Success Is An Open Book Test Secrets, Strategies And Shortcuts To Reaching Exponential Success

We know many of the things we should be doing to be happier, to be more physically fit and to be more financially secure. We know we should set our goals, manage our time, and spend more time with our families, exercise, eat right, work hard, sleep more and have a positive mental attitude. We want to accomplish great feats and to be the best at what we do. And we want it all now.

Why are some people super-successful, while others dwell in mediocrity? Ask almost anyone out there, and I bet they’ll say they want more out of life. They want to be better, to accomplish more or to pursue those buried and forgotten goals. So, why do so many of us fall short of achieving our dreams? We all want success. We all want to be happy. We all want to be self-disciplined and fulfill our wildest dreams. In fact, we don’t just want success; we want massive success.

So, why aren’t we doing these things? The desire is there, right? Does it ever seem beyond your reach? The good news is that if you really want success, you can have it. Success is an open book test in which the answers are right in front of you if you know where to look for them. Everyone has enormous potential. You were designed for greatness. There is something you are predestined to accomplish. Let’s start on your success today. Don’t procrastinate any longer. When you take a look at your life, know that there are no do-overs, reset buttons or mulligans. This is it, so it’s time to make it happen. No longer will you stick your big toe in the pool of success; it’s time to jump in.

We all deserve and desire to be happy, to be truly successful and to have an enjoyable life. We were put on this Earth to be happy. Rather than fretting over the future, you need to enjoy life’s journey and know what it takes to achieve success and happiness. Things will not change with hope and desire alone, although they are great starting points. You also need to take action. You need to have a plan in mind and take control of your life. We all have to find that winning edge that will propel us to the top and help us achieve the things we know we are capable of accomplishing. In this chapter, we are going to take your dreams and desires and turn them into reality.

Remember the open book tests in school and how we could look up the answers?
The answers were there, right in front of us; we just had to be willing to go to the source to find the answer. Metaphorically speaking, all of the amazingly successful people in the world are constantly leaving behind clues or answers—like an open book—that can help anyone become extremely successful. I refer to the polished mastery of these combined skills as the “Exponential Factor.” When you have the Exponential Factor, your potential for success skyrockets to unlimited heights. As the name suggests, your possibilities for success and greatness become exponential.

Life is a fantastic game. We can spend our time either training and winning or waiting in the bleachers of life, watching and wishing we were on the field doing the things we really know we can and want to do. You are in charge of your life. How you live is your decision and yours alone. You can make excuses and rationalize all day why you are not on the field, but until you decide you want to be in the game, that you want to enjoy the victories as well as suffer the bruises and defeats, you will not be happy or reach the success you know you deserve or are capable of achieving.

THE PROBLEMS AND PITFALLS

There are many quick fixes that create excitement and motivation, ones that work for a few days or even months, but eventually after that initial euphoric feeling wears off, we are back to square one. We are back to wanting and wishing, but with no results. Why, after all the flashy seminars and conferences and CDs, are we still only temporarily motivated? Why have we still not arrived at the destination we call success? What is taking us so long? Motivation and personal development is a billion-dollar industry, and it only continues to grow each year. Thousands of books and lectures exist on the topics of success and personal development. They’re all telling us what we want to hear, but where are the lasting long-term results? Why, after so much invested time, is it always back to our warm comfort zone?

I have often wondered why, even in the midst of best intentions, excitement declines and persistence deteriorates. Even the endeavors that are most meaningful to us seem to get lost in the distance when we are confronted by life’s daily setbacks, hassles and frustrations. All too often, the path to success, at times so clearly defined, begins to get blurry again. But lack of long-term success goes much deeper than daily setbacks, hassles and frustrations. Take time to examine where all the detours come from: the self-doubt, the self-sabotage, the nagging, the negative inner voice and the inability to stick to the things you know you should be doing. Sometimes, our lack of persistence stems from the fact that the required behavior is not part of our customary pattern. Other times, it’s because we’re not doing it for the right reasons or in the right way. Sometimes, it’s because we’re trying to treat the surface problem or behavior rather than the underlying issue it stems from. That is, we’re treating the symptoms instead of the disease. It is like trying to get off a car stuck on cruise control.

Whatever the reasons may be, you can’t keep waiting around Are you waiting for a terrible experience to make you change your ways? Are you hoping for a miracle, the lottery or Publisher’s Clearinghouse to change your life? I want to show you how to get started now. This is not just another motivational attempt. These concepts will change your life, will supercharge your success and will bring you happiness. Now it is time to give yourself permission to win.

Kurt Mortensen

Success Training Secrets - The Real Success Power Of A New Year's Resolution

"The Real Secret of a Successful New Year's Resolution lies within the word itself......"
Doug's mentor

Have you ever made New Year's resolutions and they did not make it past January? (Don't Lie!) Ever tell someone that you were going to make this the year that you changed your life, and then come January 20th, you have fallen back into the same life pattern that you have been struggling with and it steal your Success?

