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This Is How You Can Develop A Highly Successful
Mind
Jake
McSpiritsave
You want to
be successful, but you don’t know how.
So you read
all about the success of other individuals.
You got lost
in the world of tips, tricks, and courses for success.
None of them
worked for you.
At the end
of it you were still left wondering, “what is it that I don’t have?”
You’re still
looking now.
You’ve
exhausted your edition of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
You’ve been
through hours of listening to those motivational coaches say,
“never give
up, and you’ll get what you want!”
You’ve done
it all, and nothing is working.
You’re sick
of it, right? You want something that you can start doing RIGHT NOW.
You don’t
want the “never give up” speech again.
So here is
the reality.
Success is
something within you.
It’s your
daily habits. Your morning routines. What you spend your time doing.
It’s not
these tips and tricks that others try to sell you, it’s the way you view the
world!
Don’t give
up hope.
Here’s 10
habits that you can adopt that will form a successful mind.
1.
Start to Accept Changes
Change is
the one constant you can rely on in life.
When all
else fails you, you can bet that change will be lurking around the corner.
With this in
mind, wouldn’t it be a smart thing to finally squash that fear of change all
together?
Successful
people are able to adapt to change. They need to be. If one idea fails, which
many will, the successful mind can take that and adapt to the changes
presented by the situation.
But how
do you accept change?
The way you
always have, you just get on with it. Know that it’s there, it’s happening all
the time,
and don’t let it catch you off-guard. Plan for it, expect it, embrace
it, and use it to your advantage.
2.
Start to Set Goals
Not just any
goals, but achievable goals. You know when you draw up a
check-list,
and you tick
each individual little job off it? Think back to the feeling of each of those
ticks.
Think about how relieving it is. Think about how empowered and motivated
you feel for the next job.
It’s a
pretty damn good feeling, right? Then staring at that completed list at the end
of the day, knowing that you’ve accomplished everything you wanted to
do for that day.
Make your
goals that size. Reach your goals every day. Allow that momentum to build,
and empower
you, every single day! (But don’t forget to schedule your empty check-list days
too.)
Also, a
study done
by Gail
Matthews, PhD at
Dominican University, seems to support the idea
that writing
goals is scientifically proven to make us more successful!
3.
Start to Commit to Things
Get rid of
those commitment fears. If you want to be successful, you have to
commit to things.
A new job, a
new partner, a new exercise regime, a new magazine subscription,
whatever it is
— you need to
commit!
If you can’t
commit when things are going well, you’re going to abandon ship
and run a mile the moment
you hit some turbulence. This won’t lead you to success. It can’t.
You’re not
sticking around long enough to reach it.
There’s no
real easy way to do this. Though weighing up the cost of the commitment
versus the
rewards can often be a good start. Regardless, however you decide to face up to
it,
the end
result is the same. You start committing.
4.
Start to Identify Your Purpose
A purpose is
the fast-track to success. With your purpose in mind,
much like
the achievable goals, all that hard work seems a lot more appealing to
overcome.
When things
get rough you can just sit there and say, “Why are you doing this again?”
and your
purpose will always serve as the motivation you need.
So how do
you find your purpose? Answer these simple questions (brutal
honesty required):
Who are you?
What do you
want from life?
What is it
you have that others will benefit from receiving?
How are you
going to get there?
5.
Start to Believe in You and Your Goals
It’s
timeless advice really. You’ve heard it a million times before,
but this
time you need to let it sink in.
If you want
to be successful, you have to believe in yourself.
Don’t
believe in yourself because it’s your destiny to be successful.
Don’t
believe in yourself because you’ve got a foolproof plan.
Don’t
believe in yourself because you really want it.
These are
fairy tales spun to us, with no real serving purpose whatsoever.
Believe in
yourself because you know that you’re going to put in the work.
Believe in
yourself because you know, as long you’re still breathing by tomorrow,
that you
will continue to work towards where you want to be.
