Friday, March 2, 2012

25 Principals of Enduring Success

People are often confused and confounded about why they aren't further ahead in some aspect of their life.  We tend to think of 'success' as something elusive or something for someone more talented, richer, better-looking or lucky than ourselves.   As if 'success' was handed out by life like a lottery.  'Oh, you're talented, I'll give success to you'.  In real life there are a great many talented, rich, great looking and 'lucky' people who are in the exact same boat at least in some aspect of their lives. 

Success is achieved through certain specific mindsets and actions.  There's no magic to it, only a matter of determining what those mindsets and actions are and then adhering to them religiously.

Here are 25 principals that are foundational in achieving and maintaining the lifestyle you want.  We will look at them all in depth over the coming weeks but for now lets just do a quick overview.

1) Personal - Before we can reshape our lives we have to assume responsibility for the way it is now.  Stop blaming your parents, your circumstances or addictions.  Once we assume responsibility for the results we are producing in our lives - all the results, good and bad - then we empower ourselves to change them.

2) Purpose - We need to have a clear sense of who we are and what we are about.  What our God given purpose is. If this is eluding you, then you need to get in touch with God and ask for clarification.  If you're not hearing from God, try this: Ask the question in your diary before sleeping, then as soon as you wake, before you start to think just write.  Let the words flow without conscious thought.  Once you have an answer, God will find ways to give you confirmation you are on the right track.

3) Precise - Once we know our Purpose, we need to create a vision of the life we want to live in accordance with.  What will you home look like?  What kind of car do you drive?  Who are you married to? How much are you earning?  Be precise.  Fuzzy goals get fuzzy results.  Be as specific as possible.

4) Patience - Rome wasn't built in a day, nor will your life miraculously transform in a day.  This is an area I struggle with myself.  When I don't see quick results, I want to change plans.  See it through!  God's delays are not God's denials.  The compound effect of Patience, Persistence, Precise action will generate tremendous results.

5) Price - Be prepared to pay the price for what you want.   It shouldn't be an ordeal, if we're in line with our Purpose, whatever work required will be joy but it'll still be work.  However we must come into agreement with with realities of the life we are moving towards.  Otherwise our own subconscious minds will rebel and we will constantly undermine our own actions.  For example, if you want to be a celebrity be prepared to have your life on public display.  If you want to be affluent, you may have to shed some narrow minded friends.

6) Priority - Putting the proper priority on our actions.  To often we busy ourselves getting ready to get ready.  Always put the priority on those actions that will actually produce results.  Even if they are not perfect, doing result producing actions well, if not perfect, is always better than merely studying and rehearsing to do the same thing.

7) Plan - Proper planning prevents poor performance.  It may be cliche but it still holds true.  Plan your actions, execute and then review.  If you're not getting the results you want, alter your Plan, but not your Purpose.

8) Provide - We reap as we sow.  If you want God and the world to pour into you, you need first and foremost to be providing the world with something of equal or greater value.  Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet didn't become wealthy by merely wishing or praying for it, they provided a valuable service.  Always give people better service and better value than they expect. 

9) Program - We are all creatures of habits.  We are what we habitually do.  Our current habits have led us to exactly where we are now.  If we want to be somewhere else, we will need to develop better habits.  Determine the actions and habits that you need to adapt to become who you seek to become.  Devise a routine to achieve those and then follow that routine, until you have reconditioned your mind.  Habits take about 21 days to form.  Follow your Program and reProgram your mind with healthy habits.

10) Passion - You have got to be passionate about what you want.  If you are apathetic towards your own goals, then you are not on Purpose and you are not going to be able to Persist.  Project your Precise vision of your new life in your head.  Feel it!  Enjoy it! Embrace it!  Desire it with every fibre of your being.  The excitement should keep you up at night and working like play all throughout the day.  Your goal, vision and Purpose are the answers to all of life's issues.  Achieving them, brings everything else into order.

11) Persistence - You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.  At some point life is bound to get messy.  Too many people give up just shy of their goals because they can't see over the next hill.  Have faith (Promise) that God will provide and continue to progress.   There is no failure, only the results you wanted and the results you learn from to get what you want.  Persistence leads to more success than talent. Purpose, Patience and Passion are important ingredients to persisting in tough times.

