Average people spend their days wishing, dreaming, waiting, and hoping for success. Successful people spend their days believing, thinking, acting, and growing their way to success.
The beginning of the year is the one time annually when nearly nearly 50% of Americans (160 million people) will make a new year’s resolution. Yet only 8% actually succeed in achieving their resolution.
The main reasons for insanely high failure rates:
- setting unrealistic goals
- failing to track progress
- and (as comical as it may sound) simply forgetting about the resolution all together.
Through this blog, I’m on a mission to help people achieve life-changing levels of success regardless of when they start their success journey.
So here is a collection of blog articles aligned to the 9 irrefutable actions you can take right now to help you beat the odds and live the life you deserve and desire.
1. Utilize a Plan for Achieving Success
Success is never built in a day. It is achieved by the things you do or don’t do every day. You need a plan for success.
Article: 7 Steps for Achieving and Sustaining Success
Achieving and sustaining success requires everything you think, say, and do to be intentional and aligned with your goals. This article provides the step-by-step instructions for setting goals and breaking them down into manageable chunks to ensure your success.
Article: Jumpstart Your Success to Astonishingly New Heights in Just 1 Hour a Week
I reveal the revolutionary 7 day plan for doing the right things the right way in order to bring success your way.
2. Maintain a Success Building Team
Success is never a solo act. You need a SUCCESS Team to help you go through life’s challenges to enable you to grow despite life’s challenges.
Article: The 8 Critical Contributors to Your Success: How to Build a Success Team
If you want to achieve and sustain success, develop a personal board of directors and surround yourself with advisors in these 8 key roles.
Article: Develop a Powerful Professional Network in 5 Easy Steps
In today’s competitive global workplace, your success is not found in what you know. It’s found in who knows you. This article provides a masterful step-by-step process for growing your influence on a global scale using minimal effort.
3. Deliver Excellence
People don’t buy average. Companies don’t pay for average. And no organization in their right mind would try to sell “good enough”. To achieve success requires you to deliver excellence.
Article: The One Label that Makes You Irrelevant
Fact – The more of a commodity you are, the more irrelevant you are. Here’s how to tap into your giftedness to live a life beyond average.
4. Be Happy On Purpose
One of the true measures of success is happiness, and the only person capable of making you happy is you.
Article: 5 Daily Actions to Live a Happier Life
Happiness (or lack thereof) is found in our daily routines. Read and apply the 5 actions you can take to immediately begin increasing your level of happiness and therefore your level of success.
5. Prove You Can be Trusted
The lack of trust has reached pandemic status, yet this absurdity has created a gargantuan opportunity for the few who habitually demonstrate trust.
Article: 13 Guaranteed Ways to Get People to Trust You
Citing the ground-breaking work by Stephen M.R. Covey, this article provides a succinct overview of the 13 trust-building behaviors that enable you to be highly respected, highly sought-after, and highly paid.
6. Minimize Your Career-Derailing Blind Spots
John Maxwell defined blind spots as “areas in our lives in which we continually do not see ourselves or our situations realistically.” If you want to be successful, you have to minimize their impact.
Article: 6 Career Derailing Blind Spots and How to Overcome Them
People do not rise beyond the limitations of their blind spots without an effective plan to deal with them. I reveal 6 that, left unchecked, will destroy careers and render people ineffective.
7. Demonstrate the Habits for Success
The recurring theme is this – success is found in your daily activities and routines. As such, success, like anything else, is a habit.
Article: 11 Habits of Highly Successful People
In addition to the plans required for success, here are the 11 daily habits I’ve discovered that enable people to live, love, and prosper with ease.
8. Build a Kick Ass Reputation
The rise of social media has created an increasingly powerful way for assessing anyone’s reputation / personal brand. Anyone who fails to effectively manage their reputation runs the risk of becoming irrelevant in a very short period of time.
Article: 5 Keys to Building a Kick Ass Reputation that Pays
How can you build an awesome reputation that will almost guarantee career success if you manage it correctly? This article reveals the 5 keys for building a reputation that pays and pays handsomely.
9. Deliver a Powerful Elevator Speech in 90 Seconds or Less
Can you describe what you do in 90 seconds or less and make it sound interesting? Don’t be embarrassed if you can’t because most people can’t, and the reason is they don’t know how. I solve that problem by showing you how to do it using a simple, 3 step process.
Article: 3 Simple Steps to Developing an Effective 90 Second Elevator Speech
By reading this article, you’ll craft a powerfully effective 90 second elevator speech in just minutes. Once you do, you’ll have one of the most potent tools for building influence and developing trust – traits that are critical to career success.
Conclusion
You are now equipped with the tools that enable you to take the actions that 90% of people surprisingly fail to take. Begin your success journey by reading the articles in the sequence presented in this blog article, and over time, you will stop living within your limitations and live beyond your imagination.
Here’s to your success!
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