The title question has been asked for hundreds, probably thousands of years.
The simple truth of the matter is that you have the power. You are in control of whether you are successful or not. Most of it has to do with your thought process.
Zig Ziglar said, “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.”
These two men were giants in the business world and knew the power of positive thinking.
So it’s easy to see that what you think has tremendous power over you and what you can achieve.
But how does your thought process change?
The solution
To stay on the right track, you have to stop making excuses and play the ‘woe is me’ card. Stop thinking and saying, “I can’t do it.”
No matter what your circumstances are, you have the ability to learn what you need to learn to do what you must do to be successful.
Maybe you want to be a freelance writer who actually gets jobs and makes a good living.
Maybe you want to be the author of an award-winning book and earn money from that book, or use it to earn money from the opportunities that come from writing a great book.
Maybe you want to have a successful business with 5, 10, 100, or 1000 employees.
Anything you want to do … anything you REALLY want to do is possible.
But there is a second part to the success process.
The German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. The will is not enough; we must do.”
Ah ha!
Do the lights flash and the bells ring?
You can wake up every morning and say I’m going to make $ 500 today, but if you don’t work toward that goal, you won’t make a penny.
It is your thoughts in collaboration with your actions that will give you the ability to succeed.
Below is the two-part success process divided into eight bite-sized steps.
8 steps to success
1. Decide what you will be or what you will really do.
2. Find out what it takes to achieve what you want.
3. Believe you can do it.
4. Learn everything you need to learn to get started and move on.
5. Take it one step further and become an expert in a particular niche or industry.
6. Prepare a detailed business plan with short-term and long-term goals, along with practical steps to achieve those goals.
7. Work, work, work.
8. If you need help, get it.
Start your success process today and take your positive thoughts into the NEW year with you.