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Stop Using This Word In Your Life

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The words you use in your daily communication affects your life. This is because everyone holds a different set of definition in their mind for the words that they used. Let me give you an example, how do you define communism?

For some people, communism means a different mindset; for some other people, communism means a different belief system that adopted by a country; some people have the definition of communism as different culture; while for some people who are more extreme, communism means bad culture and it associate with killing and war.

If you’re someone who hates about communism, when I talk good things about communism, I’m sure you’ll counter back by saying all the bad things about communism. This means, you’ve actually associated negative emotion with the word ‘communism’.

So what do you think about it? What we’re looking for here is not the definition for communism, I just wanted to show you how words play their role in affecting our life.

Have you ever noticed that, in our daily communication, sometimes when you talk to your friends, and you use a certain words that they don’t like to listen, you’ll make them angry and you’ll put them in a bad mood. I’m sure you’ve come across this kind of situation before.

And all of this leads to only one conclusion. People associate words with emotion. The words that coming out from your mouth are associated with emotions and if you know how you use words wisely, you’ll tend to be able to keep yourself motivated all the time. Good news eh?

But this is not our focus for today’s topic. In this article, I’m going to share with you that ONE WORD that you MUST NOT use in your daily life. Do you know what word is this?

No Matter What You Do, Stop Using This Word, “TRY”

Yes, this is a very dangerous word. Successful people seldom use this word. This is because they know that when they use this word, they automatically condition their mind with 2 possible outcomes. The first outcome is they successfully get what they want. And the second outcome is they fail to achieve what they want.

You know it very well when you say you’ll try, you allow yourself to success or fail.

“Trying” this word, is an irresponsible word. When you try and if you fail to get your desired results, you’ll never get the blame because you’ve tried! So don’t use this word.

Many people will say “I’ll try my very best to get it done”. I know you’ll somehow do it, but are you going to put in 100% commitment into doing it? Will you REALLY do it with your best? It sounds like you’ll do it with your best, but deep in your mind, you know it very well that it is fine even if you can’t get the desired results. Right?

There’s no trying in our life, it is either you do or you don’t. When you decide to do it, put in 100% commitment and just do it. When you don’t feel like doing it, don’t do it and don’t even talk about it. If you try, you’ll never achieve the results you want.

It is the same in our life. Do you want to be successful? If you’re serious in creating amazing results in your life, don’t try, just do it, put in commitment and determined to do it until you get what you want.

Here is a quote from my favorite success coach, Anthony Robbins:

If you want to play the game and win, you have to play it “full out”. You’ve got to be willing to feel stupid, and you’ve got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don’t work, be willing to change your approach.

Can you see the difference between successful people and ordinary people who struggle through life now? I bet you do. Successful people like Anthony Robbins will never try, they play it “full out”.

So always remember, don’t use this word in your life. There’s no trying to be successful, you either achieve it, or you fail to achieve it.

The Words You Should Use

So what words can you use if you don’t want to use this word “try”?

Here is a great word that you can use to substitute it, “committed”. Don’t say that you’ll try your best to achieve what you want. Instead, say that you’re COMMITTED to achieve what you want in your life. If you don’t believe me, try this right now.

If you want to be a millionaire, shout “I’m COMMITTED to be a millionaire!” for 3 times. Shout it hard and loud. It is fine if your friends or your mum says that you’re crazy. In fact, you need to be crazy to achieve extraordinary results in your life. So shout it loud with emotion and shout with your fist clenching.

Have you done this? What do you feel? Motivated? If you truly follow through and do this, you’ll feel the energy flowing in your body, you’ll feel motivated!

Remember the lesson you’ve learned from this article today. Apply this knowledge into your life today, that’s what successful people do.

Posted by Shawn on March 29th, 2009

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Skills You Must Learn To Be Successful

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Long ago there’s a professor. He is a very prestigious man with 3 PhDs and he is the dean for his school. One day, he would like to cross the river to his university. He did not know how he can cross it and until suddenly he saw a boatman row his boat over. He then asks the boatman, “Hello boatman, can you row me across the river to my university?” And the boatman agrees.

So as the boatman rows his boat across the river, the professor point to the mountain and asks the boatman, “Boatman, do you know where there is and have you ever learned geography?”

The boatman shakes his head and answers, “No, not at all.” And the professor tells the boatman, “Boatman, 25% of your life is gone.” The boatman seems sad and he keeps on rowing the boat.

After awhile, the professor pick up a left from the river and ask the boatman, “Boatman, have you ever learned botany?” And the boatman answers, “What is that? I have never heard of it before.” Then the professor tell the boatman, “Poor boatman, 50% of your life is gone.”

