5 Major Steps must realize to every success:

In Basic There is only 5 Major Steps you must realize to
every success:

Step 1: Define Exactly What you Want
Step 2: Develop an Effective Working Strategy
Step 3: Take Massive Action to Produce The Result
Step 4: Focus 100% on what You want
Step 5: Believe in Success!

Step 1: Define Exactly What you Want
How to Figure Out What You Really Want

H.L. Hunt observed that the first ingredient of success is to decide exactly what it is that you want. This page describes several tools and exercises that you can use to help you figure it out for yourself.

Goal Setting Result Areas
Before you start, I suggest you divide your life into several result areas that represent the major dimensions and roles of your life.

Instead of trying to figure out what you want in all areas at once, you can start small and focus your attention on the one area that, if improved, would have the most immediate and significant impact on the quality of your life.

After you've gone through the exercises for that one area, you can schedule some time a few months down the road to repeat the process for some of the other areas. Eventually, you'll discover what you want in all of these areas and incorporate them into your overall strategy.

While developing the Achieve Planner goal setting software system, we came up with the following list of result areas:

Romance - You get to define this for yourself. It could be your relationship with your significant other, your dating experiences, or your search for a soul mate.

Children - Your relationship with your children and your parenting style/skills.

Health & Fitness - Anything related to your general health and well-being including nutrition, exercise and physical appearance. Also includes sports or other physical activities.

Family - Your immediate and close extended family.

Fun - Fun & recreational activities, hobbies, general interests, vacations, adventures and material toys.

Friends - Close friends and general acquaintances.

Relaxation - Personal rest and relaxation. May also include certain vacations, renewing hobbies or interests.

Personal Development - Continuing learning, building skills and abilities, personal growth goals, etc.

Spiritual - Whatever this means to you.

Financial - Financial responsibilities, security, investing, and wealth.

Career - General career path. May also include work related learning and job skills.

Home - Related to your home environment.

Community/Legacy - Your community involvement and services to others.

Work - Your main work/job responsibilities.

This is just a suggested list, feel free to add, change or remove items based on your own personal preferences/needs.

The purpose of using result areas is not to segregate or compartmentalize your life, but rather to serve as reminders of all the parts of your life that are important and meaningful to you.

Keeping all of these areas in mind helps you find opportunities for synergy between them. For example, a weeklong hiking vacation in a national park could easily support your children, romance, spiritual, fun, relaxation and even health/fitness areas at the same time.

As I mentioned in the Tactical Time Management article, all of these result areas are heavily interrelated because each affects and influences the others. People are now realizing that managing your life as a whole increases your overall productivity and effectiveness.

In a work setting, in addition to your overall 'Work' result area, you could have different result areas representing your company, process improvement efforts, and your role as a manager or owner.

Define Your Major Definite Purpose
Another useful tool to help you figure out what you really want is to define your major definite purpose, which represents your central or main mission in life. This is a term coined by Napoleon Hill in his classic Think and Grow Rich.

Process to Discover What You Want
After you have compiled your own list of result areas, select the one area that, if improved, would give you the most significant benefits over the next six to twelve months. This will be your focus area for the exercises that follow.

One process to discover what you want in each result area consists of the following steps:

Step 1. Create a mission statement and vision statement for this result area. This will describe your ideal destination or end result.

Step 2. Use wish brainstorming to get ideas about what you want, desire, and need in this result area. Once you have a list of wishes, you can then organize and prioritize this list based on what is most important to you.

Your wish list will give you many ideas about different dreams and goals (what's the difference?) that you could pursue. How do you choose between them?

My suggestion is to start small. Pick a simple "warm-up" wish that you can achieve in a couple of months using the goal setting process.

Think of goal setting as a muscle. Like any muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets, but you have to be gradual about it.

What would happen if you go into the gym and try to bench press too much weight? You would strain or tear your chest muscles. To get stronger, muscles need gradual increases in resistance. Goal setting is the same way: you have to start small and gradually build up by pursuing more and more challenging goals and dreams.

Step 3. Another useful tool to help you figure out what you want is SWOT analysis. You can use this tool to gain insights into your current situation and the things that you can do to move you from where you are now to the destination outlined by your mission/vision.

Related Articles (goal setting articles):

Difference between wishes, dreams and goals
Why most people don't set goals and you should
Writing personal mission statements
Writing vision statements
Wish brainstorming
SWOT analysis

Step 2: Develop an Effective Working Strategy

Developing strategies for effective working

To work effectively with others in the workplace you and your student must develop strategies for effective working, these include the following: Web links have been given to bring you to sites which will give you information of each of these strategies and will enable to consider those you feel may need to be reflected up or developed

set priorities and manage your time to meet deadlines
set and achieve goals
get over your internal barriers when putting your goals and plans in action,
effectively organize your daily actions
uncover better options
work in a team or build one
prevent burnout


Step 3: Take Massive Action to Produce The Result
How to Motivate Yourself to Massive Action

“It’s the action behind the attraction that makes the wish come true”
Powerful motivation comes in understanding that you can achieve anything you truly desire in your heart. It is the knowledge that you are destined to fulfill your every goal, which drives you to change.

