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 guaranteerepparttar 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 ofrepparttar 123189 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 isrepparttar 123190 push that drives you toward achievingrepparttar 123191 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 atrepparttar 123192 moment, let's say that you are at home, you go torepparttar 123193 kitchen to find something chocolaty to eat, unfortunately you find no chocolate bar. So, you grab your car keys and drive torepparttar 123194 nearest convenience store and you purchase a candy bar. You had a craving, you feltrepparttar 123195 DESIRE for chocolate, you can even taste chocolate, you have to eat a chocolate bar to satisfyrepparttar 123196 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 inrepparttar 123197 morning, take a shower, get dressed, have breakfast and then leave your home for work. When you setrepparttar 123198 alarm, you made a goal for yourself: to be at work ON TIME. You set into motionrepparttar 123199 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 getrepparttar 123200 day started (4) leaverepparttar 123201 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 ofrepparttar 123202 necessary steps that are needed to achieve your objective.

Little Box of Dreams

Written by Dustin Rhodes


We are so very busy these days that we don't seem to haverepparttar time to make personal and career goals for ourselves. We have dreams and aspirations, but we don't takerepparttar 123188 time to map out a plan to make them happen. We simply accept what life throws at us and settle forrepparttar 123189 mediocre. But it doesn't need to be. We CAN change our future and with little effort.

Each year (atrepparttar 123190 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 inrepparttar 123191 box, one year ago. Written on each piece of paper, are my personal desires that I wished to accomplish duringrepparttar 123192 past year.

Laughing at some (because they sound so silly today), but forrepparttar 123193 most part, I am amazed at what I discover....

The first time I did this exercise, I thoughtrepparttar 123194 idea was silly and a waste of time. But I went ahead and wrote outrepparttar 123195 items that I wanted to accomplish overrepparttar 123196 next year. It required some serious thought. The further I got into this exercise,repparttar 123197 more seriously I tookrepparttar 123198 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 onrepparttar 123199 list. Finally, I had 10 desires that remained on my pad.

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