The boatman feels sad and he keeps on rowing the boat. A moment later, the professor asks the boatman again, “Boatman, boatman, do you know what is mineralogy?” Again, the boatman answer the professor, “No…”

The professor then tells the boatman, “Boatman, 75% of your life is gone.” The boatman is very sad and he rows the boat without noticing that there is a huge rock in front. As a result, the boat hit the rock and it starts to sink. The boatman and the professor both are panic and the boatman asks the professor, “Professor! Professor! Do you know how to swim?”

Guess what the professor answers? The professor says, “No! I don’t know how to swim!” And the boatman replies the professor, “Professor! 100% of your life is gone!” The boatman jump into the river and swim away to the shore…

What Is The Moral Of The Story?

What I’m going to share with you in this story is that knowledge and skills such as goal setting, visualization, affirmation, success mindset, millionaire habits and more are very important in your life.

Often, it is these skills that will help you in achieving what you really want in your life. Unfortunately, most people do not really bother about these skills and they ignore them. As a result, most people live a mediocre life and they struggle all the time.

If you are serious in achieving what you really want in your life and if you are truly committed in becoming successful, you must learn and improve in this area of your life. Learn and adopt all these success strategies or techniques or skills into your life.

I always received emails from my readers asking me where did I learn all my success knowledge. What I’m going to say is, if you are serious about getting the success you want, you will eventually come up with a way how to acquire all this knowledge.

I learned from reading books. I read a lot of books especially in self-improvement topic. I have developed reading as my hobby and until this day, I will feel odd if I did not read any book in a day.

You don’t have to buy a lot of books and read like crazy. You can buy a book each month if you can afford. However, make sure you finish every book that you bought. More than 70% of people who bought a book did not finish it. It is such a waste to spend your money on something that you never use.

The Book That I Strongly Recommend

Of all the books that I’ve read, one that truly grabs my attention is this, Adam Khoo’s Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny. It is a book that is written with you on the mind. What I like about this book is that Adam explains his success strategies from the head until the toe and every of the techniques are in step-by-step manner. This means that you can follow through and apply the strategies much more easily.

Adam uses Neuro Linguistic Programming as the core principle in his success. It is the technique that you can use to master your mind and achieve anything you want in your life. You should know that your #1 asset is your mind. If you can control your mind, you can basically achieve anything you want in your life, no doubt for this…

Read this book once to grab the big idea, read it twice to sink the idea into your mind and if you read it for the third time, achieving what you want will never be a problem.

Posted by Shawn on March 26th, 2009

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5 Guaranteed Steps How To Get What You Want

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Great news, I’m going to share with you how you can get what you want by using 5 simple but guaranteed steps. As long as you follow through these 5 steps, you will definitely achieve what you really want in your life.

If success is so easy and can be break down into 5 simple steps, why there are still so many people fail to achieve what they want in their life? The answer is pretty simple, they are not committed and determined to make what they want to come true.

If you are serious and put in 100% commitment into your dreams, do you believe that you’ll be able to achieve them? Of course you will. 50 years ago, landing on the Moon is something impossible, but look at today, we’re able to land on Mars!

30 years ago, nobody will believe that you can communicate and talk with your friends by using a device as small as the size of your palm. Look at the world today, you can communicate, play games, share files, make video calls with someone on the other side of Earth with just a mobile phone.

This shows you that everything is possible. There’s nothing as impossible to achieve. If you have the commitment and the desire to make your dreams come true, you will definitely achieve what you really want in your life.

Do you believe that someone who is at the bottom of the school, been dropped out of school a few times, are able to turn his life over, become top in his school, top the university, and then become a millionaire at the age of 26? If he can do the impossible, then you can do it as well.

His name is Adam Khoo and he is one of my favorite success gurus out there. I first learned my success principles from his book, Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny. It is truly a powerful book that will change your life to the better, forever.

So now are you ready to unleash the potential deep in you? Are you ready to awaken the giant that resides in you? Are you ready to achieve what you want in your life with these 5 simple and GUARANTEED steps…?

1. Know What You Want - See It Before You Achieve It

This is the first and the most fundamental step you must take. Before you can get to anywhere, you must know where you’re going. You need to first determine your destination.

“What do you really want to achieve in your life?”

Many people live a mediocre life and struggling to make a difference because they don’t know what they really want from their life. If you live your life without purpose and reason, you’ll never be successful and you’ll waste your whole life.

So here’s what you need to do right now. Close your eyes and think deeply, really think and visualize. Think about your life in the future, project 10 years forward. Where will you be and what are you doing? You have to find out what you really want to achieve in your life before you can achieve them.

