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Are you the smartest person you know?  Do you make more money than all of your friends?  If the answers to these questions are yes, it is time for you to make some new friends.

There is truth in the saying you are who you hang out with.  If the people who you associate with make an average of about $30,000. per year in income, it is safe to say that you make about the same.  If the people you hang around with are negative people who complain all the time, you probably do the same.

We are easily influenced.  You have probably already noticed that you talk the same and even use the same slang as the people you spend the most time with.  It is safe to even go so far as to say that you think the same way they do.

It is so important that we take a good hard look at our associations.  Do these people challenge my thinking in a positive way?  Are they supportive of my big goals and dreams?  Are they positive minded and forward looking?  Are they continuously making improvements in their own life, or are they content to be stuck in the same rut they have been in for years?

If you do have toxic people in your life, get rid of them.  If they are family members, you can at least limit the amount of time you spend with them.

Look to associate and build relationships with people who are doing what you want to do, successful people who you can learn from.  Become friends with people who are making the kind of money you want to make, or who are at least working towards the kind of success that you are working towards.

 You are who your friends are, so pick your friends very carefully. 

When we start to go through and create our daily routine of affirmations and new beliefs, we must be careful to add emotion to the mix.  It is easy to get caught up in simply reciting a list and creating this mundane daily experience which ends up meaning nothing to us. 

A great way to add emotion is to remember back to a positive and empowering experience in your life.  Recite your affirmation or new belief at the height of the feeling of the positive emotion from that experience.  This will allow you to link that great feeling to your new belief or affirmation. 

There are probably certain sights, sounds, scents, or feelings which your mind already links with that memory.  You can use these sensations to bring about the empowering emotions from that experience. 

We have all had great experiences of triumph and success, why not use these past experiences to help create new ones?  Relive the emotions that you experienced during these successful events, then link these powerful feelings to the affirmations and new beliefs you are imprinting in your mind.

Reciting your affirmations and beliefs will soon become a powerful emotional experience instead of an ineffective, mundane routine.

For many, and unfortunately this is an overwhelming majority, setting goals is as unfathomable to them as horses walking on their hind legs.  Why is that?  Highly successful motivational speaker Jim Rohn shed some light on the answer when he said, “I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps it’s because escape is easier than change.”

There have been many studies done on the relationship between success/wealth and goal setting.  In one such study, it was found that 95%-97% of the people do NOT have their goals written down - and they fail; 3%-5% have written their goals down and they succeed.  Given these statistics, doesn’t it make just plain good old-fashioned sense to write down your goals?!

So, what sets you apart?  Setting Goals!

Become bigger than your circumstances.
 

With all the research into goal-setting, success, wealth and yes, the Law of Attraction, there’s more information now than ever in history on how to reach your goals quicker and easier than you ever thought possible.

ACCELERATE YOUR RESULTS

The subconscious mind is your most powerful tool in achieving success in any area of your life. Everything you are and will be is a result of your thoughts.  Your thoughts become your feelings.  Your feelings become your results.  In order to change your life, you’ve got to change the way you think.  This is where current research in Quantum Physics comes into play.  I won’t bore you with the details, but trust that these proven techniques will accelerate your results:

 ○ Write your goals out and read them daily
 ○ Visualize yourself having already achieved your goal - again daily
 ○ Create a vision board featuring pictures and words that represent you reaching your goal - review it daily
 ○ Repeat affirmations of success - take a negative belief about your success and turn it around into a statement of belief - repeat this several times a day
 ○ Inspire yourself by reading biographies of successful people, personal development books, audio and programs
 ○ Surround yourself with a powerful support network - this means limiting the amount of time you spend around negative people, environments and information - consider turning off the news
When you do what the successful do, you too will be successful.

Have you ever spent time learning about the amazing power of your mind?  One of the incredible tools you possess is called your Reticular Activating System. 

Simply put, your Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a filter that sorts through the four hundred billion bits of information that your brain processes every second.  You are only consciously aware of two thousand bits of this information each second, so your RAS decides which bits of information to present to your conscious mind.

The RAS sorts based on matching the information presented with information already established in your mind, this is the information that it assumes is important to you. 

