Formula to Success
I have been asked many a times during training sessions and in particular by the people who regard me as a Mentor about feeling demotivated on failing to achieve something. The follow up statements I am used to hearing are:
I have given it my best shot and I can’t think of any better way
(or) I am lost. I don’t know what to do next.
For those of you still caught up in this low morale feel, I am glad I found this video of Allan Pease who is highly regarded worldwide as a body language expert . His book titled “The definitive book on Body Language” has sold over 1 million copies and is great fun to read.
He talks about GOALS and how a 3 step formula saved his life after being diagonised of advance Prostrate cancer. With doctors confirming 98% chances he would die in 3 years, he chose to study the remaining 2% who survived and battled it out.
What I loved most is Allan deciding to write out an audacious goal without a deadline to speak at Kremlin and Vladimir Putin becoming his fan later.
To summarize Allan’s Formula for success:
- Make the decision to have a clearly defined goal / goals – Decide what you want to do first and the how’s will follow.
- Have a written plan of action with deadlines – It’s the difference between Millionaires and Billionaires. Have a continual list to prevent running out of what to do next when you face an obstacle with one.
- No matter what anyone says just follow through with your goal – Everyone around you, those who love you in particular will try to stop you. They dont want to see you fail. Just go through with it.
