BEcome Successful! (Part 2)

“If you want to have more, you have to become more.  Success isn’t something you pursue or go after, it is something you become.  You attract success when you become the right person.  It’s not what you need to do but who you need to become.”   Jim Rohn

Today I want to elaborate a little bit more on the idea of becoming something that we may not currently be as mentioned in my blog 2 weeks ago.  I wrote that becoming something new starts with our thoughts—for how we think determines how we see the world and eventually how we make decisions and act. 

Becoming successful, or even something more, often begins with a paradigm shift.  I believe those who are truly successful see the world differently than others.  Where most see brick walls, insurmountable odds, difficult obstacles and impossibilities, the successful see something different—often something completely different.  They often see victory in the balance, the ability to defy the odds, or simply what it will be like on the other side of those brick walls.  Becoming something therefore simply begins with seeing the world and ourselves differently. 

Once we begin to see things different we take on a new perspective on life and its inherit risks and challenges.  Developing a fresh perspective in our mind of those things that surround us and our ability to control our outcomes changes what we can do and who we are.  (In my blog Life is Perspective I speak more to this and I encourage you to check it out).  Once we begin to change our perspective and how we view life, everything can begin to change for us, including our outcomes and results that lead to success.    

Our thoughts must also be centered on what I a call our personal mission.  What is your mission?!  What is the reason you wake up everyday?  Unfortunately most of us don’t have a personal mission so we wake up simply to go to work, earn a pay check, and maybe try to do something we enjoy like watching a favorite TV show or spending a little time with family or friends.  Many of us don’t really live with a purpose and we just sort of coast through life without a plan.  This can lead to drudgery and a lack of success.  Instead, we need to be on a mission everyday! 

I like to think of Mission Impossible where the objective and outcomes of the mission were clear.  It should be the same for us, our mission should be clear in our mind and we should think about it often.  What is it that motivates us every day and what do we want to do with our life?  Every day should be moving us one step closer to success because we know and understand our mission and purpose for the day so we naturally are moving toward it.  So, to become something new, we need to answer the question why, why do we wake up every day, what is our motivator, what is our personal mission? 

Once we have a mission we must also have a vision for the future.  Again our thoughts often reside in the here and now, the present.  Moment to moment we make decisions based on the moment rather than the future.  When we can focus on the future and what we eventually want to become or do, we can then begin to take steps to getting there.  Without a clear vision for the future again we will probably wander and go wherever life takes us.  So again we need to ask ourselves, where do we see ourselves in 5 years, 10 years, and 25 years?  Thinking about and having a vision of our future in our mind will help us to become successful. 

As we control our thoughts by shifting our perspective and focusing on our mission and vision we will become something we are currently not.  Becoming something rather than only doing something will lead us to true success.  It’s time to BEcome successful!!