekly.) Any area – work, school, family, etc.
Write it out in a table like so: Success, Reason (why it was so important), Further Progress, Next Action
Example: Conducted a great staff meeting, it created the team spirit we were lacking, plan on off-site staff development day, form a committee with Ann and Bob.
Visualize your ideal next day the night before.
Create a stop doing list, make the things on your list “policies.”
Stop wasting time and start programming.
Example – I don’t lend money, I am not a bank.
Mastermind Meetings – Share what’s new, negotiate for time, individual members speak while the group listens and brainstorms, make a commitment to stretch, end with a moment of gratitude, be accountable,
The questions:
- If we were meeting three years from today, what has to have happened during that 3 year period for you to feel happy about your progress?
- What are the biggest dangers you’ll have to face and deal with in order to achieve that progress?
- What are the biggest opportunities that you would need to focus on and capture to achieve those things?
- What strengths will you need to reinforce and maximize, and what skills and resources will you need to develop that you don’t currently have in order to capture those opportunities?
- Take yourself through these questions.
The releasing questions – what am I feeling right now, could I welcome and allow it, could I let it go, would I let it go, when.
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