Category: Success Attitude

Here is a strategy you can use to ensure you will achieve your goals. The secret is to put yourself on the line! In other words, putyourself in a situation where you have absolutely no choice but to achieve it.

When our brain is given a choice to do something or to put it off, we will always gravitate towards the easier path. But when we have no choice but to do something, we will always find a way!

Many successful individuals created the results they did because they simply had no choice. They put everything they had on the line.

At age 44, Leo Burnett started one of today’s largest advertising companies in the world. He started his business in the middle of the 1935 depression.

He borrowed against his life insurance policy, mortgaged his home and threw in every last dollar he had. Talk about putting yourself on the line.

He knew that he had no choice but to make it work. This ‘must’ drove him to build his tiny advertising agency into a worldwide business, grossing hundreds of millions in sales each year.

When Richard Branson (in pre Virgin Airlines days) was caught selling records meant for export in London, he was arrested and charged with fraud.

He was given a few months to pay a fine or risk being thrown in jail. Being almost broke, he knew that the only way he could make enough money to stay out of jail was to rapidly expand his business; which he did by opening more record stores.

It turned out that the need to keep himself out of jail was the urgent motivating force he needed to build the Virgin business at lightning speed!

It was this commitment that led him to go on to build the Virgin empire, which includes an airline company, and become one of Britain’s wealthiest businessmen.

Start Putting Yourself On the Line Right Now!

One way is to make a public declaration of your goals. Better still, get other people involved in the process of attaining your goals. Or make a small financial commitment so that it will hurt not to do it, and your brain will start taking you seriously.

When I tell people to do this, many chicken out and just do not dare make this level of commitment. It is clear that if you dare not commit yourself to it, then you were never serious about your success in the first place.

So, if you are really committed to achieve something significant, put yourself on the line!

Business Advice Pro: Do you remember the last time when you really needed to do something, but you just couldn’t because you were constantly thinking of something else? Remember? I do. There are ways to fix that. And no, I’m not going to talk about the waves in the air or about some other mambo-jambo. And I’m not even going to use the word autosuggestion (The term autosuggestion is used for positive or negative physical symptoms explained by the thoughts and beliefs of a person.), even though it is part of the game. I’ll try to do it in a bit more humane & practical manner.
Theory: In order to do something, you need to get rid of all the unnecessary thoughts. Why? That’s because otherwise you can’t really commit to that one other thing.
Example: Imagine you *need* to write ten blog posts today, but have hard time doing it because the only thing you are thinking of is the money transfer that you should be getting any day now. You think of the money, you think of what you are going to do with it, etc. Now try to stick to writing your blog posts, it’s not an easy task. I know some of you won’t understand what I’m talking about here, yet some of you will understand it too well.
Problem: If you were asked NOT to think about an elephant, what are you going to think about? About the elephant of course! That’s the problem here –trying not to think about something usually results in more thinking about the not-to-think-about thing.
Solution: Yes, you could consider autosuggestion or self-hypnosis here, to make something with your subconscious mind. Well, yes, you could. But why do people ALWAYS want to complicate things? Instead of think about the wrong thing, make a decision, a reasoned decision why you should not think about it anymore. And start thinking of reasons why you should be working or why you want to work with the thing you actually need to get done. It is easy.
• DO NOT think that you should not be thinking about the thing you are thinking about
• DO think about WHY you shouldn’t be thinking about it
• DO think about WHAT you actually need to concentrate on and WHY
• And soon you’ll see the right thing is the only thing your are thinking about
Learn to take control of your mind [Business Advice Pro]

Why are some people able to achieve so much more out of their lives than others? Why are some people able to produce outstanding, extraordinary results, exceeding what is commonly expected?

Is it because they have a lot more talent or capability? Do they have superior resources that other people lack?

Did the Wright brothers, inventors of the airplane, possess more aerodynamic and engineering expertise than the sum of all the engineers and inventors of their time?