Ever made a Success resolution to work out every week? You “decided” that you were going to get up and work out, and finally get that body you have always wanted? You were telling everyone that this was the year, and this was the time that they were going to see a new you and you were going to create Success doing it!

Uh huh. I have been there. And I ended up looking quite foolish, until I decided just to start it, and not worry about talking about it. Then you will start to see some changes in your physique!

How about to lose weight?

Ever talk to folks and tell them that you were going to lose the weight you want this year, and you were going to become a lean, mean, weight losing machine? And then after 30 days, you were back eating twinkies?

Yep. Got that one.

Here's one -- to quit smoking! I know so many folks that have promised themselves that they were going to quit smoking! This is the year! I will be smoke free!

Good idea!

Most of the New year's resolutions are made with the best intentions, but most fail miserably. They really never get out of the starting blocks to obtain Success. All the words were nice, but there was no real sustained effort in the change process for Success.

Why?

Simple.

Lack of proper focus in the word itself.

Actually, the word resolution has a very different meaning if you look at the word itself.

To me, it carries a little different meaning, if you use a little different perspective and view of the word. Many times, changing how you view something is the “shift” that you need to create Success with something.

I like the word “Re-Solution.”

In other words, if you make a resolution to change something, you are actually "re-solutioning" it with a different solution. Most people don’t do that. They are trying to use the same old solution to a problem that did not work before.

"Re" means to repeat. So you are repeating the attempt, to create a new success solution, to solve an old problem .

Simple.

But doesn't work. If it did, you would not have to be attempting the same new year’s resolution as last year, and the year before.

Here's an idea:

Don’t make a resolution, but a REAL Solution!

And if you make a REAL Solution, that will cause a DISSOLUTION to your problem.

(Dissolves that challenge!)

Ok. How? Simple.

1) What is it you want to change? Write it down.
2) How bad to you want to change it? (Deciding factor!)
3) How will that improve your life? (List them..)
4) What is the very first thing you need to do to start the change process? Do it.
5) What's the second? Do it.
6) What' s the third? Do it.
7) What's after that? Continue to do it till done..

Now, you are making a REAL solution to your life, not some wimpy, whiny, weak, wasted, willowy, wishy- washy, won't work, waste of time, woe is me, featherweight promise you know you won't keep!

If you look at the word "resolution" for what it really is, and change your mindset to a "REAL solution"..

You can change your whole life in a day, as well as the Achievement and Success in your life.

blessings..doug firebaugh

Doug Firebaugh

Success Training Secrets - The Real Success Power Of A New Year's Resolution

"The Real Secret of a Successful New Year's Resolution lies within the word itself......"
Doug's mentor

Have you ever made New Year's resolutions and they did not make it past January? (Don't Lie!) Ever tell someone that you were going to make this the year that you changed your life, and then come January 20th, you have fallen back into the same life pattern that you have been struggling with and it steal your Success?

Ever made a Success resolution to work out every week? You “decided” that you were going to get up and work out, and finally get that body you have always wanted? You were telling everyone that this was the year, and this was the time that they were going to see a new you and you were going to create Success doing it!

Uh huh. I have been there. And I ended up looking quite foolish, until I decided just to start it, and not worry about talking about it. Then you will start to see some changes in your physique!

How about to lose weight?

Ever talk to folks and tell them that you were going to lose the weight you want this year, and you were going to become a lean, mean, weight losing machine? And then after 30 days, you were back eating twinkies?

Yep. Got that one.

Here's one -- to quit smoking! I know so many folks that have promised themselves that they were going to quit smoking! This is the year! I will be smoke free!

Good idea!

Most of the New year's resolutions are made with the best intentions, but most fail miserably. They really never get out of the starting blocks to obtain Success. All the words were nice, but there was no real sustained effort in the change process for Success.

Why?

Simple.

Lack of proper focus in the word itself.

Actually, the word resolution has a very different meaning if you look at the word itself.

To me, it carries a little different meaning, if you use a little different perspective and view of the word. Many times, changing how you view something is the “shift” that you need to create Success with something.

I like the word “Re-Solution.”

In other words, if you make a resolution to change something, you are actually "re-solutioning" it with a different solution. Most people don’t do that. They are trying to use the same old solution to a problem that did not work before.

"Re" means to repeat. So you are repeating the attempt, to create a new success solution, to solve an old problem .

Simple.

But doesn't work. If it did, you would not have to be attempting the same new year’s resolution as last year, and the year before.

Here's an idea:

Don’t make a resolution, but a REAL Solution!

And if you make a REAL Solution, that will cause a DISSOLUTION to your problem.

(Dissolves that challenge!)

