Action

Take action today! Not tomorrow but TODAY. Your idea may not be completely formulated yet; you might not know exactly how to do what you want to do yet; no matter, you can still take action today. It may be you starting the research to find someone who can guide you in the ‘how to’ of doing the thing you want to do. It may well be writing down a plan that is very high level at this stage. Whatever it is, you can take action. So DO IT!!

Bold

Dare to be bold in your actions, in your thinking, in your dreams, in your behaviour… Challenge everything, even the things that you are doing and thinking. Challenge and test what others tell you especially the advices of those that ‘love you and want what is best for you’.

Creativity & Comfort/Coach

Each one of us can be creative if only we allow our mind the free itself from the chains of our life programming – programming that has been ingrained into us from that first breath since our birth. I am still struggling daily from my chains.

Be creative and also push yourself outside of your comfort zone. Who does not like it there? Who does not feel safe in that zone?... but how are you going to grow if you remain in that warm zone for all your life? Look at babies – they have to dare to take those few first steps to be able to walk. They all will have the bumps, the knocks, the falls that accompany natural growth. Can you imagine if the baby gave up at the first fall – he would still be crawling as a mature adult. Unconceivable, is it not?! Push yourself out and the sense of achievement once you have done so is well worth it. Then push yourself some more. Sometimes life or others force us out of our comfort zone but why wait for this to happen? It would be even more painful. So get out of that comfort zone from your own accord.

Adopt a coach. You do not know one, you may think… or you do not have the money to afford one… Look around you amongst your friends, colleagues, family members and see whether there is someone that is doing something that you would like to be doing. That person can become your coach. Look out for personalities – the internet makes it such that you could choose any personality in the whole world – and study their life, their patterns and their thinking. This could be a starting point to have a coach. Remember what I have already said about ‘taking action’.

Discipline/Do not give up

Ok, I must admit that even I have to struggle with this one in some areas of my life. So what I am saying here goes as much for you as for me. Do not give up! Be disciplined in what you do and what you think! In what I think, you ask? Even more so in what you think because what you feed your mind can revive you or kill you… literally. Check my article on this subject at www.???

Education/Experience

We are never too old to learn. Improve your education especially in the area you are most interested in. The world does not remain constant not even for 1 minute and so everything within the world does not remain constant either. Why would you keep your knowledge constant? Invest in your education, whether this investment is in the form of money, time, effort… do it.

Improve your experiences regularly. This is linked to keeping in the comfort zone. Do something different, taste a different meal, speak to someone you have never spoken to before. We develop through our experiences. What are your experiences? Are they things that you do repetitively over and over again? How about breaking that pattern? Come on, dare!

Focus

Keep a focus on where you want to go and what you wish to achieve. Do not let yourself be distracted, do not let your energy become scattered in many different directions. Usually, it is our loved ones that distract our focus. They want our time, our attention and become distressed with the unknown when we change the way we have behaved so far. Keep your focus on the end target and if this is too far to see, then set yourself an interim target to get there and then focus on that.

Goals & Gains(Sacrifice of Immediate gain for long term gain)

Are you goal oriented? If you do not have any goals, how do you know where you are going? Maybe you do not mind where you are going but how will you know when you get there? Goal setting is of prime importance. I would be surprised if this is the first time you hear this – unless you are a very young reader. Goal is not only important for career and profession but for many aspects of one’s life – personal, spiritual, physical, you name it. Usually you have goals in your mind without even being aware of it. As an example, you get in the bus, train or car to go to a specific shopping centre – that’s a goal. You get yourself up in the morning and set to the bathroom to brush your teeth – that’s a goal. As soon as we have brushed our teeth we know we have completed our goal and we set off to do something else. Think about it – it seems very simplistic, does it not? So how about consciously setting goals in your life? Big ones, small ones, medium ones. You may reach some, miss some and even forget about some and that’s alright. You can set yourself the same goal if you have missed it or change it slightly. Who cares? It is your rules after all. The main thing is that you have a goal and whenever you want, you can use it to measure how close or far or off track you are from it. Have fun with setting yourself goals. As parents, teachers, carers, managers and the like, we are very good at setting goals for others. Let’s become good at setting goals for ourselves too.

Happiness

What is your level of happiness generally? Are you happy in your job? Are you happy in your relationship? Are you happy with where you live, with your children, your pets, your hobbies? Are you happy with yourself, how you look, your hair, your hands, your eyes, your weight, your gender, your health….. and the list goes on….

Initiatives

Are you someone who leaps into action and takes initiatives? To be successful you need to be ready for opportunities. What makes two people from the same background and environment experience different results when faced with the same opportunities? It is the readiness to take initiative. Make yourself ready and take initiatives if you want results. They may not be the results that you wish for but you will have results nevertheless. Then carry on taking action/initiative until you get the results you wish for.

