HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE Step #2 – POTENTIAL

VISUALIZE FOR SUCCESS

WHERE “X” MARKS THE SPOT

In Step 1, we learned about the Control Mindset. In short, we began to understand that we’re a product of the choices we’ve made in our lives, and that we’re responsible for outcomes, good and bad. 

Also, we learned that we need this mindset in order to take control of our actions going forward and not blame other people or circumstances. This mindset lets us take control of our destiny.

Now, it’s time to figure out where we want to go. It’s time to mark an “X” on the map.

WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?

Notice that I’m not asking you about a singular goal, like the typical thing we ask kids: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” 

The truth is that our goals are never singular; we have many goals varying in scope, from reading a book to building an empire.

Thus, it’s time to look at yourself in the mirror and see who you want to become in totality. We are talking about LIFE SUCCESS, so I want you to consider everything as you contemplate this picture. 

For one thing, many of us don’t spend enough time thinking about what we want our future to look like.

You may have heard that we need to see ourselves there. In other words, visualize having reached our goal. At this point, when we see it we open a door in our minds, and then we can walk through that door with our actions in life and really get there.

We often do this with individual goals, treating each goal as a separate thing. Subsequently, I believe this opens many doors, and we then have to choose which door to walk through at different times. While it may have the same result, I feel it’s inefficient. That is to say, the thought process is simply incomplete.

Our goals are not separate, because they’re all our own. Your goals are all part of the one entity that is you. Therefore, there’s only one time these goals can be achieved, and that is on your time. 

Unlock greater power and possibility. Rather than treat our goals separately, we need to start seeing them together. Start with the exercise below, and I’ll explain.

Our goals and dreams are visions that come to us, and while they may seem like a distant future, they are perfectly within our grasp. All we have to do is reach for them.

CREATE A VISION BOARD

Now get a cork bulletin board. It’s time to start getting pictures that symbolize or depict the things you have written and pin them onto your board. This is your vision board which will remind you of who you will become.  Accordingly, this will help you visualize your success.

HELP YOURSELF

Achieving your goals is considered a success for a reason. You’ve hit a pinnacle point, a point of ability and recognition. Both the pinnacle itself, and the journey that brought you there often have a power that is left unused.

If we think about how trying to achieve this one goal can also advance us toward another goal, we might take more useful, efficient actions that better help our goals and save time in the process. Again, time is one of our most important assets.

We need to save time just as we need to save for our retirement. Yet we often waste time needlessly. 

What good is success or wealth if we don’t have the time to use it? Or the health and ability to use it the way we wish we could.

This vision opens a great door that guides our actions, helping us save time reaching our goals. This is because you will no longer think of them as separate, joining paths together where you can, so goals can build upon each other.

You will start to see where opportunities fit perfectly together in the puzzle that is your life. You’ll see them in ways you couldn’t have previously imagined while thinking about your goals separately. 

Some may be quite clear, such as a desire to learn photography and to do modeling; these can clearly facilitate one another. Others will not be so obvious, but with an open and willing mind, you can find converging paths to follow.

MY PERSONAL JOURNEY

There was a time where I was struggling to find the time to fit everything into my schedule. I was working on my fitness goals in addition to my goal of being a gaming streamer on Twitch.

I decided to work out at home instead of at the gym so that I could save time and further enable my ability to stream. And then I also decided to stream my workouts on my gaming channel. Some people may not want to have fitness content on their gaming channel, but for me it helped a lot. 

I was able to workout and save time, while also furthering my streaming goals. Streaming my workouts connected me to a different audience that I was able to bring into my gaming streams.

It’s seeing your goals all together that opens up your mind to find ways to make them all happen. As a result, you start to see where you can have them help each other, even in ways that aren’t always obvious. It may be as simple as making sure you make time for them.

WHAT’S YOUR WHY?

Now that you have listed all the things that you want and who you want to be, it’s time to answer an essential question: why is this important to you? 

Accordingly, go ahead and think about why this vision of yourself is important to you. Why is having these successes important to you? Why do you need this version of your life as much as you need to breathe?

Your answer to this question will be the support beams for your whole building. Hence, if it collapses so does everything else it supports.  

What’s your why?

Specifically, the answer has to support the weight of your goals and dreams in the face of all obstacles.

Your why has to be indestructible for that reason. In other words, no matter what happens in life, your why will always exist.

Your why is the throughline connecting everything. It’s what gets beaten, battered and bleeds for your dreams. It’s what takes the full force of life, and no matter what, it never bends or breaks. It indeed refuses to be denied. 

DISCOVER

Dig deep. Discover your why. Know that your why has to be strong enough to support the most successful, experienced and powerful vision of yourself. 

Your vision has to be enough to excite you, to make you want it more than anything, and your why has to balance out the scale.

• Is it for your family?
• Is it to prove doubters wrong? 
• Or is it for the world? Is it to prove a point? 
• Is it for your happiness? 
• Or is it for future generations? For your kids? For children all across the world to know that dreams can come true? 
• Is it to be wealthy? Is it to be recognized? Maybe it’s just to be the best? 
• Is it to save lives?
• Is it for your faith?
• Perhaps it’s all of the above?
• Is it because you’re the only one who can? And it simply must be done?

Your why is so immense it will power you through all your goals in life.  Therefore, any obstacle that tries to stand in your way will not stand a chance in front of your why.

I AM

Meeting your future self allows you to really visualize your success and have a clearer understanding of your dreams and why you must have them. 

In the previous exercise, where you met your future self, did you write that list? Better yet, did you make that vision board? This is also your “I AM” board. I encourage you to look at that board each morning and say “I AM” to each of the things you’ve included.

I AM is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal. With this vision board, you can see it everyday and recite it. When you speak it and believe it, you will discover that the opportunities you need are presenting themselves to you. It’s about positive thinking and speaking it into existence.  

The simple act of reciting your goals every day in the most positive way will reinforce your ability to take better actions toward your desired future as a result. This will also help get rid of any self doubt.

By reciting your I AMs, you’re speaking it out into the universe, facilitating your actions to accomplish your goals, and having your goals help accomplish each other. 

Your I AM will configure your mind and make you into who you know you are.

CONCLUSION

Meet your future self and be in awe at the outstanding person you see before you. The person who has achieved all your hopes, dreams and goals. 

See yourself and identify all those goals, dreams and wants, as well as the unstoppable reason why you absolutely must have these in your life. 

See this vision everyday and speak your I AMs into the universe. Do this and your mind will automatically guide your actions towards your goals, and you’ll find that your goals are facilitating one another, saving precious time and enhancing your capability and success.

How to be successful in life Step 3 – PASSION.