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My 7 Favorite Principles To Achieving Great Results In Life

August 21st, 2011

There are so many keys and principles of success out there. And what you are going to discover in today’s post are my 7 favorite principles to achieving great results in life.

success principlesSo are you ready? Here they are…

1. Your Desire

For me, you will never achieve what you want without desire. Desire is the fundamental principle that will move you toward what you want in your life. Put it in a simple way, desire is what makes you want to achieve your dreams and goals.

Think about it, it is your desire that makes you want to earn more, to do more, to accomplish more, and to be extraordinary. If you do not have the desire for what you want, you will never even think about it. And if you are not thinking about it, you will never do anything about it. As a result, if you are not doing anything about it, you will never get it. As simple as that.

Your desire actually fires off the thought of ‘want’ in your head. When your desire is strong, you will have a very strong thought of wanting to achieve it, and this is what makes you successful in life.

So develop the desire for what you want and you will definitely produce the results you want.

2. Passion

Passion is what makes you great in what you do. Look at all the athletes out there, they are passionate with the sports they play and this is why they are the best. Without passion, you will never do it with your heart.

Bill Gates becomes software billionaire because he has an intense passion for it. He can sit in front of the computer for hours just to play with software. The same goes for Warren Buffett. Buffett spends tons of time analyzing the market down to earth because he is passionate in doing it.

Therefore, if you want to be extraordinary in your field, make sure you have the passion for it. If you do not have the passion, you will never bother whether you will do it right, you will just simply get it done and never think twice about it again.

So find your passion and immerse yourself in it. You can become great in your industry by doing what you love.

3. Self-improvement

Success is all about improving yourself to produce great results in your life. Thus, you need to consistently improving yourself in order to accomplish great things in life. You may be a nobody today, but are given a chance to prove yourself and achieve outstanding results in the future.

As long as you are willing to improve, you will eventually reach your ultimate destination. Japan rise to become one of the most productive countries in the world because they practice the principle of “kaizen”. In other words, they practice the principle of constant and never ending improvement.

So you see, as long as you are willing to improve yourself, you will be able to reach the next level and create amazing results in your life. One very simple way to constantly improving yourself is by adopting the habit of reading. You do not have to spend tons of time into reading. Just read one or two books a month will do.

4. Your Most Precious Resource

Do you know what is the most precious resource you have with you today? It is your time. Everyone has been given 24 hours per day. And you cannot manage time because you are given 24 hours a day no matter who you are. What you can manage is yourself.

So from today onwards, spend more time into pursuing your goals. Invest time to improve yourself and commit to your dreams. If you set a goal to become a millionaire by age 30 and you are at 25 right now, you will have 5 years to accomplish it. And regardless of what you do each day, you will eventually become 30. So it is just a matter of you turning 30 with accomplished goal or without.

Many people fail to achieve what they want because they do not have the urgency. They think that they have a lot of time, but in fact, most people do not have enough time to do what they want in life. Think about it, time fly like an arrow and if you are still not doing anything about your goals, your dreams will never come true. Do not waste your time and regret afterward.

Hence, if you are still young now, which is great because you can make full use of your time now to work on your future. If you are not young anymore and you are running out of time, that is even greater because there is no time for you to waste. Just go all out and play it with 100% commitment.

Remember, how you spend your time will determine how successful you will be. If you spend time doing things that are not related with your dreams and your goals, you will never produce the results you want. Thus, spend your time doing something that will move you toward your goals.

5. Be Optimistic

Are you a positive thinker? Sometimes it is quite difficult to find out by your own. So ask your friends or your family members about this and see what they are going to tell you. Many times, someone who thinks positively always come out with creative ideas and is always producing great results in life.

This is because when you think positively, you are actually expecting something good to happen. It may not always end up with the positive results that you expect, but it is a good start to put you in a positive state to achieve amazing things.

Just imagine that you are a salesman approaching someone to ask for a sale, what will happen if you expect your customer is not going to buy from you? Highly likely, your thought will trigger a negative state and makes you lose confident in making the sale. And you will end up losing the sale. However, if you expect your customer to buy, you will speak with confident, you present with energy and you are passionate with it because you think that you are going to close the sale. And this actually helps you to close the deal.

Success is not something easy, that is why you want to do it and this is why you need to always look at the bright side. The more positive you are, the ‘luckier’ you become.

6. Gratitude

No matter how successful you are, you will never feel enough if you are not thankful to what you have. Do you think you are wealthy? If you are grateful, you might answer yes. When you are reading this, it simply means that you are richer than a lot of people in the world. Some people do not even have enough food to survive. When you think about how to become rich, they are thinking about how they can survive because of hunger.

