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Success Is A Mindset
What separates those who achieve success from those who don’t? They have a successful mindset.
Highly successful people know that success is not something you obtain overnight without much effort. Success is not a coincidence but the result of hard work, continuous effort, enormous sacrifice, persistence and unwavering self-belief in one’s ability to achieve their goals.
So if want to become a highly successful person but you struggle with “lack mentality” here are 7 effective ways to upgrade your mindset for success.
If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.
Create A Clear Vision Of The Future
The secret of success lies in the clarity of vision and well-defined goals. Highly successful people know it very well so even if they fail along the way to success they are able to rebound quickly. Those who, on the contrary, struggle to function after they fail, most likely lack clarity of purpose. This is because, when you know when you’re headed and you have predefined goals, no temporary failure can defeat or stop you from realizing your dreams. So if you’re struggling to reach your goals you should rethink your vision and make sure you know exactly what you want otherwise you will not be able to achieve it.
Having a clear destination in sigh will not only help you to choose the right path but it will also help you to keep your internal motivation high even on those days when you’re not “feeling it.” So before taking action make sure you have a clear vision of your destination. And then once you have it you can align your goals with your purpose and start creating the successful life you want.
All you need to succeed, you already have you just need to realize this. So set your “life compass” for success and get what you want out of life.
create a vision board that actually works
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Once you have a clear mental picture of who you want to be in the future, it’s time to set clear goals that will help you to turn your vision into reality. In other words, you need to identify milestones that mark your journey towards success. These milestones are nothing but the long- term effects of short-term achievements.
This process of setting clear goals will not only help you to refocus on what’s truly important but it will also help you to regain full control over your life. Not to mention that knowing what you want to achieve in life will drastically increase your willpower and determination so much needed by everyone who wants to achieve success in life.
Setting clear, or more precisely SMART goals means embracing the creator role, taking full responsibility for your own life and being mentally prepared to challenge yourself in order to achieve desired results. So, if you’re ready to embrace the creator role, it’s time you set SMART goals for the successful life you want.
What Are SMART Goals
SMART GOALS ARE:
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Time-bound
Why you need to set SMART goals to achieve success in life
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Success is not a coincidence but the fruit of hard work and unwavering self-belief in your ability to achieve your goals. Hard work alone is not sufficient if you want to achieve amazing results. For that to happen, you need to believe in yourself more than anyone else. In other words, you need to be your biggest cheerleader, not your own worst critic. So if you are constantly indulging in negative self-talk and obsessing over the worst-case scenario it’s time to cleanse this toxic mindset.
Magic happens when you start believing in yourself and your ability to succeed. So stop thinking in negative terms because you will be only getting negative results. Instead, use the power of positive thinking and transform your life. Train your brain to go positive, turn your negative self-talk into an empowering speech and you will achieve anything you want.
Remove Negative Mental Blocks That Holding You Back
What prevent you from taking action towards your goals? Debilitating fear of failure? Demotivating self-limiting beliefs? Or maybe the fear of success is holding you back more than any possible worst-case scenario you could invent? What if I told you those self-limiting beliefs are the creation of your anxious mind trying to protect itself from the unknown? Actually, that’s exactly what they are. This means that you can challenge those negative beliefs and replace them with empowering self-talk.
You create your reality with the power of your thoughts. What you think manifests in your real life. And this is how this process of “reality creation” works:
- The way you think is based on how you perceive the world.
- Your emotional state is the fruit of your thinking and the action you talk
- You act in terms of how you feel and what you’re thinking in a particular moment
So as you can see your reality is of your own creation. You create your happiness and sorrow. You create your success and your failure. You create abundance and lack. And finally, you create your opportunities. Yes, opportunities don’t happen, you create them.
You design your future with every decision you make even if you don’t realize this. Of course, some of these decisions are more important than others but all of them, to some degree, affect your life. Some of the choices may not be noticeable but others can have a lasting effect on your life. But what you may not realize, the same rule applies to the choices you refuse to take.
