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Top Ten Strategies For Becoming Uncommonly Successful

Copyright © 2004-2005 Stacey Mayo, MCC 
Center for Balanced Living
http://www.balancedliving.com/



Here are 10 of 26 proven strategies gleaned from interviews with 
highly successful people who have overcome obstacles to 
accomplish such feats as climbing Mt. Everest, winning a Grammy, 
becoming a multi-millionaire, becoming an established author and 
humorist, a professional pitcher in the Major Leagues, an 
internet entrepreneur who earns millions and more. Regardless of 
your career or industry, when applied, these success principles 
can shorten your learning curve and be a catalyst for your 
success.

These principles were excerpted from the book, " I Can't Believe 
I Get Paid To Do This!" Remarkable People Reveal 26 Proven 
Strategies For Making Your Dreams a Reality by Stacey Mayo


1) Create Wealth in Alignment With Your Passions

It is important to focus on what you are passionate about first 
and then find a way to make money at it. Get in touch with your 
heart first, otherwise, the left side of your brain will rule out 
perfectly good ideas without having explored them.

"Money allows us the freedom to pursue the things that are 
important to us. Money is not an end it itself." Stacy Allison, 
first American woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest


2) Honor Numero Uno: Design Your Life Around Your Priorities

Many people try to fit their dreams into their life and complain 
there are not enough hours in the day to make it happen. If you 
want your dream to become a reality, make it a priority. 
Otherwise, it will never be more than a pipedream.


3) Visualize Every Step of Your Dream and Watch the Magic Unfold

The muscle movement that helps us physically take action in our 
lives begins in the mind. That is why all great golfers, tennis 
players, basketball players, etc. visualize themselves making a 
shot beforehand. An experiment conducted by Alan Richardson, an 
Australian psychologist, found 23% performance improvement among 
subjects who visualized every day for 20 days. In his paper 
published in Research Quarterly, Richardson wrote that the most 
effective visualization occurs when the visualizer feels and sees 
what he is doing.

"I really visualized it, too, even as a child watching those 
programs. I could visualize myself walking up the stage, up the 
stairs. For me, visualizing those dreams happening was pertinent 
to making that happen, because I could see it. I pictured it in 
my head" Mary Youngblood, welfare mom turned Grammy Award Winner


4) Easy Does It: Inspired Action Always Trumps Forced Action

Inspired action is joyful action that is in alignment with your 
dream. It is action you want to take and the idea of it brings a 
smile to your face. When you take inspired action, you are 
aligned with what you are doing and things flow naturally.

Contrast this to action that you are forcing yourself to take 
regardless of whether you feel like doing it. Maybe you are in a 
bad mood or have a headache but decide you have to take this 
action and keep trudging forward. The likelihood is that if you 
take action from this place it will take you twice as long to 
accomplish your task or goal or there will be obstacles that come 
up along the way. It's like swimming against strong currents.


5) Laser in On One Idea, Business or Income Stream at a Time

One of the mistakes people make is diversifying too quickly. This 
is true whether you are trying to build multiple streams of 
income or are just working on several different ideas at one 
time. The key is getting the first stream or idea up and running, 
producing good revenue, and having systems in place so it will 
keep running without you before going on to the next unrelated 
stream.

"Several things going on at one time is a distraction to cash." 
Loral Langemeier, single mom, financial literacy coach and 
millionaire


6) Strengthen Your Relationships: Your Financial Independence is 
Dependent on Your Connections With Others

Many people think of the day when they will be financially 
independent as "freedom day." And, while financial independence 
is a worthwhile goal, it does not mean that you are free of your 
dependence on other people. As a matter of fact, in order to 
create financial independence, you just might need a lot more 
people in your life than you have right now.


7) Develop Your Resilience Muscle: Bounce Back From Setbacks

The truth is that you will have setbacks along the way. This is 
just inevitable. The sooner you accept that, the better. Many of 
these setbacks will take the form of circumstances that come up 
and block your way. If you look closely, you may find these 
setbacks are directly correlated with your innermost thoughts, 
fears, and limiting beliefs. This is because we create what we 
focus on including those things we don't want.

Don't get stopped by these bumps in the road; learn from them. As 
you work through the setbacks that come up, you will become the 
person you need to be to live out your dreams.


8) Streamline Your Efforts; Align Your Natural Talents With Your 
Goal

Success comes easier and more quickly when you enhance your 
strengths and delegate in areas where you are weak. Your natural 
talents are those things you do so easily and naturally that you 
think they are no big deal. Many of my clients were overlooking 
their natural talents when they first came to me. They thought if 
it is this easy for them, it must be this easy for everyone. This 
is rarely the case.

The key is to take your natural talents and abilities and 
strengthen them through education and experience. You are not 
born an expert at anything. It is something you develop.


9) Disarm That Sneaky Inner Saboteur

Even when we know what we need to do, we often don't do it out of 
fear of experiencing the emotions and other things that may come 
up as a result. Fear of failure and fear of success are the two 
biggest internal fears that people often face. Most other fears 
such as fear of rejection fall underneath one of these major 
categories. As human beings, we will go to great lengths to avoid 
our fears. That is why so many ideas never get beyond being a 
great idea, or projects are started and never finished. It is 
easy to find reasons, excuses, other diversions or projects, 
create chaos, and sometimes to even create emergencies to avoid 
these negative feelings or outcomes.

One of the most important things you can do is allow it to be 
okay to have these feelings. Then step back and notice what it is 
you do to get in your own way. When you have identified what you 
do, you can make a conscious decision to do it differently.


10) Shorten Your Learning Curve by Learning From The Best

You can learn from the people who are barely getting by, from 
those who are doing fairly well or from those at the top of the 
heap. Talk to people who are already successful and find out how 
they did it. That's what the book, "I Can't Believe I Get Paid To 
Do This!" is about. Its purpose is to provide success principles 
and philosophies from those who have excelled. They've already 
been down the road and you can learn from their experience. Why 
reinvent the wheel when someone else already did a great job of 
creating it?


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These principles were excerpted from the book, " I Can't Believe 
I Get Paid To Do This! : Remarkable People Reveal 26 Proven 
Strategies For Making Your Dreams a Reality by Stacey Mayo, 
"The Dream Queen" available at http://amazon.com Stacey is the 
director of The Center for Balanced Living. She and her team of 
coaches have assisted thousands of people in living out their 
dreams with ease and abundance. More information is available at 
http://www.balancedliving.com and http://www.igetpaidtodothis.com
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