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Each one of us has our own perception of success.  We may see a Doctor as a successful one but maybe to that doctor he isn’t.  Success may mean getting rich to some while achievement without much wealth may mean success to others.  So how does this perception of success help us?
Knowing what you want in life gives you a sense of direction.  Envisioning yourself a successful person will give you focus.  It is important that you have a picture of success on your mind or someone else will give you a picture of success based on his own perception.  Then you will just later on realize that it is not what you really want.  Some people are influenced by their parents or the people around them with the way they see success.  If your parents, for example, are both Doctors and has proven themselves in their field, you will look up to them and make them as your inspiration and model.  Its helpful in a way because you get motivated by them.  But there are some who wants a different field but are pressured by the success that their parents or siblings has achieved so they force themselves to compete with them.

One should be brave enough to take the road to their success and not with the others.  If you get successful with your own dreams, the reward is fulfillment and real success.  You are more likely to get successful if you follow your own dreams and success.  Just remember that we all have our own meaning of success, so believe in yours.

Procrastination is such a difficult thing to avoid especially if we don’t like the task that we have to complete.  So we procrastinate and cram up when the deadline for the task is coming.  This is also true for simple tasks such as household chores.  We sweep the floor the following day instead of finishing it today.  What happens is, the floor gets dirtier and more uninviting to do the task.  The task also gets heavier.

Things have been written or advised here on how to avoid procrastination or how to overcome it.  I’ll add up another one which is to make your procrastinating hours useful for you.  When you procrastinate for a task, do something worthwhile.  We have that attitude of doing nothing when we procrastinate for a difficult task.  Instead of staying idle for hours, why not do lighter tasks to lighten your schedule.  By end of the day, you only have one task left for you to do.

Doing so will also keep you active physically or mentally.  That will help you get motivated and energized to do the task you’ve been avoiding to do.  Because sometimes laziness just gets in the way of starting your task and you just need a nudge to start doing it.  So doing a lighter task might get you energized or motivated to do a heavier one.

There are a lot of people who have a problem in waking up early.  Well, it feels good to sleep.  There are also people who are blessed enough to wake up early in the morning, some don’t even need an alarm clock.

The hardest part could be rising from your bed.  The clock has alarmed but yet, its hard to rise from bed.  Then there is the snooze as well.  Even if you have snoozed the alarm clock several times, you’re still in bed staying idly.  Maybe you need to place the clock far from your bed so that you won’t be able to put it off or snooze it easily.  But what do we benefit if we wake up so early?  A lot!

Waking up early can give you more time to do things you need to do and finish some tasks.  The early you wake up, the sooner you get things done for the day which means you will have more extra time for yourself.  Rising up few minutes after you’ve awaken will help you avoid procrastination.  You get more motivated if you wake up early.  The longer you stay in your bed awake will lose you some energy that may lead to procrastination.

All it takes is to make it a habit of yours to rise up early.  Once it has become a habit, it will be easier for you to do it.  Practice to do it everyday and you will eventually be an early riser.

Each person has his own taste or preference over things. Some persons may enjoy charitable works while others may not. But what if you are faced with something that you are not interested in and something that you think you’ll never enjoy? You may feel like a prisoner wanting to get freed of such task. Here are some pointers to help you:

• Think of the positive things about your task. For sure, you think of it in the negative aspect. Every fault that you can find about it are all in your mind already. Think of the benefits of the task and you will somehow realize that it isn’t bad after all.

• Be with people who enjoy the task. Surround yourself with people who are enthusiastic with the job. Do not spoil their enthusiasm by complaining and saying negative things about them or the job. Instead, get influenced by them.

• Enjoy being with others in the job. You may not necessarily do the job with them or talk about the job all the time. But you may enjoy their company. As you enjoy being with them, you may eventually enjoy doing the job as well.

Enjoying your job or even just the simplest task you have at home will help you get motivated and succeed with it. Instead of procrastinating over it, find ways on how to enjoy your job or task so that you will finish it on time.

I’ve been to Thrilling Heroics site and I found out the way you think about things has an impact on how you will get to succeed in life.  It listed the seventeen ways successful and wealthy people relate to money that unwealthy people don’t from T. Harv Eker’s book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth.  Here’s the list:

1. Rich people believe: “I create my life.” Poor people believe: “Life happens to me.”
2. Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.
3. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.
4. Rich people think big. Poor people think small.
5. Rich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus on obstacles.
6. Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.
7. Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.
8. Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.
9. Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.
10. Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.
11. Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
12. Rich people think “both.” Poor people think “either/or.”
13. Rich people focus on their net worth. Poor people focus on their working income.
14. Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.
15. Rich people have their money work hard for them. Poor people work hard for their money.
16. Rich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.
17. Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.

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If you come to think of it, all of it are true.  Unwealthy people think that because they are not rich, they don’t have the right to think big.  They separate themselves from rich people.  They may not afford some of the rich people’s activities, but surely they can think the way rich people think.  They don’t have to act rich, they just have to think rich.
Rich people have worked their way to success.  Some may have been born rich, but they were able to maintain their wealth because they work for it also.  The list above is a guide for us on how we should set our mind to success.