Nothing will change in your life if you don’t do something different. There is no growth in the comfort zone. Life begins when you venture deep outside your “safe place”. Furthermore, the magic of creativity happens when you make yourself uncomfortable. So stop running away from the discomfort.
Try things that make you feel uncomfortable. Put yourself in challenging (but healthy) situations, breathe through discomfort, balance it out and feel this incredibly powerful adrenaline rush. Overcome this irrational fear of failure and start before you’re ready. Stop analyzing everything you want to achieve to the nth degree because the chances you will succeed decrease with every minute you waste on obsessive thinking on what can go wrong.
Remember that your time and energy are limited. But the power of taking action on your goals is NOT! Furthermore, your potential is limitless. So stop limiting yourself to thinking about what you can and cannot do.
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal."
“Anything Mentionable Is Manageable.”
Most people think that they need to have everything figured out to the last detail to be able to take action. So they focus all of their energy on planning, preparing and visualizing every possible scenario of their project instead of taking action. What they don’t realize is that some things in life are hard or even impossible to predict no matter how much time and energy is being put in the planning process.
Getting ready and have everything planned out to the nth degree is comfortable but not realistic. First of all, you never know what would be an outcome of your actions because there are many different outside factors you cannot control such as a political-economic system or a global pandemic we’re experiencing right now. Second, you never know what unexpected opportunities are waiting for you around the bend. (they present themselves only if you keep going). And finally, it is always possible to change direction in your life so what wouldn’t you want to exploit this opportunity?
Everything in life is manageable. You can always figure out the things as you go but only if you have a flexible mindset. The worst you can do is to sit back and wait for things to happen. Not only it will make you a passive observer of your own life but above all, it will destroy your chances for a victory. That’s why if you want to achieve something you need to become an active participant of your own life and take action towards your goals. There is no magical way your dreams come true. You must challenge yourself in order to lead a fulfilling life.
The habit of acting every day on one or more of your major goals is life-transforming.
Take Action To Achieve Your Goals
Even the most brilliant idea is worthless unless you act on it. No matter how much you want it, there is no way your thoughts, ideas, or goals will magically appear without you moving in the right direction. Only doing what you believe in and pursuing your dreams will result in success. So stop obsessing about your goals and worrying about problems before they happen. Instead, think of something you want to achieve, write it down and plan the steps you must take to make it happen. Then start taking action on your goals and act as if it were impossible to fail.
For instance, if you want to buy a house but you don’t have a job, instead of beating yourself up for not having a job start going on job interviews. Then once you find a job, start saving money, get a financial advisor, determine how much house you can afford and go on house-hunting.
The key to success is positive thinking and action. So turn your self-talk into an empowering speech, create an action plan and start working towards your goals. Be patient and consistent. Every single day you should do something, small or big that will get you one step closer to your goal. Start where you can start but start now. Don’t just wait for the future, build it.
7. Keep Your Motivation Going
Most people think that they need to find motivation and gain inspiration before they even start working on their goals. That’s a huge mistake. Because motivation is not something you find or something that magically happens to you while you just sit and do nothing.
Motivation is something you create through your actions. Furthermore, the more you do the more self-motivated you become. It happens because the moment you notice your accomplishments your appetite for success grow and you become unstoppable but only if you keep working towards your goals. Because you need to know that motivation is not constant. Motivation is a feeling and like any other feeling, it is a natural response to a situation. In other words, it has to be triggered by a specific action or event. So if you want to become insanely self-motivated and highly productive you need to take intentional action. You need to put yourself in motion and start creating real results.
There is no magical way your dream will come true only because you think intensively about it. You need to act before you get a dopamine spike that is one of the most powerful motivational triggers. You need to start before you’re ready and announce your project before it’s done!
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Stay positive
Be Mindful
and
Develop a Success-Oriented Mindset
xo Kate
