effective action

If you’re like the millions of people out there who are on the elusive search for success, you should know that you have skills you can capitalize on, and you can benefit from them immensely if only you hone them to perfection. I am here to tell you some of the skills you can look into to improve yourself and give yourself a better chance at succeeding in life.

Transmit the voice of success! Articulate clearly, express yourself in a confident and authoritative manner, be it to an audience of 1 or of thousands; this is crucial if you want to convince people of your success. Be more comfortable, more confident, and more attractive to be around. Teaching yourself to develop a silver tongue will bring you far in terms of achieving whatever it is you intend to delve into, whether it’s making a sale, or even pitching ideas, ideologies, opinions, etc.

If success depends of effective action, effective action depends on the ability to focus your attention where it is needed most, when it is needed most. Strong organizational skills, effective productivity habits, and a strong sense of discipline are needed to keep yourself on track. The bridge that leads from analysis to action is effective decision-making - knowing what to do based on the information available. While not being critical can be dangerous, so too can over-analyzing, or waiting for more information before making a decision. Being able to take in the scene and respond quickly and effectively is what separates the doers from the wannabes.

Just as you’ve improved your verbal communication skills, so too should you improve on your written communicative skills. Writing well offers many of the same advantages that speaking well offers: good writers are better at selling products, ideas, and themselves than poor writers. Given the huge amount of text generated by almost every transaction - from court briefs and legislation running into the thousands of pages to those foot-long receipts you get when you buy gum these days - a person who is a master of the written word can expect doors to open in just about every field.

The point is, you need to have the desire to improve yourself before you can even think of achieving success at any level. Don’t look back into the past and what it has done or not done for you but always look to the future. Try to get yourself out of the rut through positive thinking and keep reminding yourself that all this work is for an objective - an objective that will allow you to tap into your potential and be the person that you have always dreamed of.

This is by no means an admonishment for you to register for some exorbitantly priced self-improvement course. Anyone can do this and normally the effect is highly varied from those who do so because they want to and those who do them because they feel they need to or are listening to someone else. Remember that the most important factor in self-improvement is desire, because no matter how many doctors you visit, how many psychologists you seek advice from - it will all come to naught if you do not have a desire to turn your life around.

mind is a powerful thing

I mean, really, how do we know? You might think it is the vaguest question any article title can pose to the reader but it is something this article will try and tackle. The question ‘What is the state of my mind?’ and ‘Is it geared for success?’ is a very complex one to answer because we are talking about millions of people, with different minds, different backgrounds and different objectives in life.

You are right. This article can in no way answer this question effectively but it will at least cause you to think and think hard about your life. It will be a provocation to re-evaluation and hopefully stir within you a desire to investigate the things your life and whether you’ve become all you’ve set out to be, or if you’re simply settling for second best. There is a checklist, a general one though, that you can use to assess your life.

One undeniable truth is that your mind determines your reality; it is so powerful that whatever you do, whatever you have become, your mind has been the predetermining factor in all of it. The thing about people nowadays is that they go about life thinking that the time to enrich the mind ended when you left college. The time to investigate the mind and its potentials stopped once you no longer needed to lift up a book. Constantly your mind is learning and good or bad, life embeds messages in your subconscious - messages that define your behaviour, your attitudes and your emotions. Who you are as a person, as an individual, as a lover, as a worker and your future is completely determined by how you nurture your mind.

Are you where you want to be? Are there any negative thoughts that have crept into your brain, things you wanted to do and passions you wanted to pursue in your life? Have you ever imagined yourself as somebody else, or have you dreamed of things you felt you never could pursue anymore because of whatever reason or excuse that seem to ‘get in the way’ of your pursuit.

These are just some of the questions you should ask yourself. How truly do we know where we are in life and how positive are we that this is the route we chose for ourselves, by our free will and now steered into because of reasons that seem to be out of control. ‘Carpe Diem’ - is a meaning that can only be translated and not really understood by most of us. Don’t just look up the meaning of those two words; live it! Seize the day! We live in fear, and that is something we cannot deny. Fear we will lose our jobs, fear we will fail, fear of the world around us and the unknown. No one has NO fear in their life. But rise above your fear, rise above your doubts and seize the day.

Fear can be useful but the root of that fear is important. I won’t ramble on, but I will leave you with a proverb that someone left me a long time ago - if success is a road, then we have never truly arrived. If you’re wondering whether this article has answered the question posed in the beginning, wonder no more, because it hasn’t. Only you can answer it for yourself.

Are you a ‘rising star’ or a ’snoozer’? Because there are two basic personality types where motivation works in two different directions and have far reaching implications for your mental health. At the biological or physical level, everyone has developed both ‘away from’ and ‘toward’ motivation. Away from pain, discomfort and stress and toward pleasure comfort and relaxation. These are very different ways to get motivated and both are useful in different situations.

Usually one style tends to dominate and creates the personality type. So which are you?

Those who struggle to get up on a morning until they see an image of their manager shouting at them for being late and threatening them has definitely has an “away from” motivation style aka ‘The Snoozer’. This personality type takes a break is when uncomfortable. When choosing their friends they will pick people who don’t upset or bother them, and they will not make any career move until they are totally frustrated with their current situation. They move away from what they don’t want!

This ‘rising star’ personality springs out of bed first thing on a morning and gets to work on acheiving their dreams straight away. This kind of person take breaks when it is beneficial for them. When choosing friends they find people who challenge, and stimulate them. They proactively look for the career move to give them the best opportunities for personal growth. So the rising star is more goal-directed and the snoozer is more directed toward identifying and solving problems.

