7 Sure and Tested Ways to Avoid Success
Today’s guest post is by Debbie Penner. I have been keeping up with Deb most recently on Skype and Facebook. She is a diligent entrepreneur with a talent for list building. Read what she has to say about Success:
DEBBIE PENNER
Yesterday we talked about how success is not based on what you have or what you have achieved, but rather who you have become. Success actually has little to do with your financial situation, and everything to do with what goes on in your mind, and how you respond when things get tough.
Here are seven attitudes that you will never, never see in a truly successful person. If you have any of these thinking patterns, you absolutely MUST replace them before you will ever experience success.
1. Do you see yourself as a victim of external circumstances?
Are you helpless to change your situation?
2. Do you have a negative attitude? Do you complain a lot? Do
things have to be perfect before you can enjoy yourself?
3. Do you find yourself surrounded with negative people a lot of
the time? Do your friends and family encourage you, or are they a
drag when it comes to improving yourself or your circumstances?
4. Are many of the decisions you make based on fear? Are you
basically a defensive, rather than an offensive person? Do you
find yourself spending a lot of your time looking for ways to
protect yourself from potential danger?
5. Is you thinking about life based on the old school mentality
that says “Go to school, get the highest degree you can, find a
good job, and work faithfully, and life will be good.”? Do you feel
that wages are better than profits?
6. Do you trade your time for money? Does someone other than
yourself control your freedom, how you spend your time, and how
much money you make?
7. Do you blame others for your lack of success, and justify your
failures?
If any of these things apply to you, making a conscious effort to eliminate the negative will not be very effective. Try adding the converse positive attribute to your life and character. For instance,
if you complain a lot, don’t just try to stop. Learn to be grateful for every good thing that you experience during the day, starting with the sunshine in the morning, and ending with your pillow at the end
of the day. Verbalize every good thing you can find.
If you see yourself as a victim, write yourself a mantra. Tell yourself that you alone care enough to get you out of your situation, and if you don’t take action, no one will.
Working to eliminate these things from your thinking will make success possible in many areas of your life. Give it a try!
Have a Blessed Day!
Debbie Penner
skype: exponentialprofit
http://debbiepenner.com
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Nice said, you prattically wrote in 7 bullets what we have to read lots of books to figre out.
My country is recently out of communism and eveyone here semm to think in the way you described above, i have hard time trying to change their minds but no luck so far.
Any advices how can i help others to think right so they can have success ?
You said something very important Lucian, ‘changing their minds.’ See, in order to be successful, you must first change the way you think. Once you change the way you think, then you can change your life. The first thing you can do is by becoming a success yourself and others will see you and want to imitate your work. Good luck.
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