Focus
Once you become clear about what you want to do, identify the tasks that help you make the most progress.
If you can discipline yourself to work on high-value tasks, your life will change for the better.
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First, you have to know what you want. Sometimes this is best discovered by knowing what you don’t want. This can only be accomplished by trying, experimenting, and taking action.
Keep moving forward. In doing so, you will feel inspired to take action in one direction instead of another.
Goal setting gives your mind something to focus on. If you don’t give your mind something to go after, it won’t know what to do. Use the SMART criteria for setting goals:
- Specific
- Measurable
- Attainable
- Realistic
- Timely
Once you’ve set your goal, it’s time to start taking massive action.
If you want to succeed at anything, you have to become relentless.
Becoming successful is all about trial and error. Be willing to try different things until you succeed. Don't fall from one thing to another. Give it a good chance first.
Pick one thing that has been proven to work, and stay focused until you make it work.
- Define what you want. What is the final result you are after? Do you want better relationships, financial independence or something else?
- Set a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely) goal. Write down 10 things you want to accomplish in the next 12 months.
- Write your most important goal at the top of a blank sheet of paper and brainstorm ways to make it happen. Do this until you feel you can’t come up with any more ways, then push yourself to come up with more.
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The only real limits on what you can do, have, or be are self-imposed.
Make a decision to push past your mental limitations and throw your whole heart into the accomplishment of your goal. As long as you keep going, your success is virtually guaranteed.
Emotional Intelligence, the ability to understand yourself and the people that you live and work with, is an excellent trait to balance and correct yourself.
Everything and everyone is connected to one another forming a huge ecosystem. Our endeavours, whether to get a job, to lose weight or to find a life partner is always related to others.
If you feel unqualified for the path you're walking on, keep in mind that expertise comes from knowledge and experience — not from a piece of paper.
Being viewed as an expert comes from knowing what you’re talking about and earning people’s respect.