Things to Consider in Changing Your Belief System for Success

"First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do."-Epictetus

If you are noticing nothing seems to be moving forward no matter how much hard work you are putting into getting the results you desire, it is probably because you are using the same skills and perspectives from the past. It is like trying to make a fine wine with old sore grapes from last year's harvest.

It isn't that hard work is without its rewards, but lacking new soft and hard skills it is like a hamster running inside a caged wheel believing he/she is getting somewhere. The hamster is gaining muscle from all the hard work; however, it is limited by staying in place. To move from where you are to where you want to be get out of the wheel to higher ground to observe the forest.

It seems there are two paths. One is to keep doing what you are doing because it is familiar; or be courageous and humble to do what it takes to acquire the knowledge and skills that are beckoning you to move up the ladder to the success you desire, which to me is the "high road to success."

The hardest thing can be change whether forced upon us by circumstances beyond our control or choosing to make a change. The pull of the past keeps sucking us back because it is familiar. But the heart knows best and unhappiness keeps knocking when trying to be what we are not. Our bodies are magnificent messengers.

Moving into a desired future requires growth from the inside out. It takes courage, persistence, humility and commitment on the high road to self-awareness. The growth and opportunities that come from taking the high road are immeasurable and measurable in many ways. Relationships get better, finances increase, health improves and life gets better all around.

"It's the repetition of affirmations that lead to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen"-Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951)

Tips to the High Road of Success

Maybe you are already in a position looking for new direction or maybe you are starting over. Whichever position you are in it is your starting point. Every present moment is a new beginning. As William James, the great psychologist and philosopher said, "The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
Make an appointment with yourself to stop whatever you are doing to give it fresh eyes. Find a place where you won't be disturbed or distracted, plus turn off your personal digital assistants. You will use this time to reflect, design and dream about the future you want. Your future is in your hands.Your future warrants taking regular time-out to focus mentally, visually, and spiritually on your desired outcomes. Otherwise you keep manifesting from the past.
There is nothing wrong with the past unless it is running your future. It takes new seeds to sow what you want to reap. It is arrogance to say you know it all. Remember success isn't limited to learning. Lasting success demands developing the soft skills and values of great leaders, such as attitude, humility, courage, tenacity, understanding, commitment, leadership, etc.
After all what are dreams. They are a vision of future possibilities that aren't in existence. Developing dreams without growing from the inside out is deluding yourself, especially if you believe that all you have to do is more of the same work.
Challenge yourself by learning and developing tangible and intangible skills. If you stop learning from the inside out, you are missing the greatest parts of who you are destined to become.
Support from a mentor is a wonderful resource. They will spur you on and encourage you. They will bring to the table their experience. Having a personal and professional coach is an asset to your growth in that they will challenge you from your unspoken potential; not just reaching quotas that after they are reached it is on to another quota. Personal and professional coaching teaches life-long skills that apply to all areas of your life.
Change is challenging, but do you want the change you desire or just complain about it. Change is very uncomfortable when going into the unknown. Design your future map to give yourself an anchor when the going gets tough to remind you why you are doing what you are doing.

"We must be the epitome - the embodiment - of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become."-Earl Nightingale
Remember: Anything is Possible, especially when you change your attitude of mind, and take the high road to success."

Theresa-Maria "TM" Napa, CPCC, LOACC

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Theresa-Maria Napa, CPCC, LOACC, owner of Right Track Coaching, is a certified professional coach, speaker, and author with extensive experience coaching entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals. She held positions as vice president of operations, director of marketing & administration, and owner of a small business for ten years. Her clients learn life-long skills which lead to higher incomes, improved communication skills, influential leadership abilities, and how to have more leisure time with friends and family. TM is intuitive and masterful in facilitating the business leadership and career development you seek while you work smarter with less stress.

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Seeing It, Doing It, Being It (The Belief And Faith Article)

Napoleon Hill said that faith is the head chemist of the mind, and passionate unwavering belief is the engine behind all achievement, regardless of temporary failures. With that, from a pretty venerable source, I begin this article. This is where imagination is more powerful than knowledge, in this kind of conceiving and belief however. Anything that can be thought of rationally, not necessarily and always "realistically", can be done. However, it all must be done in rational steps, like the progression from the candle, to the oil powered lamp, to the light bulb, to flourescent lighting panels.

Faith is the head chemist in this sense: We have to get out of balance and take the next step to advance anywhere, whether it is walking or inventing a new way of doing anything. I remember when cell phones and smart phones were "Star Trek" technology, which actually was not too long ago, now they are commonplace, space flight is becoming the same way. The irrational and silly that does not work now will be the normal and accepted later. The thing that does not work now and is nothing now will be something later through the rational process of finding out how it really works at a very deep and base level. Think about it, power comes to those who get out of balance in large ways and genuinely take the next step up in anything. That is how genuine evolution and genuine revolutions genuinely happen.

To my way of thinking then, ultimately through this process nothing is genuinely impossible. If we see it in our minds, rationally do what is needed to make it work without regard to temporary failure, and be what we genuinely need to be to make the concept work, it can genuinely be done. For, look at an oak tree or even a redwood tree: both trees grow so slowly that we all wonder how they grow at all, yet, they do grow from the pattern of the source energies that enter the seed and program it to grow and germinate in that way. Everything happens this way, maybe a little faster or a little slower. Everything works toward expression and growth. I do mean everything.

Nature has passionate, unwavering patience and so should we, because everything happens in steps, first things get of balance and then a step is taken forward or up in the positive, growth sense. The point to this article is becoming obvious, so I do not have to mention the negative, destructive sense except as something we would prefer not to do. So, look, everyone wants to win, even the "worst loser you know". Everyone wants a positive life that is winning, even "the worst loser you know." Would the "worst loser you know" decline the win of a million dollars if it was given to them without strings? No. That is part of my point. Everyone wants to win, everyone wants to take the step forward and not backwards. That is the biggest point to my article. It comes down to genuinely seeing it first, doing and then being it as the last step without wavering or laziness, because to be a genuine being is to win and have a winning concept and work ethic in your mind, soul and spirit. The concept within cannot be ducked in any way. If it could, then it would be easy for "the worst loser you know to crack the nut" of genuine winning. Genuine winning comes down to this: A winning concept of yourself all the way through you, the rest comes with actions and realities you make yourself upon that.

Sure, this makes a good article. But you must genuinely see the article (As well as read it and comprehend it fully), do what you need to do with the advice in it, then be what you need to be with what you know. I am not saying it is easy, I am saying it is honestly hard. But a deep concept of winning, like the growth of a tree, only a little shorter in developing fully, takes effort. It takes concentrated and total effort on your part, yourself as it does me, myself. It all starts within you as it starts within me to think, act and generate the results wanted.

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.

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