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[H1667]How To Success In Business

by Mark Silver, Mar

Then he announced that he was celebrating three years in business. What! Only three years? How'd he get so far, so fast?

He's created for himself an overnight success. I'm doing the same thing, following the same steps he did. And, you can, too.

Here's the secret to his "overnight success": He spent 15 years prior to starting his "overnight success" business in his industry, learning, growing, making mistakes.

Jim Collins, in his groundbreaking book Good to Great, wrote about "the Flywheel and the Doom Loop." In the companies his team studied, the ones who had outstanding results just kept incrementally improving, learning, making mistakes, learning, continuing. These efforts created momentum on their "flywheel."

The Flywheel is an analogy Collins used- a Flywheel is a huge, very heavy wheel that takes a tremendous amount of effort to get it to turn even a fraction of an inch in its rotation. However, by pushing steadily at it, it gradually picks up momentum. Then, you hit the moment when it's moving so fast, nothing can stop it.

In contrast, companies who didn't take the Flywheel approach were caught in the "Doom Loop." Lurching around, trying a new thing every year or two (or month or two!), trying to hit the lottery. Sound familiar? Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

In other words, "overnight success" only looks that way from the outside. When you finally hit your momentum, it won't feel like overnight success to you. But it may look that way to others.

I have found this to be true without exception. EVERY "overnight success," when I've looked at it closely, wasn't really. My mentor coach looked like an overnight success, going from $0 to a full client load in 90 days... except that she had years of experience in running a different practice before, and had the internal confidence it takes to enroll clients.

There CAN be a sudden big jump in results, and this, no doubt, is what makes people think to call it an "overnight success." But, it just ain't so. The sudden big jump is because the slow, steady incremental pushing of the Flywheel suddenly hit the tipping point. You are inching up the see-saw, and, a little bit past the mid-way point, the see-saw tilts in the other direction.

The real question isn't "Can you get the see-saw to tip?" The real question is: "Can you keep from getting thrown off when the see-saw does tip?" How many lottery winners hold on to their millions? How many sudden superstar athletes or musicians are overwhelmed by success, and fall into drugs and reckless spending?

It's strange but true that many participants in my Heart of Money Transformational Journey have a bigger struggle appreciating assets they already own, than they do in facing their financial liabilities.

The real secrets to "overnight success" are:
1 It only looks like "overnight" from the outside- it took a lot of incremental work over years;
2 You have to prepare yourself internally;
3 You should look around and find contentment in your heart where you already are, so you can feel enlivened to continue the journey ahead.

You don't have to be afraid of success, but you do have to prepare yourself spiritually in the same incremental manner as you do your business. If you work on both the internal and the external parts of success, then you'll be ready for the tipping point when it comes, inside and out.

Keys to Your Overnight Success

Comparison is an evil force. Seriously. Although it's great to watch others in order to learn, if you are comparing yourself to someone else, when each of your situations is unique, you ignite havoc in your heart as you struggle to be someone you aren't.

Stop comparing yourself to others. You don't know their story. You don't know how they did what they are doing. And, you probably don't even know the full truth of how successful they really are. People can look successful, and still have their struggles.

Don't do more than one difficult thing at a time. Don't raise your prices, start a new marketing campaign, and try to create your first DVD all at the same time. Pick one challenging area, and immerse yourself in it until you feel you "own" it. Then move on to the next. Don't worry if you don't have a blog, or a DVD, or whatever latest and newest thing everyone is touting. You'll get to them, if it's truly important.

Instead focus on the most challenging thing in your business that isn't working to your satisfaction, and take it on. Learn about it, chew on it, integrate it into your heart, and then you can move on to the next.

Appreciate your assets. This is surprisingly challenging for most people. Imagine facing something you own, maybe a bigger ticket item, and notice how your heart feels as you face it. This item is yours, it's been given to you, you have full responsibility over how to dispose of it.

