Work on the cause

The law of cause and effect. Everything happens for a reason. If you can define an effect that you want you can trace it back to causes that helped create that effect.

To be happy we need a sense of control and a sense of things fitting together. So when I studied how to be successful at home business I knew it would take a great amount of work but I was very happy and inspired because I knew it was in my control and how it would work.

People have followed the same plan and they are not as sharp as you but they have achieved results. We will too. Most people fail the first time and give up. That's why people don't make it.

I learned to become a self-made millionaire I'd have to be totally different than I was at the time. To attain different results we have to be totally different than what we have become thus far. I would have to become a better person. That ended up being more gratifying than the money.

1. Skills are learnable. If you can learn to drive a car you can learn this.

2. You are one skill away from doubling your income. You can do it.

Scale of 1-10 how are you on these:
1. Ability to dream big dreams. Projecting forward what a perfect life with no limitations would look like. Make a dream list. Run wild with it.

2. Do you connect the work you are doing now to the excitement and joy of creating your dreams? All action are steps towards your dream we should be able to recognize that.

3. Commit to excellence. All people who are successful are excellent at what they do. They did not start that way they paid the price and sacrificed to get there. Everyone who you see doing well was once at the very bottom like you may feel. Mastery in a given field usually takes 5-7 years. Time is going to pass anyways, where would you like to be. No one is smarter or better than you.

4. See yourself as self-employed. As in charge of your own life. You are responsible for your success. The most valuable people in any company take their work as it is theirs and they are responsible. The cream will rise to the top.

5. Develop a clear sense of direction. Become extremely goal oriented. You can't hit a target that doesn't exist. Know what you want and the plan to get it. Know what it is going to take in order to make that plan come true. You've paid the price to get you where you are now. We have to pay the price in full and must pay it in advance. Think of your top 10 goals. Which one if it could be accomplished within 24 hours would be most important to you. If it could be done in 24 hours it would show that it was the most important to you short term. You won't actually be able to get it done in 24 hours but it allows you to see which is most important short term so you can focus. Take that goal and do everything possible to hit it working on it everyday. What do you need to do to get that goal done? Write all the ideas down. Get up to 20 different ideas for this one goal. Take action on those ideas.

6. Refuse to think about failure. The fear of failure is the greatest obstacle to success. It's not failure itself, it's the fear of failure. Failure itself makes you smarter and better. There is no failure only feedback. Most things have a learning curve and the better the skill the longer it will take to pay the price to attain it. Eventually you'll do more and more things right and less wrong. But you will only get to that point from doing tons wrong and taking that feedback as lessons on how to do it better. Failures blame others and complain.

7. Dedicate yourself to life long learning. The only thing that is necessary for our success is our continuing education. If you are not getting better these days we are getting worse. Read this blog, watch the videos, study yourself with your goal sheets, attend all trainings possible. You can never tell where the keys to your success are going to come from so you have to be ready. The more you commit to becoming the best person you can be the more you will like yourself. Your self-esteem will go up.

8. Develop a workaholic mentality. It's loser mentality to focus on relaxing before you've made it. Start earlier, work harder, stay later. 40 hours a week gets your survival, every hour past that is an investment in your future. Average millionaire on their way to success works over 60 hours a week. When you work really work. Most waste time today. That does not count for anything.

9. Get around the right people. 99% of your place in life is going to be in relation to your reference group. We are like cameleons. If we associate with winners we will be winners. People around us are either anchors holding us down or balloons lifting us up.

10. Be prepared to climb from peak to peak. There will be ups and downs just make sure the general direction is up. 2 steps forward one back, try to make the one back doesn't take you back too much.

11. Develop resilience and bounce back. You will be knocked down. Mentally prepare for any negative challenges you can see coming up. Learn to take it and get up and get going. Everyone has problems, like waves of an ocean. The ones that aren't fun are the crisis times. Learn to respond well to those crisis times. Look for the solutions. Write out the problem clearly and then you'll trigger solutions.

12. Become an unshakable optimist. Always feed your mind with positive things. Optimist learn more things, try more things, and persist through tough times until they achieve their goals.

13. Develop qualities of courage and persistence. 2 types of courage: 1, to begin, to take action. 2. The courage to endure, persist, no matter what happens you won't ever give up. If you make that decision in advance it's way easier to bounce back faster.

14. Develop self-discipline. Not doing things when you feel like it. But doing things when you should be doing them whether you feel like it or not. The more disciplined you are the more you like yourself, the more you like yourself the more disciplined you will become.