My Understanding of Achieving Success-5

Trust yourself “your inner compass.  

Have you ever said to yourself? 

                        “If only I had trusted my instincts “

                        “My intuition was telling me not to, but I went ahead anyway” 

                        “I had an uneasy feeling but I didn’t pay enough attention to it “

Trusting yourself is a vital component to living and achieving success.  You have all the answers inside you The best way to learn how to consistently trust yourself is through what you learn.  When you don’t trust yourself and through your successes when you do. You have all the answers inside you.  The more you trust yourself, the easier your life will flow.

Take that Risk

           

 Risk

            To laugh is to risk appearing the fool

            To weep is to risk appearing sentimental

            To reach out for another   is to risk involvement

            To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self

            To place ideas & dreams before a crowd is to risk being called naïve

            To love is to risk not being loved in return

To live is to risk dying

To hope is to risk despair

To try is to risk failure

 But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing

The person who risks nothing does nothing has nothing, and becomes nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.  Chained by their certitude, they are slaves, they have forfeited their freedom. 

Only a person who risks is truly free.                                               Janet Roud

Success is about having the courage to take risks.  Take time now to make the list of all the risks you have been avoiding or you wanted to take.  Ask yourself what’s  been keeping  you from taking them.  Keep this list in a handy place, as I will be introducing  you to a  concept  that will make you,  your risk  taking  much easier  “Even  if you  are on  the right  track, you will  get run  over if you  just sit there”

Filling the form step by step 

 A good way to make your risk is to practice “filling the form”. It means  doing what come next, which  is usually something small, rather than  jumping  ahead  to what’s  down the road  which  is usually  something much  larger  that what you are ready  for and  where the stakes  are too high.

Choose a risk you wanted to take, either big or small. It can  be creative risk, a business risk  or a relationship risk.  Start filling the form by:-

(a)          Looking at where you are now and where you want to be.

(b)          Breaking the risk down into small manageable baby steps.

(c)          Deciding to take each small step if it still too much of a stretch.

Filling the form is a tool that gives you a sense of comfort, order and doability   when taking a risk.

How to define your true success   

Whose success are you living? Is it yours or it is somebody else? Someone else  might  be  your family,  society, the media , teachers, employers,  If you  are living  someone  else’s  definition  of success then it’s not  true success. Success is a process and a feeling. Its a warm glowing feeling inside about who I am, what  I do and how  I am living.      Answer these questions:-

(a)          What does success means to you?

(b)          What do you really want in your life?

(c)          What above else, is most important to you?

Then take the essence  of all these answers  and  put them into  a single  statement  that statement  is your  definition of true success.