If you stay consistent in your efforts to achieve your life goals, you
will be successful. When you’re successful, you feel great inside and you
transmit that positive energy to others.
Apply these strategies for success and pursue the sweet life you want:
1. Find a mentor.
To help you in your quest to get ahead in your career, refine specific
skills, or get in the best shape of your life, seek out someone who’s done it
before. Ask for their counsel.
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Learn from someone who’s been there
and continues to excel. Take them out for coffee and pick their brain. Have
your specific questions in hand. Listen to what they say.
2. Care less about
what others think of you.
Care less about what others think of you and more about how you feel
about yourself. When you react to what others think of you, it hampers your own
sense of self. Instead, listen to your heart. Recognize that what you want for
yourself is more important than what someone else wants for you. Go after your
own dreams.
3. Be clear about
your life goals.
Nothing can derail your efforts for success like being unsure about what
you want. To get clarity on your goals, journal about where you want to be
physically and spiritually in the next year, three years, five years, and ten
years.
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Looking ahead will lead you to see
what steps to take to reach the success you’re seeking.
4. Surround
yourself with positive people.
If you have friends who rarely work, complain frequently about their
career, or make unhealthy life choices, they are likely bringing negativity
into your life.
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When you hang out with those who are
upbeat, interested in making a difference, and committed to personal
achievement, you’ll find yourself modeling their feelings and behaviors.
Practicing their way of living will put you on the road to success.
5. Embrace your
failures.
Rather than fearing and loathing the mistakes you’ve made, take them in,
study them, and find the lessons in them.
6. Each day, take a
step closer to your goals.
One of the best ways to keep your goals in mind is to infuse aspects of
them into your daily life. If you want to save $10,000 for a trip to Europe, at
the end of each day, place all your change in your money jar. You can literally
watch your goal come to fruition. Add a $10 or a $20 dollar bill at the end of
each week.
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When you do something daily to work
towards a goal, it becomes an important aspect of your routine existence.
You’ll feel happier, more in control, and increasingly confident.
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7. Use a pros and cons list to make quick decisions.
If you’ve ever been unsure about a
decision, you’ll appreciate learning to jot down a quick pros and cons list.
Weighing out the positives and negatives of your issue can lead you in a
positive direction.
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Rather than staying in a state of
confusion and uncertainty, use this method to attain better control over what
vexes you.