In terms of a healthy mind, clearly the rising star is a preferable way to be. You can give your unconscious mind a big push towards rising stardom with a subliminal motivation CD or MP3 full of music and subsonic positive messages and affirmation. These subliminal messaging cds will bypass your conscious thought processes and move you towards a much better state of mind, the changes won’t happen overnight, but they will simply align your unconscious mind with your conscious goals, and gradually make you more motivated and more likely to be that rising star.

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As you read every word of this article you will learn that you can create your own future history.

Although we have made tremendous progress in medicine there is a final frontier to conquer, and it is not space, it is the mind. The creative workings of the mind are still a mystery to medicine - being able to launch a man into space has still brought us no closer to finding out how the mind works.

I know you are wondering how your mind is creating your future.

Your thoughts are governed by whatever you see in your minds eye, and what you see is the result of all your life experiences to date.

We make decisions based upon our records of the past results we have experienced that are all locked away in our mind. When faced with a situation we draw on those experiences looking into our memory for an identical or similar situation and uncovering how we reacted to that situation and the result we had.

Unfortunately most people have a wealth of negative experiences on which they draw and it takes a conscious effort to visualise positive results for the future.

Most people who are successful meditate at least once a day, they may not surround themselves with flowers, candles and hold finger bells, but they find a quiet spot, relax and in the quietness build an image of the life they want in their minds eye. They see and feel the success they are aiming for as if it were already theirs, the impact it has on their lives and those that they love, dwelling on the positives in life this way will bring them about - for your mind is an instrument that you control and by filling it with expectations of positive outcomes which will serve to drive all your future action toward that positive outcome.

STOP! And ask yourself this key question - How can I develop my mind to set my goals and to always bring about positive results? Listen closely please; don’t rush headlong trying to find the answer when all you need do is take The First Step.

Ready? O.K. Here we go…W Clement Stone said, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe he will achieve.”

On May 25th 1961 J F Kennedy set out a major plan for the United States scientists when he declared to a joint session of congress, ‘First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.’

Up until he said that walking on the moon was the stuff of science fiction with the emphasis on ‘FICTION’.

It was in 1953 that Sir Edmund Hilary and Sherpa Tensing stood at the top of the highest mountain in the world, when all said the climb was impossible becaus eof the lack of oxygen.

In May 1964 a young medical student, Dr Roger Bannister, won world renown, not for his skills in the operating theatre, but by doing something in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds that no man had done before
What did he do, he finally ran a mile in under 4 minutes! The stuff of comics and story books before he ran on a little race track in Oxford, against his old university aided by two colleagues in Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway. Even though eminant physicians had tried to prove that the human body could not withstand the demand placed on it by attempting such a feat.

Why are these events so important when you are setting goals, the individuals had an undying belief in what they wanted to achieve in spite of the number of knowledgeable advisors that surrounded them saying what they proposed could not be done.

Extra-ordinary human beings? No! Just ordinary people doing extra-ordinary things driven by the belief that it could be done.

It’s no doubt the number one secret of World-Class Goal Achievers. When all other things are equal, it’s the reason why one person makes millions and the other one can barely make a living. It’s the power of belief.

Look at you own situation, when was the last time you set out to achieve something only to be told by your family and peer group that you would never do it. How many times have you heard the little negative voice which is inside all of us tell you that you cannot do what you wanted to set out to do?

We all have conversations with our selves, whenever we are faced with a choice. This conversation takes place between our positive and negative selves. The positive will point out all the advantages to be gained from taking a particular course of action, whereas the negative voice will look at the experiences we have had to date and point out all the times we have failed to achieve a result. The experiences may or may not directly relate to the course of action we are considering.

Napoleon Hill said that faith was the most powerful force on earth (faith is belief without proof). Christians know that the power of faith has been described as being so powerful that a tiny amount (the size of a mustard seed) could move mountains.

Belief is nothing more than what we accept as true or real. Now here’s something important to understand: what we accept as true may not be true and it may not be real. But if we accept it as true or real it influences our decisions just as if it were.

Hey, slow down a bit that is a bit heavy. What I am saying here is that we have two minds, you will have heard of this before. The conscious mind and the sub-conscious mind. The conscious mind draws on everything that happens to our five senses, touch, hearing, sight, smell, taste whereas the subconscious has none of these experiences to draw on. Yet it is the subconscious mind that is the true driving force of our existence. When was the last time you had to force yourself to breathe, blink or whatever? Your subconscious mind takes over and we do things automatically.

By the same token it is also the home of your limiting beliefs - remember those conversations?

But we will look at limiting beliefs and how to conquer them elsewhere.

When I was at school it was drilled into us that THE ONLY WAY to succeed was to work hard, pass your exams to get a good job.

This is just not strictly true. Let’s look at some evidence, ever heard of say Bill Gates, the richest person in the world. Bill Gates dropped out of college without a degree. So that belief is obviously false.

Before you say, ‘It was alright for him he developed Microsoft and was in the right place at the right time. Did he know that when he set off to develop Microsoft?

Who is to say that that dream you have inside your head right at this moment will not cause people in the future, if you follow your dream through, to say of you, ‘It’s alright for him he developed x company’.

Listen, Dr. Maxwell Maltz, the legendary author of Psycho-Cybernetics said, “Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.  This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.” As Marting Luther King Jnr said, “You do not need to see the whole staircase, take the first step in faith”.