How to achieve the life you want!
An article by Jim Connolly
In 10 years time, you will arrive.
The question is, 'where?'
Are you on course to achieve financial and commercial success? If not, you must change course immediately! Just like a car that is aiming for a lamp post, if you don't correct your course, you're going to crash!
The GREAT NEWS is that it's simple to get your life, your business or career on the right track You simply need to take the following two steps:
STEP 1 - decide what you actually want to achieve.
This means sitting down with a pen and a pad (or your computer) and writing down, in detail, exactly what it is that you really want to achieve in your life. If you have ever struggled to get really clear regarding what you want from life, here’s a superb way to find out. Simply ask yourself the following questions and then start writing! Here they are:
“If my life were perfect in every way – what would it look like?”
“If my business was perfect in every way – what would it look like?”
STEP 2 - find someone who can show you exactly what to do in order to achieve the things identified in the first step - then get started!
Does that sound a little too simple to be true? It shouldn’t, because this is exactly how I have managed to achieve everything in my life and career and how every successful person I know has managed to achieve their success.
Just for contrast, I want you to compare this approach to achievement and happiness with the approach used my almost the entire population.
Here's what THEY do!
Firstly – they never decide what they actually want
Ask most people want they want from their life and they tell you the exact opposite; all the things they don’t want; “I don’t want to end up broke” or “I don’t want to spend so much time in the office” or “I don’t want to keep going round in circles in my business” – the list goes on and on! People focus on all the things they don’t want and then wonder why they never achieve a life that fulfils them.
Secondly – they insist on using 'trial and error’
Every unsuccessful person I have ever studied shared one thing in common. They all used the least effective way possible to learn things; ‘trial and error!’ This is not only the slowest, most painful and expensive way to learn something new, it also creates a loop that guarantees a lifetime of underachievement and unhappiness.
I define ‘trial and error’ here as the process of wasting days, months or years of your time in order to learn something that you COULD have learnt immediately, by asking someone who already knows the answer.
Let me explain
Imagine a friend of yours offered you a piece of a cake, which they baked. You taste the cake and it’s delicious, so you decide you bake one just like it yourself! The ‘trial and error’ approach to baking that cake is to think about all the tastes you experienced and the overall look of the cake and then guess what ingredients were used, how they were added and how the whole thing was baked. Even if you were lucky, you might have to bake 50 or 60 cakes before getting one that was just like the original.
The successful approach would be to ask the person who baked the original cake exactly what recipe they used and then get them to give you clear, step-by-step instructions as to exactly what to do. BINGO – you have the perfect cake first time!
Some people who use the ‘trial and error’ approach to achievement set themselves back even further, by asking people for advice, who have little if any expertise in that area. People talk about their health concerns with a family member or co-worker, even though they are not medically trained. They will ask their Accountant about a legal problem they have, even though the Accountant has no legal training. They will ask a friend who has worked for an employer all his or her life, if they should start their own business, even though their friend has no experience of running a business. They get bad advice and thus, make bad decisions – leading to a life where they achieve little if any worthwhile progress.
Most people do not experience a New Year on 1st January – they just keep repeating the same old year; over and over and over again!
Who do YOU go to for advice, coaching or guidance?
Do you have an expert coach who can quickly give you the answers you need? Are you moving forward every day toward the realisation of your dreams or is your business, career or life stuck in a loop?
If business has reached a plateau, become boring or you simply don’t have the energy, drive and excitement you want in your life, you are clearly in need of a more effective strategy than the one you are currently using! You see, if you continue to repeat whatever approach to achievement or success that you are currently using, you will continue to get the same results.
The achiever’s approach to success
Success is all about the quality of your life, so you need to define exactly what you REALLY want from your business and your life; using the question I gave you earlier in the article. Only when you are moving toward the realisation of your dreams and aspirations will you ever be fulfilled, energised and successful.
Next, you need a clear, easy to follow roadmap to take you from where you are today to where you want to be. Where do you get that kind of personalised roadmap? You get it from a Coach, Mentor or Trainer; someone with a track-record of success who knows how to help you identify what you want from your business and your life and also how to achieve it.
Important Point!
Would you take driving lessons from someone that has never driven and does not even own a car? No of course you wouldn’t – and I suggest NEVER hire a Business Coach or Success Coach that does not run their own successful business either!
Believe it or not, the massive majority of people who refer to themselves as a Business Coach or an Executive Coach do not even run a business – let alone a successful one!
Instead, they rely exclusively on charging people an hourly fee or daily fee for all their income. This is not running a business; it is simply earning a self-employed wage! No one who understands real-world commercial success would ever operate with this business model.
Why? Because when this coach is not working, they earn nothing! If they are ill, they earn nothing! If they are on holiday, they earn nothing! When they retire, their income stops too! THEY earn wages instead of making profits, which means that they really are the last people that you (or anyone else) should go to for business advice.
By the way, if YOU are using the ‘time for money’ business model and you want to start earning profits instead; I will show you how - Just click here!
As you already know, I am a Coach, Trainer and Author. My clients and readers trust my advice because they know that I understand commercial success. I run a successful business that perfectly suits my lifestyle and ambitions. My business generates income literally while I sleep, play with my son or go to the gym. I sell my products to people all over the world, yet my overheads are tiny and my profits are huge. I work just a few hours a week - which gives me the freedom to do things I want to do; writing these free articles for example! I am even able to offer a subsidised telephone-based coaching facility; for people who would not otherwise be able to afford to hire me as their coach.
YOU TOO can have the quality of life and commercial success that YOU want. You simply need the guidance of a proven expert - It REALLY IS that simple!
Your life today is a reflection of the things you have done up to this point. Your future will be determined by the effectiveness of the decisions you make from this day forward.
Einstein once said; "Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results!"
Most people complain - but refuse to change. They want more success, a better quality of life and peace-of-mind - yet they keep repeating the same mistakes that frustrate them! The desire for change and the refusal to find a better strategy is the backbone of every failed business and life. If we want better results we must use a better strategy - there is no other way.
Most people settle for a life far less than they are capable of. They live where they don't want to live, drive what they don't want to drive, have what they don't want to have and feel how they don't want to feel.
You and I are kindred spirits!
Obviously, the fact that you are reading this article means you are not one of those people. You, like myself, are always seeking answers. You want to improve. You know that you deserve the very best and you are the type of person who will REFUSE to settle for anything less.
I look forward to helping you develop a business and a quality of life that inspires you and excites you, through my; newsletter, web site, audio programs and perhaps as your coach.
To your success,
Jim Connolly
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