What Makes People Successful?

When most people think of personal development we think about self help tapes, Tony Robbins, motivational speakers and so on. The reason is most of those things mentioned all have something to do with the field of personal development. We spend thousands of dollars and invest our time into changing our lives for the better. We go to these events and reads the books learning new techniques, new ways of thinking and taking notice of how we are feeling.

The personal development field is one of the biggest moneymakers in the world. Millions of tapes, books and speakers are providing their message. The truth is most of these people are successful and have followed certain blueprints that lead to them being successful. Other times the person is only successful because he is a really good con artist, but hey the con artist was smart enough to think of the idea in the first place.

Okay, back to this post. We go to these events and we get pumped up and ready for massive change. In other cases, we ready the books and listen to the tapes and reflect upon our lives while listening. Once we finish the course or program we know things are going to be different. We know our lives can never be the same. Then when we fast-forward a few months into the future and these same people are in the same place they were before or worst. Why? Why spend the amount of time, energy and money for these products yet some people never even finish the tape set. Why? Why take the time and personal energy to take these courses? Do they work? Are they just hypnotizing us with a wonderful message? Maybe

Why would people spend so much money and time and then not change anything about their lives? These people have received great information, but how come most people never become successful or become rich? Is it because this information doesn’t work or is it because you got ripped off? One could say these things but I tend to think that isn’t the problem at all. Remember, knowledge and information isn’t power. Someone once said Knowledge and information is nothing more then unorganized information. For some reason people tend to think all you have to do is gain some new information and success is bound. Well thinking positive may be better than thinking negative, but if you just sit on your butt and hope you may never see success. While learning new ideas and beliefs are the foundation for change, its just part of the puzzle.

So what is the difference between those who make the information work and those who don’t? It’s really quite simple and its how I’ve done pretty well for myself. Its nothing more than two simple words, “Taking Action”. This step here is the key to everything you want in life. My job isn’t to make promises to you that you’ll be rich or successful. Heck, you may never be, but how do you know unless you take action toward whatever it is you want. Will you make mistakes? Sure you will, will you fall on your face? Sure you will, but you will be moving in the right direction, which puts you beyond the other people who are just sitting around wishing something to happen.

I know some of you are like I already know that, well if you do than how come you’re not where you want to be? Gaining information is just the first step, the second step is to act upon this information and take action. You must take action every single day to reach your goals. Write a to do list, get organized, do something that causes you to take action. Some people tend to think you must make massive amounts of action and that’s not the case. Just a little step each day in the right direction and you will get there. Some people tend to take action for a few days and then stop when life starts to get hard. The real winners are the ones who take small steps in the right direction with each step getting you closure and closure.

Some people who want to get in better shape try to make it a habit to get on the treadmill everyday for 30 min when they never stepped on one in their life. So instead of doing 30 min every day, why not just get on for 5 to 10 min and get your body and mind used to the idea. Think about this, now you are at a pool on a hot day and you walk over to the water and start to walk into the water. The water is very cool so you jump out of the water. You than slowly start to put a foot in the water. You than let the foot get used to the feeling, than you place more of your leg in the water. Eventually your body gets into the water and you feel great because you are cooling off on a hot day. So what happened here? You took baby steps that led you to the outcome you wanted which was going for a swim.

Taking little steps or little actions that lead to bigger outcomes has always been part of your life, if you think about it, you we’re once a baby and had to learn to walk. You took tons of little steps, fell along the way, but you learned to walk, didn’t you now? In reality, nothing can get done without taking action. It all starts with an idea, but without action an idea is nothing more then just an idea.

So gather information, know what you want, define an outcome and just take action. Jamie Smart, who is a great hypnotist and NLP Instructor, said something once that really stood out with me. I may misquote him a little, but the point will get across. He asked someone once ‘if you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you want from life? If you knew that you would never fail, what would you do with your life?

This really made me think and brought me to the conclusion that we as humans are so worried about failing that we never take action. Here is how the mind works on this subject. The mind tends to make whatever you think about the most your reality. So if you are always thinking in terms of ‘what if I fail?’ than how can you ever succeed. When I work with companies to help their employee’s increase motivation for sales or whatever it may be I always bring up this point.

In your everyday life you fail a couple of times a day, weather its a mistake or something you forgot to do. Something always goes wrong. So if this is true, which it is true, isn’t it? Than why continue to live life? Think about this now, because as you do you will start to look within yourself to times where you failed in your normal everyday life, but kept on going.

So lets come back from that place and move forward a little bit. If you know things can go wrong and you keep on going than how come you are so worried about making mistakes or failing when it comes to taking action toward your dreams? The only difference is within your mind. There is no difference between taking action toward your personal goals and living life, but when you know what you want from life, when you have a clear outcome. You are no longer living just to live. You are now living for a purpose!

Once again the road to success doesn’t mean life will be perfect. Most of the successful people in the world always go through more rough times than good. It’s as if they have to go through the fire so they may come out stronger later. A friend once asked me ‘How can I get down the road to where I want to be’ I answered him back with ‘ how can you get down the road if you don’t leave the house’.

Personally it is the people who move toward what they want and take action that are the ones who can say this self-improvement tape worked for me or Tony Robbins changed my life or whatever it may be. Information is everywhere, but it’s up to as to WANT TO make that CHANGE. We are so quick to blame others for when we fail, but we never look in the mirror.

So TAKE MASSIVE ACTION and move toward change. It’s hard if you THINK it’s hard, but it’s really easy. You just get up, grab a sheet a paper and take about 15 to 20 min to define what you want in life. Than once you have an outcome, start figuring out what you need to do to reach it and than just start taking little steps everyday that lead you to it.

Remember, things will pop up that will distract you. That’s fine, handle them and get back to your dreams. It is the small steps you take over time that lead to big results. Once again there your dreams, so don’t you deserve them NOW?

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