It does not feel good to have a year passes by without achieving anything. A single year contains 365 days and when properly utilize, we can achieve tons of things. Time is our most important asset. It is possible to lose all your money and get it back but there is not a single way to get back your time after it passes you by.

The One Big Factor That Leads To Lack of Results

If a year passes you by and you felt like you had achieved nothing, it is time to reflect upon your action. I used to have a few of those years before I start my own personal development journey. It does not feel good when you had wasted a year without achieving something. A year is a lot of time and who knows how many years we have in our life.

If a year passes you by and you achieved nothing, most likely you are making one serious mistake. You may be majoring in minor matters too frequently.

Majoring In Minor Matters

It is not the people who work hard that win, it is the people who work hard in the smart way that win. Someone who works hard on minor matters will not achieve the level of success of someone who works hard on things that matter.

The common mistake that people made is that they indulge in things that do not matter at all. Activities like playing games, watching TV or hanging out with friends too frequently for mindless chatters. These are low value activities or minor matters that will not make any big improvement to your life.

Another type of people is hard workers who fail to work hard on important things. They work hard on minor matters all year round and in a year time, they question themselves why are they not getting the results they want even though they are working so hard. The deadly mistake that they made is that they are working hard on things that do not matter at all. If you are a salesman, it does not matter if you check your email inbox 50 times a day, file your documents daily or reach the office earliest every day. What matters is that you accomplish tasks (prospecting, cold calling etc) that can help to make new sales!

I respect and admire hard work, but it pays to play smart instead of simply working hard. A sales man who works hard in doing every other thing except for making sales, he will not be valuable to the company and his commission check is definitely not going to be huge.

How To Start Achieving

Your life will change when you start to have this habit of majoring in things that matter. It becomes much easier to reach your goals when you start doing important tasks and I learned this in a hard way. After years of not getting results, I start to reflect upon my own action and find that I have been focusing on too many minor matters.

Many people fall into the trap of working hard on minor matters. However, the moment they start focusing all their energy on things that matter, getting their desired results seems much easier and faster.

If you do not want to feel like you have achieved nothing at the end of the year, it is time for you to start doing something about it. Here is the action plan.

1. Have your goal in place
2. Go through what you are doing daily and analyze whether they are important or minor matters
3. If it is important, continue doing it. If no, replace minor tasks with important tasks that can help bring you closer to your goal.

1. Have Your Goal In Place

Without an objective, you will not know where to go. You will not start traveling before you know your destination and you do not try to achieve your goals before you know what your goals are. To know what the important tasks to you are, you will have to know where you want to end up in the first place. A blogger would have a different set of important tasks compared to a salesman. The first step to start achieving is to set what you want to achieve first.

2. Go Through What You Are Doing Daily

Keep a notebook that you can write down your daily to do tasks. Go through the list of things that you do daily and reflect upon it. Are the tasks major or minor matters? Do they help to bring you closer to your goals?

Write down the tasks that you had completed daily in a notebook and review them at the end of every week. By reviewing them weekly, you can make changes if you find yourself indulging in too many minor matters.

3. Replacing Minor Tasks With Important Tasks

Some people may have trouble differentiating the important tasks and minor tasks. If it is so, I recommend that you read this article about the 80/20 principle first. Go through the 80/20 principle and weed out the tasks that do not give you major results. Replace each of them with tasks that will give you 80% of the results using 20% of the effort.

Parting Words

“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”
~Jim Rohn

One of the most important things to do in your life is to keep working on yourself. Reading books, listening to audiotapes and attending seminars on personal growth can help you to build your character, mindset and attitude. With a strong character, correct mindset and positive attitude, you can achieve anything that you want. Working on yourself is definitely the top of the list of major matters in your life.

Don’t let this year end without achieving anything significant again. Start planning what you want to achieve this year and go out there to grab the success that you always desire!

Vincent
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Lately I have started to feel bored. I remembered what Tony Robbins had said, “your emotions are action indicators.” I don’t remember clearly what he had said but it is around these lines.

