Would you like to know how to succeed? It's simple really, all you have to do is succeed. Really. Once you succeed you attract more success. It's like magic and very powerful.

Ah, but how do you succeed in the first place you ask? How can you get success if you ain't got none? Okay, that's a fair question and it certainly sounds like a catch-22 doesn't it. In order to create success out of thin air you must start with a vision, an idea, a goal, a clear mental picture of what it is you see yourself succeeding at. You must convince yourself of this on an hourly, daily, weekly and monthly basis. Without this you are wandering aimlessly.

At your deepest unconscious level you have a success barometer. It tells you how well you will do. It's like a ladder with only so many rungs on it. Everyone has their own unique barometer and we are limited by the possibilities this sets for us. Why are so many people stuck earning $40,000.00 a year, year after year? It's their internal success barometer. This barometer controls us and if we head for any opportunity or success it will pull us back, drag us down.

So how do we get over any limits our own barometers may have placed on our own destiny? By using our imaginations we can slowly increase the level of our own barometer. It takes work but it will have an effect and when opportunities come your way you will be able to take advantage of them instead of sabotaging them. You must imagine what it will be like to be in that place that you call success. A clear mental picture remember.

Other ways to work you barometer is by doing the very things that scare you. Fear is paralyzing. It serves no useful purpose other than killing your dreams, or telling to not put your hand on a red hot stove. Now you don't have to be logical about this, go after any fear. When you confront them you grow. It increases your inner barometer overall. Seems simple doesn't it? But we choose to stay stuck and let our fears hold us back.

What about talents? You may feel you lack certain skills or pre-dispositions. Or worse yet you bought into the biggest lie, that you had be born with talent. This I am happy to report to you is one of the biggest lies ever uttered by pompous, never-well-meaning and arrogant misguided souls. It's used by these poor, self absorbed windbags to try and push you down and hold you back. Don't buy it for a second.

I will concede that people are born with certain pre-dispositions, such as body types that may be suitable for athletics and if you are born blind you may never take up career as a pilot, but these are the exceptions to the rule. And even so many people have done incredible feats in spite of serious setbacks. The idea that you are born a certain way is preposterous. It's a load of crap who's time has come to an end. You can do and be anything you want.

You get good at something by getting good. It's that simple. It takes work. That's why so many hang their hat on the “I-wasn't-born-with-it excuse”. They're lazy. Everybody wants to be rich or famous but few are willing to do whatever is necessary to get there.
If you want to learn or enhance a new skill start it now, and learn it every day, day after day and you will get good. And keep learning new things. It's good for the brain. Keeps you young and vibrant. When you learn new things don't give up because it seems hard at first.

Every new skill, new passage has the same basic steps it must follow: unconscious incompetence, where you suck at it and you don't even know you suck at it. Conscious competence, where you suck at it but at least you know you suck at it. Conscious competence, where you are good at it and you know it, you have to make conscious effort to maintain that level of being good at it, and finally, unconscious competence, mastery, where you seem to have that natural talent. It just flows. This is where others will tell you you are born with it. Like as if it was that easy.

Another one of the great, often ignored success principles is that of total responsibility. Always take the position that everything that happens in your life is all your fault. No I'm serious on this. This will keep you sharp and in the right mindset, never defaulting to blaming.

So success seems to happen to others. On the outside this may certainly seem so, but if we look deeper we will find years of struggle and effort. And always a vision. If you want to succeed you must have your own vision. If you offer up excuses you're being a pessimistic, negative cry baby and nobody likes a cry baby. If you see success in someone else ask them how they did it, and listen, I mean really listen. There's gold in the answers. Likewise, never take advice from anyone who hasn't been there.

Let me finish with a few quotes that I have pasted by my desk. I think they are applicable to my message in this artic

"Most people waste their entire lives trying desperately to "get out of" or avoid exactly what is required for success and happiness."

"You are what you think."

"The mind is always sharpest when there is a hanging at dawn."

YCDBSOYA
(you can't do business sitting on your ass)

"Never take advice from anyone who hasn't been there."