What is the key to success? There has been enough written on that subject to fill the Grand Canyon. Is there any one factor that can make or break a business? If there is one key factor to ensuring success, is it available to everyone? Does it involve money, background, education or something each one of us can possess and utilize? Loving new challenges Ive undertaken various business ventures, some with success, while others fell by the way side. In the recent year I have extended these ventures to the Internet. Through my failures and successes I have learned that there is one very essential ingredient, in fact the most essential ingredient to ensuring the success of your business. Whether the business is online or off, service or sales, part time challenge or lifes dream. In every situation this one key ingredient must be present for any business venture to flourish. And without this ingredient, failure is a certainty. It is inevitable that you will eventually forsake your business venture or it will forsake you unless you develop the ability to foresee its success. It is vision that will give you the stick-to-itiveness when the road seems all uphill. It is the foreseen success that will enable you to continue working hard and long when it seems to be going nowhere. For every business has its clouds. It is vision that will enable you to persist so you can reach the pot of gold beyond the rainbow. Thats the key. You must be able to envision yourself as though you have already accomplished the success. Picture yourself the successful entrepreneur you want to be. Imagine the business earning the money that want your it to provide. Foresee yourself as successful. If you can see yourself as a success, then you will succeed. Some may call this self-confidence, or belief in oneself. That is a large part of it, but there is more. Be able to dream your success in such a way that you actually are able to see yourself already having reached your desired goal. Liken it to an actor in a movie. A successful actor becomes the person he is portraying, he believes himself to be the character, therefore he is the character. After all, are we not what we believe we are. The way we see ourselves is how we perform. Believe yourself to be the successful entrepreneur you are desiring to be. Act out the part. Draw up a plan, place yourself in the plan and act out the successful role. Something that works for me is a daily ritual in the morning. When I am cleansing my face and brushing my teeth, I take a few minutes for play acting. Similar to positive affirmations, I envision myself in my business successes. Just as a child daydreams for a few minutes a day. Does this really work? Try it and see. Have you ever known a compulsive liar. (I am not advocating you become a compulsive liar, of course.) If you have ever known someone who is really a compulsive liar, you will know that after a while they cannot distinguish between truth and the lie. This is because your sub-conscious will believe what you tell it out loud. Take a few minutes a day and act out loud your success. If asked, all success magnates would have a story of vision. Go ahead give it a try. Foresee your success, act as though it has already been accomplished, take steps to obtain the skills, work at it diligently, never lose your vision, keep your eyes on the prize, and you will achieve the success you foresee. |
