Three Simple Concepts For Creating Success In Life

Here are three simple concepts that have helped me in my journey through life. The first is: "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do". The second is: "Successful people live outside their comfort zone." The third is: "Successful people play where the money is." These three concepts helped form part of my personal philosophy; one that's served me well.   I was taught these concepts many years ago when offered an opportunity to enter an industry that was new to me. When I did so I took to heart Cicero's wise words: "The skill to do comes from the doing." I was taught that: "Action both proceeds and produces learning." So I simply determined to do what others were not prepared to do. If action was the way forward then I would take significant and sustained action and when I did amazing results occurred. Intense action was the key to success. I simply made more calls and worked more hours than anyone else I knew. When I was tempted to slow down I would say to myself: "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do."   When faced with an uncomfortable situation, setting an appointment with someone of considerable status, speaking in public, making an important presentation, restructuring a business, or leading large numbers of people, I would say to myself: "Successful people live outside their comfort zone."    When others were relaxing and having fun while I worked, I said to myself: "Successful people play where the money is."  It might sound simplistic but these statements helped me develop a winning philosophy and an empowering attitude. This led to increased productivity which in turn provided the outcomes I'd always wanted.   Adopting these beliefs helped me develop the discipline to take actions others were unwilling to take, but that I was willing and committed to take.  Now I understand that not everyone is committed to chase their goals hard. Many work just enough to keep in the game, but never with the intensity required to win the game. What a waste of time and talent, you can't approach success in life like you would a favorite hobby.   Those who do can't experience major success. For those who dare to dream big dreams these are critical questions that you should be able to answer. Are you willing to do whatever you must do for as long as you must do it to achieve your dominant dream? What type of commitment are you prepared to make? For how long will you make that commitment? What are you willing to give to get what you want? What are you willing to exchange for success?   It's not possible to achieve significant success without sacrifice. We must choose between immediate gratification and long term frustration, or delayed gratification and long term success. For me I knew that: "For things to change, I must change. For things to get better, I must get better." Think long and hard about your intentions. Particularly what you are prepared to give in order to succeed! Are you a, let's hope for the best kind of person? Or are you a, nothing's going to stop me type of person?   Finally don't declare and share your dreams with just anyone in your world. You should only share your goals with; those who really care for you; those who have a direct stake in your success; those who are prepared and positioned to assist you achieve your goal. No matter what happens and it will, always move forwards, always work at creating the life of your dreams. Never ever allow the idle observers and the concerned commentators dictate your results in life.

To Your Success, Lloyd Dobson

"It's Impossible To Land On The Runway Behind You"

During my journey through life I have created significant successes, and I have also made monumental mistakes. Perhaps you have too. What I've learned from riding the roller coaster of life is to always focus on the future not the past. I've adopted the philosophy that my history is not my destiny. It's hard when we fail, but far worse to never try. No matter what happens to you remember that every experience has positive value, and every experience serves you.  Most successful people falter and fail a multitude of times before they succeed. Actually there's no real failure except when we decide to no longer try. There's no defeat except we say there is. There is no barrier except that of our own inherent weakness of purpose. Before success becomes a reality we are sure to meet with temporary defeat, and perhaps some failure. When defeat overtakes us, the easiest and most logical thing to do is quit. And that's exactly what the majority of people do. But that's not your destiny. Just stay focused on your mission in life. The thing you inherently sense you are meant to accomplish and contribute. Learn the important lessons contained in the mistakes you make. Then release them and let them go. The key to learning from any experience that hasn't turned out well is to extract from it the valuable benefits and lessons it offers, understanding that the lesson continues until the lesson is learned. This learning emerges when we hold ourselves accountable and ask critical questions such as: What happened? Why did it happen? What part did I play? What learning can I gain? What significant shifts in perception must I now make that will serve me better in the future?   Failure has taught me that if something can't be done in the way I thought it could, then I should just take another, sometimes parallel path and simply try again. Failure is never final unless we accept that it's so. It can simply be a stepping stone to success. There's no one except you keeping score of your failures, they don't count against you. If you do this, you'll eventually succeed. Most people make one or two attempts, and they then stop trying. I encourage you to embrace the words and philosophy of Thomas Alva Edison:  "I am not discouraged, because every failure is yet another step forward." It can be painful when we fail, but never as painful as quitting and adopting the negative belief: I have failed therefore I am a failure. That's crap thinking! You're simply an evolving human being, one who makes mistakes, so what! The problem with this thing people call failure is not in falling down, but in staying down. It's more empowering to adopt the philosophy that, when I fall down I get up, dust myself off and continue on.  For every failure, there's an alternate course of action. You just have to find it. The good news is that you can make a new start anytime you want. It's a fact that we learn nothing from our successes. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and try yet again. So don't choose to become the prisoner of your past, but rather make a much more empowering choice which is to become the architect of your future. Orison Swett Marden has a valuable contribution to this subject: "There is no failure for the person who realizes their power, who never acknowledges they are beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the person who gets up every time they fail, the person who rebounds, the person who pushes on when others turn back."

