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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.

So 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.

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How Spending 60 Minutes A Day Can Make You Successful In Life

August 1st, 2011

When I am reading the book, “The Art Of Closing The Sales” from Brian Tracy, there is a part of the book that seriously moved me. And this is why I would like to share with you here today.

Regardless of whether you are in sales, I believe that what you are going to discover below can change your life, period. You are about to find out how you can spend 60 minutes a day to transform your life, to become extraordinary and to achieve all your dreams and your goals.

So how do you actually do it? The answer is by making the decision to spend at least 60 minutes into reading personal development or any related books that will improve your knowledge and skills in your career and business. This is how you can achieve anything in your life by just spending a mere 60 minutes a day.

So commit to wake up 1 hour early from tomorrow onwards and make the decision to read books that will help you in your life. When you feed your mind with something positive, educational, and uplifting in the first hour, you will perform better all day long. You will be more cheerful, relaxed, and self-assured. You will also be more resilient and will bounce back faster from rejection and disappointment.

If you have to get to work at 8am in the morning, wake up at 6am, spend the first hour reading and then get ready for your day. Do you know that top people in the industry who produce extraordinary results arise early and get going immediately? On the other hand, average people rise at the last possible minute, they then runaround in circles, dash off for the office with no time to think or preparation.

Now, I would like to quote a story from the book “The Art of Closing The Sales” that has touched me and I believe it will do the same for you…

Not long ago, a young man, twenty years old, came to one of my public seminars. His name was Bob. He had long, unkempt hair, was poorly dressed, and had a negative attitude. During the seminar, I explained the importance of reading thirty to sixty minutes each morning. He sat in the back all day, taking notes, and left at the end of the day without saying anything to me.

About two months later, I got a call from his uncle. It turned out that Bob came from a broken family, was a high school dropout, and had experienced some minor problems with the law. Finally, his uncle and aunt had taken him in. He was unemployed, had no ambition, and sat around watching television most of the day. Ultimately, the uncle laid down the law and insisted that Bob get a job, any job, rather than continue to sit around the house.

Reluctantly, Bob went out and god a job in straight commission selling, from house to house and business to business. As you can imagine, he did poorly. He made very few sales and very little money. But he had to keep this job in order to continue living with his uncle and aunt.

One day, the uncle saw the advertisement for my seminar in the paper and in desperation decided to send his nephew. Bob did not want to go. He only went because his uncle paid for it, drove him to the seminar, and picked him up afterward.

In the two months following the seminar, however, a miracle had taken place. The first thing Bob did when he got home was by a book on selling. He then began getting up each morning and reading for thirty minutes before he went to his sales job. Within a week, he was reading an hour per day. Soon he was getting up at 5am and reading for two hours before he went off to work. In no time at all, his sales took off. Then they exploded. He started breaking sales records. And the more he sold, the more confident and enthusiastic he became.

All by himself, he began to make changes in his physical appearance. He hand his hair cut and groomed neatly. He bought new clothes so he looked like a professional. The other salespeople in his company began looking up to him and asking him for advice.

Six weeks after my course, they made him a sales manager and put him in charge of a small territory. Two months after my course, he went with his uncle and bought his first car. He had tripled and quadrupled his income and completely changed his personality.

His uncle told me that Bob attributed all of his success to having been forced to go to my seminar. He said the most important thing he learned was the value of reading in sales for at least an hour every morning before starting out. It transformed his life.

This clearly shows you the importance of reading at least for 60 minutes before you start your day. It is the same in every industry. If you are in business, you can read books related with your business industry. Or you can always read self improvement books if you wanted to.

If you can commit to read 60 minutes every morning before you go to work, you are actually feeding your mind with great mental food. And this will surely change the way you think because you are consistently feeding your mind with something positive and something constructive. As a result, your life will change because you started to respond differently, you make decisions differently and you take action differently. You will become the top person in your field because you are thinking like one.

This why reading is important and if you can make the commitment to follow through, success will be yours and you are able to produce extraordinary results in your life.

Finally, understand this, “If you are not consistently learning and upgrading your skills, somewhere, someone else is, and when you meet that person, you will lose.”

Therefore, commit to lifelong learning from now on. Remember, wake up 1 hour earlier from tomorrow onward, and spend those 60 minutes to read. This is how you can transform your life from average to extraordinary.

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3 Golden Tips Of Success From Vince Lombardi

July 25th, 2011

Vince Lombardi, one of the best coaches in the football world, is no doubt one of the greatest extraordinary people that you can learn from.

And this is exactly what I am going to write about today. I will show you 3 golden tips of success from Vince Lombardi that can change your life and move you toward your ultimate success in life. Of course, there is a ton of great tips and advice from this extraordinary guy, but I am going to share with you 3 that I think are most powerful in shaping your destiny…

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”

How true it is. It is not knowledge that will determine your success. It not strength that will determine your success too. Both knowledge and strength are just forms of potential power that can help you in achieving whatever you want in your life.