12) Prune - As we move towards our new life we must shed the old.  Often this means cutting away the deadwood of our lives, those habits, beliefs and people that no longer serve us or hold us back.   Often the old must be cut before the new and better can materialize.  A place must be made ready for that person, position or mindset to fill.  "he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." Luke 9:23

13) Perspective - It took God about 3 months to drill this idea into my head.  If anything in the world is causing you (mental) pain it is not the world itself which is wrong, only your own false expectations of it.  You can't change the world, nor do you need to.  You can only change yourself and when you do, you make the world a better place.  Often we're blocked not by the world, but by our limited perspective of it.

14) Positivity - 'Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve' ~ Napoleon Hill. 'Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right.' ~ Henry Ford.   An upbeat, optimistic attitude is crucial to success.  With the right attitude you continue on when others see only failure, you produce at a higher frequency - attracting better results and you remain in accordance with God.   You cannot have true faith (Promise) and be pessimistic.

15) Promise - "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." ~ Matthew 7:7   God wants you to prosper.  He has your best interest at heart.  Their may be lessons to be learned and trials to be faced but you must believe that everything that happens to you, happens to serve you.  Whatever doesn't kill you, helps to make you stronger.  This may seem unfathomable at times but if can maintain this attitude, it will always serve you, helping you to Persist and be Patience.

16) Prayer - Prayer helps us in many ways.  It releases our desires to God. We draw strength from a source greater than ourselves.  It helps us persevere through the difficult times.  When you Pray always pray from a place of Promise.  That God's perfect will IS being fulfilled.  That great things ARE manifesting.  Pray with gratitude for all that you have and all you are about to receive.  Do not be afraid to ask for that which you need and want.  Our heavenly father wants to fulfill our needs - if you allow Him.

17) Project - and expect.  Visualize the life you are moving towards.  Mentally see yourself as having already achieved everything and allow yourself to feel what that is like.   Feel the joy, peace and gratitude that life produces.  Utilize all your senses.  Smell the roses, feel the island breeze, taste the caviar.  Visualizing like this twice a day, moves your subconscious mind into action to manifest that reality.

18) Praise - the Lord!  Be grateful for what you have and for everything in your life as it is and as it will be (as it improves).   Gratitude raises your vibration and grows your faith.  It gets you out of pity and resentment and focused on the life you want. 

19) Paradigms - All of us are products of our environment growing up.  Whatever we were exposed to as a child has left a mark, has predetermined our beliefs and shaped our values - often in detrimental ways.  If you grew up hearing money was hard to come by, or that you were worthless, you're subconscious mind has accepted that as fact even as you speak and consciously think otherwise.   You must acknowledge those old limiting paradigms, root them out and replace them with new beliefs that inspire you.

20) Perfect - This is an acceptance that you are perfect exactly as you are.  God didn't make a mistake.  He knew exactly what he was doing.  Your experiences, your 'faults', your idiosyncrasies make you a unique person and uniquely suited to benefit the world around you.  Stop trying to be perfect and love yourself exactly as you are.   Always strive to improve yourself, but we are all works in progress.

21) Proclaim - Words have power.  Choose them wisely.  They shape your subconscious beliefs.  They shape your faith.  Are you speaking power or poverty into your life?  Speak with authority (Promise!).  Write out your goals on a cue card and declare them as accomplished 'I am enjoying living as....' two or three times a day.   Remember - whatever negative thing you may experience is transient, so don't speak of it as if it was permanent.  You shall reap as you sow, so sow power and prosperity into your life and others.

22) Pour - Do on to others as you'd have them do on to you. 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' ~ Matthew 25:40.   God's blessings do not pour into you, they pour through you.  Be a vessel for blessings and prosperity.   Help those that are beneath you - with a cheerful heart - and allow yourself to receive in equal measure - for you are worthy (Perfect).

23) Partner - Higher Power - No man is an island.  We do not need to do this alone.  Stop trying to control the world and control yourself.  Let Go and Let God.  Pray and meditate daily.   Live in the Promise, Praise and Prayer.  Seek His will, His guidance and His strength.  He is made perfect through your weakness.

24) Partner - Paragon - Do not try to reinvent the wheel.  Learn from those that have gone on before you.  Find someone who is enjoying success in the area you want to and model them.   Successful people are often happy to share their stories and tips, especially with someone sincere in following in their footsteps.

25) Partner - Power Group - Surround yourself with like minded people.  Form a support group and meet regularly to discuss where you are and where you are going.  Draw from each others strengths, victories and knowledge.  You absolutely have value to add, and will progressively become even more valuable in time.

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