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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Ah leaving the land of denial I love that expression, very hard to leave behind though. I need to do 4. Affirm to yourself that your knowledge of your subject is growing quickly a lot more often as I tend to forget what knowledge I have gained.
Thanks
Belinda
Hi Belinda,
I totally agree that leaving behind the security of denial is extremely difficult, but very rewarding. And I affirm with you that your knowledge of the subject is growing. Thanks for stopping by.
Debbie,
Step 5 was meant for me today. It often feels like my knowledge-base for Internet technology is akin to a bucket of water in the ocean. Thanks for the affirmation that “I’m learning as much as possible from each success.”
Hi Dar,
I often have that drowning feeling when it comes to technology.
So we are both learning as much as possible from each success. Thanks so much, my friend, for stopping by and sharing your thoughts.
My favorite step was 3, Affirm to yourself that your knowledge of your subject is growing rapidly. I have a 4 week teleseminar series scheduled. The ASK campaign is all set up for the free, preview call, but I am struggling to link paypal and aweber (which I think I did yesterday) and also to set up the pricing so that it works. So I keep repeating that my knowledge is rapidly growing. I have done some of these steps before, with errors, so I have been slowly learning – now the learning is speeding up.
Thanks for a great post and congrats on letting go of past objects to declutter your life and let you move forward easily.
Hi Dr. Erica,
I struggle with the technical aspect of things as well. But both our knowledges are rapidly growing, rapidly growing, rapidly growing . . .
Points 1 & 2 are going to take some work. I’m pretty sure I need to be more analytical about what works and what doesn’t instead of having the usual fog! This post has certainly given me something to think about..thank you.
Best wishes
Joanna
Hi Joanna,
I’m glad that I could give you something to think about. For me, all of the points take some work.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
great steps to success debbie! i learned the ultimate success formula from Tony Robbins at an event of his several years ago: decide what you want, devise a plan to get it, take MASSIVE action, review your results, adjust course if necessary. i love how you added CELEBRATION to it… such an important step! great post
I am so proud of you for the strides you have made over the past 3 weeks! I am so honored to have the conversations we have together and your coaching and keen listening has been amazing! Letting go can be scary but once you catch that wind under your winds the soaring will make up for it!
Great stuff! For me, Application of what you learn is huge in moving on!
Hey Deb,
This reminds me of the movie Ground Hog Day with Bill Murray! Doing the same thing over and over again until you realize that you need to change and go through the process of transformation. It is all a choice that we have.
Make it a great day!
God Bless,
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What I really like about this aspect of applying what we learn… is how our circumstances change so much when we make those improvements.
Your circumstances are changing as we speak.
Highest blessings!
Hey Deb,
If it weren’t for me getting into the line of business I’m in, if it weren’t for me doing other things in the past that even led up to “that” then I wouldn’t have gotten involved with the tribes and met great people like you that teach me new, wonderful things everyday.
I’m so grateful for my tribe peeps.
I know there are a lot of people that have a “different reality” and its such a pleasure and honor to be reading your blog right now. I just wanted to say that.
GREAT STUFF AS ALWAYS – GOD BLESS!