Ok. How? Simple.

1) What is it you want to change? Write it down.
2) How bad to you want to change it? (Deciding factor!)
3) How will that improve your life? (List them..)
4) What is the very first thing you need to do to start the change process? Do it.
5) What's the second? Do it.
6) What' s the third? Do it.
7) What's after that? Continue to do it till done..

Now, you are making a REAL solution to your life, not some wimpy, whiny, weak, wasted, willowy, wishy- washy, won't work, waste of time, woe is me, featherweight promise you know you won't keep!

If you look at the word "resolution" for what it really is, and change your mindset to a "REAL solution"..

You can change your whole life in a day, as well as the Achievement and Success in your life.

blessings..doug firebaugh

Doug Firebaugh

Success Strategies - The Secrets Of The Success Power Of Small, Simple, Adjustments

Success sometimes takes a simple, little thing, not a big one. A small tweak, not a major change.

And one of the most powerful Success strategies is the Power of the Small, Simple Adjustments that can make HUGE quantum leaps in your life.

The word SMALL stands for:

"Success (is) Making Adjustments (through) Lots (of) Littles."

Many times, we tend to look at the big things that need adjusting, and changing. That could include personality, goals, communication, and leadership. There is nothing wrong with that as that is needed many times to reconstruct a Success Structure within. And there are good reasons to do so as well. Especially when you are leading an organization that has thousands of folks.

But leading yourself is a whole different story and requires "Lots of Littles." Little changes that are easy to make, and highly effective.

Why do people take the time to do what many times is not needed in their Success Journey?

They tend to complicate the easy changes. They have a tendency to confuse the perfectly clear.

We waste time in our Success pursuit trying to reinvent ourselves, when Small, Simple Adjustment would work wonders. Small adjustments in what you think, say, and do in your Success Journey on a daily basis.

A Small, Simple, Adjustment for your Thinking, would be to understand that you control your thinking, or be aware that someone else does that has influenced you. You need simply to make a small adjustment in your perception of your thinking.

Imagine that your mind contains a DVD player, and you can put on your DVD any movie that you want. Instead of viewing on your DVD a weak, failure prone life and mediocre day, you need to put on your DVD a powerful, Successful day and life, and failure is not a possibility.

DVD stands either for “Doubling Victory Daily!”

Or DVD stands for “Discouraged Victim Daily.”

It all depends on what you want to put on your mental DVD, and want to watch during the course of the day. A Small, Simple, Adjustment of watching a movie of Success could mean the difference of $100,000 a year in income.

A Small, Simple, Adjustment for your words would be to get rid of the negative words, and any foul language. Easy to do, if you set your minds to it. Start speaking with a positive focus and get rid of any language that does not serve your Success.

Start speaking possibilities, not problems. Start speaking what you are going to do, not what you don’t know what to do. Start making a small adjustment in the action of your words, and make sure they are forward focused, not challenge focused. Start speaking Success into your future, not mediocrity as most people do.

Use words like “will,” and “must”, instead of might and may. These are the types of small, simple, adjustments that can create a powerful communication style in everything you do.

A Small, Simple, Adjustment for your actions, would be to engage what you are struggling to start, but baby step it. Simply break down even the simplest task into baby steps, and engage them one at a time with ease. We have a tendency to try and take massive actions that many times can be overwhelming, intimidating, and discouraging.

We believe that the Success Strategy of “Baby Stepping Success’ makes it easier to create Success in your life, and are small, simple, and effective. It is NOT what you think of doing, or say you are doing, but WHAT you are doing that matters, and many times it is the small, simple adjustments in your actions that can make a HUGE difference in your Success.

Don’t plan on working long hours, and getting bogged down in the details of things. Take small, effective steps that will create the outcomes you WANT, not the ones you usually take. All Success is, and ever will be, are “action baby steps” that have been taken, and when combined together along with their outcomes, produces the Success you are seeking.

Success Strategies are vital, and the Success strategy of Small, Simple, Adjustments in what you think, do, or say over a period of time, can make a HUGE difference in your Success and Personal Success Strategies.

You CAN Baby Step yourself into Success with this Success Strategy!

Blessings...doug

Doug Firebaugh 

Feel Success, Live Success, Have Success

You can start right now and be successful? When you try to focus on the positive things in life you start to see more positive things. You need feeling, believing and positively and successfully, start reading books about positive thinking and being successful. Everyday you need to think and act successful, by doing this you will feel and become successful.

Remind yourself that you are close to starting everything from the beginning again. Get yourself a hobby anything that takes your mind off the world for a while will help increase your love of life and help you relax, eliminate stress, and enjoy peace. Without pushing yourself you will never become successful or have the ability to become successful.

