Mindset To Success

Ten Tips To Achieve A Success Mindset

It’s safe to say that we all want more success in our lives, and that success may take many different forms.

You may be looking for financial success in your career or business, or you could be looking for personal success in relationships etc.

Whatever you are striving for, hopefully this post will help on the way to achieving it.

Want to give your mind a kick up the backside and put it into 5th gear? Well, these ten tips will help you shift your paradigm into a success mindset.

Here goes…

1 View Failure As A Learning Opportunity

Don’t view failure as a crushing defeat but rather as a chance to learn and to come back stronger!

So many people fall foul of this and give up before they have even really started. Don’t let that be you!

Fail forward and fail fast; don’t dwell on your past mistakes as these don’t define your future.

2 View Obstacles As Challenges

Likewise, try to view problems as challenges to be overcome. This will just make your victory all the sweeter.

This is closely linked to point one and if you can reframe failures and obstacles as challenges that will help you to grow, this will help you to keep going.

Remember that nobody grows in their comfort zone; you must be pushed to grow and this is the type of opportunity that obstacles will give you.

3 Don’t Choose Between Two Things

When trying to choose between two things that you really want, the best answer is always to find a way that you can make them both happen.

Focus and clarity are important so you need to decide which is the priority and put all your energy into that one first.

Don’t try to multitask and tackle multiple goals as this is a recipe for failure; multitasking is a myth and NOT for the success minded person.

4 Don’t Let Others Define Your Success

Too many of us have one set view of what success looks like and we struggle to see it in any other way.

Success is doing whatever it is that makes you happy. Don’t worry if that just so happens to make other people raise their eyebrows!

Like I said in the beginning, what you want for success can vary wildly and will probably change during various stages of your life so don’t be constrained by other people’s idea of success.

Determine what you want to achieve ad really go for it.

5 Invest In Yourself

Investing in yourself is the most important way to start achieving more.

This is the best way to spend money and the best way to spend time. Develop your skills, buy a suit and fix that hair!

If you are buying training to learn a new skill and you put your new skills into action, then what initially looked like an expense has turned into an investment and should more than pay for itself in the long run.

6 Act Like You’ve Already Won

Acting like you’ve already won is the best way to empower yourself to be stronger and more successful.

When you do this, you give off an aura of success that makes others gravitate to you!

Visualisation can be a very powerful tool and can really help to keep you motivated, especially when you do hit the inevitable obstacles.

Always have your eye on the end goal but don’t forget to enjoy the journey too!

7 Know Yourself

This can be tough, but you really need to do this.

Know yourself and be honest about what you want, who you are and what your strengths and weaknesses are.

By doing this, you can focus your efforts on what you do best. If you need help in another area to reach your goals, consider outsourcing to experts in that area so it won’t hold you back.

8 Avoid Toxic People

Avoid the people in your life who are constantly telling you what you can’t do, who are making you feel bad about your dreams.

This is absolutely vital to your success. Don’t stay around people who constantly drag you down or are negative or call you a daydreamer.

This can be especially difficult if the people concerned are close family or friends.

As you start to achieve success people will become jealous of you and try to pull you back down to their level because you are exposing their flaws, and this makes them uncomfortable.

Find people who encourage you and celebrate your success with you.

9 Surround Yourself With Positive People

Likewise, surround yourself with positive people and surround yourself with people who share your vision and can help it grow!

True friends should always want what is best for you and will be happy when you achieve something.

You can also find online forums of likeminded people who are all there for the same reason and will all help to support and encourage each other; don’t underestimate the online community.

10 Do What You Are Most Passionate About

The simplest way to be successful in life, is to put more effort it. That means being willing to get up earlier, to work harder and to work smarter toward that goal.

But this shouldn’t feel like work. Why? Because it should be something that you absolutely love.

Spending your life working hard on something you don’t care about is a waste and when you find your passion, you’ll find it unlocks boundless energy and enthusiasm.

So, there are ten tips to help you to increase your success mindset.

