[Writerpreneur OS] Day 5, Lesson 0105: How to Think Your Own Success - Earl Nightingale
6 Steps you can take to get your writing and publishing goals accomplished. It has to do with thinking daily...
How to Think Your Own Success - Earl Nightingale
Success is available to everyone who commits to being successful. If you've read this far, you have probably already made that essential decision. Here are the next steps:
1. Start getting up a little earlier than you're accustomed to. This gives you extra time that 95 percent of the people in this world are not using at all. One hour earlier a day gives you six extra 40-hour weeks a year. During this extra hour, take a refreshing shower, dress, get yourself a fresh, hot cup of coffee or tea, and then sit down to a clean sheet of paper.
2. Decide what you want in life. More wealth? Success? Happiness? More time with your family? At the top of the paper write down your goals. For example, let's say you write down the amount of money per year that you intend to earn soon. That's your financial goal. You don't have to tell anyone. It's nobody's business but yours.
3. Start to think. Think about your goal and what it will mean to you and your family. See how many ideas you can come up with to help you reach that goal, ideas to improve what you now do for a living. Ways of increasing your contribution to match your income goal.
4. Try for five ideas every morning. Write them down and save those sheets of paper in a special "ideas" file. Focus on ideas within your line of work or expertise or area that you are most interested in. To think well and profitably, you must discipline your thinking. Keep your thoughts on course, controlled, and focused. Many or perhaps most of your ideas will prove fruitless. But some of them will be very good. A few will be excellent. And every once in a while you'll come up with something truly outstanding.
5. Develop a sense of expectancy. That is, try to hold the feeling that the goal you're shooting for is a sure thing and that it's only a matter of time before it's realized. Henry Ford didn't start making cars until he was 45. A friend of mine started a new company at 65. He's still going strong, and his new company has sales of better than $300 million a year. It's never too late.
6. Change your attitude. Attitude has been called the most important word in the language. William James put it this way: "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." To change your attitude, begin to act like the person you most want to become. If you were already in possession of the goal you're shooting for, how would you conduct yourself in all of your affairs? How would you dress? How would you talk? Well, do it now, and tomorrow, and the next day. Begin now to act the part of the person you most want to become. And you will end up becoming that person. Practice your new attitude every day – every waking hour.
And it all begins the moment you decide to become a Have person and leave the Have-Nots to their complaints and excuses.