I have spent a great many years working on what I think is the ultimate, scaled-down version of the success plan - a Ya-ttitudeTM-Plan. I have read all the greats and the not-so-greats; the obscure and the obvious. But what I have come to learn is that the key to your success is not a secret. I am going to - over the next few weeks - blog for you the general outline and then work the details of what I know will make you successful - no matter how you define success…
The 4-Step Plan to Success, as it will be defined in these readings is multi-dimensional. In your everyday life it will continually change and evolve. But what we can all agree on is this; if you are reading this it is that your ultimate goal is to be successful; not only in your professional life but in your personal life as well. Most people want to be rich and if you are not one of those you should probably stop reading about now. But remember being rich can be defined in a myriad of ways. For the purpose of this reading I will define it as being wealthy both financially and mentally.
Richness of mind and soul are definite parts of these ideas as it intertwines with economic richness too. Being Rich is a state-of-mind as well as a state-of-the-bank-account. Your richness is defined by You!
Success only responds to planning, backed up by strong emotional desires and consistent persistence in the attainment of your goal! You may want to read that last sentence a few times.
Personalize it and say it to yourself a few hundred times.
For the purpose of this initial writing I will outline my 4-step plan. And then over the next few days and weeks I will fill in the blanks and expand the plan until you have a complete handy guide to success.
The 4-Step System to getting it all started.
1. Your definitive plan, expressed by continuous and incessant action.
2. Your definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its attainment.
3. Your mind tightly close to all negative influence. Those negative influences can come from places you least expect; friends, family and acquaintances.
4. Your Master Mind Alliance with one or preferably more persons who will encourage and stand by you always helping you to follow your plan and your purpose.
The great disadvantage in bringing home these strategies and theories in a reading program or a book as opposed to being there, working with you on a one-on-one basis or even in a seminar is that it has to be done in generalities; wide - use your imagination - brush strokes even; and then slowly refined as each chapter, paragraph and word unfolds before your eyes. It is truly the Ya-ttitudeTM Way!
As you continue to read this you will need to stop every once in a while because you will feel a “Hmm” or “Aha” and then you are just going to have to stop and jot down a few notes. Your immediate feelings and ideas are important to record, so do it when you are hit with each epiphany. If you really set your mind to it and study exactly what I am showing you here you will have a great deal of those “aha’s” and that is a good thing. A Ya-ttitudeTM-thing.
You may want to read this with a highlighter or pencil in your hand, so when you come across something that triggers that “Hmmm” you can write it down (you can just notate it in the margin) and be sure to go back and study your ideas as you will realize how many of them you will generate; and you WILL generate many of them.
The great advantage in a course or book that you can work on alone (initially) comes from your ability to apply each one of these ideas (on your own at first) to your everyday life and understand where it fits in and how it will make you better in each and every way. It is a very personal issue the one of self improvement and of self mastery. It is your life-goal that we are talking about here, your chief aim and your plan for your life; very personal. Do not be in a hurry though; this is something that will take a little time getting to get used to and eventually sharing with your friends and relatives and the world will happen for you as it has for me and many of the people I have worked with previously. So the private reading works to your advantage; I actually will share with you a few secrets a bit later about private time and private readings that you should be doing and as you learn and adopt, will be doing.
As this program develops and grows with you; a Ya-ttitudeTM growth; and it is designed to take you step-by-step through an entire growth process, always guiding you, always making you think and always making you want more you will realize that much of it may seem corny or cheesy and maybe even a bit too easy to be effective. But wouldn’t that be great!
A program now exists out here, which is fun and easy to do, ties up all the details of all the other programs, taking all that is good, jettisoning all that is useless and creating the abridged version to wealth, success and happiness.
Now realize this is not something that I want you to think you can absorb and assimilate the first time you read all of this (also an advantage to having this in the written form and not something you watched unfold in a classroom). You are going to have to read it a few times - and I will often remind you of areas you may want to go back and revisit; especially those sentences that can and will change the directions of your thoughts and of your life. Now that is Ya-ttitudeTM.
You need to start by looking at this as a new way of thinking and working. It will include many new ideas, some old ideas but I am willing to bet you have thought of many of them just not in the manner in which they are about to be explained; and with direct points of how you can make use of the ideas. What I really want is for everyone to realize that this is not going to be a text-book lesson. It is not going to come across as the “I lecture - you get highly emotionalized - act-react” system. This is more akin to a group of friends, colleagues, business associates getting together and working on issues and questions together and working the answers as a Master Mind group. And we will dive deeply into the theory of Master Mind Groups later.
I want you to sit back and read this as it was meant to be delivered, for everyone. This is designed to provoke thoughts in your mind, and for you to learn how to motivate yourself into that highly emotionalized state. I do not want to directly instruct or lead you to do a thing, but as an indirect result of all that is to come, you will be more than you can ever have dreamt you would become. You will come to realize that this is an entire system on how to not only be successful in business and become financially wealthy but used in its entirety it will create an entire lifestyle that breeds positive attitude and approach that lend itself to all phases of life and all desires.
Yes you can actually have what you want and be happy too. Now that is the way of the Ya-ttitudeTM!
Procrasti-NATION has held a stronghold over the United Attributes of Initiative for quite a long time; millennia perhaps. But with success on the line; your very future at risk, and the dreams and desires we all hold close to our heart being threatened, those Attributes have taken hold and are making a major push to the enemy line.
Procrasti-NATION, a much larger land mass than any of those areas of individual enterprise is a scary foe; except when e
ach of the 25 separate Attributes come together and form a more perfect union.
The United Attributes of Initiative; A collective of the greatest personality traits and skills joining forces for the common good. A skill-set that has no match except the Omni-present - Procrasti-NATION.
Ladies and gentleman in this corner weighing in at just over two percent of the current population: Personal Initiative!
And in this corner - where 98 percent of the population is affected, where the wheels of business come to a grinding halt, an area of blank stares and nothingness, the place where dreams go to die and plans never happen and where the woes of the world are over looked for the joys of, of, nothing… Procrasti-NATION!
Before the details of the invasion are brought forth in the entire magnificent splendor that only Walt Disney could have dreamed, let me detail for you the members of the United Attributes of Initiative:
There is no doubt in my mind that all of you are familiar with a great deal of these attributes. I am sure that all of you have some, a few, or most of these attributes. Hey - it may even be one of those “Hmmm” moments where you sit back and say - “Damn - I have that skill!” But having only one or some of these attributes will only serve you as a foundation to the creation of your most powerful ally and army - the one that takes down Procrasti-Nation!
The key to winning this war, this take over, this “future is so bright, I have to wear shades“, outlook is creating that plan that will carry through to working your definite aims and goals to your success (yes - this is where it all began a few posts ago when we discussed 4-Step Plan to Success). The purpose of the way this is written is to show you that you cannot achieve it all over night.
You need the early writings to develop a set of skills and goals to take you through each of the next steps. So in my opinion it is a good time to go over the initial posts from the first to this current; Jot down some of the Hmmm’s and Aha’s and email me with questions, comments, or as always feel free to post below.
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