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Beliefs
The first thing that affects us is our beliefs. Your beliefs are like the operating system to your brain. They determine almost everything in your life. When you believe that something is possible, guess what, you set a target to go achieve it. If you believe that it’s possible to earn a million dollars, you set a goal to earn a million dollars. If you don’t believe that you can possibly achieve anything beyond the average you won’t even dare set the goal.
So the beliefs drive the goals you have. What you believe determines what you want. Your beliefs also determine what you do in your counter failure. In other words, if you believe that you’re stupid for example, if you believe that things are just too difficult, will you change your strategy? No. When you get failure you just give up and blame everyone else because you may have believe that it was not your fault.
Values
The second thing that affects us, our life values. Your values are the emotional state that you move towards and away from. They are the things that really drive our behavior every single day. But know this, if your values are in conflict with your goals, or your values in conflict with your behaviour every single day, you will not consistently get what you want. So values are the second component that drives the ultimate success formula.
Success
The third component, is another form of beliefs and is the belief of who you are and what you stand for and this is your identity. In other words, do you believe you deserve success? Or do you believe that you are just an average person. What is your identity, who do you think you are? Do you believe you’re someone who’s exceptional? Do you believe you are a champion or winner? Or do you believe you’re someone who is a loser. So again your beliefs, your identity and your values drive what you want in your life, they drive you strategies, they drive your actions and they determine what you do when you fail. And this is called the ultimate success formula.
Feedback
There is no failure in life. There is only feedback.
The law of requisite variety
So what is the law of requisite variety?
The law of requisite variety says that as long as you continually are flexible enough to change your strategy, you eventually get what you want.
The Power of Commitment
Are You Committed To Succeed?
How many of you are committed to succeed?
When you’re committed to do something, it becomes a must. It’s not a should, it’s not a could, it’s not a like to, it’s a must. Because when something is a must for you, you opt it from a very different frame of mind. When something is a must, guess what, you will do whatever it takes to get it done, provided it
is ethical, it’s legal, and it’s moral.
Unfortunately, many people don’t work from this frame of mind. Most people only wished to succeed. So they only do things as long as it’s within their comfort zone. As long as they feel comfortable, as long as it is not too painful, and every time you pushed them beyond the comfort zone, guess what they will do, they will keep within their comfort zone, giving a lot of excuses, and they say, “You know I can’t do it because I don’t have the time, I don’t have the energy, I don’t have the money, I don’t have the resources, I am not young enough” for example.
