I am always being asked how I managed to get so much done in developing my internet based business Women Internet Marketers -at http://www.wimsite.com - and it really is simple. What I have is complete focus on my future vision, but also what I need to get done that month, week and day to ensure that vision becomes a reality.
The only thing I have is huge quantities of desire! I have a desire to provide value in everything I do. I have a desire to support women who are ready to work towards running a successful internet based business. I have a desire to travel the world with my children and provide them with the very best that life (and money) has to offer. So if I am working on my computer until 2am it really isn't "work" for me. I love what I do (although the 2am thing isn't recommended every night!!!)
There are no magic formulas to becoming successful it is all about focusing on what works rather than what doesn't work.
It is all about focusing on what you want, not on what you don't want.
I know, I know, that's far too simple. Life is more complicated than that, right? Wrong! Listen my life motto used to be “Life Must Be Hard”. It totally blew my mind when I discovered that life is actually really, really simple we just like to make it hard! So it's time for a new conversation to take place.
What is your conversation that focuses on lack, limitation and/or what you don’t want? What's the conversation that you will be ending? What is it you want to achieve? Focus on that and nothing else. Keep your focus on what you desire.
Believe in your mind, heart and soul that you have no other option than to be successful.
No matter what is happening in your world keep your focus on the fact that you will succeed, feel it deep within you and hold onto that at all times. Engage your emotions too, allow yourself to feel the excitement of achieving your desires.
I am not talking here about what you "hope" may happen, but on what you absolutely know, deep within you, is possible. The achievement comes from knowing that you want it, that you focused on it, and that you overcame some major limits to get it.
What is your heart's desire? Now read that again because I did not ask what is it that your head desires, we all know the head wants you to pay the bills and make sure everything is safe and secure. But what is it that your heart desires?
Definition of Desire 1 to wish or long for; crave. 2. to request; ask for
So when you desire something not only do you long for it, but you are also sending out a request, you are asking for what you want. And when the burning desire fills your very soul and when you just KNOW that this is going to happen - it is impossible for anything else but success to take place!
When you have a burning desire for something and are ready to stand in faith (faith - the absolute knowing deep within you, like you know that when you wake up tomorrow there will still be air to breathe – that kind of faith!) the universe conspires to make it happen.
Suddenly information comes your way, people call you, and doors open.
Unfortunately, our goals do not always go that way because here is what many of us do :
Monday: "My desire is to sell 100 copies of this product by Friday"
Tuesday "Actually did I say 100 I meant 200"
Wednesday "Well I have sold 5 so maybe I should say less than 100"
Thursday "Oh this stuff never works for me!"
Okay, a slight exaggeration, but you get where I am going with this. If things do not happen when we think they should, if it takes us 3 weeks instead of 1 to complete something, or if we attempt something once and it doesn’t work we are ready to give up.
The goal posts are changed half way through, we give up because success is taking so long but the thing to remember is sometimes nothing happens as you think it. It would be great if our goals and desires could follow the exact structure that we have written down but that would just be too easy!
How can we create what we desire if we keep changing the goal posts and get caught up in that kind of mental confusion?
We need to work out what our desire is and then focus on it until it has been achieved. Let me repeat that. Focus on it until it has been achieved.
Not until the next great internet based business opportunity comes along, not for one week until you have decided it is a complete mess and you just don't want to do it anymore. Not until you think it is not worth bothering with because it hasn't arrived when you were expecting it!
No. This is about focusing on your desire until it has become a reality in your life.
But watch yourself here, because there is a very thin line between flogging a dead horse and never giving up! How do you know which of the two you are doing?
You need to know yourself. You need to know when your actions are limiting you or are truly what you want to do. You will have internal signals that tell you what your actions are really about. If you think you don't or if you don't recognise them it's time to go back to basics and re-introduce you to yourself! Get to know who you are so you recognise these signals. Its is imperative to your future business succcess.
Focus + Desire ( - Distraction) x Support = Success
Okay so you do the math! Discover what you desire, focus on it, limit distractions, gain support and success will be your final result.
Of course life will throw a few obstacles along the way, remember though these "obstacles" are a real blessing because they are supporting your growth and development.
You will either allow what happens to crush you or make you stronger. Your reaction to challenges and obstacles will be everything. If you have a true desire to achieve something then nothing will stand in your way.
And again, there is something bigger than other people or events that can stand in the way of your success. Once more the secret to what stops you, what limits your success is no secret. Why? Well because it's you!
If you have a true desire for something but an underlying belief that it is not possible, or a need to sabotage your success then you have just hit your biggest obstacle ever.
Reading self-help books, attending seminars, gathering support, these are all the icing on the cake. But it's the cake itself that you need to impact! And again, this is about you going deep within and discovering what you do to sabotage your success.
Trust me on this one, if you do not have everything you desire in your life right now it is not because the delivery didn't turn up on time, or people let you down. It is not because the prototype didn't work properly or because there wasn't enough money.
If any area of your life isn't working it is because deep within you there is a part of you making sure you screw up.
If you have trouble believing that then chances are you will never find out what part of you is doing this. If you are reading this now and thinking "that's not me!" then you are in deeper trouble than you know!
There are only two ways that you can uncover why you do what you do. The first is to acknowledge that you do it, and the second is to ask yourself some questions that will help you uncover what you do and/or why you do it but you at least need to remain open to the possibility that there may be something there in the first place.
Focus and desire - it's all you really need to enjoy success. The secret is, there is no secret to achieving what you want. Galileo said "You cannot teach anyone anything; just show them where the answers are inside them" If it's time for answers at least now you know where to go to find them. |
