It is no doubt that, most of us
blame the economy, the weather, the lack of money, lack of education, racism,
Gender bias, the current administration of governance in our home country, wife
or husband, your boss’s attitude, lack of support, the political climate etc.
no doubt all these factors do exist but if they were the deciding factor nobody
would ever succeed in life. In other not to get the same outcome like what you
have last year , why don’t you apply these two simple strategic principles to
double your pathway to success in this year and
years to come
Where
to start………………
1. Stop blaming the event(s) for your lack of
result(s)
For ill-circumstances you are
facing, knowing fully that there are hundreds of people who have faced the same
circumstances and yet succeeded. if success in life is not a function of overcoming a limiting factors people like Bill
Gate would never have founded Microsoft , Steve Jobs would never
have started Apple computers, Sidney Poitier and Denzel Washington would
have never become movie stars, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer would
never become U.S senators and so many others to mention
Most
successful people in the world are successful because they overcome these so
called limiting factors, so it can’t be the limiting factors that limit you. It
is not the external conditions and circumstances that stop you- it is you! I.e.
we stop ourselves. We think limiting thought and engage self –defeating
behavior. We tends to defend ourselves destructive habits such as drinking and
smoking with indefensible logic
We often ignore useful feedback,
fail to continuously educate ourselves and learn new skills, waste time on the
trivial aspects of our lives, engage in idle gossip, eat unhealthy food, fail
to exercise, spend more money than we make, fail to invest in our future, avoid
necessary conflict, fail to tell the truth, don’t ask for what we want and then
wonder why our dear lives don’t work
Hence, if you are guilty of some
of all these ill success traits in previous years, I think you need a
reorientation to put your life on track of success in this New Year. If you
place the blame for everything that isn’t the way, you want it on outside
events and circumstances this year like previous years, you will get the same
result and outcome. So change your ill-success traits this year. Do not have
excuse for everything!
2. Change your responses to event(s) to get
outcome(s) you desire
Early this year personally, I
observed some drastic change of responses as regard my own career. I got an
inspiration this year and I shared with my friends. The inspiration is
principled on something that, “if you don’t take
care of your circumstances, your circumstances will take care of you”.
If things must change this year,
you must change yourself in all aspect of life; change your thinking, change
your communication, change the pictures you hold in your head (your images of
yourself and the world) and as well you can change your behavior.
Unfortunately, most of us are so run by our habits that we never change our
behavior and attitude to life and work. We get stuck in our conditioned
responses as regard our spouses and children, our colleagues at work, to our
customers and our clients, to our students etc
Oftentimes, we are a bundle of
conditioned reflexes that operate outside of our control. If you must change
things in this new era then you must be ready to change yourself. You have to
regain control of your life thoughts, your images, your dreams and daydreams
and your behaviour. Everything you think, say or do henceforth need to become
intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values and goals
In summary, the bottom line is
that, you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you
currently live is the result of all of your past thought and actions. You are
in charge of your current thought and your present feelings. You are in charge
of what you say and what you do. You are also in charge of what goes into your
mind and exit from it. The books and magazine you read, the movies and
televisions shows you watch, and the people you hang out with. Every action
In fact is under your control. To be more successful in 2014, all you have to do
is to act in ways that produce more of what you want.
Good luck for the rest of the year!
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