You can
take everything you've been instructed to do, or found out through
research about achieving success, and boil it down to one thing. That
is, seek success, and find success, in it's simplest form.
Now for
some of you, that will be a slap on the face – you believe that's
an oversimplification. It's pop psychology. I beg to differ.
And that
one simple thing I suggest you find, is what makes you happy. The
quicker you get to that root core, that essence of success, the
quicker it will become yours.
If
you've made out the specific item lists, so detailed that it's pages
upon pages of stuff, you're only frustrating yourself. You've been
able to write down everything you've wanted, at a specific point in
time. But tomorrow, or next week, try reciting what's on the list.
Try the general stuff, forget about the specifics. Can't really do
it, can you?
Now find
the simplest form of all that – why did you write it all out?
Because it would make you . . . (wait for it) . . . HAPPY! You could
say, I want to be rich! What would it take for you to be 'rich'?
There goes that pages long list again.
If you
were rich (and healthy, and wise, and traveling or writing or flying
or sailing . .), would you be happy? The simple answer is yes. So why
not focus on that – just be happy.
Simple.
Easy. And more importantly, attainable. Now one last thing – that
huge list – if something came along even better, would you want it?
Of course. So that would negate your list, wouldn't it?
I
suggest that list, all those lists, are a statement of your tastes in
life. What lifestyle you would rather have. The specific items are
just window dressing. Find the lifestyle you want. Find
that which makes you happy, emotionally happy.
And
there, you will simply find, your success. Waiting patiently for you.
And probably wondering where the heck you've been.