Don't be surprised if it's an overwhelming feeling.

Take time to accept what you already have into your heart. Digesting like this will help make room for more.

I tell them, "You have to set a goal."

They say, "I know, I don't have a goal. How do I get a goal?" I ask them what they like to do. They may say, "I don't know."

You've been there, I'm sure. We all have. But eventually we all get out.

We each have within us a success mechanism that really wants us to succeed. It really wants us to get to where we want to go. In fact, if we learn to work with it, we can bring success to our businesses and ourselves rather readily. Here's my simple formula to help you.

How to Achieve Success & Create What You Want in Your Business and Your Life

1. S stands for Sincerity. Be sincere with yourself. Get honest with yourself in where you are, where you are going and where you want to be.

2. U stands for Understanding. Understand your goals. Those who achieve ultimate business and life success completely understand the goals they want to reach and what is necessary to achieve them.

3. C stands for Courage. Gain the courage needed to overcome your fears. If you want to move to the next level toward reaching your goals then you must consciously overcome your fears. You must actually do the work that's needed to accomplish your goals. Do not let anything stand in your way.

4. C stands for Charity. Share your success. When you reach your goals, there should not be a selfish end. Many people can share in the wealth of your success -- not always the financial wealth, but often the wealth of your consciousness of success.

5. E stands for Enthusiasm. Get enthusiastic. In the enthusiasm, you keep yourself looking towards your goal. Whenever barriers get in your way, reach into your spiritual law of enthusiasm. Overcome these barriers by going around it, under it, through it or whatever is necessary to put you back within reach of your goals.

6. S stands for Stability. Remain stable. It's necessary to remain stable as you move towards success. Once you say you are going to do something, follow through with it. This produces stability.

7. S stands for Satisfaction. Feel the Satisfaction of Success. When you reach your goal, you can say, "I am a success, and I feel satisfied." This doesn't necessarily mean you are going to feel whole or complete, but you are going to say, "I did that, and I am satisfied with the result. Now I think I can go on with something else and use what I have learned to bring forth even greater success."

Whether you are working to achieve small or large goals, the process of success is pretty much the same. You can learn the success process on small goals and then transfer it to larger goals. One of the biggest blocks to achieving success is not having a realistic goal. This causes dis-satisfaction and depression.

So, start focusing on short-term goals and move into success on that level first. It's important to recognize even the small goals in your business and life as goals. Achieving them will prepare you for achieving success with bigger goals.

7 Key Points to Keep in Mind When You Create & Strive Toward Your Goals:

1. Goals do not have to be tremendous or meaningful or significant to anyone, but you.

2. Your goals can be very simple and very straightforward. They can bring you a lot of happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment when you look at them for what they are.

3. When you decide upon and define a goal you would like to achieve in business or life, first decide if you are willing to be flexible enough to get it or are you going to demand that it come your way.
4. Figure out how you are going to measure your effectiveness

5. Watch the direction. Are you, in fact, going in the direction that is getting you closer to reaching your goals

6. Realize your skills and abilities and gain the confidence and inner strength you need to attain your goals. Even if you have the right direction, if you approach your goal without confidence, you undermine yourself.

7. See yourself getting what you want and reaching your goals. Some people see themselves in Australia but they don't see themselves going to the visa office. They don't see themselves going to the airport and buying the ticket. They're not sure when they want to leave. This uncertainty will stop your effectiveness of getting what you want.

When you have set a goal for yourself - whether it's short term or long - envision yourself getting there. Use your creative imagination to see yourself attaining your goal.

Visualize yourself taking all of the steps to reach your goal. Make your vision one of actions. See it, hear it, feel it, move it, and do all of the things that need to be done to reach your goals.

Hold the image of your success and your completion in front of you and then just keep moving forward. It will become obvious, from moment to moment, what must be done next. All you have to do is hold that completed image of success as your direction and do the next obvious thing. That's living in the now. That's success.

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