subject: Luxury Vagabond And A Practice For Success And Being Successful [print this page] YOU Want to Be SUCCESSFUL. YOU Want to Be SUCCESSFUL.
How do you get there?
How do you find advice?
How do you measure conflicting or confusing advice?
How will you know you are successful?
Choose the right mentor. or
BE YOUR OWN MENTOR.
Remember to KISS Keep It Simple Solution-wise.
All paths lead to the same place.
Define SUCCESS
Just for fun on a slow day, go to Google.com and search on define success and be prepared to be amazed at the results. The range is from the nebulous wealth and fame to simplistic self-satisfaction and all the variations in between including all the layers of society and family pressures to perform.
I recommend spending a few minutes creating your personal definition of success.
This will be YOUR foundation for the future.
MY definition of success is very simple AN OUTCOME BASED ON AN ACTION.
Let me explain it for you.
I CHOSE to be a SUCCESSFUL PERSON. I had a GOAL of seeing myself as a successful person. A requirement was to see this every minute of my day no unsuccessful time.
My next step was to examine the ways I could accomplish this. I didnt want to measure it in terms of money or fame. I also realized that sometimes our outcome from an action was less than what was expected or intended and yet, I had a MEASUREABLE OUTCOME.
For example, if I took a sip of my morning coffee and managed to get all of it in my mouth, then I successfully took a sip. If, however, some of the coffee landed south of my mouth then my success included the possibility of clean clothes sooner or later.
IT WAS STILL A SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME. It did not, necessarily, have to follow my original intention, just an outcome.
The result was: I had my definition. AND It translated into all areas of my life the money, the recognition and all the things society and others called it.
Now that we have our definition of success just how does it work and how do we make the transition from where we are to where we want to be? Again a very simple next step. BE CERTAIN.
Certainty is the grease for the sticky things and glue for the slipping things. Take a moment to think of something you do with excellence and ease. Anything in your life you are really good at cooking, driving, walking, talking, reading, writing, music, art.
Think about someone you know or have seen who acts with certainty server in a restaurant who never writes down orders and always gets it right and seems to know exactly when to check on more, refills or extras. Or a short-order cook who manages an array of orders and they all are perfect EVERY time.
Now - measure your CERTAINTY OF SUCCESS when perform your excellent task. Can you bring your sense of certainty and excellence into other areas of your life? Can you see your business with that same certainty of success?
Start your day by noticing all the things you successfully do. Make it simple and keep it in TINY increments.
Placing your coffee cup on the counter.
Picking up the coffee pot.
Pouring the coffee.
Putting the pot back.
Each tiny step is an action and has an outcome. Label each step in your mind as successful whether you spilled or dripped or NOT. YOU had a success. Did you successfully arrive at your desk or successfully side-tracked? Were you successfully on time or successfully late?
Add humor to your less than desirable successes. Make spills and accidents funny.
Whats YOUR next step now that you have a new tool in your toolbox? Apply it to your life. Make it a part of your daily routine.
See what possibilities exist for you to expand your success to bigger and better things. Are you in a business, looking for a business or just starting the transition from worker bee to entrepreneur?
Add your certainty layer. KNOW that many others are and were successful. YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL.
Don Silver Luxury Vagabond entrepreneur, traveler, international trainer, success mentor.