If knowledge will determine your success, I am sure thousands of university graduates would be successful. Ironically, a lot of university graduates are working for very successful entrepreneurs who do not have much education in their lives.

Do not get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with education. I just want to point out that education itself is not the main factor that will determine how successful you are.

It is your will that will determine how much you can accomplish in your life. In other words, it is your desire for what you want that will decide how far and how much you can achieve. Most people are living in mediocrity not because they do not have the knowledge or the strength, it is mainly because they do not have the will and the desire to do it.

Every one of us is capable to produce outstanding results in our lives if we wanted to. You know it very well that you are capable, that you are unique and that you can achieve extraordinary results in your life. Unfortunately, most people do not have the will to do it.

When you have the burning desire and the will, you are going to do whatever it takes and you definitely will accomplish what you set out to. Remember, God do not make junk, you have your own strength and you can live an awesome and abundance life if you want to.

“If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

This is one of the most common mistakes that people often make. If you want to achieve your goals, make sure you keep score, keep track of your results, know how much you have accomplished and know how far you are from your goals.

If you do not know where you are heading and where you are, how can you tell when you have reached there? It is just like driving, you need to first decide on your destination, and then only you can decide which route is suitable and start to move toward your destination. It is exactly the same in life.

First you decide your goals and your targets. Make sure they are clear, specific, measurable and with deadlines. After that, you make sure you take action and progress toward them. In the process, track your results and make sure you are creating the results that you want. If you are not producing the outcomes that you want, change your strategy and take action again.

Success is not something complicated, it is something simple, but it takes a lot of hard work and you will have to put in effort to achieve it.

So ask yourself now, do you know where you are heading and do you know how far away you are from your destination? Measure your results everyday and make yourself accountable.

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”

You will never succeed without failing. It is your failure that will make you successful. If you never failed before, you have to be careful because you might not know how to overcome it when it comes.

The key is to make sure that you treat failure as a feedback and learn from it as an experience. If you did not give up, you will never fail. Just like what Vince Lombardi has to say, “We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

You will never fail as long as you did not treat it as a failure. Instead, treat failure as a signal that is telling you that your strategy is incorrect. If you never give up, you will never lose and fail.

Look at all the great people out there; they failed more than ordinary people, which are what makes them extraordinary. Therefore, if you want to be successful, fail more. You must learn to dare to try and to take action and never be afraid of falling. If you fall, wake up and move on again. You will become wiser from the fall. Just like the saying, “what does not kill you makes you stronger.”

So have the guts to take action and just do it. Stop thinking about whether you can accomplish it, you just need to take action and put in the effort, things will move and you will eventually find your way to your ultimate success.

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How To Attain Success With Simple Steps

July 18th, 2011

When you think about success, what comes into your mind? For most people, they will think about making a lot of money, staying in a big luxury bungalow, having and driving big cars, dining in the finest restaurant and more.

If you look at the picture closely, you will notice that all the thoughts about success are so big and huge and they cannot be accomplished in just a day. In other words, it shows to you that success is not something that you can achieve instantly. You cannot achieve all the things and results that you want in an instant. You cannot become a millionaire overnight, it is possible, but it is a very rare case.

Therefore, for most people, success is about the end results that they are getting and not the journey that they are going through. The journey is where most people fail.

A lot of people fail to accomplish their goals and achieve their dreams not because they cannot see the end results that they want, but because they do not have whatever it takes to go through the journey. So this is where this article comes in.

What I would like to share with you today is that you can be successful at any moment in your life. Since it is the journey (what you do) that matters, so you must celebrate all your actions and treat them as a success.

When you are reading this article, you are actually making a small progress toward your success. You are motivating yourself and learning how you can achieve what you want in your life. You may not see the effect and the result right away. The truth is that these small actions did really contribute toward your success.

If your goal is to lose weight, you are successful when you push away the plate full of fries in front of you. The same if your goal is to become a millionaire. You are successful when you read an article about how to invest wisely in the market. As long as you do something, you are actually making the progress and are contributing your own success.

Many people did not realize this fact and this is why they are not doing anything about their dreams and their goals. When you treat all the small actions as a success, you will do them and you will do a lot of them.

This is what every successful person did and this is how the ultimate success can be achieved. You know it very well that if you want to achieve something, you must put in the effort by taking small actions each day. When you take action, the results will accumulate and eventually they will overflow and make the big success possible.

It is just like adding water into a bottle. If you keep on adding water into the bottle, it will eventually full and overflow. This is a common sense that most people know, but they did not realize that the same principle applies in their lives.

So now you understand how simple and small action steps can help you to accomplish your big dreams. What you need to do right now is to look at those small steps as a success. Celebrate after you have taken the necessary actions.

You do not need to have big celebration such as taking a vacation to Hawaii or something like that. You can celebrate by watching a movie, playing games, take a nap, buy yourself an ice-cream, listen to songs, relax, take a walk in the garden, do something that you love and so on and so forth.

There are many ways you can reward yourself. You want to develop taking action as a habit that is why you reward yourself whenever you do so. Once you have made it a habit, you will eventually reach your destination that you have always desire.

