Self Help: Success—two critical questions to ask, and answer

Success—two critical questions to ask, and answer

Written by Jerry Lopper

Success is one of those words that we all understand, or at first glance, we think we do. We hear that someone is a big success, and we nod in agreement and apparent understanding. But what is success? Webster defines success as reaching a conclusion, usually a fortunate one. OK, what is fortunate? Most of us correlate success with money. If someone has a lot of money we tend to think of them as successful. But if you’ve been around a few years you know that money doesn’t buy happiness. Money can make one’s life easier and that can eliminate many obstacles to happiness, but money itself brings little or no inherent joy. And joy is repparttar

trademark of success.

I propose that success is achieving, in this lifetime, what your soul intends. Therefore, success is very personal and completely individual. Furthermore, success does not come as a result of money, but money may come as a result of success. Success is a feeling. Success is a state of being in which we feel a sense of joy, fulfillment, and achievement.

Forget what repparttar 131163 media proclaims. Ignore what friends and family consider a success. Focus instead on what success means to you. Are you successful right now? If you feel good about repparttar 131164 person you are being, then you are successful. If you feel joy when you are being who you are, if you feel fulfillment when you are doing what you do, this is your soul shouting encouragement at being repparttar 131165 real you. This is success.

You Can't Help But Succeed

Written by Martin Avis

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You Can't Help But Succeed.

It is funny repparttar 131163 way our minds work. Our conscious mind deals with repparttar 131164 world, accepting, rejecting, sorting, storing, forming opinions and generally letting us get on with out lives. But beneath that there is a powerful force that we ignore at out peril.

Our subconscious mind can be an incredibly useful tool, or a hidden enemy. It doesn't care either way.

The subconscious runs as a background program. Its main purpose seems to be to make things happen. Anything that it perceives as a requirement to your continued wellbeing.

Unfortunately, it has no ability to make a value call beyond repparttar 131165 limited feedback it gets from your consciousness.

How does this work? Lets us assume that you are painfully shy. Something may have happened to you at repparttar 131166 age of five to make you embarrassed in public. Your subconscious has observed that event 'x' produced unwanted response 'y' so forever after alters its programming to minimize repparttar 131167 risk of you being exposed to event 'x' again.

Another example. All your life you have heard people saying that business success is 'risky', that so-and-so lost his home after a business failed, that Joe down repparttar 131168 road worked so hard building his business that his wife and kids left him. What does your subconscious do with this input? It tries to protect you from suffering repparttar 131169 same fate by making you uneasy about success, suspicious about winning.

So when you are in a position to take a step towards your own personal success, something holds you back.

In this way, repparttar 131170 subconscious always succeeds. You may perceive consciously that you have failed, but your subconscious has succeeded in its aims.

We are all filled with negative programming and are busy succeeding at any number of things that may not match our conscious desires.

Is this all bad? Not at all! When our subconscious drives match our conscious desires there can be no stopping us. When we can drive forward with no doubts, no little voices in repparttar 131171 back of our heads telling us that this project or that idea is too big, there is almost no limit to what we can achieve.

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