Once you knew what you want, find out WHY you want it so much. Create a burning desire by knowing why you want to achieve it. If your reason is strong enough, you will do whatever it takes to make it come true.

2. Set Empowering Goals - Know The Direction Of Your Life

Do not underestimate what a goal can do for you. In fact, goal setting is one of the most powerful success strategies ever found. You must put what you really want in a more tangible form. The more tangible your dreams are, the easier you’re going to make them a reality.

Take out a piece of paper now, and write down what you want to achieve. Here are the 2 principle you must always remember in goal setting, be as specific as possible and have deadlines for all of your goals.

After you’ve written down your goals, I want you to tell 3 people that are close to you about your goals. Call them or email them about your goals. Share with them. This is the first step to manifest your goals. If you are serious about your achieving your goals, you must do this.

Next, paste this paper somewhere you can see often. If you are working from your desk most of the time, then put your goal sheet on your desk so that you can see it every single day. This is to remind yourself of your goals and if you do this, you will sink the idea of achieving your goals into your subconscious mind.

If you want to learn more about goal setting and how it can shortcut your road to success, check out my Goal Setting Formula.

3. Success Is About Getting Things Done - Take Consistent Action Everyday

The third step you need to follow through is to create an action plan for your goals. Once you have set your goals, you need to develop an action plan on how you can achieve them, and then take consistent action toward your goals.

Don’t worry if the strategies you use is wrong. You’ll just have to treat them as feedback and change your strategies. Many people keep doing the same thing with the same manner and they hope for different results. This is impossible. If you want to get different results, you must take different action.

One plus one will always equal to two. This is a fact and you can’t change it. Therefore, if you fail to produce the results you want after you’ve taken action, change your strategies. Be flexible and willing to venture out of your comfort zone. Dare to change and willing to sacrifice for your dreams.

The real key to success is to get things done. No matter what action you take, make sure you take CONSISTENT action everyday. This will make sure you move one step closer toward your goals each day.

Procrastination and delaying your action is one of the common killers to your success. I urge you to read Adam’s Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny to learn how you can unlock the secret to your success and smash through everything that’s been holding you back.

4. Use Your Thought Power - Believe You Can Achieve It

Ask yourself this question right now, “Do you sincerely believe that you can achieve your goals?”

If you do not believe that you can achieve your goals, you will never achieve them. You must first believe that it is possible for you to achieve what you want in your life before you can achieve them.

Most of the times, it is not that your goals are too ambitious that they overwhelm you, it is the thinking of how hard it is going to be that will block and kill your creativity.

When you ask someone why don’t he become a millionaire, they might just tell you that it is not as easy as you think or they might tell you that it is just impossible for them because of … (all sorts of lousy excuses)

It is your thought, your belief that is deciding all the action you do and all the decision you make in your life. If you believe that you don’t have the time to read books, you’ll never find yourself extra time for it. If you believe that you are poor because you have no money, you’ll stay poor forever until you change your belief and your thought.

Everything happens twice, once in your mind as an idea or a thought, and once in reality. Everything you do is once a thought in your mind. It is the same if you want to achieve great success in your life. You must first believe it.

Here’s what you can do now. Find out useful articles, success stories in your field, or you can even invest in some books that will open your eye and your mind toward new beliefs. Expose yourself to positive information and you will slowly change your belief system to the better side.

5. Adopt The Habit Of Constant And Never-Ending Learning

If you can spend 30 to 60 minutes a day into reading and improving your life, you will be able to read one book in a week. And within a year, you will be able to finish around 50 books. Think about it, the average people never read a book after they finish their school. So if you can read and learn from 50 books a year, what can you achieve from this? Do you think you will be able to do better and create more results than most people?

If you want to be successful in your field, you must be a constant learner. If you keep on improve yourself and learn all the way, you will be able to become the top 5% in your industry. Unfortunately, most people are lazy and they do not commit themselves to constant and never-ending improving in their life.

Wake up 30 to 60 minutes early everyday and read books to improve yourself. If you do this consistently for the whole year, you will experience great changes in your life. You will transform yourself from an underachiever into a super achiever.

This is what changes the life of Adam Khoo. When he learned the ‘brain secret’ he transforms himself into a super achiever and became a millionaire at the age of 26.

Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny is written with you in mind. It is an instruction book, workbook, custom-made blueprint designed for you to attain the success you deserve in life!

Right now, you have the keys to all the knowledge you need to take charge of your life and design it to be exactly the way you want it to be.

The only question is, “What are you going to do with this knowledge?”

Will you let it slips through your grasp once again and then expect your life to change for the better by continuing to do the same actions that didn’t work before?