Another tool you can use to increase your chances of success is to adopt habits of other successful people…

The Positive Habits Of Successful People

What do positive people have in common? Lots of things. And in fact, if you look at the most successful people across every different discipline, you’ll often find that they have more in common than they have differences.

Top athletes have a lot more in common with top CEOs than you might expect and the same can be said for artists too.

And when we recognize these habits, we can often break them down and work backward to discover some of the most important traits and habits we need to adopt in order to join them. Here are some of those positive habits…

Self Development

On his podcast, author Tim Ferriss interviews some of the most successful people in the world ranging from actors, to singers, to athletes to programmers.

One of the things that almost all of them surprisingly have in common is that they start their day with meditation. And of course a lot of them exercise too.

What does this tell us? It tells us that the successful mindset involves being willing to work on yourself and get better. When you do that, you have no limitations and you can keep on getting stronger and better!

Following A Passion

Another thing that you’ll find without exception when speaking with successful people is that they have one singular passion that they follow in every single aspect of their lives.

You’ll be able to tell because they will start talking about it right away and their eyes will light up!

It makes sense too – because when we have a real passion, it gives us the drive, focus and determination to work harder and smarter than everyone else.

Breaking The Mold

Something else that all of the most successful people in the world share is the willingness to break the mold – to walk the path less trodden.

This is how they discover opportunities that others miss but it’s also fundamentally what made them able to question their life’s path in the first place.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was certainly unique for deciding he wanted to become a bodybuilder (he came from a small village in Austria). He certainly raised eyebrows when he moved to America. But he had the courage to know what he wanted and to go after it – even if it was a bit unusual.

Don’t be afraid to be you and to go the way you want to go. Rules are there to be broken – that’s why they’re called breakthroughs!

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9 Truths You Must Embrace To Be Successful

It’s a no-brainer. Everyone wants to be successful, right? And in theory, everyone can be successful. But you may have noticed that most people give up way before they achieve their goal.

Or they’re happy with some short-term success, early on in their careers. They choose to stay in comfortable stagnation and think that success is only for highflyers.

But if you want to be successful at anything, you need to accept and run with some basic principles.

Here are nine hard truths you must embrace to succeed.

Success Is Different For Everyone

Not everyone perceives success in the same way. For many of us, and the way society paints it, success is about making money, having power and influence. It’s about being asset-rich with a big house, a big car, and expensive possessions.

To become truly successful, you have to work out what success means to you, not to your parents or your friends or colleagues, but you.

What sort of life do you want? Lots of travel, or the big house ideal? Or do you want to alleviate poverty or discover new health treatments? Are study and research your passion? Or do you want to balance your life and family commitments?

Maybe being home in time for family dinners and keeping your weekends free is your priority.

Take the time to work out really what success means for you. You will be much more motivated to achieve it and much happier when you get there! Whatever success means for you, focus on that.

Be Prepared For The Cost

Whatever your success goal is, you must be prepared to give up some comfort to get there. Because whenever you make a choice, you are also choosing to give something up or to miss out on something.

If you want to focus one hundred percent on being a CEO in five years times, you are choosing to spend all your energy and time on achieving that goal. There won’t be much time left over for friends or family.

There won’t be time for a lazy weekend or vacations. That’s the cost.

If you choose to prioritize family time, you are giving up the opportunity for fast-tracking your career.

None of these are bad choices, but you need to make them with your eyes open. You must understand what you’re giving up to succeed at what you want.

Whatever your decision you must be prepared to be flexible, to learn and adapt to changing circumstances. You must be ready to grow and to sit with discomfort.

Prepare For Some Pain

Being successful may not be a comfortable road. In fact, comfort is the enemy of success. If you’re comfortable, your energy goes down. You’re not going to take chances, and you’re not going to explore.

If you want to stay in the same position, if you choose safety, then that’s your choice – but accept that this will not lead to a successful life.

To be successful, you have to choose to learn and evolve and grow. You’ll need to engage with the world and be open to possibilities. It’s not a hard-nosed race to the top but a journey to becoming your best you.

Growing and learning and being prepared to start again, acknowledging that you don’t know everything – these can be painful concepts to accept. And that is why most people choose not to learn and grow.

