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Let me ask you a quick question: would you say are you trying to become successful?
If you answered ‘yes’ to the above question, you could be in a certain amount of trouble. Why? Because, to be successful, you need to think of yourself as a success. I guess that statement will not surprise anyone, but it is true nonetheless. There is a great difference between seeing your self as someone who is trying to attain success and someone who views themselves as already successful; and in that difference lies an important key.
Some time back, I remember learning how to juggle. It is an interesting process. You get three balls and you try to throw them in the classic 3-ball cascade pattern. If you are lucky, you perhaps make a couple of catches on your first attempt. But if you really persist for a few hours, you will be able to perhaps make 5 or 6 catches. Now despite the fact that you can actually make half a dozen or so catches, you probably still don’t think of yourself as a juggler; you still think of yourself as someone who’s still learning.
But somewhere along the journey, a switch flips over in your mind and you do start to think of yourself as a juggler – yes, even though you are a bad one. And once that happens, the improvement is dramatic. Actually, I think everyone should learn how to juggle, for a whole variety of beneficial reasons including exercising both the left and right sides of the brain.
However, back to the discussion about success. The process of becoming successful is something like the juggling experience. Once you can see yourself as already successful, that switch flips over and you can begin to produce really rapid results – the kind of results that, perhaps, have been so far eluding you.
So that brings up another interesting question: how can you see yourself as already successful when the evidence all around you is to the contrary? That is what developing the success mindset is all about and why it is so important to your ultimate success. If you don’t already see yourself as successful, read the following book on how to develop the success mindset – it’s free! |
