Success Tips: 5 Simple But Effective Ideas

July 30th, 2008 Posted in Motivation
by Kurt Schmitt

Here are 5 success tips that you can use to juice up your life, your work, or your business. These are precise, easy to understand, and simple to implement concepts. They are also very powerful and effective.

1. Get rid of the clutter — The consumer oriented society we live in offers a product that promises to repair or enhance almost anything. You can buy tips for success on how to improve your golf game, your business bottom line, or how to get out of debt.

As a result, we are overflowing with stuff. We have too many products that we never use. Much of it doesn’t perform as we expected when we do use it.

We have exercise equipment that promised to make us thin, but we never use; movies that we bought on DVD, but never watch. We own bikes we never ride, and books we never read.

Getting rid of the clutter opens us up to receiving new things, and having new experiences. Too much junk clogs up the pipes, so to speak.

Doing this spring cleaning exercise allows us to have fewer, but more powerful thoughts. It also allows us to become more focused and more effective in our actions.

2. Stop chasing success — Stop chasing success and looking for the big score. Instead, become task oriented and tackle and complete each task set before you. Set your goals and then become a magnet for the things you want. Envision in your mind what it is you want, and then break down the steps into tasks that are easy to do. The less you chase success, the more likely it is to come your way.

3. Create daily habits — Choose 10 things that inspire you and create habits around those things. Don’t choose things that you feel you should do. Instead, choose things that juice you up and replace any old bad habits with these instead.

4. Complete your work now — We know that procrastination is a huge impairment to success. Most of us, however, will put off starting a project until almost the last minute. Yet, somehow, we still manage to get things done on time.

If you can finish a project in a day instead of a week, then start immediately and complete it on the first day, and not the last. You can use the remaining time to work on personal goals, your part-time business, or something else that inspires you.

5. Determine your outcome and know what you want — Decide. Decide on what you want. Decide to commit to your decisions, to take action, to follow through, and decide to accept the consequences of your actions.

For the next 5 months, add one of these success tips each month. In a short time, you’ll see an improvement in the results you get in each aspect of your life and work.

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