We usually have a picture in our minds when we think about the changes we want to make in our life. Maybe we see a more prestigious home or a stylish vehicle in our mind’s eye. We may imagine ourselves with a different look. It’s very likely our clothes and weight would change.
Dreaming of these things tells us what we’d love to have in the next few years – which is a good way to fire up a goal plan. Unless we have a vision of how things will look when we’ve reached the lofty heights of our personal success, we’ve little chance of ever getting there.
And yet before we can have the things we want, some changes must be made. The great Albert Einstein was quoted as saying that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing and expect a different result! And so, continue doing what you’re doing right now, and you’ll continue having what you’ve always had.
Significant achievements only come about when we alter both what we do and the way we think. It’s not rocket science to know that there’s going to be a tad of work to do to achieve the things we want to have. It’s a basic law of life that we have to give in order to receive. Yet simply doing the work won’t automatically give us the lifestyle we’re after.
Those who achieve their life’s goals adopt and internalise those goals long before they become a reality. If the objective is to drop four dress sizes in twelve months, then for a time we have to prioritise an exercise routine and pay attention to what we eat.
Until the exercise time’s been reached, leisure activities are off-bounds. A success-oriented person believes in delayed gratification, where the right effort will bring the right rewards. The right attitude to doing what it takes will reap the rewards that much quicker.
Success doesn’t happen on its own. We have to build the attitude of an achiever to act as a deterrent against the hits, doubts and criticisms that may be aimed at us.
Reading accounts of how achievers survived their journeys to success can help. Almost all the stories tell the same tale. The winner visualised being a winner from the beginning and internalised the process. So the formula is apparent – to have what we want, and relish the tasks we need to do, we must first embrace who we have to be.
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