Humans are creatures of habit. We feel most comfortable settling for "repeat performances" and mediocre results. This is simply because we have a hidden self-image that dictates our lives and does not enjoy the idea of change. If you're able to realize your potential, though, and want to break free from your comfortable and habitual ways of living, develop an addiction to success, and follow these 7 steps:
1) Create a Definition for Success
The first reason people cannot be successful is because they don't have a personal definition for success. Once you create your definition for success, now you have become aware of the path which you must follow in order to create, attain, and maintain success in your life. Such a definition will be different for everyone: maybe you want to strive to be a millionaire; maybe you want to get another job within a month; maybe you want to lose 50 pounds in a year! If you don't have a goal you're working towards, how can you become any more successful in life if you're simply staying in your comfort zone? Remember, though, that success is the progressive realization toward a worthy ideal. Once you've created your "definition for success" (or your goal), realize that moving in the direction required to achieve your goal is success in and of itself.
2) Realize Why You Desire the Changes You Seek
A big motivator in helping you achieve your definition of success is the "why" factor. Why do you want what it is that you want? What is the underlying reason for the burning desire you have to reach your goal? Aspiring to become someone better than you already are is completely natural. We dream about our ideal world as children and should continue to do so as adults. Just make sure you become aware of the reason you want your goal. As well as serving as motivators to help you achieve success, these reasons can help you push through the "tough times."
3) Visualize Your Ideal Lifestyle
Your current results are dictated by the self-image you hold of yourself in your subconscious mind. If you want to permanently change your results, you must change the self-image. If you do not do this, and you simply go about trying to change your results, your self-image will bring you back on course to what it has become accustomed to. To change your self-image in your subconscious mind, you must impress a new, idealistic image upon it to make this become the dominant self-image. One way to do this is to visualize yourself already in possession of what it is you're working toward. Do this exercise at least three times a day, and really feel the feeling of having made it to your goal. This will help motivate you, it will help bring the forces of the universe into harmony with what you want, and most of all, the more you visualize this with emotion, the sooner your old self-image will fade and your new self-image will dominate your subconscious mind, your actions, and your results in life.
4) Take Note of the Changes That Are Needed to Be Made
Before you can begin to make the changes to help you move towards the achievement of your goal, first you must become aware of what changes to make. You must become aware of the differences between your current self and your projected, future self. Once you can realize what needs to change, then you can successfully begin to make the change.
5) Make the Required Changes
Results do not come when action is absent. With the physical changes taking place, this will help re-affirm to your subconscious mind the new self-image you're trying to create. It will also start bringing you different results, and the achievement of such results can be a truly liberating experience for you. You'll know that the work you have done, both in your mind and in the physical world, has paid off for you and that you are well on your way to reaching your ultimate goal.
6) Don't Give Up
At first, you may not experience any new results. Your new self-image is still in the midst of being developed and also, many times, results simply don't come overnight. Put the emotion of faith into everything that you choose to do, and know that you are getting closer and closer toward your goal with every action you take. Many people lose sight and hopes of their goals in this step. They also take failures as end points instead of forces to propel them to keep going. If you seek change, know that it's possible; know that humans can achieve anything they'd like to. You have infinite potential, and continue to explore this potential by never giving up.
7) Notice Results
Results are what most people love to get. When they can see that their hard work has paid off, they soak up the moment. When you start getting the results you want, you know that you're heading in the right direction. Results inspire you to keep going and to improve even more so that you can get even better results. Be happy of your accomplishments and successes, but never stop striving to progress further in life. Your contentment of your current results will only last so long until you end up becoming comfortable with these results.
In order to stay happy, create bold and audacious goals, keep striving to reach your full potential, and create a never-ending addiction to success!
"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."
- Arnold H. Glasow
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