OR

Will you take charge of this power you have right now and create the breakthrough results and lifetime success you want and deserve?

The choice is yours.

Posted by Shawn on March 21st, 2009

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How To Manifest What You Want

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For over the years, many people are looking for ways how they can become rich, become a millionaire and have all the happiness in their life. Many people buy books, attend seminars and workshops to find out how they can achieve their dreams. All of these are EXTERNAL factors that will shortcut your road to success.

The FUNDAMENTAL and INTERNAL factor that will make what you want in your life to come true lies deep within you. If you want to become a millionaire but you have no idea how you can make it, it is because you are not doing IT everyday. If you want to be healthy and have a slim body but you haven’t achieved it, it is because you are not focusing in IT often enough.

So what is this powerful secret that will help you to achieve and manifest whatever you want in your life?

The Answer To “How To Get What You Want”

I receive many letters from men and women all over the country who say they want to be successful, but don’t know how.They have tried following all sorts of involved rules, yet they really need only one. Sir Isaac Newton was once asked how he discovered the law of gravitation, and he replied, “By thinking about it all the time.” Earl Nightingale

There is your answer. The only thing you need to manifest your dreams is “By thinking about it all the time.” Each of us becomes what we think about most of the time. This is what makes the millionaires, the bums, and all the people between these two extremes just what they are.

So, if you can say what it is you spend most of your time thinking about, you can tell yourself what it is you are going to become. If that is not what you really want, you can change your destiny start from your thinking.

By finding out what you really want to achieve in your life, find out the direction you are heading in your life and focus in this thought all the time, you will transform yourself into what you think about. Everything starts from your thinking and your thoughts. If you have the thought of wanting to go for a movie tonight, you will end up going to the cinema most of the time.

Unfortunately, Thinking Itself Is Not Enough

Just thinking and not doing will not help you get what you’re looking for. Thought without action is as useless as action without thought. Imagine that you want to go for jogging in the evening. You must first create the thought of wanting to jog before you can make it a reality.

It is the thought that you created in your mind that will put you into taking the necessary action to make that thought a reality. Once you have the thought in your mind, you must then take the necessary action, only then you will make your thought a reality.

It is a two-step process. You must first think about it, and then do it.

The real secret to success is as simple as that. Think about what you really want all the time. For example, if you want to be a millionaire, think about becoming a millionaire every morning right after you wake up; think about becoming a millionaire when you brush your teeth; think about it when you have your breakfast; think about it when you are drinking coffee and eating your lunch; think about it when you are having dinner and when you are lying on your bed before you sleep.

You must think about what you want in your life ALL THE TIME. Do this for the next 30 days continuously and you will definitely transform yourself into another person in your life.

This is just the first step, the second step you MUST do is to TAKE ACTION. Merely thinking about money will not make you rich automatically. God will not send you money from the sky. You must take action. (Did you know why some success strategies like goal setting or visualization do not work now? It is because of your desire. Read this article now to learn how you can Master Your Mind.)

Your Thoughts Determine Your Strategies

You may say that you think about wanting to be a millionaire all the time, but still you don’t have any idea of what action you need to take. This is because your thoughts are not strong enough, your desire to become a millionaire is not strong enough.

If you are truly and 100% desire to get what you want, you will automatically come up with strategies how to achieve them. It is the same if you feel like wanting to delay on your actions. It is because you are not committed and your desire to get what you want is not strong enough.

When something becomes a burning desire for you, you will definitely achieve it because you are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it.

Posted by Shawn on March 18th, 2009

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How To Motivate Yourself Using A Dream Book

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I believe that you have your own dream to achieve and you know what your goals are in your life. Many people live a mediocre life because they are not clear of what they really want in their life. You must always remember this, where you come from is not important, the key is where you are going.

Although that knowing what you want is the core factor that will determine your success, but knowing what you want to achieve in your life cannot guarantee that you will achieve it. This is because people are lazy. They know what they want and they set clear goals to achieve them. However, they still fail to make their dreams come true because of the lack of action.

Your action is highly determined by your state of motivation. When you are down, you will never get things done. Even if you get things done, you will never get it done in the right and perfect way. Therefore, in order to achieve what you want in your life, you must take massive action and to take action, you must put yourself in an empowering state.

You can simply achieve this ‘high level motivational’ state by simply using your dream book.

What Is A Dream Book?

A dream book is a book that you created yourself that will work as the most powerful visualization tool for your future. It represents your dreams, your goals, and your ideal life. Your mind thinks in pictures and not words. Therefore, if you can create a dream book full of pictures and inspirational quotes, it will definitely become your most valuable motivational source.

