Success: 3 Key Things You Must Know

Like everything we do in life, whether it's riding a bike, learning to sail, or starting a business, there are things you must know, things you must learn.

After studying some of the most successful people around, in all walks of life and business, I’ve put together the 3 keys that were most common to everyone I studied.

1) Change your mental programming...if you are not achieving what you want in your life, it could be your past conditioning to certain events. Your brain atomically conjures up the feelings of a past memory, and based on how that past memory made you feel, this is how you deal the current situation. You must decide at that point, do you let the past control you or....do you choose to form a different mental note from that day forward.

Choose now to begin again, to start new. Your thoughts are where everything starts, change them and change your future.

Here's a little thing you can try to get your brain trained to change. Step outside your comfort zone, do something that's 'out of the norm' for you. This can be a little as going to the movies by yourself, or something as much as skydiving....I've done the skydiving, but not the movie thing yet....but that will change 'your norm' forever, and now you have an expanded comfort zone.

Please note...you don't change in a day, week, month or even a year, but remember this, that you must improve only a small percentage everyday in order to succeed. If you improve 1% everyday…in only one year you would have improved 365%. It’s easy to fail…you just do nothing!


2) Never stop Learning....to be educated is key #2...you must continue to learn everyday, and don't be scared to ask for help or assistance, this is how we learn. I don't know everything, and neither do all the gurus...they all continue to learn everyday.....because if you’re not learning (or growing as person) your dying.

You have to develop yourself into the type of person that others seek out. Commonly called an ‘Alpha’

By constantly learning and improving YOU everyday, you are placing yourself a head of everyone else…as an ‘Alpha Leader’ in that particular field.

Even if you only gain one piece of new knowledge from an eBook or course, that’s OK. That one little piece could make you 1000’s of $$ in the future.

You’ll find that the most successful people in your industry also spend the most on new learning materials…eBooks, seminars, courses, etc…

3) Take action…not only do you have to continue to educate yourself, everyday, but you have to do something with that knew found knowledge.

The knowledge you gain is ONLY useful when you act upon it. If all your doing is learning, without taking action, you may as well stop right there…knowledge without action is useless.

The biggest mistake I see happening today is that people think they have to KNOW everything before they act. That is the wrong way to think. Gain some knowledge, then act…gain some more, and act again. If you’re waiting to have all the answers, to every question, you will NEVER start anything.

3) Do onto others....one of the oldest saying around, you've heard it before, and I truly believe that this alone can change a person so dramatically! If you've never done this, try it. Start treating those that surround you as though they are all a part of you...just because someone has treated you bad, do not pay that forward, which so often happens.

It's like a husband has a really bad day at work and comes home and kicks the dog, and yells at the kids, because he feels a need to release the anger that has created itself from others towards him.

This is one of the hardest keys to change, but one that is a must!

We must hear a lot of no’s to get closer to the success we desire.

Col. Sanders was refused by more then 65 restaurants before his chicken recipe was accepted…and he was like 64 years old when he started! Each ‘no’ brings us closer to our dreams. What would have happened if he would have given up after one, two, three of fifty ‘no’s’

No KFC restaurants…