What Is Success?

How free and energized would you feel if you had the power to motivate yourself to do ANYTHING, stop procrastinating, and achieve all your goals in record time?

Have you ever had a concrete plan to succeed at something, but for some “inner” reason what you planned to do never got done? We all have plans and huge dreams when we’re young, but very few people ever get past the point of taking ACTION on those dreams?

Is it because people are lazy? Or is there an inner science to achievement?
My mission is to deliver you cutting edge information to help you super-charge your life. I’d like to deliver to you 3 of the most powerful and impacting ways to conquer self-sabotage and get you to where you want to be in your life at lightening speed. I have personally used these tools in my life and the results have been mind-blowing. Here we go!

What is Success?

People have many different definitions for success and failure. I’d like to give you my
own definition before we move on. Success happens whenever you decide to do something and you DO IT. Or whenever you decide to NOT DO something and you DON’T do it.

I know it sounds simple, but 99% of people can’t even do just that! Of course, everyone talks
a lot about doing things, but hardly any people actually take action on what their supposedly high priority goals and dreams are. I know I’ve been in the same place!

One of the most important concepts I’ve learned in my life is that 90% of Success is
taking ACTION on the goal you have. 10% is the mechanics, knowledge, or resources
you need to succeed. Whatever you want in your life, you have the power to acquire the
knowledge, to get the mechanics or resources you need, it’s taking action on that goal
that is the biggest obstacle on the road to success in most people.

If anyone can succeed, and all it takes is ACTION, why doesn’t everyone take action to
achieve their goals everyday?


Power Method #1) Pain and Pleasure

If you learn nothing else this year but this concept, your whole life will change.

The human mind is consciously and subconsciously motivated by two basic forces.

1. The need to AVOID PAIN
2. The need to GAIN PLEASURE.

If you think about it, every single action you take in your life is driven by the need to avoid pain, and the need to gain pleasure. The need to avoid pain is always STRONGER than the need to gain pleasure.

For example: If you have £10,000 and you have two options

Choice a) Go for a 4 day trip to Hawaii.
Choice b) Pay £10,000 to remove a tumor from your brain.

What would you do?

Here's powerful example of how to instantly apply this into your life to start creating results TODAY. Here’s a personal example of how I used this concept.

I had been planning to finally write an eBook but I kept on putting it off, why? Frustrated with a lot of things in my life, I decided to give this Pain & Pleasure concept a Try. I created a PAIN and PLEASURE list like the one below of my current situation, and then drew one of the outcomes I wanted.

Current Situation:
PAIN 
1. Writing the book would take too much time… I don’t have time
2. It would be super stressful, I would have to stay up at night and do even more
research on how to create and write this so it’s perfect.
3. What if I write it and no one will read or buy it? It will be a waste of time

PLEASURE
1. When the book is finished I could help a lot of people with the information and
improve other’s lives.
2. When the book is finished, I’ll have extra money coming in.


As you can see, my need to AVOID PAIN was pushing me in the direction not taking any action. It’s also known as “procrastination”. The only difference between people who procrastinate and people who succeed with taking action, is the associations of PAIN and PLEASURE they have with doing something. I look at my pain and pleasure list, and thought of how I could focus my associations to push me into taking action instantly.


As you can see, I created immense pain around NOT DOING the tasks, I clearly wrote out and visualized how this would look and feel. The pain of NOT WRITING the book was now greater than the one of writing it. My values of contributing to the world and creating something special were now at stake. To further hammer the nail in, I clearly described the immense pleasure visually, emotionally, and kinesthetically of how it will feel when the task is done. With all the arrows in my mind pulling me away from pain
and into pleasure, I was on my way that very same minute.


Take at least one action you’ve been putting off in your life, whether it is a goal to lose weight, to create more money, or improve a relationship. Take that action, create a pain and pleasure sheet like the one above and see how rapidly motivated you will be to achieve that goal.


Power Method #2) Chunking

The second reason why people don’t take action on what they want to achieve TOO BIG inside of their head. Often a simple goal like going to the gym to work out becomes a number of PAINFUL things.

1. I have to go get the keys to my car.
2. I have to put my work out clothes on, and iron them because they’re all wrinkly.
3. I have to go to my car and drive there through traffic.
4. Once I get there they’ll make me sign up for a membership.
5. Once I am signed up they’ll give me a 2 hour tour of the place and try to sell
me even more membership options which I don’t want!
6. Then I have to work out for an hour, and I’ll get all sweaty.
7. I have to drive home with all that sweat on me.
8. Once I’m home I’ll have to shower, and by then I’ll have no time to do anything
else!

“Forget it! I’m watching TV! Going to the gym is too complicated and too painful”


Chunking, and the Rule of 3s

Our conscious mind can usually hold only a number of things to do at once. Whenever there is more things to do than the conscious mind can handle, we feel overwhelmed and stop everything completely. What I realized after a while is that nothing is really as big as we make it out to be. We just have a habit to make things bigger than they are.

The above gym example could be brought down to three simple steps:
1. Go to the gym
2. Work out
3. Feel great and energized!

Whenever you find yourself feeling blocked or procrastinating, think of the way you are chunking down the goal into steps? Are you thinking of ALL the things you have to do, and how PAINFUL they will be? If you are, chunk them down into 3 steps. As you focus on these steps, you’ll find you’ll feel much more balanced and relaxed about the goal!


Power Method #3) State Management

“I’m not in the mood today, I’ll do it tomorrow.”
“I really don’t FEEL like doing that right now.”

Have you ever heard someone say these things? Perhaps you say them to yourself on a regular basis? The bottom line is that if you wait around to feel in the right mood or emotional state to do something, it’s most likely never going to happen. 99% of people in the world have no control over how they feel. They either wake up happy, or they don’t. They have a “bad day” or a “good day.” To these kinds of people it
seems that the way we feel is some kind of mystical enigmatic force that we have no control over.

Part of success is being able take ACTION despite FEAR, PAIN, and UNCOMFORT.
Taking action even when you’re not in the mood!

Instead of waiting for an emotional state to come to you, use state management methods
to create the emotional state you need to achieve your goals.