The Keys To Success Series

Welcome to The Keys To Success Series! The purpose of The Keys To Success series is to serve as a guide to help you become more successful in your entrepreneurial efforts. Notice, however, that many of the keys can be applied to other areas of your life as well such as relationships, career, family, health and fitness, etc. Each article will talk about a particular key area necessary for success, for example: goal setting, belief system, the right attitude for success and more.

The first Key To Success is to have an open mind. You must clear your mind of all previous knowledge and believes that you’ve had up to now. Why? Look at your life now. You are reading this article because you feel you’re lacking success in your business, right? Or maybe you feel you could achieve a higher level of success than you are experiencing right now. Regardless of the specific reason, you are not satisfied with where you are now or you wouldn’t be reading this article right now, correct?

To clear your mind will be one of the most important keys to your success, if not the most important thing you can do. You need to be ready to think differently than what you have so far to produce different results than what you’ve had up until now. If you keep doing what you’ve been doing so far, how can you expect different results? It is your previous thinking and actions (or lack of action) that has brought you to where you are now, hasn’t it? Are you beginning to see the connection?

This was Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
You also have to clear your mind from what other people has said you could or couldn’t do. This includes parents, other family members, friends, society, the government including the school system. Family members and friends are well intentioned and they want to protect you from pain or failure. However, do they have the level of success that you desire? Why, then, would you listen to them? These people or entities want to maintain the status quo, sometimes they feel threatened that you might actually succeed and that would make them feel inferior or inadequate. In reality, they are usually afraid of change, the unknown. Do you want to continue being part of the masses? Then continue doing the same thing you’ve been doing. It’s easier and comfortable, right? I don’t mean to sound harsh or rude but it is that simple. If you think and act like everyone else does, then you’ll have what everyone else has too.

Where would we be if the Wright brothers would have accepted the thinking of the time that man was not meant to fly? Or if Christopher Columbus would not have thought outside the box and believed that the Earth was flat?
Find someone that have what you desire and copy what this person does or did. Be open to what this person did or does, listen, and be coachable. Many people say that they are coachable and claim that they understand and know what to do, but when it comes down to changing what they have been doing, they are reluctant and find many excuses as to why they can’t do this or that.

It is your choice. Understand that to live differently, you have to think differently. Thought precedes action. This is the reason why I chose this to be the first Key To Success in this series of articles. Because if you don’t open your mind to what I have to say, you will continue being part of the masses. Continue watching lousy TV at night, playing the lotto, changing jobs lying to yourself that this is a better opportunity but really, you’re still being a slave to a paycheck, and dreaming of being rich.

You are the master of your life, you decide.