Success comes from within… not from the outside…

I hear of so many people wanting to quit programs because their sponsor is not there for them, or is no longer with the program.

Let me give you a clue, folks. Your sponsor is not responsible for your success. Your chosen program is not responsible for your success. You, and YOU alone are responsible for your success.

Being an Entrepreneur is about taking the lead and leading, not following. Leaders gather their resources and then they take action. They don’t need anyone to tell them what to do, when to do it, or how to do it – they just do it. Their bosses used to tell them what to do. As an Entrepreneur, you are your own boss – you give the directions to yourself now.

Success is a mindset. Just as failure is a mindset. You have to have a successful mindset in order to be successful. If you have a failure mindset, then no matter what you do, you will be destined to fail.

Our brains are like a programmable mechanism. What you feed it, determines the outcome from it. If you program yourself with thoughts of “I’m not worthy”, “I don’t deserve it”, “I can’t do this”, “I’ll never get this right”, “I’ll never be as successful as so and so”, or anything of the like, then situations will present themselves to prove you right. And vice versa – if you program yourself with thoughts of “I am successful”, “I am worthy”, “I am deserving”, “I can do this”, then situations will present themselves to prove you right.

You have to decide to be successful. You have to decide that you are worth it and deserve it. You have to decide that you can and will do it. You have to decide to be more successful than you’ve ever been before.

One thing you can do, is stop comparing yourself to others. Because, let me tell you, you will never measure up to someone else. But, guess what? You’re not supposed to. You are YOU. You are not like others, and others are not like you. We are all individuals and we should treat ourselves as such.

I understand that there is a lot of competition out there and that we have had it beat in our brains since birth that we need to be better than someone else. But in all reality, the only one we are in competition with is ourselves. If we can just be better than ourselves each day than we were the day before, that’s what it’s all about.

We have to stop looking to outside sources to “make” us a success. Success is all about you and what you want. Not what your parents want, not what your co-workers want, not what your neighbors want, but what YOU want.

If YOU want to be a success, look within yourself and ask yourself if that is what you truly want. Do you really want that success? Are you ready for success? Are you comfortable with success? Do you really want to be an Entrepreneur, your own boss? Are you really comfortable making the kind of money you envision making? Are you ready to change your mindset – everything that you have known so far to be “true”? I know it can be done. Do you?

It’s all up to you. You just have to decide that you want it and then do it. Believe in yourself and you’ll fly high. You can be a success if you choose to be. Success comes from within, it starts with you, and it ends with you.

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Everyone has that little intuitive voice inside them that keeps guiding them along the way.  However, most of us have learned to tune that out and not listen to it.

I know I have at times.  Cases in point:

I had always heard that when babies learn to walk, it’s over night.  I was like yeah, right, okay…  Well, my son has always been a little slower in things, he was born 5 1/2 weeks early.  He also has his own time schedule to do thing, not adhering to a standardized chart.  He was probably about 2-3 months later than other kids in crawling, and walking was the same way.  He would take 2 and 3 steps in between things, and I thought it was going to be forever before he walked.  Then one day he started getting daring and took 4 and 5 steps between things.  Later that afternoon, after never seeing him stand up without holding onto something, I saw him stand up in the middle of our back yard – in no man’s land with nothing to hold onto.  The very next day, he traveled more than the entire length of the house from corner to corner without touching anything.  He went from a few steps to walking all over the house – overnight!  I should have listened!

When deciding what camcorder to purchase, I had been told the Flip would do for a starting camera by many sources.  Even a friend said that it was good.  I did not listen and thought I’d be all fancy and professional and get one of those expensive camcorders.  Surely they would be better, right?  Wrong!  I went through both a Canon and a Sony and had to take both of them back.  Our 4 year old Kodak digital camera that could take video as well did a better job with the white balance and color.  So, on my third try, I tried the Flip Ultra II.  Lo and behold it worked!  The white balance and color was perfect!  I should have listened and saved myself the extra trips back and forth to the store.

This last one here is one I really wish I had listened to sooner.  I’ve known about Andy Andrew’s book, The Travler’s Gift for some time now.  I also knew that he was going to be at a conference I am attending next week.  So, I knew I wanted to get it and have it read before then, but I still kept putting off the purchase.  Then, he was scheduled to be on our Leadership Mastermind call a couple of weeks ago.  I wanted to have it in time, but I knew there was no way I could get it to me in time, not even with my Prime shipping at Amazon.  And I still procrastinated another day or two.  I think I ended up ordering it after the call.  Well, it finally came in and I let it sit on my kitchen table until late that evening.  Finally, around 1:30 a.m. I decided to go to bed and read for a bit.  Maybe a couple of pages or a chapter, but usually no more than that.  Well, 80 pages later and 4:00 a.m. after I had intended on staying up all night and reading the whole book because it was so good, my body finally succumbed to sleep.  I’ve now finished that book and it has touched me and impacted my life so significantly, I really wish I would have listened and gotten it sooner!

So, remember, when you have those intuitive inklings, when you have that inner voice telling you that you should be doing something, listen to it, you won’t regret it!  It’s when you don’t listen to yourself that eventually, somewhere down the road, you regret it.  So, Listen to Yourself!