Things have started to get repetitive and dull for me. I have been writing to this blog twice weekly regularly and the tasks that I need to complete to reach my goals are getting repetitive. My blog is growing steadily, my affiliate site is not doing as well as I have expected and my training for my marathon is going smoothly. Overall, things are going well but the feeling of boredom lingers.

I tried to dig deeper for reasons that cause this feeling and I finally stumbled upon something.

Boredom = Action Indicator

I noticed that doing the same things repeatedly can lead to boredom. Boredom is also a sign that you need to be doing something new and get out of your comfort zone.

I thought about it and noticed that I am not doing anything new at the moment and it seems like I am running in maintenance mode. Running in maintenance mode means that I am not growing and all I am doing is to maintain the standards. So to shake things up, I have decided to introduce things that I am not regularly doing into my routine. The only way you can kill off boredom is to start stepping out of your comfort zone and seek new challenges.

Upcoming Projects

1. Interviews

Long time readers know that I have conducted podcast interviews with successful people in the past and it has been drying up lately. I enjoy doing these interviews and I think it is a great way to learn from successful people. However, I have avoided doing it as I still have the fear of rejection and the feeling of nervousness when interviewing others.

I need to work on these negative emotions that are holding me back and start getting those interviews done. Practice makes perfect and I believe doing it repeatedly will definitely make me feel more comfortable with conducting interviews.

Note: If you have any person in mind that you want me to interview, do tell me in the comment section below.

2. New eBook

I have decided to write a new ebook. Writing an ebook is easy, writing a high quality ebook is a lot of work. I got to admit it that the first time I have completed “Unleash Your Maximum Potential”(If you have not downloaded your free copy, you can download it here), I thought to myself that I do not want to write an ebook again.

It is tedious to write an ebook as there are tons of work to do. Things like getting ideas, editing, formatting, hiring ebook designers and etc. However, I have decided to just go ahead and write my second ebook. Laziness has a limit.

If you have anything that you want to see me write about, do tell me.

3. Videos/Podcasts

I will make my own videos and post it over here. Instead of words, words and just words, I will present my ideas in videos to add more personal touch to it. I hope that this time round, my videos will turn out better. My first video for HealthMoneySuccess is a total failure. I talk like a vampire and you can laugh at it over here.

4. Consulting/Coaching

I have decided to venture into consulting/coaching. I do not have a definite plan in mind but I will definitely keep you people updated when I have some ideas about it.

What Can Your Boredom Do For You?

Boredom is an indicator that you need to do something new or challenging to push yourself out of your comfort zone. The next time when you feel bored, dig deeper into the causes of your boredom and brainstorm for new ideas and challenges. It may lead you to something exciting and help you to experience exponential growth.

Vincent
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Have you downloaded your free copy of Unleash Your Maximum Potential? Even though I had put it up for a few weeks, I have not yet written an article to explain what the ebook is all about. So if you have not yet downloaded the ebook now because you don’t know what the book is all about, I am here to tell you more about it.

I decided to create Unleash Your Maximum Potential to help others to kick start their personal development journey or help them to get them back on track. The book isn’t hard to read and I tried to simplified everything to ensure that everyone can get the idea behind it. It is also something light enough to prevent you from falling asleep while reading.

Here are the chapters in the book.

Chapter 1: Your Beliefs Can Make Or Break You

Chapter 2: Take Control Of Your Life Now

Chapter 3: Your Obstacle To Your Maximum Potential – And How To Get Rid Of It

Chapter 4: Discover The Power Of Goals And Action Plan

Chapter 5: Failure – Your Best Mentor Or Foe

Chapter 6: Short Cut To Success (There is!)

Chapter 7: Importance Of Taking Action

Chapter 8: Creating Your Own Destiny

I had compiled ideas from what I had read and also from my own experience on helping us to achieve more in life. There are also exercises at the end of each chapter which you can do to help you apply what you had learnt in the book. The exercises help you to put the new knowledge you had gained into use. Most people read and pick up new ideas without doing anything hence the new knowledge is not fully utilized. I hope the exercises can help to change this though.