To Your Success, Lloyd Dobson

Who Will Survive The Race, The Gazelle or The Lion?

Imagine you are standing on a mountain watching dawn break over the sweeping Serengeti Plains in East Africa. In the distance, a gazelle awakens, shivers, stretches, and warily looks around. The gazelle knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion if it wants to survive that day. At the same time a lion awakens, yawns, stretches, and eagerly looks around, it knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle if it wants to eat that day. Who will win the race for life the gazelle or the lion? This story acts as a metaphor for life in this ever more complex and competitive world in which we live. And bye the way, as you awaken, what are your thoughts about the new day that awaits you? To stay competitive in the game of life we must embrace life-long learning, and continue to develop our skills. However, if we over-focus on the pursuit of more and ever more knowledge, it can become a deterrent to action. At worst it can paralyze us or at best it can slow us down. So instead of enabling us to run more swiftly the pursuit of knowledge can act as an anchor. When is enough learning enough? Because winning in life isn't about more learning; ultimately it's about more action, more doing. However we hold the persistent hope, the stubborn wish, that we will discover some shortcut, an easier way. We'd rather work on our 'inner' world for a few days or weeks or months. Until we finally understand that we control this life we live. So, how do we turn what we know into what we actually do? All high performers agree: whenever you decide on a new goal or direction, take immediate and massive action, and just do it! Ultimately, we don't have to, 'reclaim our will' or 'find our confidence' or 'develop our discipline.' We don't even have to believe that we can do it. We just have to do it. Doing what needs to be done doesn't require a change to our internal state. We must just; do it or not! So what stops us from acting swiftly to secure our dreams and goals? What enables us? What blocks us? Self-limiting beliefs are the major cause of inaction. Many people live their life with their brakes on. They see their glass as half empty rather than half full. They dwell on their past rather than their future. They do that in spite of knowing that you can't land on the runway behind you. One way to break free of self-limiting beliefs is to understand and buy into one simple thought. Your history is not your destiny! We are designed and pre-destined for greatness; all we need to do is embrace and expand that thought. Many people learn to 'just do it', after exhausting all the other short-cuts and psychological tricks and motivational techniques. After they have explored subliminal conditioning, affirmations, astrology, visualization, clairvoyants and fortune tellers, inspirational speakers, and positive self-talk. Then we must still answer the question. Will I do it, or not do it? And with that question we confront reality. We can't wait for things to be perfect before we act or we'll never make progress. We must release our brakes. Act, get out of our comfort zone and 'just do it' expecting to be successful. It's better to be eighty percent sure and make things happen than to wait until we are one hundred percent sure, because by then the opportunity may well have passed us by, the prize may be claimed by another. So remember the gazelle and the lion and when you wake tomorrow start running like your life depends on it. It does! And in the words of the great writer George Bernard Shaw: "Never mind likes and dislikes; they are of no consequence. Just do what must be done; this may not be happiness, but it is greatness."

Have a beautiful day and to your success, Lloyd Dobson

A Continuation Making Sure Your Ladder Is Against The Right Wall

This is a continuation of the previous blog titled: 'Make Sure Your Ladder Is Leaning Against The Right Wall.' The fourth step is building a team: The key focus here is to attract and build a team of people whose gifts, insights, and strengths are different but synergistic to yours. They should add what you can't provide, and have experience different to yours. Choose people who will challenge and expand your thinking. Team members don't need to be employees. In fact, it's often better to develop a strategic alliance of independent team members, each of whom can contribute their own expertise, and bring new perspectives. Remember too that a fully aligned team takes time to form. Teamwork develops best when people feel they are valued, are willing participants, and operate within a supportive environment. Seek every opportunity to develop open communication. And most importantly build mutual trust. The process of building an effective team will lead you to engage in self-examination and ask yourself critical questions. Particularly to identify how you can become a better leader. Its one skill to lead a team of employees, it is leadership of a higher order to lead a collaborative team of independent people. The key here is to work harder on self-development than you do on business development. The fifth step is creating synergy: Synergy is where 'magic' happens. Most businesses fail to achieve their full potential. Often it's because the person who owns the business is skilled at their technical work but doesn't truly know how to build a business that works with or without him or her. The key is to work 'on' the business where possible; not 'in' the business, learning how to leverage the skills of the team so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Synergy is a result of listening, building mutual trust, tuning into your intuition, being flexible, having compassion, and a total commitment to action. The sixth step is achieving results: although up to ninety percent of new start-ups fail within one to five years they often do so because they haven't made the necessary distinctions that distinguish them from others. Optimal results are achieved by ensuring you spend a significant percentage of your time on whatever are the measurable revenue producing activities in your field, and delegating or outsourcing everything else you can. In life we choose to either have reasons or results. Commit yourself to engage and move boldly forward, embrace a willingness to make mistakes, and don't become frozen with fear. When you decide to become an entrepreneur and to play the game of business some days will be testing and some days will be triumphant. However spectacular results will occur as you fully focus on creating success in your niche and when all the elements of the model are in place. Remember that scarcity only exists in the mind. The universe is designed to deliver abundance when we follow universal laws. Don't deviate. Always define, refine, and refocus. Results will then occur at a obtained tangent to your stated intention, because when you plan, commit and take action on your plan, its like dropping a pebble into a pond, the ripples spread and have far reaching effects well beyond what you may dream. All that's left is to celebrate your success. "The process for establishing a successful business is: find a master, together identify a niche, learn how to leverage that niche, develop a team; with that team generate the power of synergy, then create results." - D.C. Cordova of Excellerated Learning Systems. This article is based on a concept taught in the 'Money and You' seminar facilitated by Robert Kiyosaki and Blair Singer.

