Success In Life!

I got this message today!

You can learn a line from a win but a book from a defeat. - Paul Brown

Interesting!!!

Time flies quickly.  We have come to the time of the year when we are supposed to review what we have done well and what need improvement.  More importantly, it is an appropriate time of the year to set our directions and sights for the coming year.  Without a clear blueprint of what we want to achieve in the next 12 months, life may have no focus and it could be another year of wasted time.

I happened to read this article on Setting Your Goals By: Brian Tracy.  Let me share with you Brian Tracy’s interesting thoughts and how we could get started to set our goals and find happiness when we achieved them.

Over the years, Brian Tracy found that hundreds of top salespeople, all have one thing in common. They have taken the time to sit down and create a clear blueprint for themselves and their future lives. Even though they started the process of goal setting and personal strategic planning with some skepticism, every one of them has become a true believer.

Becoming a True Believer
Every one of them has been amazed at the incredible power of goal setting and strategic planning.   They accomplished far more than they ever believed possible in selling and they ascribe their success to the deliberate process of thinking through every aspect of their work and their lives, and then developing a detailed, written road map to get them to where they wanted to go.

In so doing, one finds happiness. 

The Definition of Happiness
Happiness has been defined as, “The progressive achievement of a worthy ideal, or goal.” When you are working progressively, step-by-step toward something that is important to you, you generate within yourself a continuous feeling of success and achievement.

You feel more positive and motivated. You feel more in control of your own life. You feel happier and more fulfilled. You feel like a winner, and you soon develop the psychological momentum that enables you to overcome obstacles and plough through adversity as you move toward achieving the goals that are most important to you.

Determine Your Values
Personal strategic planning begins with your determining what it is you believe in and stand for-your values. Your values lie at the very core of everything you are as a human being. Your values are the unifying principles and core beliefs of your personality and your character. The virtues and qualities that you stand for are what constitute the person you have become from the beginning of your life to this moment.

Your values, virtues and inner beliefs are the axle around which the wheel of your life turns. All improvement in your life begins with you clarifying your true values and then committing yourself to live consistent with them.

What is the difference between the successful and the not so successful?
Successful people are successful because they are very clear about their values. Unsuccessful people are fuzzy or unsure. Complete failures have no real values at all.

Build Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem
Values clarification is the beginning exercise in building self-confidence, self-esteem and personal character. When you take the time to think through your fundamental values, and then commit yourself to living your life consistent with them, you feel a surge of mental strength and well-being. You feel stronger and more capable. You feel more centered in the universe and more competent of accomplishing the goals you set for yourself.

Action Exercises
Here are two simple things to do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

Second, begin with your values by deciding what it is you stand for and believe in. Commit yourself to live consistent with your inner most convictions - and you’ll never make another mistake.