Believe in
yourself because you know you’ll overcome the next hurdle you’re presented
with.
With this
level of self-belief, anything is achievable.
You just
have to keep going until you get there.
6.
Start to Cultivate Patience
Another
timeless piece of advice, inexcusable to leave out of anything discussing
success.
You need to
have patience.
Yes some things
can happen overnight, but these are often the smaller successes.
It doesn’t
matter what it is you want to achieve, knowing how to wait will be a part of
it.
A successful
blog doesn’t launch with thousands of subscribers overnight.
A powerful
novel doesn’t get written in a day.
A superstar
fitness model doesn’t miraculously gain his or her physique in 24 hours.
Success
takes time. You just have to keep taking every step you can towards it.
7.
Start to Identify Your Downfalls (Then
Do Something about Them)
No
successful mind is successful if it cannot see where it falls short.
It is only
in the identification of the shortcoming
that it
could ever have the potential to be addressed.
Many people
are their own worst critic though, so it’s not hard to see what needs work.
The hard
part is putting in the work.
Knowing
you’re lazy and doing something about the laziness are two very different
things.
To be
successful you would have to identify that laziness, and then adopt a proactive
solution to it. Just saying, “yeah I’m lazy,” isn’t going to get the work done.
The last,
and maybe the hardest, part to it all is showing yourself compassion.
You’re not
going to get it absolutely perfect first try. That’s okay. You’ve got a lot of
time left.
As long as
you’re actually doing something about your downfalls, other than complaining,
you’re
probably ahead of most.
8.
Start to Identify the Growth in
‘Failure’
Do you know
what almost every successful person has in common?
They’ve
failed.
Dr. Seuss
was rejected by 27 publishers. Stephen King threw his career-launching
manuscript
in the
trash, though luckily his wife pulled it out. Walt Disney was told he had no
imagination.
Did any of
these give up?
Well okay,
Stephen King did for a moment, but the point is they failed and didn’t give up.
Instead here
they are, names known by almost every household.
These
failures only ever spurred them on to become incredibly successful people.
So see your
‘failure,’ learn from it, grow from it, and come back better.
The only thing
stopping you from trying again is you.
9.
Start to Practice Emotional Creativity
Emotional
creativity, better known as empathy, is the backbone of success.
To be able
to relate, to put yourself in someone else’s shoes,
is what
makes you a successful human being.
There’s
various reasons why, such as:
To be able
to serve people what it is they want, which is the key to many successful
businesses
and careers,
you have to relate to their situation. If you lack the emotional creativity
to empathize
with their situation, you won’t connect well with them.
If you’re on
your pursuit for success and you’re going to have to climb over some people’s
heads, how are you going to stay human doing that? By relating to them.
Are you willing
to crush other people to get where you want to be? Can you live with that
decision? You’ll only know by empathizing.
Successful
people, at least many of them, are likable. They’re likable because you can
relate to them. You can relate because they’re creative enough, emotionally, to
appeal to you!
Plus, just
as a general benefit, empathy makes you a better human being overall.
Putting
yourself in someone’s situation is going to lead to better behavior, from you,
when it
comes to dealing with said people.
If you’re
not sold on empathy, just read this Psychology Today
piece.
10 Start to Meditate
With the
madness of success comes the desperate need for peace.
As a
successful person, you’ll likely be making stressful decisions every day.
If you can’t
manage that stress, it’ll dominate you.
Luckily,
meditation is here for successful you. With empirically proven health benefits,
as outlined
in this JAMA
article, it’ll help
reduce the stress and anxiety of being successful!
So take a
couple of minutes out of your day, and really let go.
Hit the
pause button on everything. It’ll all still be there when you come back,
but find
time to really just be with yourself. Otherwise that stress could eat you
alive.
So there it
is. Now all you’ve got to do is put them into practice.
Are you
ready for success?
Let us know
your top tips for the successful mind below.
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