Out 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.
