Success is a mindset.....

More than often, we all ponder on why we are not meeting with success in all our chosen endeavors….. Could be anything ranging from success and achievement in work, to succeeding in living a happy life with a happy family.

Distilling my thoughts from the best of success literature, I would like all of you to realize that success begins with nowhere else from within… deep there in our minds and hearts….. Just find your time to pick up and browse through the preface of any such reading, and you will see in the 1st few pages that a willingness to succeed is the most critical attribute to translate your actions to succeed.

The first step to success then is to tune the success music in your minds. Feel that you have already achieved success, and begin with that confidence in all your acts. Determine how you will measure your success…. Without determining this, you will not have your own goalpost…. And it is important to move towards a goal post created by you, than make your mind and body miserable by measuring your acts and deeds against anyone else’s goalposts….

Make it a habit to look at the outcome of anything you do towards achievement….. Don’t focus on the process….. The moment your focus on the process, you start getting hassled as to how long it will take to complete, what are the trials and tribulations, and the pain points…… effectively you lose sight of the goal or objective…… If this has to be illustrated, suppose you are enrolling in a fitness program….. and you need to wake up early everyday to go….. your focus ought to be on the final objective….. STAYING FIT and not on the small pain of waking up early or sweating it…. Draw this analogy to all your bigger goals… and you will see the power of focusing on the final outcome than the process.

And whilst focusing on the outcome, everyday and every moment, visualize you have already achieved what you want to… like you in that coveted CEO cabin, with all the paraphernalia, or you as a healthy and fit person, or you having all fun and happiness with your family in that quiet mountain resort.

These only show the power of the mind, and the need to embed the success chip in your mind hardware. With this ‘success’ chip in place, all events and actions are tuned in the right path, resulting in success and winning in every endeavor.

With this mindset in place, the other key quality is persistence….. to move towards your personal and objectives at all costs….. not tangible costs but those nagging intangibles like not getting there fast, not in the right frame, getting put off by a few handful who are out to de-motivate and throw your plans out of gear….. You have to be just beware of these factors and ignore them. Keep the outcome in mind and not the process…. And all these gnaws are a part of the process! So remember again… To succeed is to persist and to persist is to succeed.