Therefore, be thankful with what you have now. Do not get me wrong, I am not saying that you should live as you are right now and never to pursue higher incomes and goals. In my opinion, it is always a good thing to pursue for more wealth. This is because in the journey of achieving greater wealth, you are actually making others wealthy as well.

When you create value for others through your work or business, you are contributing to the society. This is how you can become rich. Of course, this is in terms of moral and ethical means.

So always be grateful for what you have and help others when you are up there. Share with others how you did it and contribute back to the society that shapes you. This is how true wealth is created.

7. Dare To Dream Big And Believe That You Can Do It

If you want to be extraordinary, you need to adopt the habit of thinking big. Set goals that excites you, dream about the things that will motivate you and makes you excited. Stop asking whether you are worthy for your goals, instead, ask the other way round, are your goals worthy for you?

You are unique and you are extraordinary. God makes no junk. So decide now that you are the one that is destined for big success. And believe in yourself that you can do it. You know you are capable of achieving outstanding success in your life. It is not whether you can do it or you cannot. You know you have the potential for it, it is just a matter of whether you want to do it.

So make this day the brand new beginning of your life toward achieving something great. Trust that you can do it and truly believe that it is possible for you.

Make it a habit to think about how great you are and how much you want to accomplish everyday when you wake up in the morning. This is what will make you extraordinary and successful in life.

10 Keys That Make You Successful In Life

January 25th, 2010

Do you know what are the keys that will make you successful in life?

You’ll discover the 10 keys to living a successful life below…

1. Clear Vision

Having a clear vision of the kind of successful life you want is the fundamental step to achieving it. If you don’t even know what kind of successful life you want, you can never achieve it.

Unfortunately, this is what happening with most people. Most people don’t know exactly what they want in their life. They will tell you that they want to be successful, but they cannot give you the clear definition of what they mean.

It is the same for those who say that they want to be rich. How rich do you want to be? You need to have a measure and a deadline for it.

2. Persistence

What you need is persistence to achieve your dreams. Never give up even if you fail to achieve the goals you set. Do you know that Thomas Edison failed more than 10,000 times before he finally succeeded inventing the light bulb?

If you give up in the middle of the journey, you’re going to waste all the effort that you have previously poured in.

Persistence is the key that you must master if you want to be successful in life.

3. Commitment

Have the commitment of doing what you have set out. Most people know that if they want to make more money, they will have to make more sales, but they just don’t do it.

Just like you know that if you want to score A in a subject, you need to study and do exercise for that subject. However, most student will just never do that.

Therefore, you need to have the commitment to carry out or to take action to make your goals come true. If you are not committed, you will procrastinate and just let it be.

4. Find A Mentor

Learn from someone who has already achieved the kind of results that you want in your life. For example, if you want to be rich, who are you going to listen to, your teachers and friends who tell you that investing is risky? Or are you going to take the advice from successful investors such as Warren Buffett and Peter Linch?

Don’t listen to the wrong advice given by those who are not successful. Your friends may care about you but if they don’t know a thing about investing, don’t listen to them. Just be friend with them but listen and take advice from other successful investors.

This is what I mean by finding a mentor. If you can learn from someone who is credible or are able to teach you what you want, achieving the outstanding in your life is not something difficult.

My success mentor is Adam Khoo. He is the one who showed me what I can accomplish in my life. And I’m planning to attend one of his workshop this year. Adam is one of the top successful people in Asia and he is teaching the how you can master your mind and design your destiny for success. To learn more about him, visit him at Master Your Mind.

5. Think Positively

This is one of the most common but powerful techniques to live a successful life. Try to notice your thinking pattern, are you thinking the negative or are you thinking about the positive.

Some people will think the negatively and this block them from using their full potential to achieve what they want. It is just like when your boss ask you to go in his room, what do you think he is going to tell you? Are you thinking good thought or negative thought?

You can control your thought by breaking your old thinking habit. First you will have to identify or get conscious about the thought that you are thinking. And if you found that you are thinking negatively, try to focus on positive thoughts.

6. Dare Venture Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Some gurus say that if you want to be rich and successful, you need to do things differently.

What I think is, you don’t necessarily need to do things differently from others, but you must dare to venture out of your comfort zone. If you’re someone who is shy and timid, try to get out of this comfort by getting to know more people.

Some people don’t dare to do this and this causes them to stuck in where they are forever. Just like if you’re living in a small city and you know that you will not have much opportunity if you stay there. And if you want to make some big business deals, you must go to big city.

Do you have the courage to do so? Get to a place where nobody knows you and you’ll be all alone to strive for your future. Are you willing to do that? Do you dare? You need courage to go against the norm and expand your comfort zone to be successful.