To Your Success, Lloyd Dobson

HOW TO CREATE MORE SUCCESS IN LIFE MORE QUICKLY

How do elite athletes enhance their performance? Besides following an intense disciplined training regime, they increasingly employ mind techniques that allow them to utilize all their faculties to enter into a simulated state of success. They see, hear, smell, taste, and feel success before achieving it. Why does this work? Simply because whatever we think about most often and with intensity expands in our life. For instance if we constantly worry about a lack of money, we will create more experiences of lacking money. Visualizing about opportunities to make money will help us. Worrying about the lack of money will hinder us.

Visualization is more than just positive thinking! It's first entering into a relaxed state, and then flooding your non-conscious mind with a sensory rich experience of life as you want it to be. The more relaxed you are, the more open your non-conscious mind will be to receive the messages you send it. And the more of your senses that you involve in your visualization, the greater the impact this will have.

Here's an important characteristic of the non-conscious mind: it can't tell the difference between your external world and your internal imagination. It cannot discern between the past, the present and the future. Whenever you visualize an event in great detail and with intense emotion, your non-conscious mind accepts that it's happening now. And the more times you do this the more 'real' it will seem. This is a key point because the contrast or gap between your outer 'reality' and your inner 'desire' then creates tension in your mind, causing it to seek ways to fulfil your desires. Once it accepts your visualization as 'fact' it will identify ideas, people, opportunities and motivation that will allow you to match your outer experience with your inner experience.

Let's say that you want a new vehicle. Wanting a new vehicle is too vague; we must describe the vehicle in detail. What brand and style? What color, and what trim? You need to be absolutely specific. For instance, a new Audi A5 coupe, black with cream leather interior, with an eight cylinder engine and automatic transmission, fitted with custom wheels and a stunning sound system is better. Once you have created that picture see yourself walking up to it. Run your hands over the body, feel how smoothly it flows. Open the door, and smell the leather. Settle into the contoured driver's seat, and grip the steering wheel. Start the engine and hear its note as you accelerate. It's important to visualize from an associated, not from a disassociated state. For instance; experience this as if you are sitting behind the steering wheel, not as if you are outside observing yourself sitting behind the wheel.

You can use this simple three step visualization, to help achieve any desire or goal you want. I encourage you to practice this dynamic technique daily. We all lead busy lives and sometimes scheduling this may take some creative skill, but you can visualize in ten minutes almost anywhere. Are you ready?

Step 1: Sit in a comfortable, relaxed position. Perhaps have classical music playing, or nature sounds or simply quiet. Take a deep breath, hold it for a count of three, and as you exhale, say the number ten to yourself. Take another breath, hold it for a count of three, and as you exhale, say the number nine. Repeat this until you reach zero. As you do you will be totally relaxed.

Step 2: Now see and experience your dream or goal as if it were already accomplished. Put yourself into the picture. Use all your senses. Create the experience in vivid sensory rich detail. How does it look, feel, taste, sound and smell. Intensify the color and adjust the sound. The more specifics you can add, the stronger the effect. You will know you are visualizing correctly when you begin to feel excited. This is because your non-conscious mind honestly thinks it's really happening and you will feel intensely joyful.

Step 3: Once you have visualized as many details as possible, you can start coming back to awareness. Unless you properly bring yourself back, you may feel tired but done correctly you will feel energized. Take a deep breath, hold it for a count of three, and as you exhale, say zero to yourself. Continue this process until you reach ten. Hold your breath again, and this time as you exhale, say this phrase out loud: I'm now fully aware, energized and refreshed and so happy that I have achieved my goal.

The closing thought this week is from author Claude M. Bristol - "Picture whatever you desire as though it has already been achieved. See yourself having something, being something or doing something as an already accomplished fact."

To Your Success,


Lloyd Dobson
My Website: http://UnlimitedWealthBuilder.ws