Steve is about to preach at you!!!
Run!!! Change the tab, switch the window!!! Turn off your computer!!!
Too late.
You should have escaped while you had the chance.
The following are 8 things that I gleaned from various self help, ultimate personal and professional success guru's and just simple ideas that I've learned over the years. I can pretty much guarantee that if you read them, agree with them and then forget about them, they won't help you one little bit. I've already tried that method. But if you pay attention, incorporate them into your daily thoughts and actions, you will most certainly be more successful at the things you want to be successful at (isn't that a dangling particle or electron....i was never good at grammar....or science)
1. THE ONLY THING YOU REALLY HAVE CONTROL OVER IS YOUR ATTITUDE.
Try as you might, you cannot control events or circumstance with any degree of consistency. You can however choose how you will react when anything happens. It matters not how horrible your present circumstance, you have the ability to wake every morning and decide to be happy, to be positive. When something makes you sad, dammit you are sad, but at some point, usually fairly quickly, you are able to maintain rational thought, and at that point you are CHOOSING to continue to be sad. Why not choose a different attitude.
"But steve it's not that easy!!"
Well, how EASY is it to be sad?or mad or petty or spiteful? Do any of those things really help? (if you answered yes....this blog won't help you.)
Choose to be happy. Choose to be aggressive. Choose to be excited. Choose to be enthusiastic. It is within your power.
2. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE.
Where ever you find yourself, in whatever situation good or bad it is the result of decisions you have made or failed to make ("if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" --bonus points if you can tell me what song or band that came from). If your situation sucks. It's your fault. So what. At least now you know, and now you also know that you can decide to get yourself out.
This doesn't mean everything is going to be wonderful right away. You still have to make good decisions. But think of the empowerment this gives to you. You can be successful simply because of the things you do. You can find love because of the decisions you make....not just picking someone, but where you hang out, the attitude you project, the activities you are involved in.
Even when something out of your control happens knocking you off your feet. You can choose to wallow in your self pity or you can choose to react in a positive manner. Often, a positive attitude in the face of adversity does more to advance our cause than any single thing. Is this easy. Hell no. See number 3.
3. LIFE IS HARD.
Life, in general, is a bitch. Are you suprised? Here's the hard part. Life is hard MOST of the time. The funny part is, once you realize this, accept it and quit thinking everything should be easier.....everything gets easier. It's just human nature. You quit banging your head against the brick wall because it's not supposed to be there.....and you go around it. The next brick wall you come to perhaps you'll go around it BEFORE banging your head at all.
4.WORK IS PLAY.
This is one way of saying, if you don't love the work you are doing then everything else in your life is going to be more difficult. Do something else, and don't tell me you can't make the same kind of money. First of all, so what. Secondly, why not. Lastly, what is more important. Besides, if you hate what you are doing, there is a pretty darn good chance you are NOT going to be successful at it in the long haul anyway.
5.THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FAILURE.
There are only results. Failure is an attitude nothing more. Failure is a crappy result that helps you learn how to achieve a better result. Really, this is just another way to say.....don't ever give up. Don't EVER give up.
6.TO GET WANT YOU WANT, HELP AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN GET WHAT THEY WANT.
To me this is the most important thing. Helping people somehow comes back to you tenfold. If your focus is on the needs of others, your decisions are usually more pure and productive.....afterall we are much better at knowing how to help someone else than we are at choosing how to help ourselves.
No magic in this list. But the combination of these things I've found to be extremely powerful. I don't believe this list applies to just your job or career. I think it works as well and sometimes even better when applied toward relationships, goals, stamp collecting, computer games or any other damn thing you choose. Will these things work for anyone? I have absolutely no doubt that they will. Like anything though, it takes commitment and focus. If you wish to make changes in your life, this is an excellent place to start......and possibly finish.
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