Self Improvement Tip of the Day: The ‘P’ Words of Success - Have Patience

Self Improvement Tip of the Day: The ‘P’ Words of Success - Have Patience

Things now move faster than at any time in history and they’re only going to keep getting faster and faster. We live in a time where things change and move at a rate that would have been inconceivable to previous generations. It can often be hard enough for us to deal with!

However, one thing that I don’t think has really changed that much is the speed that people become successful and wealthy. There are almost certainly more opportunities and ways to become successful now, and there are certainly dramatically more people now becoming millionaires. Many are probably considered overnight success stories.

However, I’m not sure there are many more genuine overnight success stories now than there ever were. Behind most so called overnight successes there’s usually many years of hard work, setbacks and failures. The other ‘P’ word that really goes hand in hand with persistence and perseverance is patience. Lack of patience has caused many people to give up at their lowest point when things seem hopeless, which is very often just the point where they would have turned the corner and reached their objectives if they’d just kept going. Success rarely genuinely comes overnight. It takes time and a lot of effort, and most people have to make changes to their plans and goals along the way to reach it.

Success is virtually impossible without perseverance and patience.

To be continued....

Self Improvement Quote of the Day:

"Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up." - Anonymous

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Self Improvement Tip of the Day: The ‘P’ Words of Success - Persistence and Perseverance

Self Improvement Tip of the Day: The ‘P’ Words of Success - Persistence and Perseverance

Success is something that rarely happens without a lot of effort. If things come too easily we rarely value them. You’ve only got to think about spoiled children who get whatever they want and never really appreciate things because they take them for granted and just expect more.

We usually have to work hard to obtain anything that is worth having. And we’ll value things we’ve worked hard to achieve more than if they are just handed to us. You can be sure there’ll be obstacles and challenges along the way to achieving any goal and sometimes it can be tempting to decide it’s just too hard and not worth the effort.

This is why persistence and perseverance are absolutely essential to success. Without them, we’ll achieve very little because we’ll give up when things go wrong or get tough. We simply must be committed to what we want to achieve and have the persistence and perseverance to follow through and achieve our objectives. And never give up.

To be continued….

Self Improvement Quote of the Day:

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to." - George E. Allen

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Self Improvement Tip of the Day: The ‘P’ Words of Success - Don’t Procrastinate

Self Improvement Tip of the Day: The ‘P’ Words of Success - Don’t Procrastinate

When you know you should be doing something don’t bury you head in the sand and try to ignore it and hope that it will go away. The old cliché ‘a stitch in time saves nine’ is very true. Anything you put off only gets harder and harder the longer you leave it. Even a small task can build in our minds up to the point it seems almost impossible – if we let it. Things we constantly put off are usually in the back of our minds niggling and bothering us even if we think we are blocking them out.

Use the pleasure and pain principle to help overcome procrastination. We all instinctively move towards pleasure and away from pain. Instead of thinking about the pain of doing something you don’t want to do, concentrate on the pleasure you will feel when the task is behind you and not preying on your mind. For example, don’t think about how much you don’t want to clean up your workspace (or kitchen/garage/house/shed/car or anything else you’re avoiding) and the pain involved in doing it. Instead, concentrate on the pleasure of having it done and how good it will feel to have a tidy office and uncluttered work space and to know exactly where everything is, and how much more productive you will be.
To be continued….

Self Improvement Quote of the Day:

“Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!” - Zig Ziglar

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Self Improvement Tip of the Day: The ‘P’ Words of Success - Make Plans

Self Improvement Tip of the Day: The ‘P’ Words of Success - Make Plans

You wouldn’t build a house without written plans, so why shouldn’t you plan your life?

We all should decide what we want to achieve in our lives, and write down our plans for how we will reach our goals, and break our plans down into manageable chunks, stages and time frames.

You can plan what you want to achieve in the next week, month, year and beyond. Most successful people have plans for all these timeframes, as well as daily action plans. Do whatever feels comfortable, any plan is better than no plan and there’s no point in being too dogmatic and rigid about it. Then just get started and be prepared to be flexible and make changes to your plans as necessary as you go along.

Don’t decide to wait for the perfect time to start - things will never be 'just right'. And don't use the need to plan as a substitute for actually getting started, or fall into the trap of spending so much time planning that it becomes a form of procrastination - one ‘P’ word to be avoided!

To be continued….

Self Improvement Quote of the Day:

“Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.” - Unknown

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Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Last week I had a computer disaster. It stopped working, and nothing could get it started.

Many hours on the phone with the help desk did nothing, except conclude that my hard drive was beyond repair and had to be replaced. They would replace it under warranty but this didn’t cover recovering any of my files which may have been lost forever.

I had an engineer came to replace my hard drive and took more than 5 hours working on this and other problems which still weren’t fully resolved. The next day spent I spent over 7 hours on the phone with a senior technician and finally got everything sorted out. Thank God for extended warranties!

