“In any and every given moment of your life, you are either in command of yourself… or you are being commanded.” -Guy Finley, Author

It pays to learn, especially from your mistakes. The successful entrepreneur learns how to deal with mistakes every day. They look forward to challenge. It‘s important to remember that they don’t have to know it all. There’s always someone they can go to for assistance, support, or technical information.

To experience success means you have set goals and take necessary actions to make your goals happen. This process of learning continues until you’ve mastered it. After every failure, you can compliment yourself for trying, then tell yourself to try again.

Setting goals to reach success is like climbing a mountain. It takes a very long time to reach top. Along way may be several obstacles, but you must keep going. Further on you may stumble and need to rest. To reach next level, there may be times when you have to take a different path or go around obstacle. The last step to top is crucial one and requires all your concentration. Don’t let difficult climb persuade you to quit or from setting higher goals. If you enjoy climb, you will eventually reach top!

There is power and energy in accomplishment. Develop goals that you are passionate about, then work to make them real. If you miss reaching one goal, learn what you did wrong, and try again. You have every right to be successful. Failure means giving up. If your goal is strong enough and you are committed and passionate enough about what you wish to accomplish, it will happen. Wouldn’t one idea be worth it, if it helped thousands of others to live better, be healthier, save more money, save time, help environment, create new businesses, and employ others? Successful entrepreneurs have a certain mental and positive attitude. They believe in themselves and are convinced that they can live richer, fuller lives. They fulfill they own personal desires for happiness. They are familiar with hard work and responsibility.

Take any business or service that is already established and successful and think other products or services that may help others in different and new ways. Expand your consciousness; think success. Develop your need to be creative. Think outside of your normal way of doing, acting, and being. You may surprise yourself into discovering next invention, next form of entertainment, or next wave of technology. Get rid of self-defeating habits and attitudes. Success comes to those who look for it.

Here are some goals you may set for reaching success in your life:

1. What are you passionate about?

Well, you're definitely not alone in that.

Recently, I came to realize that there are people who make up their minds to do something and take "Action" right away, only to become defeated and never look back and stick with their idea.

You see, problem is not necessarily with idea but rather in their need for immediate gratification and taking "Action" right away. Immediate gratification has become so inherent in our society that even "Action" has become a problem just like fast food and diet pills.

Sure, there are entire billion dollar industries built on fulfilling need for immediate gratification but, sometimes cost is too high and often it is more than just money.

I've personally seen men with reputable and thriving businesses make such immediate gratification "Action" decisions and lose trust and money of customers that they worked years to acquire.

Our personal lives and businesses are not only things that are affected by such decisions.

In end there is only one course of "Action" that should be taken and it is often not even considered. It is "EFFECTIVE ACTION" that makes all of difference in our lives and businesses.

Effective Action can only be taken and applied when we use SMART Goal Setting Principle with a twist. SMART = Specific + Measurable + Achievable + Realistic + Timely Specific: A goal needs to be exact and clearly stated. Vague and general terms are not goals. Your brain needs to focus on a specific target.