Saturday, October 18, 2008

Top 3 Mindsets That Every Successful Person Adopts

Everything starts from your mind. It is your belief system and your mindset that will shape your life today. If you are living a mediocre life today, it is because of the poor decision that you made in your life. And the decision you made is because of your mindset and your beliefs.

Therefore, if you want to achieve great success today, you have to start from your mind. Learn and model the mindset of successful people, and you will achieve the same amazing results just like them.

1. Every successful people are responsible. No matter what happened, successful people seem to have all the responsible for it. They will never blame the economy or someone for making their business down. Instead, they will take the responsibility by saying that it is their fault, and they have to come up with some ways to get it better. Successful people know that if you blame on others or you put responsibility on others, you will lose the power to control the situation.

2. Every successful people are committed to what they do. Success will not come automatically; it is not going to fall from the sky. You have to be committed and put on 100% commitment to achieve the things that you wanted the most in your life. A lot of people are just plainly dream about success, they hope to success, they wish to success but they never committed to success. The moment you are determined and put in 100% commitment, you will do whatever it takes to achieve what you want.

3. Every successful people have the courage to make the decision to success in their life. You know, success require courage. If there is an opportunity lies in front of you, it requires your courage to take that opportunity. This is especially true in financial success. Before you decide to start a business, you need to take the courage and to say yes to start your business. Therefore, I hope you have all the faith and courage to do what you suppose to do in order to be successful.

By following through all these top mindset of successful people, I believe that you will be able to achieve much more in your life.

This article is written by Shawn Lim

The Most Important Key to Success

There are many keys to success. Knowledge, persistence, and the willingness to take risks are a few. There is one in my opinion that stands out above all others. That key is the ability and willingness to take action. Without action all other keys are meaningless.

This is a common problem with the self-improvement programs out there. Some do a good job teaching you a particular subject but it is up to the reader to apply what they have learned to their life. Every one would like to improve their quality of life but few are willing to put forth the effort necessary. They spend countless hours studying the areas they would like to most improve but they never take the actions necessary to turn their dreams into reality.

Remember a dream is just a dream until you turn it into reality. Vision without action is meaningless. Stop telling yourself that you will take action when you have the time, or have more money, or have more knowledge. Excuses have no place in the path to success.

There are very few reasons out there that you cannot achieve what you want. If you keep thinking that you will take action when your situation is better you are kidding yourself. You have to take action to make positive changes in your life. Don't wait around for the changes to happen for you.

Don't let the life you want to live pass you by. Don't be one of those people who look back 10 years from now and say, "I wish I would have started when I was younger." Take the knowledge you learn and start applying it to your life immediately. Even if you take action and fail that is fine. Not taking action is admitting failure. At least if you try you have the chance of making positive changes in your life.

Action is what ties together all the other ingredients of success. Without it you accomplish nothing. Your entire life is left to chance. Leaving my life to chance is not good enough for me. I prefer to take my life into my own hands and start making things happen.

So how do you make things happen? It all begins with the decision to make positive changes in your life. You have to want it. Success doesn't come easily. It's easy to revert back to your old habits. Don't settle for anything less than what you expect to achieve.

Next you need to take some time and think about the areas of your life you want to improve. What would you like to achieve in these areas? Only you can answer these questions.

Now you need a plan of action. What actions will it take to accomplish your objectives? Do you need to become more knowledgeable on the particular subject? Once you begin to acquire the knowledge required it will become clearer to you the steps that you need to take to get closer to your goal. Write everything out and hold yourself accountable. Set goals for yourself and smash through them.

Taking action cannot be taught. It is something that is left completely up to you. I think more often than not, it is what separates the successful from the unsuccessful. There are plenty of books and programs out there to teach you the particular subject you are interested in. You can check my recommended reading page for suggested books covering various subjects. It is not the amount of knowledge you have that matters though, it is what you do with that knowledge that will determine your chances of success.

Written by Eric Twitty

Setting Goals and Being Organized Are the Keys to Success

The most important thing you can do to have a rewarding and successful life is to have long term and short-term goals that you write down. A Yale University study found that only 10% of their students had defined goals, and just 4% had actually written them down. More than four decades later it was discovered that the 4% who regularly wrote down their goals had a combined net worth greater than the 96% who did not.

