Inner Strength is Crucial

"Weak inside = weak results outside"
It is so important to have inner strength. Mine keeps on being tested on daily basis and sometimes even on hourly basis. You have several pressure angles:

Your own body is against you


Your body has no benefit whatsoever for you to work many hours to achieve success. The body is a very short term thinking system and it cannot understand a concept such as "future benefits". That's where the brain comes in, or actually only a part of the brain, I think it's the frontal lobe. Anyhow, your body will keep pressuring you to enjoy and have fun and relax and take it easy. Why? Because it's main function is to preserve energy and demand more of the chemicals which make it feel good (food, drugs, etc).

Your family and friends might be acting against you


Even if they might have your best interest at heart, telling you things like "make sure to get some rest" and "don't worry about it", etc might actually be counter productive. I sometimes feel that I overcome great obstacles when I am worried and stressed and I use that, if i may say so, adrenaline rush, to create a sort of a sense of urgency to get things done and get them done faster.

Furthermore, typically, your family and friends would be living on a normal routine time schedule and if you are fighting alone for success doing strange hours, sleeping at weird hours, etc then they neither might understand nor they will want even for themselves to go through those difficulties. Most people want easy wealth with no work.
You have to keep yourself strong
Use any method you can to have inner strength
Have faith in yourself and in your success!
 

Word Cloud Succeed with Tunnel Vision

Careful with getting lost amidst too many ideas or methods or opportunities - pick one and stick to it with tunnel vision! And do not deviate until you get results, which could be positive or failure, but walk the full distance - don't get off the success bus after one or a couple of stops.


Be in Business to Succeed

A human mind thrives the best in a challenging environment!
There are people who will sit and fantasize about all sorts of ideas and possibilities yet do nothing about it because there always seems to be one or more reasons why it is not a good idea to start with this or with that. As a consequence of such lifestyle friends and/or family discuss all sorts of topics over the course of years, however, in the end, nothing has changed, nothing has started and life is as life was - dreaming about things. That way is NOT the "way of the samurai" :)

The best way in business is to BE IN BUSINESS! 


That means start your activity, get it moving and on your way you will stumble upon other opportunities, directly or indirectly connected to your original idea, which you would have never even thought of before, because you were not in business. There is nowhere written that you must sell antique tables all your life if that was your original idea. Most likely while doing that business you would encounter many other opportunities which are possibly far more lucrative than your original idea. Or you can discover that building luxury huts on islands is the way to continue and you would stop completely your original tables idea and move to some remote dream location and start building huts! You never know until you are in business!

Adapting as you go


In the video below you will see a very nice explanation how you start with one idea and then something else comes your way (while you are in business - not on your sofa watching TV) and maybe you start with that and then maybe yet another opportunity comes which is even more interesting.

There are many roads to success and, I repeat, nowhere does it state that you absolutely have to do something specific your entire life. You are a human, you are a hugely advanced creature with unlimited potential - do not restrict yourself in anti-creative boxes.

Another Success Path Variation:


There are infinite variations of paths leading to success. Here is another one where you start well and are growing very good, but then something happens and your business or project encounters huge problems and nearly collapses, but you do not give up, you keep on fighting and eventually you discover a way to solve the problems and with your experience you establish a more efficient way forward. 
Don't waste too much time talking and dreaming!
Start your business or project!
Keep yourself updated! Keep up with competition! See what they are doing and learn from them!
And new opportunities will open up to you - the best way to reach success is to be in business!

Resist Complaining & Negativity

Inspirational stories and ideas make people move. Likewise, negative ones bring your energy down!
It is often easier said than done "stay away from negative people". In real life there can be cases where for whatever reason you cannot do that. It could be a member of your family who is always negative, but you care for him or her and want to help or it could be a close friend who has saved your life or gotten you out of trouble so you feel grateful and you will never abandon him or her.

Whatever the case, these do exist and thus this post to bring it to your attention. The way complaining or constantly talking and discussion about problems works is in a very subtle and invisible way. It is sort of similar to someone pulling petrol out of a car. You can be sitting and listening to problems and complains and then your friend or family would leave your house and you might find yourself not feeling like working or thinking about their problems. But just 1 hour ago you were going full speed on your project and now that motivation or muse has just disappeared and you are back on Earth.

Be mindful of this effect. It is not for nothing that people say that you must surround yourself with inspirational, smart and energetic people who are full of love and passion and action. In a group like this it is almost impossible not to reach success. However, like I mentioned, it is not always possible to completely eliminate negativity and so there is only one weapon that you have that can counter this effect and this weapon is called DISCIPLINE!

  • Get back on your project!
  • Remember your goals!
  • Remember what you are fighting for and where you want to get to!
  • Watch whatever inspirational videos you love if that helps!

But whatever you do enforce DISCIPLE in order to achieve success. No matter how you feel get back on the path, get back to your work and for the future, if possible, either limit the amount of contact you have t have with this person or persons or find a way to turn your conversations into constructive and positive conversations. After all, I like to think that everyone wants to be successful, so see if you can think of a way to turn your complaining friend or family into talking about an interesting project, no matter how small it is!
Resist the effect of complaints and negativity!
Remember your path!
Be strong and disciplined!
Fight for success!