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Maximum Achievement - By Brain Tracy |
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Over the years, I have learned this: You can’t hit a target you can’t see. You can’t accomplish wonderful things with your life if you have no idea of what they are. You must first become absolutely clear about what you want if you are serious about unlocking the extraordinary power that lies within you. Every success I’ve enjoyed came after I had taken the time to think through what my goal would look like when it was accomplished. You have to decide exactly what “success” means to you and what your life would look like if you made it into a masterpiece.
Seven Keys to Success Seven ingredients of success are consistent with everything ever written on success and happiness. They characterize the lives and accomplishments of all high performing men and women. By defining your success and happiness in terms of one or more of these seven ingredients, you create a clear target to aim at. You can then measure how well you’re doing and where you need to make changes.
1. Peace of mind. Without peace of mind, nothing else has much value. You usually evaluate how well you are doing at any given time by how much inner peace you enjoy. You experience happiness and peace of mind whenever you are free from the destructive emotions of fear, anger, doubt, guilt, resentment and worry. In the absence of negative emotions, you enjoy peace of mind naturally, effortlessly. The key to happiness, then, is to eliminate, or minimize, what causes you negative stress, including negative people, situations, and emotions that make you unhappy. Project forward in thought and imagine your ideal life. What combination of ingredients would have to exist for you to be perfectly happy? Don’t worry about what’s possible or not possible for you at the moment. Just define your life exactly as it would have to be for you to enjoy the peace of mind you desire. What would you be doing? Where would you be living? Who would be there with you? How would you spend your time?
2. Health and energy. Just as peace of mind is your normal and natural mental state, experiencing health and energy is your normal and natural physical state. Your body has a natural bias towards health. It produces energy easily and in abundance in the absence of mental or physical interference. And radiant health exists in the absence of any pain, illness or disease. Wonderfully enough, your body is constructed in such a way that if you just stop doing certain things to it, often recovers and becomes healthy and energetic all by itself. If you achieve great things in the material world but lose your health or your peace of mind, you get little or no pleasure from your other accomplishments. Imagine yourself enjoying perfect health. How would you feel? What would you weigh? What foods would you eat and what exercises would you do? What would you be doing more of, and less of? |
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