Success Tips - Boosting Confidence, Wealth and Productivity

Successful people model other successful people. They do not reinvent the wheel
Start modeling successful people by asking yourself these questions:
• What are the characteristics they have in common?
• What are their habits?
• What are the things they do that most people are not prepared to do?
• What are the things they never do that most people do?
• What were the biggest challenges they faced?
• What opportunities they missed and were the lessons they learned?
The power of appreciation:
• Instead of just appreciating people in your own mind, externalize it and let those people know (phone call, text message or whatever) that your are grateful for X or Y.
Vision:
• Do not hope things will happen. Take actions to make them happen
• Define what you want for yourself (not what your boss, your family or your friends want for yourself)
• Be passionate in what you do, that how you get up after each failure
• Define your personal vision of success
How to set and achieve massive goals?
• Goals are crucial, should be specific and well-defined. It is different to wish something
• Need to jot your goals down
• Goals have to be exciting (to not give up)
• Long term goals (12 months) have to be divided in short term goals (3 – 4 months).
• Take weekly actions to achieve to short term goals
• Every single day, review your goals and envision the positive outcome and ask yourself what can I do today in order to get closer to my goals
• Track your progress
• Embrace accountability (put pressure on yourself, like set your goal public)
Comfort zone
• Magic does not happen in our comfort zone
• Push comfort zone on daily basis
• Every time we do face our fears, we expand our comfort zone
• Face fears and push comfort zone every day
Power of concentration
• Focus on the present. Not on past or future
• 80:20 law
o Majority of results is triggered by minority of actions
• All tasks have not equal importance
o Start with critical tasks, whether you feel like it or not
• Every morning, jet down your critical goal of the day, and take commitment to work on it without interruption
Approach adversities like Stoics
• Be resilient
o Define your fears and the worst scenario
o Define solutions you have if worst scenario happens?
o Compare potential benefits to potential risks
• From time to time, do uncomfortable things
o Go to work by foot
o Eat less then you used to
o Take cold showers
o …
o It will demonstrate yourself that you can handle successfully uncomfortable things: increase your level of confidence
How to handle misfortune
• Even is negative things happen to you, focus on positive things
• Turn obstacles into opportunities
• Your perception becomes your reality
Morning ritual
• What you do on the morning sets the context of your whole day: positive momentum
• First things to do in the morning
o Smile
o Drink water
o Stretching
o Fell the gratitude and appreciate things you have
o Review your goals and imagine how it feel to achieve these goals
o Then start with uncomfortable/challenging tasks
o Work on your most important goal without interruption during 2 hours
• We become our habits
Trap of seeking approvals
• We cannot please everybody
• If you want to do something epic, massive vision, achieve big goals, you will always make somebody angry