Joy/Juggle

Put joy in whatever you do... yes even in the things you do not enjoy doing. It is easy to say and not so easy to implement; but remember the mind can do wonders. So put a joyful twist to those ‘tedious’ things that you have to do. If you can delegate them even better; if not put the joy in it.

Knowledge

The greatest leaders were/are not all knowledgeable. So do not expect to know everything. The secret is to surround yourself with people who know what you do not know. In addition, keep learning new things everyday. Maybe even set yourself the objective to learn a new thing, no matter how small or big each day from someone.

Luck/Lesson Learned

Successful people create their own luck. How? By being open and ready. These are not sufficient though. You also need to take action. You can be ready but not take action and the result will be zero. No action means no result. Learn from your lessons: if you do not succeed the first time, look at what can be improved and then get into action again. Do not give up.

Money

Be wise with money. There are two main groups of people. Those that want immediate reward from money; even in terms of money not earned yet and so get into debt to have instant gratification. The other group is those that are disciplined enough to use the money wisely and wait before they reap for their rewards; that is they spend the money when they have reached the monetary target they have set themselves.

Now

It is so tempting to put things to tomorrow. However, there is no better time than now. It is so comforting to keep looking in the past or planning for tomorrow… and forgetting about now. Now is here. Now is the present. So look in the now and take action in the now and watch the results take form in front of your eyes.

Opportunity

What do I need to say about opportunity? Many people say that opportunities do not exist for them. What do you think? I think opportunities are everywhere but we are so blinkered or so engrained in one thought or another that we are blind and deaf to opportunities. The negative mindset is also a big barrier. Repeat to yourself everyday that you have loads of opportunities available to you and see what happens. When the mind shifts, the reality also shifts and makes way for the new mindset. Be careful because with a negative mindset, your reality will shift for more negativity to take place. Create your opportunity by have the mind, eyes and ears open.

Priority

Generally we should prioritise things on a day to day level to avoid chaos and important things not getting done. As a discipline, we need to put a priority to the things that we need to do and that are important to us. Many of us do not filter out the things that are not of high priority to our needs and our days go by filled with too many things to do and leaving us feeling drained and tired. We should take action and put priority in our daily life and use our time wisely.

Quest

Be always in quest of something… whatever thing makes your tick. Do not give up searching. Through searching we find, through finding we learn, through learning we grow. Do not allow yourself to become stunted in life. Life is a marvellous place if only we take the time to remove our opaque vision.

Rewards/Results/Repetition

Repeat things that work well for you. Get to know the system/process that gives you the result you want, then allow the repetition of it. Watch the results, analyse them, find improvements, adjust the process/system and then repeat for better results. Keep at it until you get the results you wish for and reap the rewards thereafter.

Success/Spirit

Success comes to those that are willing to work hard, take action and not give up. Of course, there are those that are born into a successful environment which influences how quickly they personally have success. Here I am talking about those who are creating success for themselves. Success is different things to different people. If you want something, keep trying until you get that thing. Put your whole spirit in driving success to you.

Time Management/Timely/Team

We all have the same amount of time in a day no matter where we live. Yet, some of us never have enough time in the day to do what they want and others manage to do what they want during that same time. Yes, some of our time is out of our control as in the case of having to work or study. How about the time that is in our control? What do we choose to spend it on? TV, socialising, playing… Whatever you choose to spend your time on, do it with time management discipline so you can have the best use of the hours you have in a day.

Uniform/Unity

Keep a uniform style in everything that you do; be it personal, social or professional. With a consistent approach to life in general you will attract consistent results. Mind you, if that consistent approach is slacking then the result will surely reflect this.

Velocity

Be ready to embrace the velocity resulting from your actions and initiatives. Sometimes things take us by surprise. We do a little thing that start a rollercoaster of events. Do not be overwhelmed by these events and take them in their stride. Act on the events that will serve your purpose and ignore those that do not help you.

Work

Embrace work as a means to providing you with results. Work can be as productive as you wish it to be depending on how you embrace it. It is all in the mind so get your mind shifting now.

eXperimental/eXtraordinary

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. What makes that possible? See whatever you want in your mind and it surely will manifest if you implement many of the things we have listed on this page.

Your Best

Whatever you do, give it your best. Do not compromise on this if you wish to see productive results. Look around you everyday and see how many people do not bother giving it their best. Many will complain about the results they have – it can be in their personal life, their professional life etc. They expect outstanding results whilst giving it only ok effort. If you want outstanding results you need to give it your best.

Zone/Zero/Zealous

Are you a zealous person? How can you create something if you are not zealous about it? This is a key ingredient in getting successful results so become zealous in one way or another.