Getting Whatever You want…Is As Easy As You Want It To Be

How soon do you want to get what you want in life?

Hold on a minute, ask yourself further, the following questions : What is it that you want in life? What is the purpose and benefit of your existence? Do you have a role model(s)? What I’m saying in essence is that you must have a fixed destination that you are aiming to reach from where you are. Any individual that does not have a desire, a specific goal, an objective, the purpose for which he’s living, is like somebody setting out on a journey and does not know where he is going. The result such person would get is obvious, instant failure.

The following are the 3 Simple Steps to getting whatever you want in life :

1. Fix a Definite and Precise Goal

After a serious brainstorming on the questions above, you can decide to fix a specific goal for yourself. Though, some of the idea that would be coming to your mind may be far fetch, just list them as they come to your mind. It may be to design or invent a better way of doing a particular task, it may be to make a certain amount of money within a specific time frame, and so on. You will later work on your list and pick the one you know you most desire and start working on it immediately. This goal must have specific terminal date, because a goal without a fix date is nothing but wishful thinking. Don’t get me wrong here, you can have a daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly goal. What you need do is to strive towards achieving your set goal on or before the target date.

2. Follow a Specific and Proven Strategy

Now that a goal has been set, which is the ‘what’, the next step will be the ‘how’ i.e. thinking about the strategy to use in achieving your set goal. The first step here is to acquire the necessary knowledge on the ‘how’. You can do this in two ways, either to learn it through somebody that is already successful in the area you are venturing into and let him take you by the hand through the step by step guide on how to achieve your desired goal or to search for enough proven strategies, study them and use them as guide. The first strategy is usually preferable. For instance, if you want to have a fleet of car, own and run a successful Leasing company. What you need do is to find someone who has done that business successfully and ask him how he does it or ask him to be your mentor. You don’t necessarily need to reinvent a new strategy.

3. Jump over the Hurdles to Success

Let’s hit the nail on the head here. This is the stumbling block that stops sincere, smart, hard working people from having all that they want. Until you let go of your internal blocks to having it all, you will struggle to have more happiness, wealth and better relationships. The internal hurdles may be numerous, but you need to jump over them. Thus getting more confidence and be bold to take any step moving forward. To be frank, letting go of these success blocks can seem almost impossible. And to make even a little progress maybe difficult.

At this level you may be having some challenges that would make you fill like quitting, but this is where the power of consistency and perseverance would be of immense help. These challenges are normal, and they may let you ask yourself whether you are even on the right path. Here, it is how strong your spirit of perseverance is, that will determine your success here. But, the moment you are able to scale over these hurdles, your confidence will grow and you will be able to set new goals and do it over and over again.

To your success

SELF IMPROVEMENT

Self Improvement Before Team Improvement - This is the story of how Nokia became the world’s producer of cell phones. As Illustrated by John Maxwell

It all started when the hundred year old company, now a huge conglomerate began losing money, having passed through a lot of ups and downs. About that time in 1990, a young executive was asked to take over an unprofitable division: mobile –phones, his name is Jorma Ollila. He was so successful at turning this division around that he was made the president and CEO of the company in 1992.

Subsequently, he was met with the challenge of turning the entire company around with a two headed approach. Believing that the company’s greatest potential lay in communications technology, he began to divest other interest. Second, he realized that for a technology company, human resources were more important than natural resources. Ollila says that today “The technology cycles are shorter. We must build on our discontinuities and turn them into our favour”

Ollila believes in constant self-renewal and has made his personal goal of self improvement the corporate goal as well. “Continuous learning entitles everyone at Nokia to develop themselves and find ways to improve their performance,” says Ollila. “And what’s true for the individual is just as true for the whole company.” To improve the team, improve the individuals on the team. Ollila’s philosophy of individual self-improvement helped turn Nokia into a $20 billion global telecommunications system.

