This chapter is not only a summary of what you know
now, it is also a stepping stone to using this book even more
effectively.
Knowing, understanding and putting everything
into action that you know now, will make you successful.
Having read this book this far, you may have lost the
overview. If you have answered all the questions and done
what you were supposed to do, you may be left now with a
lot of details.
The seven steps to success will give you back
the overview and therefore will make you able to get the
best of both worlds:
DETAILS AND OVERVIEW!
Step 1: PASSION
It doesn't matter which book you are reading or who you
listen to—if you look at successful people, organisations,
businesses or even in politics, all successes have one major
common factor—it is passion.
Without passion, your drive to
achieve something, be it for yourself, your country or
whatsoever, will be just mediocre.
Doing what you love or going for what you hate, can
create this passion. Getting out of your victim position,
choosing the right emotion for the right situation and
having your goals worked out, all are steps towards the big
step of desire.
Failing all that, there is still one more way to trigger
passion. Go back to the section on triggering a new emotion,
and trigger passion.
If you ever had passion, go back and
anchor that emotion, or imagine the passion and finally you
can create passion with a 'swish' exercise.
Passion is an almost obsessive purpose and used in both
negative and positive goals. (Not surprisingly I am not
advocating the negative side of an obsessive desire, purely
the positive side).
If you look at successful people, you can
see that an obsessive desire is needed to swim daily for six
or eight hours, or regularly play a musical instrument for a
similar amount of time in order to reach perfection.
Maybe your desire is not quite like that, and maybe it
doesn't have to be, but you surely can see that desire is the
major driving force!
Let me finish this description of desire
with a quote
"THERE IS NO GREATNESS, WITHOUT THE
PASSION TO BE GREAT!"
Step 2: BELIEF
There is not much more to say about belief, other than
that it obviously determines the outcome of your success
story. This may be the right time to read the section on belief
again.
The key is now simple to understand.
If you believe
in limitation, there will be limitation!
If you believe in
success, there will be success!
And, believe it or not, if you
believe in magic, there will be magic!
Please, review your supportive belief list and your limiting
belief list.
Have you found more limitations, and have you
replaced your limitations with supportable belief systems?
Do
that now, and remember affirmations!
Step 3: VALUES
Your values will pretty much determine your life. If you
haven't got any, (and I am sure you have), then your desires
may lead you to negative goals or simply to material goals.
As we said before, there is nothing wrong with money, but if
money is the sole purpose of your life, you are definitely
missing something and I would strongly suggest, that you
check your values again.
Please, know your values, they are important to you, they
are deeper than belief systems. Without values, there is no
reason for doing anything.
Simply put, you wouldn't value
anything you do. Pretty frustrating isn't it?
Step 4: TACTICS
I like this word, it is not as serious as strategy. For me it
sounds more creative, lateral and fun. The idea behind it is
that you have to figure out a road map which will give you
direction and tell you how to get to your destination. We
used the analogy of cars and driving before and it certainly
makes sense. So, before you go into new territory make sure
you have a road map and know how to use it.
Tactics are
ways of organising your ideas, resources, your team, your
time and energy. Play everything to the advantage and for
the good of all. Make sure you don't step on anybody's toes.
Chunking backwards will help you here.
Step 5: ENERGY
You may have all the desire in the world, but if you are too
tired to get out of bed in the morning, you will not go very
far.
To achieve your goals and your passions, you have to
transform your ideas into action. Believe me, you will put
nothing into action without good solid energy behind you.
Have you noticed, that a lot of people's health and wealth
goes into the opposite direction? Those people forgot about
their energy.
By energy I mean physical, intellectual and
spiritual energy. This kind of energy will take you into action.
Make sure your tactics include a road map to the next
gym! That is not all however, you need rest, relaxation, a
positive attitude, peace of mind, exercise and a 'Live Food
Diet' for regeneration.
Doing nothing for regeneration would
greatly enhance degeneration, which is to say the least, tiring.
One more thing—once you hear yourself saying "I haven't
got the time for exercise or a decent meal," etc., you've had
it!
Stress has got the better of you, and stress is the major
degenerative factor.
Step 6: COMMUNICATION
More time is lost in arguments than anything else. The
power of communication is vital to your success. It includes developing a rapport with people and being able to deliver
your message without making somebody else wrong.
Remember from now on that the only reason that you get
into an argument, is to prove yourself right and the other
party wrong. This is a waste of energy, is stressful and
creates enemies.
Finally it definitely does not give you what you want.
Communication must be part of your tactics, check the
appendix for more notes on communication.
Step 7: FAITH
Finally faith. Without faith something is missing, the
whole thing is kind of dead.
Faith comes into any of the
former six steps. It is a deep power from within, that lets you
know that "everything is all right, everything will be all
right."
Remember that faith can shift mountains.
ARE YOU READY TO SHIFT MOUNTAINS?
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