7. Network With Other Successful People

Birds of the same feather flock together. How true this is. People who are successful will network and be together with other successful people. Of course, I’m not suggesting that you leave all your friends, but what I’m telling you is to join and get to know more successful friends.

The more you mix with successful people, the more you are going to learn how they think and how they act. Just like if you mix with a bunch of street punks, you’ll eventually think just like them and act like them.

When you see all the people around you are making more than $1 million a year, you will feel unsatisfied and you will feel that you can accomplish much more. When all your friends are making $10,000 a month, but you’re only making $2,000 a month, what will you feel?

This is the importance of mixing with other successful people. You want to create the feeling, the emotion of being the same with them. This is why reading and learning are so important to improve the quality of your lives. My top recommendation, go through Master Your Mind to learn how to design your destiny today.

8. Be Willing To Fail And Turn Failure Into Success

If you’re not someone who is willing to fail, you can never be successful. People learn more from their failures than their successes. Without failure, you can never achieve success.

Babies will learn from failure such as falling from trying to walk. But do they give up? Or did you try to stop them from falling? No! You’re not! You tell them to keep trying until they learn to walk. And this is the reason everyone in this world walks.

However, when doing business or investing, what do you tell yourself? You tell yourself that you cannot afford to fail! Can you see the difference? It is the same in school. Teachers will punish and scold those who fail in school. This is one of the early conditioning that put you to think that failing in life is not something good.

You have to be willing to fail and turn failure to success. Don’t be afraid of failure, learn from your failure and make more wiser choice without giving up. This is how you learn and be successful in life.

9. Rest And Enjoy Life

What is the meaning if you have all the money in the world but have no time or freedom to enjoy life. You don’t need to be a millionaire to enjoy life. You can be happy and enjoy life right now.

This is what separate successful people from ordinary people. Successful people always are passionate with their work. For them, they are enjoying their work. In fact, it is not work to them, it is play, it is fun.

On the other hand, ordinary people will think that it is boring to work. They need to work for living and it is not something fun or enjoyable. This is what kills their passion and they lose the motivation to be the best in their field. You can be successful in every field as long as you have the passion and motivation to be the best.

10. Discover The Final Key By Yourself

You don’t have to learn everything from a book or from here. Sometimes, you can review back what you have done and maybe you will discover the ‘a-ha’ moment by yourself.

Looking back at your results will give you a good indication of what is working and what is not working. You just need to do what is working and improve your strategy to get even more and better results.

These are the 10 keys that every successful people are holding. If you want to be the next successful people, use these keys in your life wisely.

12 KEYS TO SUCCESS – Success Require No Secrets

July 26th, 2008

Well, if you’re following me from the beginning up until now, you’ve gone through all the 11 keys to success. This is the final key, Success Require No Secrets. If you’ve gone through all the 11 keys with me, you will know that you already have all the resources (keys) to succeed. To achieve what you want, it requires no secrets, but hard work and determination.Keys to Success - Success Require No Secrets

To be successful, you have to love what you do. If you want to make money from investment, then you will have to love to invest. The power of love is much bigger than you can ever expect. Only when you love to do your work, you can do it better. If you hate to succeed, do you think that you can achieve it? That will be impossible. For example, when you love someone, you are willing to do whatever it takes to be together with him or her. This is the same in pursuing your goals to success.

After you’ve read all these keys to success, you have a choice to make decisions. You can choose whether to work harder towards your goals, or you can choose to remain the same. The choice is in your hand. No matter what choices you made, you will still make a choice. What I mean here is even if you choose not to make any decision; you’re still making a choice. Therefore, in our lives, we always have a choice. This is because we can control our thinking.

The significance about controlling our thinking is that we can make things change. Mindset is the most valuable asset that everyone can have. It is not why some people are far richer than you just because they have much more money. It is because the mindset they have is different from yours. Mindset determines everything in our lives, the things we do, our behavior, our thinking, everything. Therefore you need to know how to take charge of your mind.

Success require no secrets, it is all about mindset. Everyone can buy the same wealth book that teaches you how to be rich, but not everyone can be rich after reading that book.

Why? Because the mindset is different. You can have a book that teaches you from beginning until the end on how to become a Millionaire; however if you give up in the half way, everything will be wasted. Thus it is the mindset that is more important, often, “why” is more crucial than “how”. If you know “why” you want to success, then no matter “how” hard it will be, nothing can ever stop you.

The moment you know why you want to succeed, you will somehow come up with some plan and strategies to achieve it. Like the famous saying, “when there is a will, there is a way”. Hence, if you want to be successful, just focus on creating a will.

