6 Keys To Building Your Foundation For Success
Becoming successful requires building the right habits and taking the right actions. I call these habits and actions the foundation for success. Here are 6 keys to building your foundation for success.
1. Expect the Best
- Use positive self-talk from the time you awake until the time you sleep.
- Look at your every problem as a special opportunity to succeed.
- Uncover the good that is in all of your key relationships.
- Handle your health as if it matters. Take nothing into your body that harms you.
2. Become Self-Motivated
- Stay focused on your goals.
- Abolish the word “can’t” from your vocabulary. Replace it with the word “can.’
- Abolish the word “try” from your vocabulary. Replace it with the word “will.”
- Develop a vivid mental picture of what achieving your goal will look and feel like to you.
3. Become Goal-Oriented
Super-Achievers are all about their goals and their plans for achieving their goals.
- Develop a list of your Major Life Goals.
- Place a sheet of paper (that has your list of Major Life Goals) up on your bathroom mirror.
- Look at it each morning and evening.
Answer the question: Where do I want to be personally one year from today?
Answer the question: Where do I want to be personally five years from today?
Answer the question: Where do I want to be personally twenty five years from today?
Answer the question: Where do I want to be professionally one year from today?
Answer the question: Where do I want to be professionally five years from today?
Answer the question: Where do I want to be professionally twenty five years from today?
4. Develop Self-Discipline
- Read books that explain how to develop self-discipline.
- Develop the habit of doing what you set out to do. Don’t be a quitter.
- Exercise at least 4 times each week.
- Listen to CDs on the subject of developing self-discipline.
5. Create your “Huddle-of-Achievers”
Your Huddle-of-Achievers are those folks who have done what you want to do and those few people who support you in your quest. Talk over your goals with these people and these people only.
Who are the folks that you want in your Huddle?
The power of your Huddle-of-Achievers is that participants increase the level of success that can be achieved by challenging each other to create and implement goals, brainstorming ideas, and supporting each other with honesty and respect.
6. Build Up Your Personal Brand
In my Do Your Brand(TM) seminars I teach attendees how to develop their Personal Brand. I encourage all graduates of my seminar to answer these questions:
- What’s the most important thing in your life?
- What are your core strengths?
- What are your short and long-term goals?
- What is your Unique Personal Proposition(TM)?
- Who are you?
- Who do you want to become?
Then I ask them to regularly and consistently:
- Review their Personal Mission Statement.
- Take action on their Personal Brand Building Plan(TM).