I attended a commencement exercises for grade school yesterday.  The guest speaker has taken the pupils, and the audience as well, to a storyland and I took note of the interesting points that she said.

• Abraham Lincoln failed seven times.  Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States of America has failed to be elected in Congress and Senate several times.  He also even ran for vice-president and failed. But on his first attempt to ran for presidency, he succeeded.  His story was a very inspiring one.  Lincoln has been regarded as one of the greatest presidents in the United States and behind his success were failures.  He may have failed several times, but he stood up and made his way to success. His success was not only by becoming a president, but becoming a great person.
• Diligent can beat the intelligent.  If you are diligent, you are eager to get to the top.  Whereas if  you are intelligent but lack the confidence and courage, you are more likely to be defeated by the intelligent ones.
• Achievement is not measured by how many awards a person has but by how many times he stood up every time he falls.  W e are honed by our experiences to be a better person and thats the real achievement we have.

Perseverance is a very important characteristic one must possess to succeed in his goals or dreams in life. Here’s an inspiring story about Froy Candelario, an agent based in Southern California that I got from eBestAgent:

He sells way too many homes. Anywhere from 300 to 400 homes per year for the last 10 years. He doesn’t even list his listing on MLS. He sells 80% of his home by himself which means he represented both buyer and seller sides to keep all his commission. He works with only 4 staff members. He is one of the super agent in the whole country. He gets his listing with only cold calling and door knocking. Quite amazing stats. He’s net worth is estimated at upward of $100 million.

Froy’s true story is not in his real estate stats. Originally Froy is from Mexico. He and a friend decided to come to the United States, the land of opportunity to escape poverty from Mexico. They cross the border by hanging on to the underside of a train. They rode for hours, clinging to the train for their lives. They had no idea where they were and they could not let go for fear of being run over by the train. The miles clicked by and they were getting extremely tired. Finally, Froy’s friend could not hang on any longer. He let go and was crushed. Froy was devastated by the loss of his friend, but vowed to hang on. Less than five minutes later the train stopped. Froy had reached his destination. He had made it to the United States.

The lesson that Froy learned from his immigration experience is that one componen of success is being able to hang on a little bit longer than the next guy.

source: eBestAgent

I think Froy was highly motivated to succeed.  They have gone that far and it was not the time to give up.  There was no giving up, actually.  They have gone through a lot of sacrifice and it will be put to waste if they gave up.

With one’s high motivation to succeed, he can be able to hang on a little longer and persevere to go through the hardships that faces him in his struggle to achieve his goals.  It was just a matter of hanging on for a few more minutes in Froy’s case.  That few more minutes has changed Froy’s life and made him succeed.

Goal setting.  I have written about it here several times already.  Its importance, the process, and the likes.  This time, its about how it affects us.

Having dreams makes us feel inspired, that’s why we have that dreamy look sometimes in our face, right?  To dream is absolutely free.  The thing you want to have in life or something you want to happen, comes true in your dreams.  Realizing our dreams and making it into a goal makes us more hopeful although sometimes we lose hope.

When we set our goals, we have something to look forward to in life.  You wake up in the morning and start the day doing something for that goal.  The things we have set on how to achieve that goal gives more color and purpose to our life.  Life could be pretty boring without having something to look forward to - doing routine  tasks everyday.
If you haven’t started setting your goals yet, start now and do it the SMART way!

Having the internal courage, they say, will help you to become successful in life.  How?  Internal courage the ability to face yourself.  Do you hear that voice in your mind that tells you what to do?  Then, have you been into that situation that you don’t want to follow what it tells you to do?  You have to have internal courage to say “No” to that voice in your mind.  There are times when this voice tells us not to do certain things because of this and that might happen, or that it tells you you should not do it because you might fail.  Internal courage will make you face that voice and say “I will succeed”.

When we are on a dilemma, doubts, pessimistic idea towards a decision in life, that is the time we needed more of our internal courage.  The courage to tell ourself that we can do it, that we will succeed, and that it is worth trying.  Positive energy is what we need to be successful, so why should we listen to those negative things that the tiny voice in our mind tells us?  Or even with the negative things that other people tells us.  When we make decisions, we weigh the pros and cons.  But we should not get discouraged by the cons.  What we need to put in mind is that in every decisions we make, there are always pros and cons and that these things we decide on, comes only once that’s why its hard for us to decide.  But come to think of it, it only comes once, so why not do it?

Often, we get influenced by other people easily.  We go with the flow, do what the society dictates or believe on what was already set on our minds.  It would be of great advantage if we are influenced positively.  But there are instances that we are influenced with the negative one.  Here’s an inspiring quote from Oprah:

“Surround yourself only with people who will lift you higher”

- Oprah Winfrey

If you are surrounded by people with negative outlook in life, you’ll be more likely to be influenced by them.  Surround yourself with positive people.  Those who believe in you, believe in themselves, motivated people, those who sees your strength instead of your weaknesses, and especially those with the positive aura.  If you are surrounded with these people, you will become more positive that will lead you to success.