Additional Information:

The Nokia people are always self-improving, and are therefore ready to face new situations. “People who are constantly improving themselves make three processes an ongoing cycle in their lives:”

1. Preparation
Self-improving team members think about what they can do to improve themselves in the present, not in some far off future. They look for today’s potential learning moments, and they seize them. At the end of the day, they think about what they have learned and what they need to learn more about tomorrow. In this way, they become deliberate and continuing learners, which prepares them for challenges.

2. Contemplation
People who have greatly influence the world have spent considerable amount of time alone – contemplating, meditating, and listening. “Time alone is essential to self-improvement.” It allows us to evaluate our actions, to make adjustments where they are needed, and to plan for improved future action based on what was learned in the past.

3. Application
Now is the time to start applying what you have learned; don’t keep putting off that difficult change. Maxwell says change generally comes when: 1) people hurt enough that they have to, 2)they learn enough that they want to, and 3)they receive enough that they are able to. The goal is to keep learning so that you want to change for the better daily.

Furthermore, to become self-improving….
· Become highly teachable; learn and adopt the attitude of a learner, not an expert;
· Plan your progress. Adopt two levels of learning. First, choose an area that you want to improve and select books, lectures, conferences, experts to speak in the coming months. Second, create learning moments each day so that you learn something new everyday.
· Value self-improvement over self-promotion: “Make your next career move based on how it will improve you personally rather than how it will enhance you financially.”

Maxwell concludes with an anecdote of Charles Lindberg, the great Aviator. He says that Lindberg’s historic solo flight across the Atlanta was not a solo endeavour. It took the collaboration of others to make it happen. But, when it was time for the pilot to make his thirty-three hour flight, he was ready. A friend of his tells a story that shows that Lindberg had begun years earlier “just practicing” staying awake all night so that he would be ready when the opportunity to make that monumental flight presented itself. We all have much “practicing” to do to be ready when our big moment comes.

Success Is a Partnership

There is an old cliche that behind every successful man, there is a surprised mother-in-law. In most, if not all, cases, success is a direct result of the efforts of the individual and the support and encouragement of others. Like the fellow says, when you see a turtle on a fence post, you can rest assured that he did not get there by himself. When you see an individual climbing the success ladder and reaching the top, you can rest assured he did not get there entirely as a result of his own efforts. In virtually every case, each person had hope and encouragement from others. Nathaniel Hawthorne is a good example. He was discouraged and had a broken heart when he went home to tell his wife that he was a failure because he had been fired from his job in the customs house. Upon hearing the news, she startled him with an exuberant exclamation of joy. "Now," she said triumphantly, "you can write your book!" To that, Hawthorne responded with the question, "What are we going to live on while I am writing this book?" To his surprise and delight, she opened a drawer and drew out a substantial sum of money. "Where did you get that?" he asked. Her response is classic: "I've always known you were a man of genius," she told him, "and I knew that someday you would write a masterpiece, so every week, out of the money you gave me for housekeeping, I saved part of it. Here's enough to last us for a whole year." From wife Sophia's trust, confidence, thrift and careful planning came one of the classics of American literature: "The Scarlet Letter." This story of success can be repeated a few thousand times -- or make that a few million. It happens all the time. If this is your story in life, I hope you're careful to give credit to those who assisted you because if you do, I will see you farther up the ladder to the top!

Success Is a Partnership – Zig Ziglar

Simply Motinspiration

The reason some people don't go very far in life is because they sidestep opportunity and shake hands with procrastination

Mean Old Woman

An old man and woman were married for years, even though they hated each other. When they had a confrontation, screaming and yelling could be heard deep into the night. The old man would shout, "When I die, I will dig my way up and out of the grave and come back and haunt you for the rest of your life!" Neighbors feared him because of the many strange occurrences that took place in their neighborhood. The old man liked the fact he was feared. To everyone's relief, he died of a heart attack when he was 68. His wife had a closed casket at the wake. After the burial, she went straight home and began to party as if there was no tomorrow. Her neighbors, concerned for her safety, asked, "Aren't you afraid that he may indeed be able to dig his way up and out of the grave and come back and haunt you for the rest of your life?" The wife put down her drink and said, "Let the old man dig. I had him buried upside down."