Have you ever thought about success as being a process that you can duplicate over and over again and routinely transfer to every area of your life? Really, success is no happy accident.
I am a people-watcher. I love to observe other people. One thing I’ve noticed is that nearly everyone, even some pretty effective, “successful” people, spend a fair amount of their time wandering around making some good decisions, some bad – never analyzing and understanding what they do right or how they do it.
Without that understanding, you can’t duplicate what’s right and apply it to other areas of your life. This lack of understanding can cause years of laboring at it in order to get it right.
While knowing what works is important, knowing what doesn’t work is crucial. If we don’t know what isn’t working, we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over.
We all have the intelligence we need to achieve practically anything we desire. But our lack of attention to small details makes even smart people look and feel inadequate much of the time.
I’m no exception to this and being an analytical person by nature I am intrigued by the idea that I can analyze my way to success! But if you are not an analytical person, don’t quit on me now, because the steps are really very easy.
Once I left the land of denial, I realized that I was holding onto the material things that reminded me of my family and my past. But in many ways holding on to these things was getting in the way of my success, future, and happiness. I have learned that the memories are mine with or without the physical things. I am applying this by getting rid of most of the things and moving on to my future, my success, my happiness.
If you take these steps, nstead of getting upset by mistakes, your belief will truly be that they are simply a part of the process of reaching your goal. So you won’t fear mistakes, setbacks and delays so much, if at all. And instead of making the same screw-ups again and again, you’ll look for the problems, find them, fix them and move forward more intelligently… certain that you can and will succeed.
As always, it’s not about the destination; it’s about the journey.
Deborah (Debbie) Stevens is an MBA, CPA, Money Maven who offers down to earth accounting, tax and consulting services, is a health and fitness coach, and jewelry designer and re-engineerer. With more than 10 years in public accounting and 6 years in private industry, her boundless energy and talents are now focused on making small businesses successful by analyzing the problems, discussing the issues, and crafting the appropriate solutions. Her strong, personal integrity, hard work, sheer determination coupled with a deep fun-loving view of life are what makes her tick. After having lost 116 lbs in 15 months, she has recently added weight loss and fitness coaching into the business mix. She is passionate about everything she does with a deep desire to help people. She is personable, down to earth, and ready to roll up her sleeves and get started on your business solutions. 
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Hey Debbie, what a great post. You really made me think with this one. I am an analytical person also. I love your statement that success is a process that you can duplicate! I have been in several completely different professions and it had never dawned on me that I could use the success from one area to create success in another. I am definitely going to give this more thought. Thanks for sharing this unique post with us.
Very true. Sometimes I look back at great things I’ve done and think… how did I do that? I know it’s in my brain and I could duplicate it again.
Tony Robbins calls it a pathway to success and as you are going through a process, document it, write the steps down like a recipe and then duplicate it in the future.
Transfer it to other areas of your life.
Habits and routines are something I spend a lot of time developing in each area of my life.
Thanks
Gavin
Hey Deb…I personally am working on being completely aware through every “good”, “bad” and “neutral” decision or activity. This way I am trying to understand as I go through something where it is taking me from one moment to the next.
In this way I am spending less time in evaluation mode and more time in action/course correction/action/course correction mode. I find for myself, anyhow, that I am much more effective at getting things accomplished and adjusting on the fly which enables me to put things into effect right now. I keep mental notes to understand how differently to walk into a similar situation the next go around.
I guess it is a slightly modified version of what you are talking about here. As always you have great wisdom to share with us all and I am appreciative.
Thanks!
Hi Deb!
Love this post and it really touches upon a key point.
Your success does not depend so much on adding things outside yourself but instead removing things that do not support you.
Most people, myself included, get in our own way. When we allow our true self to come out anything is possible and we can be free to enjoy life.
To Your Genius,
Eiji
Debbie,
Great post on systematizing success. The book I’m working on this summer is about systemizing happiness (Learn to Feel Good!).
Thank so much,
Adam
Great tips, Debbie! I see so many people get discouraged with setbacks that literally stops them from moving forward. I don’t know if it’s wisdom or what but I welcome mistakes because it usually means you’re stretching yourself to something new
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Janette
Hi Debbie,
I loved your statement “If you take these steps, instead of getting upset by mistakes, your belief will truly be that they are simply a part of the process of reaching your goal.” When I really started to get this I looked for all the positives in my mistake because when I look back each one has moved me closer to my goals. On the subject of getting rid of the “stuff”. We sold our home in Texas and got rid of everything and are now moving around CA staying in beautiful vacation homes. It was so freeing.
Thanks for the share,
Michael