Larkland Morley’s Professional Blog

This is probably just going to be a ramble on something that came to mind about success recently. The thrust of this article will be short.

Here are the pointers

1. Strive to have clarity about what you want in life or for a specific area. When you really don’t have a specific goal in mind you will waste a lot of time in general. Strategic clarity is powerful to really achieving long term success.

2. Put yourself in the situation that you want to be mentally as often as you can. Imagine yourself reaching the goal before you even started but make it as real as you can. Spend some time daily to think about it. If your goal is spiritual, think about what it would be like to be in that ultimate spiritual state of mind.

3. Break things down in steps. As I always say, you take a GAP analysis of where you are and want to be. Then look at the little steps you need to achieve the ultimate goal. This is an important discipline to achieving that end game.

4. Let go of negative emotions. Try to be a good person and be honest with yourself and others. In fact you would be surprise how this can help to channel energy towards your ultimate goal or aspiration.

5. Adding a bonus. You need to focus. To break it down, focus is based on you really wanting that end game. If you find yourself not focusing then maybe you are not really convicted of your goal in the first place or maybe you don’t believe its possible. Remember that once you remove negative emotions , you will have sharper interest in that goal.

6. Another Bonus – This one is Leverage – This is the operative word to move forward once you have a clear goal. This leverage could be skills, money or people. An important one is people. Don’t be afraid to approach people and ask them how they did it. Don’t be afraid to ask for help but this is critical to moving fast in your journey forward.

7. Seven must be a magical number since I have one more pointer. This one is simple, as of now the word failure does not exist in your vocabulary. What I mean is that when you are locked into your goals, the steps may have setbacks along the way. The key here is to consider these setbacks as learning opportunities not failure as in time to give up.

That’s basically it, lots more than I had in mind to write today.  While we tend to use money as targets for success this to me is wrong. Anything can be seen as success. I hate when people go to some developing country and loosely use the word proverty because people don’t have 2 cars in a garage or maybe living in a hut or something. Most times people with less material possessions have better spiritual outlook than those with the bank account flowing over.  Our current economic situation speaks  to that clearly.  It was bankers who already had lots of money that created this crisis as we know it. So take note on that.