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"Secrets to Success"

****Failure is really just feedback telling you how to adjust your plan. Without it, you wouldn't know what to do. It is essential to success. You should not only expect it, you should welcome it.*****

Here is a bare-bones method for achieving anything:

Step 1: Know where you are. Be clear and realistic about where you are, what you have, what your circumstances are.

Step 2: Know where you want to be. Have a specific end in mind.

Step 3: Take action toward that end, based on the best plan you can come up with at the time. Don't wait, just move, act, do.

Step 4: Notice what happens.

Step 5: Readjust your plan based on feedback from Step 4 and take more action.

Step 6: Continue to repeat Steps 4 and 5 until you have achieved your goal.

That's it. That's all it takes. But what do most people do? They get to Step 4, and they notice that they didn't achieve their goal the first time, and they quit (a few may repeat Steps 4 and 5 a few more times before they quit).
High achievers do not feel disheartened when Step 4 does not result in immediate success. They don't expect it to. They just expect feedback, information, about what their action created. They know their plan probably is deficient. They know they need more information and that taking action is the best way to get it.
Here's another secret: you can put another step in before the first action step, and that step is to find someone else who has successfully done something like what you are trying to do, and model their behavior, their beliefs, their thoughts, their attitudes, their actions. This gives your initial action a better shot at giving you relevant feedback and saves a lot of trial and error.

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