How would you like to be more successful? There is an easy process that can create immediate results if you will allow it to happen. It takes consistency, focus and a little effort, but is easy to learn and easy to do.
In our society most people are looking for ways to improve their life, their financial position, up-level their career or get the next bigger, better, faster thing, right? Like a bigger house, new car, to release weight and have a better body, better relationships, better job, more money….the list goes on and on. Yet we always wonder how we are going to do it and how others seem so successful in it. So how do we do that? “How to Immediately Improve Your Success” is easier than you might think and is incredible in the results department if you will follow three steps consistently.
Funny you should ask. I have a couple raw and real stories about myself that happened a few years ago. In my business, I have a Virtual Assistant that works for me. She has worked for me for over five years. We have not only become close in our business association, but have become amazing friends. We were having a phone conversation together and I had been stating some frustrations that I was having in my business and the lack of momentum I felt and how hard it felt and such. (Seriously, not what is usually going on, but I had allowed overwhelm and frustration get the best of me.)
We began to discuss why things had been crazy and all that was on my plate. This played a big part in the discussion as I had a lot going on. To get the real picture, you MUST know some of what was on my plate and what I was talking to her about…My mother was turning 78 years old and had a complete hip replacement. My dad passed away 18 months previously, so I was her caretaker to take her to the hospital and then take her home and stay for several days and nights to assist her in the healing process and helping her get back to being independent. I had a family vacation for five days, and this is one of the things that I live for!
My Son was having his WEDDING a few days after the family trip together and we had out of state family that came with him and his finance’ to stay for several days before the wedding. Also, to add a bit of stress to this, my son had requested that I wear his favorite dress at his wedding. It had been worn on two other occasions, but was his favorite and was the exact colors of the wedding and there was only one problem…IT DID NOT FIT, and not because it was to big, it was because I was too big! Add to this that I have been working on a healthier body for two years with almost no success as far as weight loss, etc. So the whole diet and exercise thing had been in full swing many times, and this time it was a new and different eating plan. Much different and takes more time and prep. Just a bit of extra stress right before big events, right? Finally, three days after the wedding my husband and I would leave for five days to Lake Powell as a little get away and stress reliever.
I am sure you can imagine how this looked at this point with a time frame of less than four weeks. Not only was this a wedding, but it was what I have affectionately called “Our Big Fat Gay Wedding” (which for us was a different kind of wedding than we had imagined for our son for most of his life, but we were completely pushing forward in unconditional love, family and unity with happiness abounding on this day of joy!) All of this and much more as we were also running two corporations and everything else. So, in this conversation with my assistant, she asked how the wedding went and if my dress fit? I am rambling off details from the wedding and happen to say something like: “We pulled it off. It was beautiful. We were full of happiness and love. I dropped 26 pounds and fit into my dress, danced down the isle and we pushed through it all.” She said, “What? Wait! What did you say?” I repeated, “We pushed through it all!” She was like, “NO…the other part!”. I said, “I danced down the isle like Blake & Tim wanted?” She was like, “The part where you have released 26 POUNDS!”
Can you believe I had gotten so focused on overwhelm and frustration that I had forgotten to do what I teach all the time? I had not celebrated my success. I had not written it down. I had not acknowledged it to the point that it lived for me in complete Accomplishment Mentality! I was doing myself a huge disservice!
Here is another quick story for you that happened the following week. My husband and I have been so busy that we have not had time to even pay attention to our yard, let alone spend time in it. Since we had gotten through the last four crazy weeks and we had returned home from Lake Powell, we decided that we could spend a bit of time in our yard to trim trees and do the “fire prevention” that needs to take place since we live in the mountains and wildfires can come through our area.