road. One of key things you can to reduce the turbulence along your flight
to success is to take the wheel on the suggestive factors in your
surroundings. Take control of the things you are seeing, listening to and
exposing yourself to. Insure that these factors are consistently aligned
with the goals you want to achieve in your life.
1 - Learn, Learn and Learn
Gain information in areas that will move you towards your goals. Attend
seminars; learn from those that have gone before you. Take additional
courses and learn everything you possibly can. Find someone that has done
what you want to do (or even part of what you want to do) and model
them. Read their book(s), listen to them live, read their articles, write
them letters. Invite them to a lunch, get their advice. You can cut months
and even years off your trip to success by listening to and modeling your
actions after those that have proven track records in areas that are vital
to your success.
One great way of learning is audio programs. Listen to educational and
motivational programs in your car. The average person drives over 12,000
miles annually. That could be from 500 to 1,000 hours per year that you
spend in your car, usually listening to music or someone else's opinion on
politics, the weather and the news. You can quickly become an expert in
your area of interest by simply turning off the radio and putting on some
educational material instead. You are going to be in the car anyway why
not turn it into a university on wheels. I know of an interpreter then
currently know 4 languages and is learning a 5th. Each of these languages
he learned in his car. You can even take your audio learning one step
farther and listen to them while you are doing yard work, while you are
painting the fence or going for a jog.
2 - See What You Want To Be
Every evening before you lay your head down to rest, and the first thing
after your pick it up, picture your goals as already reached. Imagine your
goals as though they already existed. Doing this will trigger your
subconscious mind to see opportunities you might otherwise miss, and afford
you the control to respond rather than react when life does not go the way
you want it to. However, your mind will only be activated when you feed it
these affirmations and pictures in the present tense. See your goal
vividly, feel it, smell it, taste it as if you were living it in that very
moment before you go to sleep, then again when you wake up. Picture
yourself performing at your best. While this may seem like an odd
technique, it is not. This technique is used by many Olympians and pro
athletes the world over. They have lived that winning shot, jump or sprint
thousands of times before the first time they actually execute it. You can
put this same winning technique to work for you by imagining the situation
you are facing, and seeing it working out just the way you want it to.
Picture yourself living the level of success you want to enjoy. See
yourself with the kind of family relationships you desire, the level of
fitness you wish to enjoy. Picture yourself cruising down the road in your
dream car. Pulling up to that perfect house and parking that dream car in
the garage. Whatever it is your heart desires feed it all the mental
pictures of how you want it to be every night before you go to sleep, then
again when you awake. This will do wonders for your attitude and for
enabling your creative intellect to naturally come up with solutions that
will permit your imagined picture to become a reality.
3 - Fly With Eagles
I remember having a t-shirt when I was a teenage that said "It is hard to
soar with the eagles when you fly with the turkeys." This is so very true
on many levels. You need to associate primarily with like-minded, positive
and success oriented people. Find a group of winners and soar with
them. If you loose your job, who do you think is going to help you deal
with that and find another one. The group of unemployed folks down at the
local pub, complaining about the job market and their situations? Or, a
group of positive success oriented people getting together to network and
locate new opportunities? While the answer is obvious, many people do not
take that obvious answer and make it a part of their action plan.
You can not fly with the eagles if you scratch with those turkeys. Get
away from the go no where types and most certainly get away from negative
people. Wean yourself as quickly as possible away from negative
people. They have a way of siphoning the positive energy from you and
setting you adrift on a course you would rather not be on. Associating
with negative people on a regular basis is enough to lead you to a life of
underachievement, failure and frustration. So, only associate with
positive thinking men and women!
Time To Take Action
1 Right now decide what one area or topic that you would like to increase
your knowledge in. Once you have decided on the topic find a book,
seminar or course on that topic and get it. Then apply yourself to
learning it. You will feel better for having done so. This will feed
your desire to read the next book, attend the next seminar or take the next
course. Creating an upward attitudinal spiral that you will enjoy!
2 Turn your car into automobile university. Turn off the radio more and
listen to those tapes and CDs that will feed your mind and pull you towards
your goals. You will more about your chosen topic and take your focus off
the frustrating traffic in front of you. You can also use an MP3 player
for those times your doing other tasks that would leave your mind free to
absorb more educational and motivational material. Once upon a time I did
not like to work in the yard these days I pop in some Zig Ziglar, Brian
Tracy or any of my other favorite speakers and I'm off to happily trim the
bushes and mow the lawn. Try it it works!
3 Shift your group of friends from the negative thinkers to the positive
ones. Resolve to associate with optimistic people as much as you possibly
can. Associate with winners and move away from those negative,
criticizing, complainers that will suck the energy you need to get you to
your goals. This one act can have as much impact on your life as any
another other step you will ever take.
Think Successfully and Take Action!
Tracy Brinkmann
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