Now, what do you feel after reading all these so-called keys to success? They are not any big secrets; all of the keys here are nothing but your mindset and your beliefs. It is you that is going to determine your success, not any secrets that you never heard before. I believe that you have heard about all the keys here, just that you never really notice about how important they are in your life.

What I wanted to tell you here is that success lies within your hands. It is how you treat success that matters. If you are serious, you are willing to put in a lot of effort and determination, nothing can ever stop you. Success will eventually be yours. However, if you keep on procrastinating, not taking any actions, and you are not serious about it, then I don’t think that you can achieve amazing results in your life.

Life is short; you must appreciate what lies in front of you. You can treat success as a game; life is a game after all. However, you must know how to play the game of life, don’t break the rules. If there is one thing I can tell you now, I will tell you to be serious and committed in everything you do.

I’m not saying that you should work and pursue success 24 hours. What I mean here is that you should do everything with 100 percent commitment and be serious in it. Even if you are enjoying, enjoy it seriously. Often, it is because of our bad habit of not doing things seriously that make us fail to achieve what we want. Therefore, learn from now on, to be serious in everything you do, even when you are playing games, play it seriously.

To Your Success.

The 12 KEYS to Success :
Key #1 – Never Give Up
Key #2 – Control Your Emotion
Key #3 – Be Prepared To Strive For Success
Key #4 – Be Responsible
Key #5 – Have A Burning Desire
Key #6 – You Must Have A Plan
Key #7 – Always Concentrate In Your Work
Key #8 – You Must Have A Clear Goal
Key #9 – I Am Talented
Key #10 – You Have To Pay For It
Key #11 – Be Ready To Learn
Key #12 – Success Require No Secrets

You can download the 12 Keys to Success report straight away HERE.

12 KEYS TO SUCCESS – Be Ready To Learn

July 25th, 2008

This will be the last 2 keys for you in your road to success. You must be willing to learn, learn and learn. Especially with the existence of internet, you can find tons of information from it. If you wanted to know how to lose weight, simply search the terms in search engine like Yahoo and Google, and you can find a lot of information telling you how you can lose weight.Keys to Success - Be Willing to Learn

It is the same if you want to know how to make more money online. You can also search for all the information regarding how you can make more money online. Of course most of the times you will come across to a sale page. They are selling all these info to help you achieve what you want in life. However, there is also information that is free for you. So you see, there are basically tons of people who are ready to teach you how to success in the net, not only in the net actually, there are also many gurus you can find in your real life. The question now is whether you are willing to learn or not.

There are forums, article directories, and even blogs (just like mine) which are always flooded with a lot of information. All you need to do is to dig up all the information and use it for your own. You must always update yourself because with the existent of internet, everything changes rapidly.

About learning, you first must be someone who is “learnable”. I believe you’ve come across some people who are not learnable; they just don’t willing to learn. For example, these people do not willing to listen to their juniors, they thought that they’ve known everything. This kind of people will not go far in their life. The next thing is that you must be “teachable”. You must be willing to teach people about what you’ve learned. Only then you can achieve success more easily.

The one who gives will always receive what they deserve. From the golden rule of life, “Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you”. So you see, if you want more, then you will have to give more. If you want more money, then make others more money and eventually you will get more money.

Another interesting point about learning to success is that you can learn from those who had succeeded, and model their footsteps. If you want to lose weight, then learn the footsteps of those who had successfully lost their weight. As simple as that. Hence, you must be willing to learn everyday. From the moment we were born, we are already in the process of learning every single day. So nothing should stop us from learning, until the day we were gone.

So are you ready to learn more? Look at this example; can you learn how to ride a bicycle by reading a book? No, you cannot. Why? Simply because some of the things require hands-on and not by learning just the theory. This is the same as if you want to make money and become a Millionaire. Hence, can you become a Millionaire by reading a book? Not at all, because reading a book and taking actions are two different things.

Some people read a lot of wealth books, but still they are not rich, because they did not apply what have been taught in the books. What I wanted to tell you here is that, solely with just learning is not enough. Yes, you need to learn, but you should also put what you’ve learned into actions.

We’re living in an information age, if you are not willing to learn, then you will fall behind. Today, it is easier to create wealth, meaning that it is easier to become a Millionaire. There are more millionaires now than before, because if you have a creative idea, you can make a fortune. Look at Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Jerry Young; all made their fortune at a very young age.

All these successful young entrepreneurs made their fortune with a creative idea; of course, they do really put a lot of effort into it. This is what I wanted to tell you. If you are willing to learn, someday you will eventually come up with a brilliant idea just like them.

