Now that you have established a plan for what you want, this step is about turning your attention from you to benefiting others: your employer, community; colleagues, friends and family. “I need to take care of myself 1st” does not work as well as this technique – by a long shot. Instead of focusing on creating results for yourself, forget your salary, your bonus, being acknowledged etc. Just get job done without expecting anything in return. Expect nothing! It can be such a freeing concept.

It is about helping and solving problems for benefit of others - not yours. Surprised? Well, give it some serious consideration and more… do it until you begin to experience amazing coincidences, unplanned opportunities and accelerated results.

If you are in transition in your life and wondering whether you should create your own business or not: start by looking for kind of people that need services of someone with your skills. Look for a problem to solve, behind that you will find grateful clients and customers.

If you are looking for a job, do same: look for problems that need be solved in a hurry! Behind that is a future employer. Now, start nailing those problems with passion and you will become indispensable.

Here are some examples of giving:

• Don’t give money, regularly make your knowledge available by teaching or mentoring
• Give useful and respectful feedback to people around you
• Work a lot harder than you are expected to. Do what is asked of you and do more
• Help colleagues around you when you have opportunity

For each of these examples, expect nothing in return.

Step #7: Keep paddling! Life is about contributing and joyful work

A lot of us dream about financial security, admiration by others, never having a boss again or traveling around world.

Please explore question: “When you have made it financially and you have done it all, what will you do during rest of your life?” What does fulfillment look like to you and what would you be doing? Can you start doing a bit of that now?

Who ever said that success is about sitting by pool all day, sipping juice for rest of your life? That would look like reaching ultimate level of uselessness. Wouldn’t it? We also might not be designed physiologically to be unproductive all day. “What would happen to wild lion if it could eat meat 3 times a day without hunting?” I would answer: “It would probably need a lion psycho-therapist to survive and get out of depression!”

I want to suggest that by working hard at what you have decided to do and by contributing to others’ success, joy and self-satisfaction may be so high that counting work hours will become irrelevant. Your focus may become to stay physically healthy so you can do even more. Go out there, take these 2 extra steps and make world a better place!

© Herve da Costa, Certified Master Entrepreneur & Get-it-Done Coach.

www.MyPrivateCoach.com

So how do we do this?

Take a pen and paper and firstly write down every worry you have at present time.

Secondly write down everything you should have done but have not got around to.

Thirdly write down all that you owe and to whom. It doses not matter if same thing appears in more then one list.

Now look at lists.

Firstly you have to see if anything appears in more then one list. If it does, this is most possibly one of your main concerns, this is right at top of your everyday re-occurring thoughts. This is most likely thing or things you think about most. Everything else will be of less importance to you because of your “main concern”.

Now chances are your “main concern” is thing that is stopping you from moving forward. You are bogged down by this “main concern”. Now you make another list, give it a heading “CONCERNS”. Start at number one and list everything you have on your lists in order of concern. Number one will of course be your “main concern”.

You now need to make another list, give this a heading of “I WANT”. Write down everything you want. This does not have to be only material things. Because of way our minds work first item on your list will be thing you want most and will progressively become less important further down list you go.

OK. What you have just done is to take all your thoughts of both “concerns” and “wants” and have written them down. You have taken all rubbish in your mind, sorted through it and placed it into containers. In front of you, you have a list in order of priority and importance, your “concerns” as well as your “wants".

You are looking at everything that at this present time is worrying you. You have also given thought to what you really want out of life.

Do not destroy these lists. They are going to form your course of action. When you get rid of a concern, cross it off list. When you get a want, cross it off a list. Some of items you have on either list could take a long time to cross off. But believe me, one day you will cross them off. If your mind is uncluttered with everyday rubbish you can work towards your goal of “wants” and remove your “concerns”. It’s up to you how quickly you achieve this. You have to believe in what you are doing, you have to organise your mind. An organised mind knows what it wants and how to achieve it.