With the right frame of mind and determination, there are decisions you can make today to make success inevitable and change your life forever.
Here are a few strategies that you can put into action right now to improve your success — the first is a strategic, actionable method, the second method describes how to keep your goals on track, and the third is the Super Ninja Method to quickly reaching your goals.
These strategies are not limited to creating wealth either. You can use these methods to improve your relationships, increase self-confidence, or push yourself to lose more weight.
First the strategic method…
The first step is to identify your goal. What is it that you want to accomplish? Make sure these are measurable goals that you can achieve. Go ahead and write it down — even if you think it is a far fetch goal, give it a shot.
Now, paraphrasing Timothy Ferriss, if you you absolutely had to achieve this goal, you would find a way to reach it. If a gun was to your head and the trigger would be pulled unless you achieved this goal, your creativity, resourcefulness and motivation would reach new levels.
Think about your goal and what the outcome will be like. What circumstances need to be in place in order to help you reach your goal? What has to change, what do you need, what resources do other people have that you could tap into to help you reach your goal? Write them down.
Now that you know the circumstances that need to be in place in order to make your goal a reality, start thinking backwards from the end result to where you are today. Try to “reverse engineer” the achieved outcome in your mind and think about what steps will you need to take?
Now take action and and move the gears in motion. If your goal is properly set, it will require you to step outside your comfort zone, make yourself growth and think in new directions, and will require a level of determination that you may have not realized you had.
Creating the right mindset…
To keep yourself engaged and on task, it will take as much mental energy as it does physical. Reaching your goal will take planning and preparation, some sacrifices, and at times will be exhausting. There may be days you lost track of benefits and decide to give up your pursuit.
The only thing worse than not achieving your goal is looking back 10 years from now and thinking to yourself “I can’t believe I quit then. If I just stayed the track I could have accomplished this a long time ago.”
Now there are a couple ways you can keep yourself motivated:
Keep a picture or some reminder with you at all times that triggers an emotional response
Create additional goals that go beyond your primary goal, which cannot be accomplished without first reaching this primary goal
Generally speaking, we will do more to avoid pain than to gain pleasure. Set up a system to reward yourself when you accomplish tasks, but also have a system that punishes you for going off track
Super Ninja Method…
Some of the most successful people I know create their own reality. By visually achieving your goals, you can accomplish things you had no idea you were capable of. Watch this short video from an Aussie named Ryan Higgins to see what I’m talking about…
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On a regular basis, I attend a variety of meetings in Chicago that are centered around building wealth. As you’ve probably heard, one of the secrets to success is to surround yourself with “like minded” people. I’ve found this to be a great way to connect with others and learn about real business opportunities that work.
A philosophy I subscribe to is to find what other people are doing to be successful and replicated it. There’s no need to overcomplicated or make things harder than they should be when all of the hard work has already been done for you.
Take inventors, for example. Thousands of people rack their brains to come up with the world’s greatest gadget. They come up with a great idea, spend thousands of dollars on creating prototypes, spend thousands more on advertising to bring their product to market and wait for the paychecks to arrive.
A few weeks pass and there’s no results, so they dump more money into advertising with a different message and medium. After they’ve exhausted their life savings, they finally admit to themselves that they had a good idea, but there just was no market for their product. It’s a sad story, but it happens all the time.
Those on the fast track to wealth do what already works.
What I’ve observed over the years of attending small “master mind” meetings is that the members built their wealth in pretty similar fashions. In fact, with an exception of a few people, you can break down the members into 4 groups:
Real Estate Investors
Network Marketers
Internet Entrepreneurs
Equities Traders (stocks, options, forex, etc)
Many of these individuals own other businesses or invest in antiques and art, but just about everyone I encounter is involved in one of or all four of these areas. The reason being that these are tried and true business models that work.
The business models above can produce passive and residual income, can be automated, and profits naturally grow over time with the right attention. That’s not to say that these are easy ways to make money – they all require significant up-front effort – but these models possess some of the best qualities you can find in owning a business.
Another observation that I’ve made is that every successful person I come across had someone they considered their coach, which has formed the way they attack their business. For example, there are a number of ways to make money online (think eBay, website advertising, membership sites, etc), but if you were to ask one of the Internet millionaires in my group who they studied under, you could immediately understand how they approach their business.
Having a coach allows you to have a focused and effective strategy, which is critical to your success.
I could probably rattle off 100 different ways to make money online – some better than other – but most with the potential to produce a significant amount of income. If you tried to tackle every one of those methods, you would fail miserably. But if you were strategic and followed a focused plan that works, your success is only limited to what you allow yourself to achieve.
Once you’ve identified how you want to create your wealth, then you want to find a successful coach. In the past, finding a mentor was a bit tricky. I remember as a young real estate investor I had to basically beg investors to allow me to work for them for free in exchange for their mentoring. Most would refuse, but eventually after regularly attending real estate investing meetings, I would build relationships with the big player and find someone that was willing to show me the ropes. It wasn’t until after I proved I was serious about building wealth that anyone would listen to me.
Looking back, I can’t blame them…
There are too many people seeking the magic bullet, but not willing to put in the effort to build a real business.
Finding a coach is a lot easier today. Since most people now have high speed Internet and more services allow streaming video, some of these successful people are offering one-on-one coaching programs online. Instead of going to meetings and having to find someone locally, anyone can receive coaching from the top entrepreneurs from across the globe.
This, of course, will typically come with a fee, which is really an investment that should produce and income that far exceeds your initial payment. If it does not, quickly pull the plug. There are better places for your to invest your money and many business models that will allow you to produce an income pretty quickly (given that you put in effort).
Should you join a mentoring program that happens to fail, you should have no problem getting 100% of your money back. Any respectably coaching program will guarantee you produce $X in a certain number of days or your money back.
On the online world, Mack Michaels is a well known entrepreneur that grosses over $2 Million a year by promoting other people’s products online (read his story here). Not long ago, he turned his focus towards helping others build an online business, and his private coaching program has been wildly successful.
Mack’s personal mentoring program provides a way for you to get off the ground running and not just produce some money online, but create a giant stream of income. There are plenty of guides and resources you can read to learn how to make money online, but no book is as dedicated to making sure you are a success as Mack is. His reputation relies on making sure you make money by doing exactly what he tells you to do.
You can find out more about Mack’s Maverick Money Makers program, but you may want to watch some of this video first…
Did you know that retailers bring in as much as 40% of their annual profits just in December? That means they could have an outstanding year but still fail if the holiday doesn’t bring consumer traffic, and that’s the was very fear among retailers. As a result, retailers pulled all stops to compete for your business, and America was ready.
Early reports show that this may shape up to be one heck of a December, as sales are already up 7% over last year. That’s great news for retailers, great news for consumer confidence, and great news for the economy at large.
There are incredible deals out there, and now may be the time to make those big purchases you’ve been putting off.
I, for one, have been considering purchasing a new laptop for some time. I’m always reluctant to buy technology because it seems as soon as you buy something it is already out of date. However, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to take advantage of the 12-hour sale that HP was running with Microsoft Live SearchCashback.
That sale got me a top of the line laptop with 40% cash back from Microsoft, plus an additional $270 cash instant rebates from HP, and a number of free upgrades. I thought it was too good to be true until I saw my order confirmation.
That’s just one example. There are huge discounts all around and probably more to come as companies need to pull in as much cash as possible. But there’s another reason you might consider spending now. Tax incentives.
If you own a small business or have a home office, you can sweeten your deals by not only buying stuff cheap, but reducing your tax bill as well. Come April you may be happy you spent the money when you did.
If you’ve come across any other great buys, leave a comment here….