I hope this book can help others to break out of their rut and start to live the life that they desired. You can download your free copy now by entering your name and email below.

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This is the second part of “How Changing Your Beliefs Can Bring Your Success”. If you have not read the previous post, you can read it here.

Part 2

4. Past Results – There are things in life that you will see it as difficult or easy. If you are an experienced writer, you will say writing a book is easy and it can be done with effort or if you are an experienced plumber you will say that fixing a tap is child play.

Why do they see what they are doing as easy while it can be difficult for others? It is because they have done it before and they have the beliefs that they can do it again. Whenever you succeed at doing something, you will find that it is easier to do it the second time because you have the belief that can do it again due to your past success.

Why do so many millionaires say that making the first million is the hardest and after making their first million they still continue to churn out even more millions with ease? It is because they have the belief that they can do it again because they had done it before.

Before the birth of this blog, I have so many doubts in my mind that suspect my ability to set up a blog and have a significant amount of traffic to the site. My belief at that time was I do not have the technical skills to do it and I have zero ideas about setting up a website. I hesitated for some time and finally decided to just jump in and learn the ropes of setting up a website and blogging. Here I am with my blog and sharing personal development information with you guys. Am I confident about setting up a new blog now? Yes I do! I have now created a new belief that I am capable of setting up a self hosted blog due to the action I took and the results that I had achieved.

If you do not have past results that help to support your belief, you can roll up your sleeves and start to create them now. If you want to write a book then start writing a chapter a day. After you know you can write a chapter and you know that you are capable of doing it all over again then gradually after months of writing, you will get a book! This can be applied in any areas that you want results in. If you had achieved results and you believe that it can be done, over time it will just become a self fulfilling prophecy.

5. Creating the experience you want in the future as if it were here now – Whenever physical environment does not suggest the beliefs that you want, you can create an internal representation of what you desire in your mind to help you shape up your beliefs. Visualizing that you had already achieved your desired outcome will help you to create a new belief that you can do it. Visualizing desired outcomes will also help you to be more excited about achieve the goal.

If you are currently earning $1000 per month currently, which situation will cause you to feel more passionate and enthusiastic about waking up?

A. I am going to earn $1000 this month!

or

B. I am going to earn $10,000 this month!

The answer is obviously B!

Summarizing

We have the power to change our quality of life. If you are not happy about where you are today, you can make the choice and effort to change it. Changing your beliefs is the first step to success as where we are today is largely due to our beliefs. Let me give you an example.

A student was told that he is a bad student. If he believe that he is a failure as a student, do you think that he will try his best to excel in his studies? Probably not. He had already signed up for failure and in his mind he will be thinking why bother to work hard when he knew that he was going to fail in his studies?

What if he believe that he is an exceptional student? Will he wake up excited and passionate about his studies knowing that he can grab all those distinctions and merits. Will he tap into his inner resources and use it to the fullest potential to achieve his goals? Will he still take half hearted steps? I believe this time round, he will be excited and passionate to be able to achieve excellence in his studies.

In order to tap into our deep inner resources, we need to believe that we can achieve our desired results. This in turn will unlock our inner resources (it is powerful beyond what we can imagine) to achieve our desired results.

You may be asking, even if you had changed your beliefs into empowering one, does that mean that you are bound to be successful at all times? Probably not, there will definitely be failures along the way but if you maintain your empowering beliefs and keep on taking action, success will be found eventually.

Success breed success and keep the momentum going and having empowering beliefs is the first step towards success.

So what are your negative beliefs? List 5 of them down and replace the 5 negative beliefs with empowering beliefs today to see positive results in your life.

Cheers,

Vincent

Personal Development Blogger

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Do you want to be successful? Do you want to be rich? Do you want to be fit and healthy with that body so well toned that you would leave people in awe when they see it.

Who doesn’t?