The exiting part of this, is that you can reprogram your mind to sort the information based on what you want to achieve.  If you spend consistent and persistent time each day visualizing your goal and feeling the feelings of having already achieved your goal, it will start to become familiar to your subconscious mind. 

Your RAS will then start to sort the information presented based on your goal.  Soon, you will start to receive information on how to go about reaching your goal, and be on your way to achieving success.

For many, goal setting is a way of life.  For many more others, it doesn’t even enter onto their radar.  Regardless if this is because they haven’t learned the powerful impact goal setting can have on their lives, or they just couldn’t be bothered, we’re going to talk to the 3%-5% of people that DO set goals.

There are many tips, tools and strategies that you can use to be successful in reaching your goals.  Many of those can be found right here.  But there is one specific thing you can do that will ensure your belief in yourself while venturing into new and exciting territory.

FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTHS

Doubt and fear will rear their ugly heads on the road to success.  By focusing on your strengths, you’re telling your subconscious mind that you’ve been successful before and now isn’t any different.  You’re more likely to push through adversity and be successful when you constantly remind yourself of your past successes and areas of strength. 

This works even when you’re doing something new.  Many skills are transferable to different occupations, relationships and projects.  You likely won’t have to dig too deep to recognize what your strengths are.

Success breeds success.

I came across this recently and it reminded me that everything worth pursuing in life, is worth being important enough to push through the adversity that comes up during the ride to success.

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won if he’d stuck it out.
Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor’s cup,
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are -
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit -
It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.

~Author Unknown

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Now that you have accepted responsibility for your problems it is time to forgive yourself.  We get so caught up in constantly beating ourselves up that this can truly stop any progress we are making. 

If you know that you made a mistake which has created some unwanted adversity in your life, you have to forgive yourself before you can concentrate on making things better.  You are only human, you are entitled to make mistakes, even big mistakes.  These mistakes are not who you are, they are simply a wrong choice you made in the past.   

 If you wallow in the failures of yesterday, you will find yourself paralyzed with fear of making the same mistakes in the future.  When you forgive yourself you free yourself to move into the possibilities of the future, instead of being a slave to the problems of the past. 

Go ahead and look in the mirror right now and say I forgive you.  Free yourself for the brighter possibilities of tomorrow.

Are you like me?  I get up each day armed with my list of things I intend to accomplish that day.  I have big goals for each day and I am laser beam focused on reaching each one of them.  This is all well and good depending on how you view the results at the end of the day.

Until very recently, I would go back over my list at the end of the day and become disappointed with myself for all the things that I didn’t get done.  This would lead to feelings of inadequacy and self doubt.  The problem is that when you have big goals, many times you don’t reach them in the time allotted.  It was time for a change in focus.

Now, I still have big daily goals, yet I focus on what I do accomplishment.  At the end of the day, I go over my list and celebrate my wins.  This leaves me feeling successful and accomplished.  Anything that remains on the list, simply gets moved to the next day.

You may think that this would cause me to become laxidaisical as I have given myself an out.  The contrary is actually true.  It is very motivating for me to know that I will be celebrating my successes at the end of the day.  The more success the bigger the celebration.

By simply changing my focus, I have changed the way I feel, and therefore changed my results.

Do you journal everyday?  It is an important part of your personal growth journey as well as a great tool to help you reach your goals.According to research done on the subject at Harvard University, those who journal regularly have 50% less doctors visits than those who do not. 

It has also been discovered that if one has gone through a stressful or unhappy experience, journaling about it can decrease their stress levels.  Upon first writing and recalling the event, the stress levels will go up, but then they go down to an even lower level then they were prior to writing about the experience.

So we know that journaling is a good thing, but how does one begin?  For those who have never written in a diary or journal before, it may seem like a difficult task.  What do you write about?  The good news is there are no rules or regulations with journaling.  You can write whatever comes to mind.  If nothing comes to mind, write about how nothing comes to mind, or why nothing is coming to mind.

If you simply just begin to make journaling part of your daily routine, it will soon become a habit.  Like every other habit, it will get easier and easier.  Soon the writing will just flow.  You will be amazed at how simple it is, and how much better you feel.  Your journal will soon become your best friend, you won’t want to miss a single day of writing.