Keep your plan with you at all times and read it aloud to yourself several times during the day. By allowing yourself the time, and I’m talking about just a few minutes here, to stop, breathe deeply and relax effectively, you can soon reap the rewards. To become successful you need to place your mind in state of happiness and positive thinking, by doing this you attract positive people and by attracting positive people you will attract successful people who will help with your success.

Here is your key to success. Passion is the key to meaningful achievement in any calling.

To answer this riddle, first you have to separate the behavior from the positive intention of the behavior. If we have a thought or we are depressed and we don’t like this we can easily get rid of this negativity or negative thought by thinking of a positive thought, by feeling the positive thought with our emotions we are able to switch the universe to switch to the more positive thought and the outcome is more acceptable to you. If you change your behavior and your purposes, your life position is not as it used to be any more.

Any formula based on behavior patterns has a good chance of being successful.

It’s important to commit your goals to paper, so write them down and display your goals where you will see them each day. Break down larger long-term goals into monthly or weekly goals so you can stay on track without feeling overwhelmed. Writing your goals will effectively enable you to put them into action.

What is it that’s in it for you that will drive you to pursue the goals that you have defined. Be very specific about your goals. Only when there is a specific goal can you develop an effective strategy.

Einstein says that “imagination is the glimpse into the future” Every human who imagined and dreamed was able to bring this dream into reality by believing that it was real already. When you believe the universe has the ability to understand that this is not a dream but reality and the universe realigns to make it happen.

Author: David Fishman

Success To Success - What Is The Meaning Of Success In Life?

What a wonderful word, and concept.

People have been striving for it all their life, and many achieving Success, and others are not so fortunate. It seems to elude them, and their life. Many have been pursuing Success for years, and others start towards it and seem to find it almost immediately. It is a concpet that wars have been fought over. Success to one man was the capture and domination of another. And it has been that way for eons.

The meaning of Success comes in many forms, and many definitions. It depends on what you are searching for in life, and searching for in business. Athletes may have one definition of Success, and a stay at home mom may have another. A musician may see Success as a number one hit, and a Doctor may see Success as a surgery that went well. It really depends on the perspective of life you have. Perspectives on Success are as numerous as the stars.

But we need to start narrowing down an understanding of Success:

There is a difference between Accomplishment, Success, and True Success.

Lets' explore this briefly.

Accomplishment is where you have engaged in the task or action that you attempted, and have obtained the desired results. It is a based on what was expected, and what results were done. This is a daily happening in the world and marketplace. People accomplish things all day long, but really achieve no Success in those actions.

Success is something different.

Success to most people is when you have an ongoing string of accomplshments that when put together, add up to a major obtainment in life known as Success. The addition of all the accomplishments in a person's career or life can be viewed as Success in their life and business.

Success then is an ongoing realization and obtainment of worthy desired results, concerning actions, life, business, wealth, or a worthy ideal.

But there is even a higher level of Success.

There is a more powerful level of High Achievement.

That is why we call the Path to Success "Success to Success." It is Biblical that we all move from Glory to Glory, and we all must move from one level of Success to another.

It is called "True Success."

True Success is simply the realization and obtainment of a worthy ideal or result that your heart is deeply connected to it. It is what births PASSION and your SUCCESS PASSION. It is what people die for. It is why some people explode out of the gates and create Success easily, and others struggle all their life. They are operating on a whole different realm of Success and actions.

It is a Success that is SOAKED with Emotion, Powered by Passion, Driven by Destiny, and Forged with the Fire of the Heart.

Theis is no more powerful Success than the Success that the heart is welded to it by the Fire of Passion.

Then we would say that Success and your heart have a definite connection in any type of True Success, and any kind that is long term.

That is why that many athletes and artists have long careers. Their heart is attached to their Success. That is why entrepreneurs many times have long careers. They are operating in their Passion and True Success Power. Many business people today have experienced True Success in their life on an ongoing basis.

Have you?

People accomplish things everyday. They accomplish results and more. People Succeed everyday in the marketplace and on the athletic field, as well as the professional field. The home field with raising successful children is one of the greatest True Success passions there is.

But few obtain True Success.

Why?

True Success has to be Passion driven, with a heart OnFIRE. True Success is birthed from a Dream that cannot be denied. It is driven by a hunger that cannot be stopped. It is driven by a focus that is unrelenting. It is driven by actions that will not be denied. And it is driven by a Force that knows no failure.

What is Success?

That is up to you. But it is not just accomplishment. It is beyond that.

The steady realization of a moral and worthy ideal is Success to most folks.

The steady realization of a dream and an ideal that is driven by the heart and Passion that will not, cannot, and will never be denied is Success to a few folks.

Those few folks not only know the meaning of Success, but also the experience of a Deeper and Higher level of Success.

They are driven by Success, not just pursuing it.

And within that little difference is the meaning and power between Success and True Success.

blessings...doug

Author: Doug Firebaugh