7 Essential Tips to Achieving the Life You Always Dreamt Of

Written by: corinna.roetzler.fo
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010

Are you prepared to awaken every morning and embrace the drudgery the new day holds for you? Are you exhausted by just treading water and not moving forward in gliding strokes? Watch out for these 7 tips for success that can help you learn how to glide.

1. Give Up. Shocking isn't it? To give up is considered a failure isn't it? Not if what you're giving up is holding you back. But you have to be able to define what it is holding you back. You can't fight what you cannot see, you can't rise above what you don't know about yourself. Write out what you want out of life. Then write out what you have to give up to make it a done deal. Is it sleep? A comfortable (but boring) job? A new car this year so you can afford to start up that online business you've always dreamed of? Whatever is keeping you from success, give it up.



2. Do Something. You must replace what you give up with an action. If you give up sleep to reach the goal of becoming an online success, don't waste time surfing the Web, chatting with friends. Get busy and put your passion to work.

3. Find Your Passion. If you don't know what your passion is (and don't feel bad, many people don't know) then find it. You can have more than one passion. But if you're having to think hard to figure that passion out, get some books that can help you. Books like What's My Purpose? A Journey of Personal and Professional Growth by Jim White.

4. Feed Your Passion. To be truthful, to be passionate about something doesn't mean that you must actually know all there is to know about it. Continually nourish your passion by studying, reading watching related video and attending seminars which will bring you to a deeper understanding of what pushes you forward.

5. Write Down Your Goals. Keeping track of your goals and keeping a list will help you to stay on track and create a strategy to follow step by step. Make your goals specific, avoiding wishy washy "can happen anytime" plans. To get to where he is today, Gary Vaynerchuk was not without a clear plan. He set his goals and went for them.

6. Answer the Why? Have you got a worthwhile reason why you are going to pursue your passion? Create a personal mission statement answering the Why. You must be motivated by your own reasoning. This helps you when times get tough: review your reason why and remain on track.

7. Share the Knowledge. You really do have to give. It helps build your character, it endears you to people and it helps with your personal branding. Even if the success you're looking for isn't tied to business, you'll still benefit from being a giving person.
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Marie Van Wissen

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