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