Success Kit For Year 2007!

Thank God you survived year 2006. It is worth celebrating but then here lies before you year 2007 with its yet to be tapped potentials, opportunities, comforts, and what have you. The question is how do you equip yourself and be well positioned to ensure that you are part of year 2007 success story? To help you achieve this, I have put together a success kit that would see you through year 2007 and place you among the winners in this Year.
If you really follow the simple steps am going to analyze here to the letter then you will really be successful this year but if you allow their simplicity to fool you and you ignore them or follow them half-heartedly, then your guess is as good as mine!

Gratitude
The first place to take off is to examine year 2006 and review your achievements and activities and you will definitely found one or two things to be grateful for. Probably you want to say you have nothing to be grateful for. What about your life? Life is a gift and for this you must show gratitude. Whatever you might have in mind to achieve in year 2007 would only be possible when you still have that gift of life. You have it this very moment, you ought to be grateful.
When you show gratitude for what you already have, it connects you with greater things and brings them your way. Your mind would be free of any clog and you will be in a receptive state of mind for creativity and breakthrough ideas that would bring success your way.
But most importantly is the fact that it is spiritual, it connects you with higher power and makes your journey to success hitch-free. This fact has nothing to do with your religious inclination, showing gratitude in life for things you have, no matter how small, brings you at peace with the higher power.
The point I am explaining here could be likened to a situation where you did something for somebody and s/he came back to thank you, showing gratitude for that little hand of kindness you extended to him/her. Won’t you be encouraged to be more compassionate on such person next time? I bet you will!

Planning

“Failure to plan is planning to fail”

After gratitude, the next thing you must do to achieve success in year 2007 is to set goals in four critical areas of your life; Spiritual –for inner peace, Social – your relationship and association with the right people as well as your family will ensure success in your life and business, Financial empowerment-your career and business that would bring you comforts of life and peace of mind and Physical/Mental Fitness-. The exercise of your body will keep you fit and ensure you are around to enjoy your success while the exercise of your mind through reading and studying would keep you at the top, far above your peers and among the winners.

You will need to pick your pen and notebook and go to a quiet place where you will not be disturbed or you could wake up in the middle of the night, as I usually do, when everybody is sleeping and go to your computer and open up the word processor. Open a page or document for each of these four critical areas in your life and write down or type all you want to achieve with each of them in the next twelve months. You should further break them down to weekly and consequently daily goals. Then draw up a daily do to list that would detail series of activities you must do that would bring you closer on daily basis to achieving your set goals.

Every goal you set here must be big enough to motivate you and not too big to de-motivate you. When you set unrealistic goals you will be de-motivated hence, you must strike a balance between these two ends. Rome, they say, was not built in a day. The goals must be set in achievable segments. For instance, if your present monthly income is N40,000:00; it would be unrealistic to set a goal of N500,000:00 monthly when you have no intention of robbing a bank. The most realistic thing to do, in this circumstances, is to set a goal of say N80,000:00 or N100,000:00 and you then look for a job that would fetch you this monthly income or you morally and legally expand your sources of income. You would begin to engage in business that would fetch you monthly income within the set range.

Probably you are overweight. It would be unrealistic to set a goal of losing about fifty pounds a week. You can begin with losing ten or lesser pounds and when you achieve this, you can then begin to raise the level up each time you reach previously set one until you finally reach your target of fifty pounds or N500,000:00 as in the case of the income goal set above.

Another instance is where you have the goal to set up your own business and you really have little or no money as capital and you went ahead and resign from your job. This is pure foolishness. The frustration you will face will make such goal or dream very unrealistic.
You could however, start your business on part time while you still keep your job for sustenance and balancing. By doing this you won’t have to dip hands into your capital, especially in your business formative years. Such business is even easier these days on the internet where you can start a business on a shoestring budget. Then the moment you are beginning to make profits or income in excess of your monthly salary, you can then conveniently kiss your job goodbye and sack your boss!

Your plan must state clearly how you intend to achieve your set goals in the four critical areas of your life. It must contain your action plan, it must state in clear terms what exactly you want to achieve. More so, you must state how long it would take you to achieve your goals. How would you know when you have arrived at your goal? With some goals such as the income target set above, the moment you have the N500,000:00 naira in your account you will know you have achieved your set goal in that respect. Similarly, when you lose the exact weight you set for yourself you will know.

Take Immediate Action
This is where most people are missing it; it is the dividing line between winners and wannabes! Many people set laudable goals backed them up with adequate plans but sadly enough, they never went beyond this point. They allow the power of inertia to prevent them from attaining their goals and they are consequently been denied of any success.

Once you have drawn up your to do list and the daily activities you have to engage yourself in. Take action immediately, don’t wait for any perfect situation or condition before you could act. Then as you beginning acting on your plans and moving towards your goals, you will have to constantly reviewing your goals on daily basis and adjust your plans as the situation demands. You must be flexible if you really want to reach your destination.

Be Determined
And getting to your destination won’t be on a roller coaster, the earlier you realize that the better. There are lots of challenges and obstacles on the way and it is only your determination to succeed as well as your perseverance that will see you through. You must constantly see the destination in your mind eye and ensure that you never give up at instance of any difficulty or problem. If it has been all that easy everyone would have been successful. Always remember that winners never quit and quitters never win.
There might be a time it would be as if you have reached a dead end in the pursuits of your goals and the first thing you want to do is to give up and abandon your goals. This is not un-usual but you should never succumb to the temptation to give up.
All you have to do is to stop and evaluate all your activities so far, adjust your plans accordingly and re-energize and set off on your journey once again. One more thing, don’t allow much time between the evaluation period and your taking off again.

You Must Be Patient
You should never be in a hurry to get results, you must exercise patient and remain focused on your goal. Most people are so much in a hurry that they want to walk before they crawl. Once they are working on an idea they never exercise enough patience before they abandon it and go to try something else. It takes time and hard work to achieve true success. It doesn’t come easy.

Take for instance, you probably set up an online business and you expect to make lots of money in the first month. You are really setting up yourself for great disappoint because it is very unrealistic. You will need time to build up the traffic that will generate revenue for you and if you are not patient, you will be jumping from one business/scheme to another and you will finally become easy prey for all the scam-related businesses on the net.

Celebrate

You must take time off to celebrate as you continue to move toward the realization of those goals that you have set for yourself. Take a break, relax and give yourself a treat once in a while. It is a means to revitalize your energy. Every little or major achievement on your way should be celebrated. And this would get you set and prepared to continue with the rest of the journey in full force and new vigor.