How to Access Your Successability Zone
By Steve Brunkhorst
Achieve Ezine
Human beings are gifted with an extraordinary potential to manifest their personal visions of success. When we think and act in ways that harmonize with those visions, we enter what I describe as our successability zone: a mindset of confidence, faith and action that magnifies our ability to be successful.Here are seven keys to help you access your successability zone. As you read, jot down ways in which you could apply each one to your objectives. Make a note of actions that could help you move from your current position to where you want to be.
Discover the Natural You
One of the most frequent questions I receive is: “How can I find out what I should really be doing with my life?”
The answer lies in discovering your life purpose and aligning your actions with that purpose. A life purpose statement reminds you why you are living on earth, and what you are naturally inclined to create. When you live in harmony with your purpose, your actions feel satisfying and effortless. Each moment fills you with energy and feelings of success. You don’t need to obtain a purpose; you already have one.
You can begin to uncover your purpose by noticing your feelings and inclinations during various activities. Begin by asking yourself: What activities feel the most rewarding? What fills me with unrelenting joy? Recall hobbies, jobs, and projects that you've enjoyed the most. Note primary interests from your childhood. Which ones made you feel joyful and fulfilled? Look also for recurring interests and ambitions. What do your favorite activities and most memorable experiences have in common?
When you live and act in harmony with your purpose, you will believe in your ability to succeed. You will express your natural talents and deepest values.
Turn on a Laser Light
Your purpose can be expressed through many different missions. So, it is important to decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and write a plan to achieve it. Form the intention to reach your goal. The moment of intention will produce a powerful shift toward manifesting that goal. Focus your mind like a laser on your desired outcome.
Create the feeling that you’ve already achieved what you want, and feel grateful for those accomplishments. You will attract what you are grateful for. You will achieve what you accept and believe with feeling. Combine faith-filled thoughts and positive emotions to produce feelings of gratitude for your success. Your thoughts of gratitude will expand in your consciousness and manifest in your life situations. Starting today, shine a laser light of gratitude on the objectives you want to achieve.
Build a Compelling Door
There isn’t always a best way to succeed. However, there is a compelling way. You will never be successful by accepting someone else's opinion of what should be important or enjoyable to you. You must define and attract your own vision of success.
Milton Berle said, "If opportunity won't knock, build a door." Build a door that looks so inviting that you would do whatever is necessary to unlock it. The most compelling ventures will be those that you create for yourself. If the door is compelling, the effort needed to unlock it will be rewarding.
Get Your Entry Keys
Preparation, planning, and patience will unlock your compelling door. These keys must be paid for in advance. Worthwhile accomplishment is possible, but it requires sacrifice. It is built from knowledge placed into focused, sustained action. Sustained action provides real-world experience, the most valuable kind of knowledge.
Absorb every thing you can possibly learn about your area of interest. Make a commitment to become highly skillful in your chosen field. Henry John Heinz said, “To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.” Growing in knowledge and skill each day will bring tremendous results over time.
Find Your Way Around the Rocks
Staying in your successability zone requires resolve. It has been observed that in the confrontation between a stream and a rock, the stream always wins through persistence. There will be rocks in your stream of life situations, and your resolve will be tested.
You will create one of two things in your mind: limitations or solutions. People with success-ability create life-enhancing solutions for their customers, clients and themselves. They find their way around temporary obstacles after others have given up. When “rocks” appear, accept them as a challenge, move around them, and continue forward.
Get a Prize Everyday
Great missions are not achieved; they are lived daily. Success is a journey -- a process of self-discovery. Feel the reward of each small achievement. Fulfillment does not arrive in the future; it is a way of being in each moment. Enjoy today’s rewards. If you set your sites only on a future benchmark for success, you might arrive there with the sudden realization that all you've lived for is accomplished. The future will look empty. Keep developing new goals and missions that will express your ultimate purpose throughout life. However, enjoy the present moment completely, because that is where life and success are always experienced.
Leverage Your Successability
Find a mentor who believes in your objectives. A coach or mastermind group can support you for taking the actions needed to reach your goals. When you run out of energy or lose your direction, they can help you get back on track. You’ll be pleased with the forward-driving momentum made possible by a cocreative relationship with someone who believes in you!
These keys, when applied, will lead you into your personal successability zone. Look deeply into your heart and mind.
Ask yourself: What will my successability zone look and feel like? What gifts will it bring? What actions could I begin taking now to manifest those gifts? You can reach your highest potential with the willingness to grow little by little and by taking progressive actions each day. Begin accessing your successability zone now, and enjoy the journey as well as the rewards.
About the Author: © 2004 by Steve Brunkhorst. As a highly successful therapist and consultant, Steve has helped hundreds of individuals to achieve their goals and reach their highest potential. He has led performance and skill-building workshops in both educational and corporate settings. Steve coaches people to help them revitalize their inner spark, access their natural talents, and design strategies to reach their personal and career goals. He is also the editor of Achieve! 60-Second Nuggets of Inspiration, a popular mini-zine filled with great stories and inspiring thoughts to brighten your day and help you achieve more in your career and personal life. Subscribe today by visiting http://www.AchieveEzine.com .
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