But the road to success requires you to be humble. It requires you to accept that you still have so much to learn. To be truly successful you need to be constantly changing, constantly becoming a better version of yourself.

Prepare To Fail

Fear of failure is what prevents many people from succeeding. They think that failure is final and conclusive and ends up defining you as a person. The most successful people allow themselves to fail.

They pick themselves up, recover and learn from what went wrong. Failure can and does happen to everyone. Sometimes factors outside your control can scuttle your project. Sometimes you make mistakes.

But regardless of how you came to fail there is only one way out that leads to success.

You assess, and you learn, and you don’t make that mistake again. You don’t beat yourself up. You see that failure as a stepping stone to your future success.

Don’t Confuse Willpower With Commitment

People tend to mistake willpower for commitment. Just wanting something to happen will not make it so. That’s why most New Year’s resolutions don’t work.

If you rely on willpower, you will run out of energy fast. You’ll get discouraged, and you’ll give up, thinking that success is not for you.

If willpower is teeth-gritting, ‘in spite of’ negative energy, commitment is a different kettle of fish. Commitment is positive. It assumes that your goal is achievable and getting there will happen. It is a considered approach to achieving goals.

Commitment focuses your energy, your mind and your passion on achieving something that is truly important to you. If you’re committed to your goal, you will plan and work and adapt to get there.

Show Up

Persistence and consistency will beat innate talent every time. To achieve anything, you have to show up and keep showing up day after day, week after week, month after month.

You have to do the work and keep doing the work. And like any project, each step builds on the last. A big goal might seem impossible if you try to do it all at once or expect to get there in a week.

But by breaking your big goal into smaller steps, you’ll slowly build up one small win after another.

Before you know it, you will accomplish what you set out to achieve.

Plan For Success

Key to this is accepting that you need to treat your goal of lasting success as a marathon, not a sprint. Short bursts of activity will leave you depleted and discouraged and more than likely you’ll give up.

Success is a lifetime project. If you truly want to be successful, treat it like any other big project.

Work out what resources you need, plan your short, medium and long-term goals and deliverables. Take it seriously enough to make a proper strategic plan and prepare to adapt as the environment changes.

The other advantage of mapping your success is that you consciously take control of your destiny. Planning for success means you don’t think of success as a mysterious innate talent or a piece of luck. It is something you can decide to have and work hard to achieve.

Discard The First Draft

Successful people know that they won’t achieve their goal immediately. Or even anytime soon. They know that whether your goal is to write a book, discover the cure for cancer, or win an Olympic medal, your first efforts will suck.

If you’ve ever written a job application or a presentation, you know how hard it is to get that first draft done. But you have to get it done to get it out of the way. Then you can get on with writing the better version.

And there will be lots of versions before you get one that you’re happy with and finally use.

Take heart from Edison, who famously tried more than a thousand times to invent the light bulb that worked. In his view he merely got thousands of poor alternatives out of the way, so he could invent the one that did work.

Don’t give up at the first obstacle. If your first version sucks, be glad you’ve got that out of the way, so that you can get closer to the right one.

Learn To Say No

If you’re focused on achieving success, you’ll have to learn to say no. And not just say no to things you don’t want to do. You’ll have to turn down some really attractive offers, things that sound like fun, even opportunities that sound great.

Because if they don’t align with your goal, they are just distractions. Saying yes to too many things scatters your energy. Obligations that you feel you can’t refuse are also distractions.

You can learn to say no politely but firmly to all the things that prevent you from achieving success. You might have to be prepared to disappoint people you care about, even yourself.

If an opportunity for a vacation with friends comes up and that clashes with a work priority, you’ll have to choose between pleasure and achieving success.

Being aware of the opportunity cost will help you to say yes to the great opportunities that align with your goal, and you will be successful.

Mastering success above all means being aware of what you’re choosing and why. Consciously working out your version of success and working towards it will help you to have a happier, more meaningful life. It means choosing growth and learning and adapting.

Above all, it means choosing a path that may not be easy but leads to your success.

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