Achieving Success – Waiting For Something To Happen?
June 8, 2010 by Oliver
Most people are going through each day wishing, hoping, wanting or holding out for something to change. “I wish I could just get that lucky break.” “I hope that tomorrow will be better.” “I want to win the Lottery!” Unfortunately, what all these people don’t realize is that nothing “just happens” in life – you have to do what you have to do yourself to set things in motion. To make matters worse, there are just too many self-help books out there that give the impression that, to get abundant success, all you have to do is believe. As a result, I’ve met more than a couple of people over the years who have convinced themselves that they believe in in the achievement of their goal and, having convinced themselves, they now believe that all they have to do is relax and wait for it to happen. That’s just like believing that you’re going to win the Lottery but not bothering to buy a ticket!
It is you who makes things happen in your life – you’re the one who will change your life. You must get up of your backside and do the brave and courageous things that the normal person wouldn’t dream of doing – that’s why they’re normal, not-too-uncomfortable, not-too-bad on the mundane sorry-go-round of their ordinary everyday existence. And that is why highly successful people are highly successful – they’ve done what had to be done, taken the brave and courageous decisions, thrown themselves wholeheartedly into getting what they want out of life.
You do realize that there’s nothing brave or courageous about doing the things that will lead you towards what you truly believe in – what would be viewed as courage or bravery by normal not-too-bad people is just the obvious and logical thing to do for those who believe and are driven to succeed. But what action do you need to take? Well, for starters – and this is pretty damn obvious – if you want something different to happen in your life, you’re going to have to do something different. You don’t have to do something outlandishly different – start with something small, you’ll be intrigued where it will take you. By small, I mean something as apparently insignificant as brushing your teeth with the other hand! Yeah, you heard me – you’ve read that sentence correctly! Doing something this small in a different way will destroy the habit of an adult lifetime – the habit of doing all routine things automatically. When you break down little habits, you re-set your mind to take a totally different view of absolutely everything that’s going on – you’ll begin to notice opportunities that were there already – you just didn’t see them.
But what if you’ve already done something brave or courageous and it failed? Didn’t you know – only losers give up! Statistics show that the most successful people in sport, business or politics, take failure in their stride, see it as a new opportunity to go at it again. After all, if you really want your life to change, you’re not going to quit that easily, are you?
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