But why are you still drinking that Coke in your hand or stuffing yourself with junk food and wasting your time before the TV when you should really get yourself off the couch to get some serious work done. You knew that exercising is good for you, upgrading your skills will earn you better money or start a successful business will get you the wealth that you could enjoy and still you are procrastinating about doing the necessary things.

We can conclude from here that the biggest opponent in your life is you!

Human are creatures of comfort and habit and we naturally avoid pain and move towards pleasure. We find that eating the chocolate is pleasurable rather then lifting weights. We want to be wealthy but feel that the re run program on the TV is more interesting then working on your skills.

Things like exercising and upgrading your skills are important but human sometimes find that the journey towards success is not enjoyable. They dream about results but they hate the specific details and grueling work that they need to do in order to achieve success.

If you are having a junk food diet and watch the TV for 8 hours a day and one day I tell you to start to work out. Maybe you can tell me,” But I don’t like to exercise.” So what if you don’t like to exercise? Do you like to have a heart attack? No way!

We tend to make drastic changes when we are facing a serious problem. Imagine if you are diagnosed with blocked arteries in your heart, will you still stuff yourself with burgers and fries? If you are a facing bankruptcy, will you still splurge $1000 a night on fine dining? I bet there will be a 180 degrees change from you. Maybe you will start to convert into a raw vegan and start exercising everyday and bargain in a wet market for a discount of 50 cents to buy groceries to cook at home.

Drastic change isn’t it?

What do we learn from the above examples? We live by Choice. You choose to be a better you or you choose to fail in your life. Whatever the results, it happens from what you choose in your daily activities.

“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice”

George Eliot

One more inspiring quote for you.

“If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect from what you truly want, and all that left is a compromise”

Robert Fritz

Think big and dream big. Don’t ever self doubt when you never even try. Hope this article will help inspire you to be a better you.

If you need help on time management and making the best out of the day. I greatly recommend this book, First Thing First by Stephen R.Covey. You can get it here for only $10.88.

To your success,

Vincent

Personal Development Blogger

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When we look at apple trees, we wonder why does the apples contain so many seeds? Why not just one seed per apple will do? Nature have a lesson for us here. The apples contain so many seeds because not all the seeds will grow!

So what does the law of the seeds show us? It show us that if we want something, we are going to try more then once to get it. We will need to try 5 pair of shoes to get the right fit. We will need to send 20 resumes for one job interview. We will need to meet hundreds of people to find our best friend. We will need to try thousands of business ideas to get one that work best. One of my previous job in sales taught me, each No brings you closer to a Yes. I believe it and work hard on it so even a rejection can’t bring me down as I know each rejection I received brings me closer to a deal!

So how to be successful? We will need to try more then once to be successful in life, be it in becoming slim, becoming rich or having a soul mate. Successful people fail often to get what they want. It is because they are trying more then others and thus planting more seeds.

Effort first, results later.

Jack says if I get an A for maths then I will start loving maths. Zack says he will start saving money after he is rich. It doesn’t work this way. The principle is always effort first then results. It is not the other way round.

So what else can we learn from the Law Of The Seed? We need to know we can only reap the harvest after the work. Without planting the seed, we cannot expect any harvest. After planting, we will need to water it which is the effort being applied and then wait (patience) for it to grow.

Patience is such an important virtue yet sometimes we forgot about it. In this world of fast food and instant noodles, we want instant gratification and instant results. People want to be rich and wealthy overnight, which is hardly going to happen unless you hit the jackpot or strike the lottery. Look how many people are turn off by the idea of effort and thus denying themselves the results they desired.

Lets refer to the bamboo. It takes 3 years to get it growing. The first 3 years are just getting itself ready and growing the roots to prepare for a growth spurt. Without patience, you will stop the effort of watering on the bamboo in the first and second year and in turn fail to see it grow into such a magnificent sight.

Once we understand the Law Of The Seed we will know how to handle the feedback in life and don’t feel like victims every time. So understand the Law of Nature and work with it.

Cheers!
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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