My lost data was even more of a problem. It wouldn’t be for most people working in offices with automatic backups, or better organised individuals who back up their computers regularly. But I hadn’t backed up my computer properly for months!

Although I’m not a luddite, I’ve not really kept up to date with backing up and thought it still had to be done on cds (maybe I am a luddite after all) and backing up always seemed to take hours. I knew I should be doing it regularly and that I need to do something about it, but for some reason I was confident I’d never suffer from the problems I’ve just experience.

An engineer at my local computer shop bent over backwards to rescue my data, including taking it home for the weekend and running many tests etc and working on it for dozens of hours. I’ve no doubt he took pity on me and ended up charging me for what I’m sure was a just fraction of the time he actually spent working on it.

Fortunately I was eventually able to recover most of my files and I’ve now set up a foolproof (I hope!) backup system to ensure this never happens again.

So what’s the end result of this experience? I lost the best part of a week of my time and a lot of money trying to resolve a problem that wouldn’t have really arisen if I’d kept up to date and planned better.

Over the next few blogs I’ll be featuring The ‘P’ Words of Success which came to me as a result. They include things it would have done me good to have acted on before last week! I hope you find them helpful too.

To be continued….

Self Improvement Quote of the Day:

"Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us." -George Allen

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Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Whatever You Believe, You Are Right

Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Whatever You Believe, You Are Right

Overcoming conditioned beliefs can improve our lives enormously and it can be done.

Just being aware of the impact negative beliefs can have on us is an important step.

The most important thing about beliefs is that whatever you believe about yourself, you are almost certainly right. If you believe deep down that you can't do something, even if it's something you really want to do, you are almost certainly right and success is unlikely. However, if you genuinely believe you can do something, no matter how difficult it may be, or how many people tell you that you can't do it, you are also right. The power of believe really is that strong.

Self Improvement Quote of the Day:

'Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.' - Mahatma Ghandi

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Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Negative Conditioning

Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Negative Conditioning

I have a friend who I consider to be one of the best and most naturally talented writers I've ever read, who makes his living almost exclusively from his writing abilities. He's an excellent all round communicator. I was amazed to recently learn that for much of his life he believed he was a hopeless writer and would go out of his way to avoid writing anything. It seems that at an early age he was told by a teacher that his writing was terrible. Although he now thinks the teacher actually meant the quality of his handwriting rather than the content or his writing ability, this was enough for him to believe he couldn't write and subsequently just got by at school and avoided writing for many years.

Years later he was obliged to write a report at work. Despite his initial fears and much procrastination, he found that when we finally started, he not only enjoyed it, but found it came quite easily. His boss was also impressed with the end result, finding it much better than the average dry report he was usually presented with. This did wonders for my friend's confidence and he kept on writing. He's now written several successful books and publishes a regular newsletter to thousands of subscribers using a long dormant natural talent he was convinced he didn't have.

To be continued….

Self Improvement Quote of the Day:

'To succeed, we must first believe that we can.' – Michael Korda

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Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Our Parents Influence Us

Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Our Parents Influence Us

Some people have highly protective parents who from an early age sheltered them from the outside world and made most of their plans and decisions for them. Perhaps they sometimes rebelled and followed a course against the will of their parents and things didn't work out, or they may have been caught and punished.

People who come from these sort of backgrounds may well grow up to be easily influenced by other people and to be more comfortable 'going with the flow' and following other people rather than leading. They can become accustomed, or conditioned, to not taking the initiative and would prefer not have to make their own decisions.

To be continued….

Self Improvement Quote of the Day:

'The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.' – Leo F. Buscagia

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Would You Believe It!

Would You Believe It!

Have you ever seen elephants tethered by a thin rope attached to a small peg and wondered how something the elephants could easily break free of manages to hold them?

This is because when they are just calves they had a strong rope or chain attached to a large peg that they have no chance of escaping from. Whenever they try to move beyond the length of the chain or break free they only hurt themselves, so before too long they don't even try any more. They now believe that they can't escape from anything they are tied to.

Similar behaviour has been seen in experiments with fish. A large, predatory fish is placed in a tank within a larger tank and many small fish that it normally eats are placed in the outer tank. The large fish can see them but every time it tries to get to them inevitably just hits the glass. It tries for some time but eventually gives up altogether. Even when the inner tank is removed and the small fish swim directly around it, the large fish no longer even tries to eat them. It either no longer even sees them, or it no longer consider them to be potential food, to the point where it will die unless fed other food.

These are examples of the power of conditioning, and believe it or not, we can be just as susceptible to conditioning as the fish or even the mighty elephant. Sure, we are more intelligent than animals, and would be unlikely to fall for the above examples, but than doesn't mean we aren't affected by conditioning.

To be continued….

Self Improvement Quote of the Day:

'You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.' – Dr Robert Anthony

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