The decision is the first step towards change. Regardless of the decision, every change requires some form of action. Do you find it challenging at times to motivate yourself in taking action? Sometimes, I catch my mind making excuses, and occasionally I ‘succeed’ in avoiding the action all together. Here are some pointers I have personally found helpful in motivating myself:

What & Why? - “Start with the end in mind.” To achieve a goal, it’s important to define clearly what that goal is. How do you know when you’ve achieved it? Define a measurable end. Once you have your goal, it’s important to understanding the Why - why you are doing it? Ask yourself what are the motivating factors behind it? For your family? For your kids? Why? Why must you succeed?

Break it down to small achievable tasks - It is very easy, and human, to be overwhelmed by the sheer effort and energy involved in achieving a big goal. Especially if the goal consists of many unknowns or a long-drawn process. We tell ourselves it’s impossible or it’s too much work, and then we give up even before we take any action towards a goal. I’ve found it very helpful to always split the main goal into several milestones.

Then breaking each milestone into a series of steps to achieve that milestone. For each step, break them down further into smaller, measurable and achievable tasks that can be achieved in a few hours or less. This will make the goal appear manageable. Achieving one task after another builds confidence and momentum, and before you know it, the end result will be in sight. Personally, I feel rewarded and more motivated just by crossing tasks off with a black marker as I complete them.

Take a Small Step - Even the smallest first step will help create momentum towards change. “Start doing the thing to have energy to do the thing” -Bob Proctor.When I heard this, a light bulb went off in my head. So now, whenever I don’t want to do something that I know will help me. I would trick myself into thinking ‘I’m just gonna start it, it’ll only take a few minutes.’ And once I start it, I typically will finish the task. I have this quote written on a cue card, taped on the wall across from my bed, serving as a daily reminder.

Rewards & Celebration - Give yourself small rewards for each completed step or task. Then celebrate when you reach each Milestone! I use ice-cream, Chai, reading and internet browsing time as rewards for myself. Look back at what you’ve done, enjoy it, embrace it, and give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done! I like to exaggerate this step by doing a “happy dance“: very silly moves I do, that tend to make other people (and myself) laugh. This way, my body moves, I’m smiling and my mind will create positive associations with achieving milestones to being happy.

Pain vs. Pleasure - Have you noticed that you are more inclined to avoid pain, than to gain pleasure? For example, we all know the benefits of eating healthy and exercising, but this benefit alone often is not enough to motivate us to action. But, if your doctor tells you that must live a healthier lifestyle or in 6 months you will contract a life-threatening illness, you are more likely to make the change. Here’s a visualization technique I picked up from a Tony Robbins ‘Unleash the power within’ seminar:
Visualize yourself in 5 years without taking the actions to reach your goal. See yourself in pain. Do this for a minute, and then intensify the feeling. Feel the heaviness on your back. Do this for a few minutes, and then relax.

Now visualize yourself having achieved your goal. What do you look like? How are you celebrating? See and feel the benefits it’s provided. Now, let that feeling intensify. Do this for a few minutes as the feeling intensify some more.

Inspiration - Being around motivating people really helps to inspire us into action. People who are consistently aligning their decisive actions towards their goals.

Being around these people can be infectious, and their energy will impact you. If you don’t have such people in your life? Get a cd or dvd of a motivational speaker. Just listening to an outstanding speaker’s voices, can create enough energy to pump you up. I recommend, “Anthony Robbins“, “Les Brown” and “Bob Proctor“.

Step 4: Focus 100% on what You want
The Power of Focus in Getting What You Want
by ROBERT GREENSHIELDS
One of the keys to success in any area of life is being able to focus all your efforts on getting exactly what you want.

If you’re in sport, it’s easy to motivate yourself towards winning a championship or winning a medal.

In business, the goals are not always so obvious but the secret of success is knowing what you want and committing to it 100%.

It’s lack of clear focus that leads so many people to be easily distracted by new ideas or ‘opportunities’ that come their way and end up unsatisfied with the results.

When you have a clear vision, you know where your business is going. So, it becomes easy to make decisions as you concentrate your activities and resources on that outcome.

The ability to focus your efforts is one of the key points that separates successful business owners from the rest.

Unsuccessful business owners are like light bulbs. They disperse energy in many different directions at once. They’re opportunists – always looking for easy ways to make money because they don’t have a long-term plan. They spending too much time evaluating new opportunities and not enough taking action.
Successful business owners are more like lasers, focusing all their energy on a single outcome with very powerful results. They are strategic and know where their business is going so they can identify opportunities that will help them get there.
The great advantage of knowing what you want is that the power of the mind will help you get it.

