Do you want to be successful? In this video you're gonna learn five sure ways
to program your mind for success
Hi, I'm Adriana Girdler, President of CornerStone Dynamics and a Productivity
Expert. Obtaining success is easy once you know the secrets to it and it all
starts with you. You are the key to success, the first thing you need is you
need desire. Desire is a starting point for programming your mind for success.
It's what drives you particularly through the good times and the bad times
in order to achieve what it is that you want, now how do you find out what your
desire is? Well, you have to know what you want out of life and the best way to do
that is to understand and have a personal vision statement. To learn a
little bit more about this check out this link above to my TEDx talk on doing
just that: finding out what your purpose is, connecting to your passion and
figuring out your desire. Visualization is the next important step in
this process, so once you understand your desire and you have a vision, just like
what athletes do, they're actually famous for this and there's tons of studies
that prove this, is they visualize their success. So how do you do this? Well, take
five minutes out every day, look at your vision statement, I want you to close
your eyes, I want you to visualize all the success, everything that you want and
how you want it to turn out, play it over and over in your mind until it just
becomes automatic. Literally do this every day,
it is huge in keeping and ensuring you have that positive attitude and you are
seeing how your life is really meant to be. Use your words wisely. What we say has
complete impact on how we look at and perceive life and most importantly the
success we want in it, so you may now be great with visualization, you may have
the desire but if you're in negative in your words you're just
putting up this barrier and there's no way you're gonna achieve the success
that you're looking for. So what do I mean by this?
Well, our words are powerful, you probably heard that before
Take a journal for five days, write down everything that you're saying and really
analyze the words that you're using, so some words that really have negative
connotations versus positive ones, well I have to versus I get to. So, I have to
take my son to his appointment. Hmm, it feels like an obligation or a burden. I
get to take my son to his appointment, it actually is as positive connotation and
I'm connecting with him. Another one is, I'll try versus I will. "I try" actually
has a little bit of, you know what? I may or may not do it. "I will" is very
definitive: I will, and really has positive connotations. Another favorite
of mine is, I should versus I ought. So should is used a lot and I always say,
don't should on yourself, because there's a positive negative aspect to it and if
you don't do it it's like you're bad, so take that out of your vocabulary and say,
I ought to do this. It's very neutral and if you do it, great, and if you don't,
that's okay, too. Words are powerful, and be careful with
how you use them. Do versus wish. Dreaming and having desires are absolutely
fantastic but it does not stop there, you actually have to now put things in place
and do it. So the best way to do this is to have very specific goals that you
want to achieve and the best way to do goals is to make sure that they are
SMART. So what do I mean about SMART goals?
Well, SMART goals is an acronym and S stands for specific, which is the which,
what, who, where, why, and when. M is measurable and that is, how much or how
many do you want from a goal perspective? A is achievable, you're actually
describing your results. R is realistic or relevant so you got to challenge
yourself to be realistic and relevant to your business
but you also have to have a dream, so this is a little bit of a balancing
act because you want to be able to achieve it but you don't want to make it
where your bar is so low either. And last but not least is T which is time-based
and that is, when are you gonna do this by? So by having SMART goals it's gonna
help you achieve what it is that you're looking to do. Be open to opportunities.
Now that you're really clear with your vision and you're clear with desire and
you actually have SMART goals, the next stage to all of this is being open to
the opportunities. There are so many doors of opportunities around us and
until we're in the right frame of mind, we sometimes don't see them but I
promise you they're there. Now that you're thinking positively and now that
you have everything in place be open to say yes to these opportunities that come
to you, align them with what's important to you and say yes. Now that you have
these techniques in order to reprogram your mind for success I look forward to
hearing from you as to how it's going so please comment below and if you have
anything to add to this list I would love to hear from you. If you can please
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friends because when we are excited about other people's success, guess what?
Success comes to us 10 folds. Have a great day and I look forward to seeing
you at the next video. Bye!