Master Success – Are You Willing to Burn Your Bridges? by Cheryl Clausen
You’ve been told not to burn your bridges your whole life, but maybe that’s what’s keeping you from mastering success. Do you like to play it safe and keep your options open? When you play it safe you’re really giving yourself permission to fail. You’re giving yourself permission to quit if the going gets rough, and return to your current state.
What if you refused to give yourself permission to quit? What if you had to make it work one way or another because turning back wasn’t an option? What would happen to your commitment? How about your persistence? Would you be more focused on finding a way to make things work rather than contemplating if you should just give up and accept defeat?
What does it really take to master success? You have to clearly know what you want. You have to have a strong desire to get it. Plus you need to believe that you can achieve it. When you leave your options open you’re really expressing self-doubt. What you’re telling yourself is that you better have a back-up plan, so that if this doesn’t work out you have an escape. But your brain is really processing it as “when” your plan doesn’t work out, not “if” your plan doesn’t work out.
Do you think you could master success if you combined your passion with your undeterred belief? Some of the greatest lessons to be learned in life come from your children. When my youngest son was in the sixth grade he came home from school the afternoon before the last day at school, and told me what he was going to do the next day. Each year the last day of school the elementary students have a track meet. That afternoon my son told me that at the track meet the next day he was going to win every race. As he made that statement there was a look of determination and unwavering faith on his young face. Now as his mother I worried that he might be setting himself up for failure rather than success, and not wanting him to have hurt feelings I looked at him and asked, “every race”? He looked back at me with that same expression of determination and faith and said, “every race”. The next afternoon after school I cautiously waited worried that perhaps his plans were dashed. Instead he raced in the house with a fist full of little ribbons, a big smile on his face, and eyes gleaming to show me his victory ribbons. So I asked, “did you really win every race…no one else won even one”? His innocent reply was, “I told you I’d win every race Mom and I did”.
Do you have the faith in yourself to master success? Sometimes you’ll be motivated by fear and fear alone will drive you forward. Sometimes you’re motivated by setting targets and reaching those targets before confidently taking the next step. And sometimes you have to burn your bridges and obtain your faith from the lack of alternative options.
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1) Wanting Success Is At The Start Of Your Road To Success
Even if you want success, you could not be able to walk towards it. Success requires a road you can walk in, and this road have to be built by you and none else. Furthermore, building your road is not enough: you have also to be willing of going into it. Willing will be you major force towards your success.
How are you going to willing badly? Put your goal inside a bigger one, and the latter inside an ever bigger one. Thing big and see how each of these goals is going to support the bigger ones.
2) Understand The Success Principles
Every big success is built on principles, and success itself is no different. Understand what success means to you and its underlying principles. Many people have different meanings for success. Yours will affect your short and long term performance. Understand the 7 most important success principles [http://success-strategy.thesolution2.com/Main/Success-Strategy-7-principles.php] at my website.
3) Commit To The Road Of Success
Success requires means and commitment. Really, it requires more commitment than means. This implies everybody has the potential to reach it, but just a few people will achieve it.
Commitment is what is missing, as success requires involvement, passion, faith and 110% of your available resources.
4) Focus On Your Goal
Even if you commit, difficulties will arise. Your road to success will require a lot of attention, involvement and effort. All directed towards your goal.
You can increase focus by practicing the focus on just your goals. Take a few minutes every day where you keep your goal in front of your eyes, and nothing else. Drop every other thought, just keep focusing on your goal. This won’t be easy at start, but is necessary.
5) Prepare Yourself
When you are focusing on your goal, you are about to get started. It’s time to increase your power and maximise your success probability. You have to engage in increasing your self confidence and change your mindset, from fear of the future and the obstacles and need of control, to desire of the unknown, wishing to learn and desire for a new adventure in your road to success.
It’s now time to put your foot in your road to success. But where are you going to move to?
Your road to success will show you signs as every other road in your everyday life. Your goal has a path and signs pointing to it are all around you. You don’t see them? Just look for them and their suggestions will come to your awareness. Look for them and be patient. Soon you’ll see the path.
If you feel a sign is ambiguous, then go for two. Combine two signs and see what they have in common in suggesting the direction you should take. Two perceptions are better than one.
So…
Understanding, Willing, Committing, Focusing, Preparing and Following will set your road to success the right way. Just keep following the signs and you’ll be there sooner than you think. And remember to celebrate your success.
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