How to achieve Personal Success in 2010 - Part 1

This begins the start of a 10 part series detailing how to achieve Personal Success in 2010.

PART 1 - FIND OUT WHAT YOU REALLY WANT

"I didn't set out to be rich. The fun and the challenge in life were what I wanted - and still do." - Richard Branson

Before you can become a success, you need to decide what success means to you on a personal level. Money, its uses aside, is not everything. Even the rich and famous may not attain everything they want in life.

The key is learning to set the right goals. The idea of success confuses many people - they decide that attaining a certain level of stature, money or fame is what they want. Measuring achievement in this way, people lose sight of other, more important things, such as the desire to be happy.

Successful people, rich or otherwise, understand that waking every morning miserable and stressed is no way to live. True success is getting what you want and wanting what you get.

Small steps towards your goals have a higher probability to take you there than the big opportunity which you are waiting for. There is this little secret that I want to share with you: If you are waiting for a good opportunity to knock on your door, it probably won’t. You have to go knocking on every opportunity to see if it is good enough for you.

This fundamentally means that you have to change the way you view the world. Your life will not be changed in a day. It will be changed over a course of time, fueled by your immense will power and hard work. The world may see your success on a particular day, but you will know that to be an overnight success, it took you years of hard work.

Always remember that your dreams are not something you have to set aside to take care of your responsibilities. It is said that if you invested at least 10,000 hours in anything, you’d be a superstar in that. Think how big a difference you can make if you worked 3-6 hours a day (assuming that you have a day job) on building your skills and working on what you loved most. And use your 10,000 hours wisely. Remember that practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Think in terms of what change you want to make in this world. What end results do you wanted to bring in? The job what you do can be just an enabler of this fact.

The three steps
There are three emotional stages you undergo before you actually start doing what you really wanted to do.

1. You accept that the current state of affairs is not ideal one. This means that you are not happy with the status quo, you are not satisfied with what you are currently doing. Many people are too stubborn to accept that they are not happy. They are in constant denial of the fact that they are not doing something they love. Accepting the fact that you are not happy is the first step.

2. You accept that you can change the status quo. This is where most of the people get stuck. They agree that their current situation is not ideal, they agree that they would like to do a lot better, but what they don’t agree is the fact that they can change their situation. Accepting that you are solely responsible for your happiness is the second step in your growth.

Once you have found the best thing to do, how much time should you wait to switch to it? How much time should you wait for the best opportunity? How much time should you wait to gain some experience?

The answer is no time. That leads us to point number three.

3. Leap before you look. You have already done enough thinking, and then some more. Now it is time to really do something. Start doing what you are supposed to do and you will find that your situation has improved and you are going in almost the right direction. Improve, move forward, and repeat. You may want to change your direction later once you are equipped with more information about yourself and your interests and skills.

If you plan to make 2010 a success, do something you love. The rest will follow.

Until tomorrow..
Yours in success!
Sam Prinsloo

Samantha Prinsloo, International Meta Life Coach, and founder of Life Coach 4U, Master Coaching, The Success Coach and a leading authority on Life Success. If you're ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE resources from Samantha Prinsloo now at: http://www.lifecoach-4u.com