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Looking For The Formula For Success? Well, Here It Is!

If you can bake a cake, you can be successful at whatever you are up to in life. All it takes are some very simple tiny steps.

1. Declare a possibility for yourself like: "I am the possibility of being outrageous and loving."

2. Feel that possibility at the core of your being and visualize what you will be doing or what you will have in the next three years. In fact, it's best to create the next three years by standing in the future as if it has already happened.

3. Every three months (each quarter), look at your three year goal and create goals for that quarter. For each quarter, create your goals by standing in the future as if they have already happened.

Wondering why we keep telling you to stand in the future as if it is already fulfilled? The reason we do this is that your subconscious cannot tell the difference between reality and fantasy. Ever wonder why you get scared at the movies? It's the same reason! Similarly, if you lifted weights every single day for three years, would the weight that you are lifting today seem as heavy? This is a key ingredient to your recipe for success.

4. Create an Unleash Lifelog which will serve as your recipe for success as it puts your actions in the right order. Time and again, people make the biggest mistake of all: not writing things down. Writing things down makes it real and makes it much more likely to happen because your goal actually exists in the physical world. There are so many stories of people that discover that their success happened because of something that they wrote down years before but never saw it since then.

Basically, what we really want you to understand is that what you say creates your life. President Kennedy is at the core of the best example of this principle when he asked the top American scientists how fast the United States could put a man on the moon. Not one scientist told him that it would take anything less than 30 years. After hearing that, in a speech at Baylor University, he said, "By the end of this decade, we will have put a man on the moon!"

Even though the most optimistic experts said it would take at least 20 years longer, Kennedy stood in the future and made it happen. In all likelihood, had Kennedy not given that speech at Baylor University, we would not have landed on the moon until the 1990s because the "word" of the scientists said that it was not possible. Their word would have created our world... not Kennedy's!

This structure is key to the recipe for success because it gives you the ability to create infinite possibilities, intentions and goals while at the same time keeping you on track with the basics.

Easy and simple! Now, you have your goals for the next three months set in addition to your three year goals. So what do you have to do to guarantee the results you set out to achieve? Step by step, complete your weekly goals that you detail in your weekly Unleash Lifelog. Remember, you eat an elephant one bite at a time!

Revisiting your short-term and long-term goals on a regular basis will further guarantee your success and propel you even farther ahead.

Revisit your quarterly goals like this:

Reread each of the minimum and targeted intentions that you declared in your Unleash Lifelog and think about each one.

If you were successful in completing it, truly congratulate yourself, feel good about it and check it off your list.

Now, if you haven't yet completed it but you are 1005 positive that you will accomplish it by the end of the quarter, then write "OK" next to it.

Now here's a tricky part. If there is a 90%+ chance that you will not finish it or you are just not committed to completing because it doesn't mean anything to you, then do yourself a favor and either revise it so that you can absolutely complete it by the end of the quarter or delete it entirely (or put a big "X" through it.)

You may think this is cheating or giving up, but here's the deal: you probably weren't going to complete those goals anyway! So, why beat yourself up? Save yourself a lot of energy and reduce your aggravation and pain of trying to accomplish the impossible by recreating your goals.

Think of it this way: there is a huge penalty for setting high goals and not reaching them because people are generally too hard on themselves but, on the other hand, there is no penalty for setting modest goals and overachieving! Ponder this example: say that your original goal was to lose 20 pounds in 60 days but after 30 days you only lost 5 pounds. How would you feel if you didn't recommit to a goal that is more realistic? Probably pretty miserable right? And guess what, since we don't like to do things that make us feel miserable, you'd probably fail anyway! Recommitting is not failing or cheating... it's just smart!

By: Edward M. Brancheau

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