How A Dream Book Motivates You?

It is because of all the pictures and inspirational quotes you pasted, draw or write in your dream book, it will help you to visualize about your dreams. Think about it, if your dream car is a BMW 5 Series and you create a dream book about it, when you see it, you will visualize the feeling of owning it, driving it and showing it to your friends. This will activate the law of attraction and it will motivates you to achieve your dream car even more.

How To Create A Dream Book?

Find pictures that represent or symbolize the experiences, feelings, and possessions you want to attract into your life, and place them in your book. And remember, you must have fun with the process. Don’t force yourself to do it if you don’t like it. You must do this when you’re feeling happy about it and when you feel inspire to do it.

Use photographs, magazine cutouts, pictures from the Internet–whatever inspires you and put them into your dream book. This includes not only pictures, anything that speaks to you and you find motivational you can include them into your dream book as well.

To make your dreams even more tangible, you can include your own pictures into your dream book. Use only the words and images that best represent your purpose, your ideal future, and words that inspire positive emotions in you.

What Should You Do Next?

After you have created your dream book, what are you going to do next? Try to put your dream book right beside your bed. If possible, leave it opens so that you can see it every moment before you sleep and every time after you wake up. This will create more solid images about your dreams into your subconscious mind.

The time you spent visualizing in the evening before you sleep and morning right after you wake up are the most constructive time to manifest your dreams.

Remember, you must visualize and go through your dream book everyday in order to activate the law of attraction in your life. When you do this, you will be amazed by how fast your dreams actually come true.

This book will document your personal journey, your dreams, and your achievements for that particular year. It will become a record of your growth, awareness, and expansion that you will want to keep and reflect back upon in years to come.

Posted by Shawn on March 14th, 2009

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3 Steps How To Be More Successful In Your Life

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Step #1 - Take Full Responsibility For Your Life

Do you believe that life happens on you because it is fate? Or do you believe that whatever happens to you because you choose to? The main difference between a successful person with an ordinary person who is struggling with life is that a successful person will never blame on what had happened to him. Successful people are strong believer in themselves.

Successful people believe that everything happens on them because they choose to. It is because of their decision and action that lead them to the kind of lifestyle they are living today.

On the other hand, if you are struggling through life today, it is because you’re not in control of your life. Instead, you let all the circumstances around you take control of you. People will only struggle through life because they are not in control of what happens to them.

Which means, if you’re in control, you’ll feel happy, you’ll feel satisfy and as a result, you’ll be more successful.

To sum it all, if you want to be successful in your life, you must first learn to be responsible. You have to take the responsibility that whatever happened to your life, happens for a reason.

Read this post of mine, Oprah Winfrey Success Story and you’ll understand what I mean by taking responsibility in your life.

Step #2 - Follow Your Instinct And Do What You Love

Where do you think that successful people find their motivation to keep going on even if they failed 100 times? It is from doing what they love. When you do something that you love, you’ll automatically come up with the motivation to keep going on. And this is the number one motivational source of every successful person.

If you think that successful people are all workaholic and they don’t have the time to enjoy their life, then you’re wrong. To them, they’re not working, they’re enjoying simply because they’re doing something that they love so much. They’re willing to do it even if they’re not making any profit or getting any pay. If you’re willing to do this, you’re definitely doing something that you love to do.

So focus in doing what you love, and then only try to make money from it. Most people thought that they should work hard and then make money from their hard work and so they can enjoy their life with the money they have.

But this is not what a successful person would think. For a successful person, he’ll do something he loves, he’s enjoying what he is doing while making money from the process and keep enjoying what he is doing. This is the real mindset of a successful person.

You’re struggling in life because you’re trying to profit from something that you hate to do. When you dislike to do something, you’ll never put in 100% commitment into doing it better. So find out what you love to do today and keep doing it.

I have an interesting article here in my blog, make sure you read it NOW, The Millionaire Habit - Do What You Love.

Step #3 - Commit To Life-Long Learning

Constant learning and never-ending improvement are vital in ensuring your success in your field. I know that if you’re going to be a millionaire, you must be the top 5% in your field. When you become the top 5% in your field, you’ll definitely make more money than those who are in your field.

And the only way you can become the top 5% in your field is through committing to life-long learning in your field and apply the knowledge into your life.

Think about it, can you commit yourself and spend 30 to 60 minutes everyday to read a book? If you can, you’ll probably finish a book in a week. This means that you’ll finish 50 books in a year. Compare to others, how many books do you think most people will read? The answer is none. Most people are not going to read any books right after they leave their school.

