7 Actions for Success

I recently found an article in Entreprenuer magazine entitled 7 Secrets to Success. The article talks about the seven C’s, however it has a 7-point small action plan that I like even better and thought I would pass along to you. For each, I am going to include my own comments on it, because I think this is important for anybody looking to succeed and being their own boss.

1. Decide on exactly what you want in your life and write it down. Make your goals specific and, for each, define a measurable statistic. The statistic is important. One key reason people fail at their goals is because they do not track their progress and/or the goal is too vague. It is important that the goal be stated in such a way that it is clear when it has been accomplished. “Increase revenue by 10%” is much more measurable than something like “Make my website better”.
2. Specify the most important skill you could develop to move you into the top 10% of people in your field, then figure out your first steps to gain that skill.
3. Identify the major constraint or limiting factor inside yourself or in your world that is setting the speed at which you achieve your goals. Then, work on removing or handling that limitation. For many people who want to do this, they are their own worse enemy. There are barriers, either inside or outside, that one can blame for why they are not succeeding, but the truth is that the right mentality that it takes to succeed would also involve actively removing those barriers.
4. Determine your single biggest barrier in your business or personal life and work our solutions to make it go away. Again, a successful entreprenuer doesn’t mold to the world or accept barriers. Instead, he or she molds the world to him and actively makes things go right. The supreme test of anybody’s true ability is whether or not that person can make things go right.
5. Create a list of what you want to be, do and have. Create this list based on everything being ideal. Start with the HAVE, then see what you will have to DO to have those things, then you will see what you need to BE to get there.
6. Accept complete responsibility for your life. This is SO important. The biggest difference I see between an entreprenuer and a normal blue-collar worker is that the blue-collar worker will have a laundry list at all times of reasons why they are where they are. It could be their significant other, their boss, high taxes, whatever. They are all excuses why they haven’t gotten to where they wanted to be. An entreprenuer, on the other hand, will not AGREE with those barriers and will, instead, find ways out out-smarting them. So, taking responsibilty for your own life instead of acting like others have responsibility for your life is VERY important. You will not get anywhere by waiting for others or the government to prop you up.
7. Reaffirm and visualize your goals as reality. In other words, operate as if those things that you want are either there now or that there is absolutely no doubt that you will get them. If you operate this way, you will be suprised just how well things will go for you.

Those who succeed in this busines do so primarily because of their mindset. Sure, there’s a little bit of luck involved, no doubt. But, mindset is everything. Decision is everything. If you don’t really make the DECISION to succeed, then nothing else will really line up for you.

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