Achieving Success in 5 Easy Steps Written by Dustin Rhodes
There are 5 essential steps or elements to achieving success in your personal and business life. Applying these 5 steps will guarantee success that you are seeking. All 5 steps work together and are essential to achieving ultimate success. Just like a recipe for your favorite cookies, you can not leave one ingredient out and expect your cookies to taste like they did before. Do not skip or substitute when you want true success.Desire is ... the first of five steps to personal success. You must first have a driving desire to achieve something. To be successful at anything is to have what Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich) calls a "burning DESIRE", wanting something so badly that you feel it throughout your whole being. Desire is push that drives you toward achieving thing that you want. It's like when you crave a sweet, creamy chocolate bar. You have a craving for something sweet. Depending on where you are at moment, let's say that you are at home, you go to kitchen to find something chocolaty to eat, unfortunately you find no chocolate bar. So, you grab your car keys and drive to nearest convenience store and you purchase a candy bar. You had a craving, you felt DESIRE for chocolate, you can even taste chocolate, you have to eat a chocolate bar to satisfy desire. To satisfy a desire you first need a goal. Goals are ... essential to achieving any amount of success, no matter if it is a large goal or a short-term goal. The GOAL gives you purpose and direction to achieve your ultimate end. Without a GOAL or a target, we wonder aimlessly, where we must accept what life throws at us. Or you can set a goal for yourself. People often say that setting goals is so "difficult". But actually we make small goals each day without realizing it. Before going to bed at night, you set your alarm clock to wake up at 6:30 AM, so that you will have plenty of time to wake up in morning, take a shower, get dressed, have breakfast and then leave your home for work. When you set alarm, you made a goal for yourself: to be at work ON TIME. You set into motion smaller goals or steps to achieve your ultimate goal. The steps (or smaller goals) were: (1) to take a shower, so that you are clean and refreshed (2) get dressed for work (3) then eat breakfast for energy to get day started (4) leave house for work, so that you arrive at work on time You probably are not aware that you unconsciously make small goals for yourself every day of your life. Longer range goals are not much more difficult. Set your goal (the final objective) and then decide all of necessary steps that are needed to achieve your objective.
| | Little Box of DreamsWritten by Dustin Rhodes
We are so very busy these days that we don't seem to have time to make personal and career goals for ourselves. We have dreams and aspirations, but we don't take time to map out a plan to make them happen. We simply accept what life throws at us and settle for mediocre. But it doesn't need to be. We CAN change our future and with little effort.Each year (at same time). I take one afternoon for myself. I go somewhere quiet, where I will not be disturbed. I take a legal note pad, a pen and my "little box". Opening my little cardboard box, I take out a number of small pieces of paper that I had folded and placed in box, one year ago. Written on each piece of paper, are my personal desires that I wished to accomplish during past year. Laughing at some (because they sound so silly today), but for most part, I am amazed at what I discover.... The first time I did this exercise, I thought idea was silly and a waste of time. But I went ahead and wrote out items that I wanted to accomplish over next year. It required some serious thought. The further I got into this exercise, more seriously I took exercise. Each desire is written as if it were already accomplished. I had written about twenty desires on my legal pad. I then looked over my desires and scratched off any that I considered too far fetched and any that may conflict with others on list. Finally, I had 10 desires that remained on my pad.
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