Are you successful in your business? Do you get out of it exactly what you had wishes for? Or are you like 97% of the people, struggling to make a success with your business? If so, maybe you are missing one or more of these success laws, which also applies to different areas of your life.
1. Your actions will be rules by many things like passion, appetite, love, greed, fear. Environment, prejudice and habits. Habits is the most controlling one of the list. Og Mandino writes in his book, “The Greatest Salesman In The World”, that the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.
There is only one way to get rid of bad habits; you must replace it with a good habit. As humans, we are creatures of habits. That being said, develop habits that bring you closer to your goals instead of those that push you away from them. Ask yourself all the time if what you are doing will take you closer to your goal or closer to failure.
2. You must open your heart to love. No , I am not trying to be the romantic here. But this is the greatest secret to success, Love is a choice. You can hate the sun for being too hot, or you can love it for the light it brings to our lives, the energy to the living. You choose to fight with people that criticize you instead of using that criticism in a peaceful manner and build on it. With loving acts, you are more free to think clearly, to create good habits, to concentrate on your goals. Without that love within yourself, you lack that concentration, you think more of what is bothering you, and further move away from your goals and create bad habits. Most importantly, love yourself. You must live with yourself the rest of your life, make the best of it and make decisions you are sure you can live with.
3. You must stay persistent. We all heard of Alexander Graham Bell’s attempts when discovering the telephone technology. There have been more failures than success. As long as he learned from those failures, and learned to form them into lessons. The telephone system has given us so much in today’s world because of his failures at first. The same in business, learn from your mistakes and you will be a step closer to your goals. All goals bring you up to your success.
The problem most of the time is that the path is so cloudy that we don’t see how far that ladder extends. If you give up at step number 91 and the end of that path is at step 100, you just wasted precious time you will never get back and walk away from you success. As Og Mandino says: “Success often lies just a few short steps beyond the point where we decide to quit.” Be persistent and with your goal reaching habits, you will be in the right direction. “Success will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough” – Og Mandino
4. Remember you are nature’s greatest miracle. There is not one creature on earth that has the power to think, talk, have emotions, feel the way a human can. And even within our own species, you are unique. There has never been or ever will be anyone with your same DNA. We are unique and must capitalize on that uniqueness to offer others more. The more you can offer to others that can’t do it themselves, the better your success.
5. Don’t procrastinate. Live as if today was your last chance. You can never get back the time you wasted. But you do have the chance to make great things with the time you presently have available to you. If today was your last chance to increase your business for your future, what would you do? The same should be applied to different areas of your life. If today was your last day on earth, how would you treat your family? What would you do with your time? Treat today as if it were your last chance in business, your last day with your family and you will have a successful life with no regrets.
6. Master your emotions. I love this quote from Og Mandino from his book “The greatest salesman in the world”. He says: “Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.” Master your emotions when you feel depressed, sad, ill, afraid, inferior, uncertain, incompetent. Remember to replace those emotions with singing, laughter, productivity, thoughts of past successes, etc. Also don’t overdo it. Overindulging, overconfidence are examples of things that will push people away. Master your emotions and never feel shame for trying anything and failing, because the only people that never fail are those who have never tried anything.
7. Learn to laugh at the world, and more importantly, laugh at yourself. I mentioned some difference we have to other creatures. One more difference we have as humans which no other has is the ability to laugh. Any form of laughter, including smiling, is very addictive and sets a better mood. Make an effort to smile to people you see. I bet most of them will smile back at you. Not only will they smile back, but they will feel an emotion which creates a better overall mood for the nest minutes and even hours to come. That smile is contagious and will be passed along to others.
Remember that all good situations or bad situations will pass. Whether you are having a good day, bad day, heartache, joy, failures, successes, etc they will pass. Enjoy your good moments knowing this too shall pass. Don’t let the small things get to you and never become so empowered by your own ego to not let laughter in your own world. Let others enjoy their moments knowing it will pass and they need to enjoy it at that moment. When you get a great moment, remember to not let your ego take over. Enjoy that feeling but still serve others. Again, Og Mandino says: ” Remain as a child for only as a child are you given the ability to look up to others.” Look up to others and make them feel good and you will have a great following.
8. Multiply your knowledge. Could you imagine what the world would be today if we never learned from each other? We’d still be living in caves wondering how our neighbors got their hands on fire. We all have a piece of genius inside of us. Tap into that genius and multiply yourself by teaching others. Leverage your efforts by showing others how you have succeeded. But before doing that, you must succeed yourself. You will succeed by aiming high. Better to aim for the moon and reach a cloud, than aim for a tree top and only reach the height of a bush. You will also succeed by doing that extra effort 97% of the people refuse to do.
Always reach outside your comfort zone where lies your success, that is also where lies your dreams. Never settle for whatever life gives you, reach for that extra you need to make your success. Set yourself goals for your life and then break them down to the year, then month, week and then day. Once you accomplish those goals, raise them and aim higher. You will then grow each day and not step backwards. Make today better than yesterday, this week better than last week, this year better than last year. By aiming for better, you always improve yourself and then you can teach it to your followers. Only then can you have success in your business. Multiply yourself and have better success. Keep everything for yourself and watch your success die with your secrets.
9. You must act now. The first 8 steps are worthless without action. All your dreams, all your plans and all your goals will just dust unless you start forming the good habit of acting on them. You must take actions toward your goals everyday if you want to succeed. If you don’t, you become neutral. Ever put a car on neutral and then press on the gas pedal? No matter how hard you press that pedal, you still go nowhere. No matter how busy you are, if you don’t take actions towards your goals, you get nowhere.
Remember, you are nature’s greatest miracle. You have the choice to put this plan into action or ignore it wondering why you are not successful. Procrastination is made of fear. You must replace that fear with an action, even the smallest action towards your goals. Once you start, increase that action everyday until you reach the path you are looking for to get to that goal.
Again, once you reach that goal, remember to reset it to a bigger one. Don’t wait to know everything, learn everyday and apply those teachings into actions right away. Then watch that knowledge multiply the size of your actions.
10. You must pray. And I am not finishing these laws of success with a religion course. No matter your religion, you have a belief in a greater power. We have all prayed at some point in our lives, most likely in a time of need or disaster. We all know deep down inside of us, there is a God. Do not pray for a material possession, victory, fame, happiness, love or success. As we have learned, these come and go. When you have them, they will eventually pass. Instead, pray for guidance, a clearer view of what you are presently dealing with and guidance in the things and events to come. Ask for guidance for the first 9 laws of success and the discipline to put all of them into action.
Take the good habit of being positive, love what you are dealing with today and stay persistent in your steps to success. Remember you are nature’s greatest miracle and can do great things if you live your life as if it were your last. Control your emotions and laugh at the situations in your life. Learn and multiply your knowledge with others without delay. As you learn it, act on it. And with the help of God, you will achieve great things. You will achieve the success you are looking for whether it is in business or any other part of your life you apply these laws to.
Stephane Therrien is newly retired from his full time job and is goal is now to help others achieve that same Freedom that most people stuck in the rat race can only dream of. If you go to my website: http://www.ks-interactive.info, you will find different ways of contacting me at the bottom.
Author: Stephane Therrien
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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