Within your mind at an unconscious level is something called the Reticular Activating System.

According to some descriptions, this is almost like your own personal search engine which automatically picks up ideas and opportunities to help you move toward that goal. It is the Reticular Activating System that is said to help you notice which of the millions of bits of information coming at you every second are the ones that will help you get what you want.

Another way of looking at this was described by Robert Anton Wilson in his book Prometheus Rising, where he talks about how ‘the thinker thinks, the prover proves.’ Essentially, your mind is split into two parts:

The ‘thinker‘ has total freedom and can think anything.
The ‘prover‘ will find evidence for it.
So, if you’re focused on where you’re going – and believe you will get there – then the ‘prover’ will find ways of supporting you and helping you toward your objective.

But if you have no clear sense of direction or you have doubts about your abilities, your ‘prover’ will come up with evidence that you are right.

Imagine you are a golfer on the last hole of a major championship. If you want to win, you want to be thinking ‘I’m going to hole this’ rather than ‘I don’t want to miss it’.

Keep your focus 100% on what you want rather than on what you don’t want. Either way, you might just get what you’re focusing on.

Focus has been described as Following One Course Until Successful.

So, if you’re not sure what you’re focusing on now, just check your results. If you’re not getting the results that you want, perhaps you need to change your focus.

Here are some points to think about if you want to improve your focus:

What is the single most important outcome you are focused on achieving this week?
What are the three biggest outcomes you are focused on achieving this year?
What activities are you doing or what thoughts are you having that distract you from these objectives?
Can you change these thoughts or stop these actions?
So one of the power beliefs of business success is the importance of focus. Later this week, we’ll look at the next power belief – the fact that you already have the capabilities you need to succeed.

Step 5: Believe in Success!

Believe Yourself to Success
s outlined and discussed in three previous articles, the first three essential keys to success are know your goal, know your plan and know why you want to achieve your goal. The fourth imperative step is to know you can – to have the self-confidence and belief that you can achieve your goal.
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Supreme confidence coupled with your ability to succeed is what propels you forward to achieve your goal. You must develop an “I will not be denied” attitude. Confidence and belief in yourself is what keeps you pushing forward, conquering obstacles in your way instead of retreating. Confidence is the backbone behind your ultimate success.
In order to build belief in your- self and supreme self-confidence, you must do the following:
1. Recognize You Are Already Successful
Everyone had had both successes and failures in life. To build self confidence, you must make a firm and conscious decision to focus on your successes and not your failures. Other people and society in general will tend to focus on your failures. If you listen only to them, you will never develop belief in your potential. You, and you alone are responsible for deciding what to believe. If you listen to successful self-confident people, you will notice that they almost never say they failed. Instead, they will call it a mistake, a foul up, a delay, a misunderstanding, a hiccup, a challenge, a bump and even an opportunity. In other words, they refuse to recognize failure.
2. Develop Written Goals and Plans
Having a clear-cut plan of where you want to go and what you need to do to accomplish your goals provides
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a feeling of self-assurance. Just by having a plan and crystallizing your thinking, you automatically provide yourself with the confidence of knowing how you can achieve your goals.

The greatest obstacle to self-confidence and belief is fear. When you fear the outcome of some course of action, you lack confidence. Fear comes from the unknown. Fear thrives on cloudy, hazy, misty and fuzzy planning. The way to annihilate fear is to crystallize your thinking on exactly what you want and specifically how you will attain it. The best way to do this is to write it down as detailed as possible.

3. Know Yourself
In order to invoke real and long-lasting change, you must change your attitudes and your habits. By looking at yourself and gaining the self-knowledge that you must make internal attitude changes in order to act in new and different ways, you have laid a framework for building confidence. Knowing where you stand now in your beliefs and where you want to go is a major step in developing your assurance that you can get there. Practice the habits and attitudes that you want to develop. The best way to learn is by action, not just words.

4. Gain Experience
Practical experience is by far the best tool for developing a supreme belief in your ability. A person who has been in a situation is infinitely more confident when faced with the same situation than a person who only has second-hand knowledge.
Don’t shy away from seemingly difficult or challenging tasks. Even stressful situations can be catalysts for tremendous self-confidence. If you put yourself in situations that push you to your full potential, your confidence and personal leadership will grow exponentially. In addition, you will be much more likely to tackle new experiences with enthusiasm, rather than fear.

Belief in yourself is one of the greatest assets that you can have in life. It is the cornerstone of success. Without self-confidence, you are doomed to a lifetime of mediocrity and fear of winning. Fortunately, if you do not have confidence in yourself, you can build and develop it. By focusing on past successes, crystallizing your goals and plans, knowing yourself and gaining experience, you are well on your way to supreme confidence – and ultimately to success.

By Randy Slechta, President of Leadership Management International, Inc. a global leadership and organizational development company.