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Do What Failures Are Unwilling to Do

Major success is uncommon so you must learn to act uncommonly. Failures are satisfied with pleasing methods (i.e. taking the easy path) and then settling for whatever results they get. Successful people are influenced by pleasing results and are willing to take the difficult path to get what they desire. The easy choice when not in the mood to do something is to not do that specific thing. The more deliberate and challenging choice is to act no matter how you feel. This is what the professional does; they put in the work regardless of emotional state. They decide with their mind and their body follows.

For example, are you willing to wake up before the sun rises, even if you don’t feel like it? The easy answer is to say no and claim that you are not a morning person; the easy choice is to stay in bed. In contrast, it takes a specific willingness to get up out of your comfortably warm bed even when you don’t feel like it. The ability to make yourself spark that activation energy to get out of bed is the same type of energy you need to make yourself go to the gym, to make that important call, or to start writing.

Successful people don’t like doing the same things that failures don’t like to do, but the difference is that they still do what needs to be done in order to obtain their objectives. It’s a deliberate choice backed by a burning desire and purpose. What are you wiling to do?

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Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results

PassionPlusProfits | Past performance does not guarantee future resultsTake a moment to reflect on your past results. Think about where you are now and where you truly intended to be. In regards to your own expectations of love, wealth, health, and happiness, where do you currently stand? Did you do better or worse than you planned?

Regardless of your past results, the good news is that no matter where you’re at, your future is still in your control. Take any loss as a lesson and be cautious not to be become idle because of past success. Find a way to learn from the good and the bad, and continue to take steady movement towards your desired goals. It is your action today that will determine your future results.

 

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A quitter never wins – and – a winner never quits.

2017_06_07 Passion Plus Profits - A Quitter Never Wins - and - a winner never quitsOn your journey towards achieving financial freedom, expect to meet with temporary defeat. When you experience temporary defeat, accept it as a sign that you need to make changes to your game plan. Make the necessary changes to your plan and then continue to move towards your desired goal. If you give up before your goal is achieved, then you are a quitter. Develop the mindset of a winner!!

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Obstacles Don’t Exist to Stop Us…

PassionPlusProfits.com - Obstacles don't exist to stop us.JPGOn your road to success you will undoubtedly face many obstacles. Master your obstacles until you find yourself crossing the finish line towards the achievement of your desire. Remember: Your level of success is in direct proportion to the degree of obstacles you have to overcome.

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Finding Self-Discipline in Defeat v2.0

PassionPlusProfits - Finding Self-Discipline in Defeat

UCLA football was destroyed in Palo Alto last Thursday (56 to 32) and my friends and I just so happened to be seated in enemy territory. We were a tiny sliver of blue amongst a sea of Cardinal. Fortunately for us, Stanford fans have a lot of class and are very welcoming hosts.

Experiencing such a crushing defeat allowed the opportunity to either walk around with our heads down or to consciously make the most of a bad situation (from UCLA’s perspective). The path of least resistance was a downward spiral towards negativity, while the path to positivity required self-discipline to rise above.

In defeat, I was reminded that self-discipline is largely a matter of directing our own thoughts.

Here are a few lessons I learned from finding self-discipline in defeat:

  • Real leadership consists of the ability to lift the spirits of those around you
  • There are always opportunities to connect, network, and learn from your “competition”
  • We may not be in total control of our outcomes/results, but we are in control of guiding our own thoughts
  • With the right attitude, defeat is only temporary and all defeats or failures offer valuable lessons
  • When feeling down, find a way to give more attention to those things that elevate your state
  • There is power in celebrating other people’s successes

In order to me to learn these lessons of Discipline, I had to be in a specific state of mind or feeling state.

Here are some of then negative feelings I first felt when encountering defeat:

  • Pride
  • Ego
  • Frustration
  • Anger

Here are the areas I consciously gave more attention to and which created more pleasing, positive results:

  • Gratitude
  • Understanding
  • Patience
  • Connection
  • Love

When facing defeat in your life how will You choose to respond?

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Filed Under: Defeat/Failure, Discipline, Success Tagged With: Stanford, UCLA

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