From my own experience over the past 40 years, I can attest that when I have been disciplined about writing down my daily and long-term goals, I have almost always been successful in reaching and surpassing my goals. When I did not, I rarely even reached my goals.

Setting and writing down goals on a daily basis helps make us organized. People are not naturally organized, but it is a talent one can attain. Surveys have found that people who achieve the greatest success and run our largest companies are very well organized.

An organized person is in control of their life. If you make a habit of writing down your daily goals, and organizing them into a schedule you are taking an enormous step toward becoming a proactive and responsible person. You are actually planning how to accomplish everything you need to do from the important to mundane. You are also constantly aware of what you need to be doing if your scheduled goals are in view. Always knowing which goals are most important allows us to better manage our time even as events change.

Being organized means not creating chaos. This means never leaving something where it does not belong, whether it is a drink you sit next to you as you read a book, or a bill that needs to paid and filed. Everything should have a place where it is kept. An organized person does not allow their house, car, or office to be messy. Don't allow things to accumulate, or your clutter will overwhelm you.

written by Charly Mann

Top 3 Values That You Must Have If You Want to Be Successful

If you want to be successful today, you will have to follow the footsteps of successful people. Learn how to model and apply the strategies that successful people use in their life and you will create the same amazing results just like them. To do this, you will have to start from your inner self. Start from yourself by modeling the values of successful people.

1. Successful people put in 100 percent commitment. I know that a lot of people want to be successful, but they are not committed to success. If you are 100 percent committed to success, you will do whatever it takes to achieve your dreams and goals. A lot of people want to be rich, but they are not committed to it. All they do is just talking about it, dream about it but they never really take any action about it. And that is why most people fail to achieve what they want in their life.

2. Successful people know exactly what they want and they have a burning desire on it. If you notice, every successful people know very clearly what they want to achieve in their life. If you are not clear of what you want in your life, it is hard for you to achieve it because you are actually sending blurry message to your mind. Once you know clearly what you want to achieve in your life and if the desire is strong enough, you will eventually achieve it because you will do whatever it takes.

3. Successful people are willing to sacrifice and stay away from their comfort zone. You know, if you are not willing to sacrifice, it is hard for you to achieve your dreams and goals. Just like if you want to lose weight, but you are not willing to sacrifice your luxurious eating habit, it is impossible for you to achieve this goal of yours. The same goes to comfort zone, if you want to be successful today, get out from your comfort zone. You will never improve as long as if your life is comfortable.

Now, as long as you adopt and apply these 3 values in your life, you will be able to achieve greater results in your life. The road to success is a bumpy one, so be ready and have the courage to face every ups and downs in your journey to success.

This article is written by Shawn Lim

Dare to face the failure

Are you fail right now? fails in your business, your life, your relation or fail in everything else???
All of us do not expect the failure, but sometimes it comes whether we want it or not. It feels like the world is not fair to us and everything turn upside down.

For many of us failure is our dream killer, stopping us to take a step forward because we are afraid to make another mistakes again.

Since we were baby, we do fall when we were trying our first step. We do fall when we were trying to ride the bicycle for the first time. Did it stop us? No, of course. why? because the RISK is not to big to deal with. That is why most of us dare to try and fail... . But what if the risk is to big, effecting our relationship with our life, our family, our financial?? some of us will rise again, others keep hiding in their failure and absolutely doing nothing about it.

Sometimes we blame God, peoples, conditions or anything else just to make our feeling better, but let me tell you this, you will be living in an unworthy life for the rest of your life if you keep behaving like this. It won't do you any good. Let it go and because it is our past mistakes.

Be brave and face the failure, failure makes your journey to success became closer and closer.. Learn from your mistakes and make a commitment never let our failure stop us to chase our dreams even we do fail again and again because our journey to success became closer and closer.

Every successful person made mistakes and fail, but they don't let this failure take over their dreams and lives. They learn from their failures, FACE it and takes it as a vitamins to become successful person.

Written by: Herry Sukendar