Top Ten Strategies For Becoming Uncommonly Successful

Copyright © 2004-2005 Stacey Mayo, MCC
Center for Balanced Living

http://www.balancedliving.com/



Here are 10 of 26 proven strategies gleaned from interviews with
highly successful people who have overcome obstacles to
accomplish such feats as climbing Mt. Everest, winning a Grammy,
becoming a multi-millionaire, becoming an established author and
humorist, a professional pitcher in the Major Leagues, an
internet entrepreneur who earns millions and more. Regardless of
your career or industry, when applied, these success principles
can shorten your learning curve and be a catalyst for your
success.

These principles were excerpted from the book, " I Can't Believe
I Get Paid To Do This!" Remarkable People Reveal 26 Proven
Strategies For Making Your Dreams a Reality by Stacey Mayo


1) Create Wealth in Alignment With Your Passions

It is important to focus on what you are passionate about first
and then find a way to make money at it. Get in touch with your
heart first, otherwise, the left side of your brain will rule out
perfectly good ideas without having explored them.

"Money allows us the freedom to pursue the things that are
important to us. Money is not an end it itself." Stacy Allison,
first American woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest


2) Honor Numero Uno: Design Your Life Around Your Priorities

Many people try to fit their dreams into their life and complain
there are not enough hours in the day to make it happen. If you
want your dream to become a reality, make it a priority.
Otherwise, it will never be more than a pipedream.


3) Visualize Every Step of Your Dream and Watch the Magic Unfold

The muscle movement that helps us physically take action in our
lives begins in the mind. That is why all great golfers, tennis
players, basketball players, etc. visualize themselves making a
shot beforehand. An experiment conducted by Alan Richardson, an
Australian psychologist, found 23% performance improvement among
subjects who visualized every day for 20 days. In his paper
published in Research Quarterly, Richardson wrote that the most
effective visualization occurs when the visualizer feels and sees
what he is doing.

"I really visualized it, too, even as a child watching those
programs. I could visualize myself walking up the stage, up the
stairs. For me, visualizing those dreams happening was pertinent
to making that happen, because I could see it. I pictured it in
my head" Mary Youngblood, welfare mom turned Grammy Award Winner


4) Easy Does It: Inspired Action Always Trumps Forced Action

Inspired action is joyful action that is in alignment with your
dream. It is action you want to take and the idea of it brings a
smile to your face. When you take inspired action, you are
aligned with what you are doing and things flow naturally.

Contrast this to action that you are forcing yourself to take
regardless of whether you feel like doing it. Maybe you are in a
bad mood or have a headache but decide you have to take this
action and keep trudging forward. The likelihood is that if you
take action from this place it will take you twice as long to
accomplish your task or goal or there will be obstacles that come
up along the way. It's like swimming against strong currents.


5) Laser in On One Idea, Business or Income Stream at a Time

One of the mistakes people make is diversifying too quickly. This
is true whether you are trying to build multiple streams of
income or are just working on several different ideas at one
time. The key is getting the first stream or idea up and running,
producing good revenue, and having systems in place so it will
keep running without you before going on to the next unrelated
stream.

"Several things going on at one time is a distraction to cash."
Loral Langemeier, single mom, financial literacy coach and
millionaire


6) Strengthen Your Relationships: Your Financial Independence is
Dependent on Your Connections With Others

Many people think of the day when they will be financially
independent as "freedom day." And, while financial independence
is a worthwhile goal, it does not mean that you are free of your
dependence on other people. As a matter of fact, in order to
create financial independence, you just might need a lot more
people in your life than you have right now.


7) Develop Your Resilience Muscle: Bounce Back From Setbacks

The truth is that you will have setbacks along the way. This is
just inevitable. The sooner you accept that, the better. Many of
these setbacks will take the form of circumstances that come up
and block your way. If you look closely, you may find these
setbacks are directly correlated with your innermost thoughts,
fears, and limiting beliefs. This is because we create what we
focus on including those things we don't want.

Don't get stopped by these bumps in the road; learn from them. As
you work through the setbacks that come up, you will become the
person you need to be to live out your dreams.


8) Streamline Your Efforts; Align Your Natural Talents With Your
Goal

Success comes easier and more quickly when you enhance your
strengths and delegate in areas where you are weak. Your natural
talents are those things you do so easily and naturally that you
think they are no big deal. Many of my clients were overlooking
their natural talents when they first came to me. They thought if
it is this easy for them, it must be this easy for everyone. This
is rarely the case.

The key is to take your natural talents and abilities and
strengthen them through education and experience. You are not
born an expert at anything. It is something you develop.


9) Disarm That Sneaky Inner Saboteur

Even when we know what we need to do, we often don't do it out of
fear of experiencing the emotions and other things that may come
up as a result. Fear of failure and fear of success are the two
biggest internal fears that people often face. Most other fears
such as fear of rejection fall underneath one of these major
categories. As human beings, we will go to great lengths to avoid
our fears. That is why so many ideas never get beyond being a
great idea, or projects are started and never finished. It is
easy to find reasons, excuses, other diversions or projects,
create chaos, and sometimes to even create emergencies to avoid
these negative feelings or outcomes.

One of the most important things you can do is allow it to be
okay to have these feelings. Then step back and notice what it is
you do to get in your own way. When you have identified what you
do, you can make a conscious decision to do it differently.


10) Shorten Your Learning Curve by Learning From The Best

You can learn from the people who are barely getting by, from
those who are doing fairly well or from those at the top of the
heap. Talk to people who are already successful and find out how
they did it. That's what the book, "I Can't Believe I Get Paid To
Do This!" is about. Its purpose is to provide success principles
and philosophies from those who have excelled. They've already
been down the road and you can learn from their experience. Why
reinvent the wheel when someone else already did a great job of
creating it?




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These principles were excerpted from the book, " I Can't Believe
I Get Paid To Do This! : Remarkable People Reveal 26 Proven
Strategies For Making Your Dreams a Reality by Stacey Mayo,
"The Dream Queen" available at http://amazon.com Stacey is the
director of The Center for Balanced Living. She and her team of
coaches have assisted thousands of people in living out their
dreams with ease and abundance. More information is available at
http://www.balancedliving.com and http://www.igetpaidtodothis.com