This is how success is done and how you can do it as well.

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The 3 Most Important Qualities Of Successful People

June 27th, 2011

If you want to be successful, read this post to the end. What you are going to discover here can change your life and inspire you. There are many ways and strategies that you can use to achieve your goals and your dreams. However, achieving outstanding success is often not about the strategy or the method that you are going to use. It is often about you, yourself.

Think about it, a lot of people dream about becoming a millionaire, but most of them are not a millionaire. Thus, it shows that simply dreaming about what you want is not enough. There are many businesses out there ranging from various industries. There are multiples of successful people in every field that you can think of.

The thing is that they excel in their own field. They did extreme great job in their own industry. Look at Donald Trump, he is great in doing real estate deals. Look at Michael Jordan, he is great in playing basketball. How about Warren Buffett? He is one of the best investors in the world. There are so many examples out there.

No matter what field and industry they are in, they all come from different background, doing different work or business and they all have their own style of doing it. So what actually makes them successful?

The answer is their qualities. The way they look at success, the way they view their dreams and the way they act and make decisions that lead them toward their ultimate success.

Therefore, it is within you. How you look at your dreams, your goals, how you define success, how passionate are you and how committed are you. These are all the qualities that shared commonly from all these successful people. Extraordinary people may have different background and different way of working, but they definitely shared similar qualities.

And from what I have learned so far, there are 3 very important qualities you must possess if you want to be successful in your life. As long as you adopted these 3 qualities, you will have no problem making your dreams a reality and accomplishing all your goals. They are…

1. Your passion towards your dreams and your work

If you look at all the great people who have accomplished outstanding results, you will notice that they all are very passionate with their work and their dreams. This is the quality that you must have too!

Let me ask you, do you think Donald Trump loves making real estate deals? Do you think Michael Jordan loves to play basketball? The answer is so obvious. They love it very much and they talk, dream, breathe, sing, think and sleep with their passion all the time.

In his book, Think Big, Donald Trump mentioned that he is so eager to work that he cannot sleep in the night at 3am. He keeps thinking about his deal and he can’t wake up to go to work. This is how passionate he is toward his work and his dreams.

The same goes for you. If you want to be successful, you MUST be passionate with your work and your dreams. This is the fundamental requirement of success. Without passion, you will never have the motivation to keep moving on in the journey. This is why most people give up and quit half way after they have lost their motivation.

2. Your commitment and desire toward your goals and your dreams

First we talk about your passion, next we will talk about your desire and your commitment toward your dreams and goals. How desperate are you to achieve your dreams? How committed are you and are you willing to do whatever it takes?

I believe that you know your answer very well. Only you will know whether you are committed toward what you want and how desperate you are with your dreams.

Having a burning desire to achieve your target is a must-have. If you do not have the desire, you will never do a thing about it. This is the main reason most people fail to act and they choose to stay the same in their lives. Do not let this happen to you. You are here because you know you are talented and you have the potential, you just need to have the desire to do it.

If you look back in your life now, and if you have set goals before but you fail to accomplish them, don’t you think that it is because of your lack of burning desire that actually makes you failed?

If you are a student, ask yourself why you are not scoring with flying color? If you are building your career or business, ask yourself with you are not performing?

And I believe that no matter what answer you give, it always has something to do with your desire and your commitment.

Always remember this, when there is a will, there is a way. It is just that how strong is your will?

3. Never ever give up

I have been thinking about this third success quality actually, and I end up with this, never give up. Once you have the passion in what you do and you are truly committed and desire to achieve it, there is nothing more that can stop you, except you, yourself.

Yes, the only thing that can bring you down will be you. Therefore, you must never ever give up. If you give up and quit, you will lose and left with nothing. However, if you did not give up and keep pushing forward, who knows you might find out something and eventually achieve it?

Of course, when you keep doing it, you will definitely achieve it. You just need to make sure you are moving in the right direction, and you will eventually reach your destination.

A winner will never quit and a quitter will never win. When you quit, you lose. If you keep on going forward, you still stand a chance to win. It is just like hitting a rock with a hammer. If it takes 100 hits to break the rock, and you give up the half way, you have wasted half of the effort that you have poured in. If the rock breaks at the 100th hit, do you think that it is the 100th hit that actually break the rock, or do you think the first to the 99th hits actually contribute as well?

The answer is that it is not the 100th hit that actually breaks the rock, all the previous effort that you have put in before, from the first hit to the 99th hit, actually contribute to breaking the rock as well. Hence, every single action that you take will contribute toward your success.

It is fine if you are not producing the results you want after you have taken the action. Remember, all the effort that you put in counts. You just need to make sure you put in as much as possible and you will somehow ‘hit’ something from doing all the work. I hope you understand what I am trying to explain to you here.

So these are the 3 most important qualities of success in my opinion. They may not be the most accurate ones, but I dare to stay that they are definitely the most important qualities you need if you want to produce extraordinary results in your life.