Therefore, if you can commit yourself to this self-improvement habit, you’ll definitely transform yourself into the top 5% in your field. Some people might say that it takes 1 year to finish 50 books, which is a long time. However, you must remember that no matter you spend the 60 minutes into reading or you spend it to watch television, you’re going to lose that 60 minutes as well.

You cannot stop time, you can only benefit from it by doing something constructive. And this is what you’re going to do with it, use the time to learn and improve. Wake up 30 minutes early each day and use that time wisely to improve yourself.

You can also attend seminars and workshop to improve your knowledge in your field. Don’t wait for seminars to come to you, instead, go for those seminars. And listen to audio when you’re travelling, this will leverage the most from your time.

Here my recommendation article for you, 12 Keys To Success - Be Ready To Learn.

These are the 3 steps that you’ll need to be more successful in your life. To be successful is not an overnight process, you must go through all the process first before you can see the results. Success is a process, it is all about getting things done. So follow through these 3 steps today and start to transform yourself into a super achiever.

Posted by Shawn on March 11th, 2009

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3 Ways How To Be More Effective In Your Life

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How to be more effectiveTo be successful, you must adopt the success principles from other successful people. The fastest way to get what you want in your life is to follow through a set of proven blueprint of how to get what you want. In real life, you’ll have to model successful people.

What I mean here is that you have to model the inner self of the successful people. Their mindset, their behavior, their habits and so on and so forth. Once you’ve mastered their characteristics, you’ll make the same decision like they do because you’re thinking just like them. This is when you start to change your life and begin to achieve what you want in your life.

And one of the most powerful success principles in life is this, learn to be more EFFECTIVE. Effective simply means doing things right. Most people are not effective in their life, they tend to be hard working, but they are not doing the things the right way. If you want to be more successful in your life, you’ll have to learn how to get things done the right way.

By doing so, you’ll speed up your time and shortcut your path to success. You’ll get what you want earlier and with lesser effort spent. Isn’t this a wonderful way? Therefore, learn to be more effective from now on.

Below are the 5 ways how you can be more effective in your life… Adopt these skills right away…

1. Spend time to plan and schedule your work. Every successful people will do this. They plan their work and tasks to be done one day earlier so that they know what to do when the time comes. This is a very powerful success skill you must learn and use it in your life. As for me, what I’ll do is that I’ll write down what I need to get done tomorrow on a piece of paper every night before I sleep.

By doing so, it helps me to be more organized and I can see the big picture of what I need to do the next day. Hence, this gives me a better preparation of what I need to do. Don’t hesitate about this, try it and you’ll know it. This is almost the same as Goal Setting, just that you break down all the steps to achieve your goals into smaller daily tasks.

2. After you’ve written down all your to-do tasks, what you need to do next is to prioritize your tasks. This is also a very important success skill you must learn. It will help you to be more productive because you’re doing the more important and results-producing tasks. After you get the more important task of the day done, you’ll feel lighter because you’ve done something important to you and something you know will get you more results compare with other tasks.

Brian Tracy, a very famous self-help guru once said that if you’ll have to eat 3 frogs everyday, make sure you eat the biggest and the ugliest frog first early in the morning. This is because once you’ve ate the biggest and ugliest frog, you’ll feel easier to eat the other not-so-disgusting frog. By getting the more results-producing tasks done, you’ll definitely achieve much more in your life.

3. Learn from proven and successful methods. I’ve mentioned about this above, if you want to get to where you want in your life the fastest way, you must follow through a set of proven methods. Let me show you this example, if you want to get to point A from point B, the fastest way is to follow through a straight line. This is a common sense. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

The key now is in locating this straight line. Finding the straight line is the same as follow through the proven system to success. As long as you follow through a proven system, you will definitely achieve the success you always wanted. It is just like if you’re living in Malaysia and you keep heading South, you will eventually reach Singapore. You can’t change this.

And one of my favorite modelling guru is this, Adam Khoo. One of his books, Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny, is one of the most comprehensive books that provide you the step-by-step strategies to achieve anything you want in your life. Start from mastering your mind, and then design your roadmap to success. If you ask me if there is any great book to success that I can recommend you, it is this, Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny.

So there you have it, the 3 simple ways how to be more effective in your life. Always remember this, you must learn to plan and schedule your work. After that you must learn how to prioritize important tasks that will bring you the most results. Keep on doing those productive tasks and you’ll eventually create the results.

So take your first step now to make your dreams and your goals come true today.

Posted by Shawn on March 8th, 2009

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Why Self-Improvement Don’t Work

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Self-ImprovementOut of 100 people who read a success-related book, only 3 of them achieve the results they desire. These 3 people are considered as a success. They achieve what they want after reading that book. However, the rest of those who did the same thing, who had read the book, still remain the same. They’re still struggling to find ways how they can improve and achieve their dreams. Why is this so?

