Becoming Successful

Hello! David J here again bringing you more of the steps on my journey toward financial independence.

This post is going to be more inspirational than informational because, if you're like me, sometimes we need to find something in the world around us that gives us the impetus to keep going in the face of adversity. When things aren't working the way we'd like we get frustrated and we need something to which we can look to help us see that yes, it is still possible and that we just need to keep going.

Two points we'll cover today:

1. "Fake it 'til you make it"

2. "You'll See It When You Believe It"

Now, the first of those is from the world of learning new life skills, acquiring a new career or a new direction in life. We all start out learning how to do or be something we've never done or been before. We need knowledge and skills which, once acquired, will create our new self, our new experience, our new world.

The second is actually the title of a book by Dr. Wayne Dyer. It seems a little backward compared to "conventional" wisdom, yet it is an immutable truth. We tend to ignore that which runs counter to our beliefs. When we expand what we are willing to accept, we expand our possibilities and a whole new world of exerience and joy will open up to us.

The two tie together when you want to create a real change in your life, especially in the area of what we loosely call "success". However you define success, make it something that is natural for you, that comes easily to you and just fits effortlessly. If you have to force it, it will never feel right to you and your efforts may lead to something less than your true desire.

You'll need to decide for yourself what success means to you - no one can define success for you. Create the definition - in writing, if that helps. Make it real and make sure it fits you naturally, effortlessly.

One way to achieve success is to actually see yourself being successful, whatever success means to you. Make it so real you can actually picture it your mind. See yourself being successful - create your own "picture of success", if visual images have the most meaning to you.

If feelings mean the most to you, then imagine how you would feel being successful. Stand and walk the way you would if you felt truly successful. Sit as you would sit if you felt truly successful. Breathe and walk the way you would if you felt truly successful.

If words and sounds mean the most to you, then speak the way you would if you felt truly successful. Play the music you'd most want to hear as your successful self. Surround yourself with those sounds you'd most want to hear as your successful self.

If you imagine yourself as successful, and really make it real, now your brain has a specific target. It knows what you expect from yourself and it begins to figure out how to make that your reality.

One of the most powerful features of us as beings is our subconcious self. It works all night, even as we sleep.

Try this: as you're settling in to sleep, bring to the front of your conscious mind a specific question to which you seek an answer: something you need to figure out, a problem you need to solve for whatever reason. When you awake in the morning, unless you've had a restless night due to storms going by, children needing attention or other every day things, you will likely discover that you have answer to your question or problem, perhaps even something you might not have considered before.

It may take more than one night, so keep at it. Many things can disturb our sleep and make this less effective, so stick with it. When your mind understands that you REALLY want an answer, it will provide one.

When you act as if you already have the success you desire, your subconcious mind will figure out what you can do to make your reality match your life as you imagine it.

-THAT- is what "fake it 'til you make it" REALLY means: not to deceive yourself or anyone else, but to create in your imagination that which you desire and make it so real - by your actions and the very way you act and carry yourself - that your brain must change your thoughts to make your life match the success you seek.

If you want to BE successful - whatever that means to you - make it real in yourself and, as long as it is something natural for you to be, it will become real in your life.

I listen to and read many successful people in my personal quest to become more than I have been. In this blog, I provide to you the benefit of what I have learned from my success "coaches", my "adopted mentors". This post is, in fact, a combination of Tony Robbins and Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Choose successful people to model and study. Read or listen to their accounts of their lives, what they have learned and how they have changed their lives because of it.

"Success leaves clues", as Tony Robbins says. Study success and learn all you can about it.

Be a life-long learner!

We'll talk again soon!

Take care - be well!

Much Success!