Did Mahatma Gandhi come from a powerful family that enabled him to establish a power base to liberate India from the British?
Was Ho Chi Min a mighty general who trained the Viet Cong to first drive out the French and then the Americans?

These men did not possess any measurable resources to achieve their accomplishments…and history is peppered with many examples of such outstanding individuals.

What set these men apart were the incredible beliefs they had about the moral rightness of their cause. That gave them extraordinary strength to fight on against all odds, winning eventually.

Beliefs are like Operating Systems

Our beliefs can be described as the operating system to our brain. They determine our expectations, producing the proportionate results.

If you believe that you can become a Millionaire, CEO or President, this is what you will expect from yourself.

If you believe you do not have the capability to earn more than $40,000 a year, this is also what you will expect from yourself. If you believe that you can lead others, you will expect to attain nothing less than a management position.

If you believe that you are nothing more than a follower, you will not expect anything more than being just a front line employee.

If you have an empowering belief that you can build a highly successful business, this belief will drive you to take massive action.

You will develop a business plan, attract investors and launch your marketing campaign.

You will start innovating new product lines, probably investing in Research and Development to create entirely new products or processes

Sure you will have lots of obstacles along the way, but your beliefs will drive you to turn any failure into feedback changing your strategy until you get the result you want.

Even if you don’t achieve the exact targets you set for yourself, you are going to produce some great results.

Beliefs are the driving force behind the actions we take, determining how much personal potential we are able to tap within.

When we believe that something is possible, we will go all out to make it happen. We will take massive action and commit ourselves to keep doing whatever it takes to achieve it.

Strong empowering beliefs lead seemingly ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results, while limiting beliefs cripple the most talented despite them having all the resources, from achieving what they could have achieved.

Well, what do we model about a person specifically? Remember that one of the key things that drive a person’s behaviour is the states that they experience.

People are successful primarily because they are in resourceful states. People perform the way they do because of the states they experience.

For example, if you wanted to model a powerful public speaker, it would be best to model that person’s state. So you too will feel the same level of confidence and power and are able to express yourself in an equally dynamic way.

If you wanted to model a very effective salesperson you know, you have to model that person’s state of confidence and charisma – both those winning states that enable him to wow and persuade his clients.

The way to do this is to model their physiology!

In other words, if you model the physiology of a person who is excellent in something, you would immediately tap into that person’s powerful state. Not only that, but done effectively, you could even tap into that person’s internal re-presentation!
So how do you do this?

Well, first identify a person who is excellent in a particular skill or behaviour that you want to exhibit.

For example, this person could be a dynamic public speaker, salesperson, decision maker or communicator.

Next, observe keenly, how this person speaks (their tone of voice), how this person moves, their facial expression, the way this person breathes, the focus of their eyes and their gestures.

What you then do is to imagine that you step into the body of this person. Yes! You imagine that you become this person! So the next time you have to go on stage to deliver a speech, you model that person’s physiology exactly!

You speak the way they speak, move the way they move, adopt the same body postures and gestures. If you do this you would access the same powerful states that person experiences as well as produce the same behavioural results!

In fact, we used to do this when we were kids. We called this play-acting. And this is how children learn to form their personal behaviours, by observing and unconsciously modelling the adults around them.

When you were a kid, didn’t you pretend to be an action star or a movie star? Did you ever imagine yourself to be Superman, WonderWoman Rambo or James Bond?

You imagined that you were one or more of them and started acting like them, using their ‘props’ (imaginary weapons), even going so far as to dress like them?

What we don’t realize is that we were modelling patterns of excellence (or otherwise!) in people whom we admired.

Unfortunately, we were told that it was childish and that we were being silly. Hence one of the most natural powerful skills of our early learning never continued to be developed and utilized in adult life.

A fundamental principle is that we all have the same neurology. Therefore, if it is possible for others, it is possible for you! It is only a question of strategy. In other words, by modelling someone’s strategy, you can replicate the results they produce.