This is just a rough estimation, in fact, out of 100 people, those who really achieve their dreams and their goals, the percentage is less than 1%. The question now is, where group are you in? Are you in the 1% group? Or are you in the 99% group? And the second question will be, why is this so?

Even If I Give You The Step-By-Step Success Strategies, Chances Are, You’ll Still Not Acting On It

The answer is pretty simple and straight forward, people just don’t apply what they’ve learned in their life. Most people who had read a success-related book, they are not going to take any action after that. They buy the book because of momentum. They want the book so much. Their emotion tells them that they must get that book so they can achieve what they want. Well, after they purchased, they did read the book. The thing is, after they read the book, they just did not act on it.

This is what is happening with most people. They bought the book out of momentum and they finish the book because they feel motivated to it, but they just don’t apply the success strategies from that book.

So now you know why self-improvement don’t work. This is the reason. People don’t apply what they’ve learned in their life.

In fact, this is just one of the most common reasons. There are actually another reason why self-improvement don’t work…

Success Does Not Come Overnight

This is the second reason. Success will not come overnight. Lets say that you read a book about the Law of Attraction. And this book taught you about how you can achieve the things you want through thinking and visualizing. And if your goal is to become a millionaire, do you think that you can achieve this goal by just sitting right there, “dreaming” about it?

That’s impossible. Things don’t work that way. Do this test with me. Put a glass of water in front of you. You sit right there and say to yourself, “Come water, let me drink you.” You can even add the effect by visualizing it, affirming it and keep repeating these steps.

What will happen next? Will the water come to you automatically? It just won’t happen. I just want to share with you that by simply applying what you’ve learned, you still won’t guarantee that you’ll get the results you desire. And things don’t happen overnight.

Confucius has a very meaningful quote, “The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step”. If you want to be successful, you’ll have to go through each step slowly, everyday, learn and take action. You’ll need to prepare yourself before you can be successful.

Another example is this, imagine that you’ve joined a tennis competition, but you’re a newbie in tennis. Do you think by simply visualizing winning, you’ll eventually win? Not likely, it takes skills to win, it takes perspiration to go through all the ups and downs and it surely won’t happen overnight. Even if you’re a success guru, if you don’t have the skill, the odds of winning will be nearly nil.

This is what is meant by “preparation meets opportunity”. When you’re ready, opportunity will come to you automatically.

What You Have To Do Now?

Commit to constant and never-ending improvement by keep on learning in throughout your whole life. Read articles, read my blog, invest in yourself and grab some self-improvement books and read it. After you read them, make sure you APPLY WHAT YOU’VE LEARNED.

The best way is to attend workshop and seminar given by success gurus. One of my favorite is Adam Khoo. He is a self-made millionaire by age of 26. He learns neuro-linguistic programming, master his mind and design his own destiny. His seminar is expensive, but very empowering and I believe that it’ll definitely change your life.

However, you don’t have to do that now, with his book, Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny, you can now learn everything he teaches in his seminar through this book. He even listed down all the step-by-step success strategies so that you can follow. And all you need to do, it to APPLY the strategies. So take your chance and invest in yourself now, grab Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny today.

Posted by Shawn on March 4th, 2009

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The Missing Key To Success

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Key To SuccessHave you written down your goals, visualize your achievement, affirm what you want everyday, but still you fail to achieve them? This is what is happening to most people. Many people try to set their goals, they really put their effort into doing this and they did follow through and visualize about their success. Unfortunately, they still fail to achieve what they want in the end. Why is this so?

The Law Of Attraction Won’t Work Without This Key

No matter what success principles you’re applying in your life. Be it goal setting, visualization, law of attraction and so on and so forth. If you don’t have this key, you’ll never achieve what you want in your life.

Think about it, have you written down your goals? I bet you do if you read through and follow through my teachings from my blog here. Have you ever affirm your goals? Do you visualize what you want to achieve in your life?

Most people do. Most people know what they want and they did follow the instructions and do what they supposed to do. However, did they achieve what they really want in their life? Did they achieve their goals? The answer is that most people fail to achieve what they want, even with all the success tools helping them.

Why is this so?

The answer is VERY SIMPLE. For one reason only. Without this reason and without this key, you’ll never achieve what you want in your life. Even if you set very specific goal, just like if you set your goal as to make $100,000 before 31st December 2009, it still WON’T work if you don’t have this key.

What is this key?