Well, this is it, key #11 – Be Willing To Learn. Bear in mind, learning is a process; you will need to take action on it. Without action, what you’ve learned will be useless.

Are you ready to discover the final key to success? If you are reading up until this point, congratulations. You are already one step ahead of most people out there, because most of the people, who purchase a book, did not actually finish it.

Let us continue…

 

The 12 KEYS to Success :
Key #1 – Never Give Up
Key #2 – Control Your Emotion
Key #3 – Be Prepared To Strive For Success
Key #4 – Be Responsible
Key #5 – Have A Burning Desire
Key #6 – You Must Have A Plan
Key #7 – Always Concentrate In Your Work
Key #8 – You Must Have A Clear Goal
Key #9 – I Am Talented
Key #10 – You Have To Pay For It
Key #11 – Be Ready To Learn
Key #12 – Success Require No Secrets

You can download the 12 Keys to Success report straight away HERE.

12 KEYS TO SUCCESS – You Have To Pay For It

July 24th, 2008

Now, this will be the last 3 keys to success. So key #10 is this, you have to pay for success. You will have to sacrifice if you want for success. So what is it that you are going to sacrifice for? Of course it will be your time and energy, sometimes even your money. Keys to Success - You Have to Pay For It

Like I always said, success never comes automatically. You will have to work hard, spend lots of time and effort on your plan, and take massive actions. Then only you will achieve what you wanted the most. The question now is how much are you willing to pay for success? If you want to make more money online, are you willing to spend all your time doing research, building website and market your site? If you want to lose weight, how much time are you willing to spend to go for exercise, and can you stand for not taking sweet and high calorie food?

Allow me to tell you an example of what is it meant by sacrifice and paying for success here. There is a model, a very beautiful, slim and sexy model. One day she won for the model competition. And so, a reporter asks her “What is your favorite food”. Then the model answer “oh, I like ice-cream very much”.

The report feels strange, because someone who likes to eat something sweet like ice-cream will not have a body as slim as the model. Then the reporter asks again “How many times did you eat each month?” And you know what did the model answer? She said “It’s been more than 10 years since I had my ice-cream”. So you see, this is sacrifice. You will have to pay for it if you desire for success.

Success will not happen instantly, just like building a house. Everything needs time to develop. And how much effort you are going to put in will influence the time you require to build that house. If you wanted to own a more luxury car, then you will have to come up with more money to purchase that car. It is the price you will need to pay for it. You will need to pay for how much you want. This is sacrifice.

One day, if you saw your one of your friends becomes very rich, that is because your friend spends a lot of time and effort in making more money. Always, it is just the surface that you will see, what you see about your friend is that he is enjoying with all the money he earned. You will never see how much he had spent for his results. Maybe he works until late in the midnight everyday. You won’t know it because you can’t see it.

However, what you can be sure is that he did spend a lot of time and effort in it. This is just like a duck swimming in a pond. All you can see is that the duck can swim very fast on the water. But did you know that the duck uses a lot of energy on its legs to kick the water? This is what you can’t see, because its legs are hiding under the water. But the duck do really put a lot of effort in it.

There is no free lunch in this world; you will need to pay for everything that you wanted. Many people cannot stand it when they need to pay more for what they want. The moment you decided to be a successful person, you need to ask yourself this question, “Am I willing to sacrifice for my success?” If your answer is a no, then you did better prepare yourself before you take any actions toward success.

Are you willing to spend 3 hours of your time everyday to create wealth? Are you willing to jog for 1 hour every morning after you wake up? Are you willing to replace your movie time with reading the market analysis? These are the sacrifices, so are you willing to pay for it?

If you want to be rich today, you will need to exchange your time and effort in creating wealth. That’s it, as easy as it may sounds. Many people think that to be successful is a difficult thing in life, what they don’t really understand is that, to be successful is in fact something very easy, if you are willing to pay for it.

Therefore, always remember this; you will have to pay for success. Success is not a sprint, but a marathon; you will have to put in CONTINUOUS effort. Hence, keep this key in your life and let it drives you to success.

The 12 KEYS to Success :
Key #1 – Never Give Up
Key #2 – Control Your Emotion
Key #3 – Be Prepared To Strive For Success
Key #4 – Be Responsible
Key #5 – Have A Burning Desire
Key #6 – You Must Have A Plan
Key #7 – Always Concentrate In Your Work
Key #8 – You Must Have A Clear Goal
Key #9 – I Am Talented
Key #10 – You Have To Pay For It
Key #11 – Be Ready To Learn
Key #12 – Success Require No Secrets

You can download the 12 Keys to Success report straight away HERE.