This key lies deep within your heart. It is the BURNING DESIRE within you. Without the burning desire, you’ll never get what you want in your life. For those people who set their goals but in the end fail to achieve their goals, the number one reason is because they lack the burning desire.

They did not take enough action and did not put in 100% commitment to make their goals come true. Simply because they lack the burning desire. It is the burning desire that will force you, push you, inspire you, motivate you, and propel you into taking action and make your goals come true.

It is the same for the law of attraction. Some people find that the law of attraction does not work, why? The answer is the same, they lack the burning desire. It is impossible that you’ll become a millionaire by just thinking of becoming a millionaire. If it is so easy, then everyone will be rich. The truth is, most people are dead broke.

And the only difference between the rich and the poor is this, the rich ALWAYS stay motivated and inspired to achieve what they want. Their desire is burning within them. They cannot sleep or eat if they know they’re going to fail to achieve their goals. They’ll do whatever it takes to achieve what they want in their life.

Successful people always put their goals and their dreams in the first place. Of course, they know how to manage their time well so that they can spend and enjoy with their family while pursuing their dreams. This is the only difference between a successful person and a struggling person who lives his life without knowing anything.

It Is Not That It Doesn’t Work, It Is You That Don’t Work!

Yes, you read that right. Some people buy a wealth creation book, put all the strategies into use and they become rich. While some people buy the same book, read it but they never really take any action to apply the strategies taught in the book. And hence they come to a conclusion by saying that the book just don’t work.

Let me tell you this, it is not the book or strategies or goal setting or visualization or law of attraction that don’t work. It is you that don’t work. You’re the one that responsible for the results you created in your life. You are who you are today because of the decision you made yesterday.

Why are you reading this article right now?

It is because the moment you saw the title of this article, you feel interesting and you decide to read it. And therefore, you read until this point. And you tell yourself you’ve found a goldmine because I’m telling you the secrets how to become more successful. I’m sharing with you the million-dollar strategy how you can become a millionaire and achieve what you want in your life. And I hope you do really appreciate what I’m sharing with you here.

So What Do You Have To Do Now? 2 Simple Steps For You To Follow

Very simple, find out the your desire of what you really want, and make it burn. Having a desire is not enough, you need to have a burning desire that will push you into achieving it no matter how difficult it is.

Let’s put it into 2 simple steps. Many people said that they can’t understand or some of them may say that this is a good piece of advice, but because they can’t find any strategies how they can apply this idea into their life, so they just did not take any action about it.

Thus, let’s put this into 2 simple steps that you can follow and do immediately…

1. The first step is to ask yourself, “What am I truly want to achieve in my life?” This is the fundamental question that will lead you into living a more successful life. What do you really want to achieve in your life? Many people are struggling in their life because they do not know what they really want in their life.

They live the kind of life where they wake up at 8, go to work at 9, back at 5 and sleep at 10 without knowing what they are really doing. They just live their life without direction. I believe that you do not want to waste your life this way. So find out what you really want to achieve in your life. What is the kind of lifestyle you want to live? How much do you want to earn each month? What kind of car you want to drive? Where do you want to have your vacation?

This is the first step, to find out your desire. The second step will be, to make this desire of yours burning…

2. The second step is the most difficult part, but it is not complicated. Everyone can do it. How can you make your desire burning? Very simple, find out the real reason why you want to achieve your desire. If you want to have your vacation in Hawaii, why do you want it? The first step deal with the ‘what’ while the second step deal with the ‘why’.

You don’t have to know ‘how’ to achieve it because if you know the ‘what’ clear enough and the ‘why’ strong enough, you’ll eventually come up with a way of how you can achieve your goals. If you want to be a millionaire, but you don’t have any idea how you can do it, it is simply because it is not a burning desire for you. Maybe it is just a plain wish for you.

One of my favorite stories to explain to you how burning desire can change your life is this… Imagine that you’re a heavy smoker and you can’t get rid of this bad habit. No matter what you do, you just can’t get away from this bad habit. Until one day you’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer. And the doctor tells you that if you continue to smoke, you’ll die within 1 month. Do you think you’ll stop smoking? Of course you will!

So you see, it is not the matter of ‘how’. Instead, it is just a matter of ‘why’. If the reason deep within you is strong enough, you’ll definitely achieve what you want. This is where goal setting, visualization, law of attraction and so on will help you to shortcut your success.

I believe that you’re pretty clear with it right now. I hope you should know what you have to do right now. So stop complaining that things don’t work out the way you want it. For things to change, you must first change yourself. Remember, having a burning desire is one of the fundamental success principles you must first adopt. Once you’ve developed your burning desire, all of the success strategies you apply will become your leverage tools.

Posted by Shawn on March 1st, 2009

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