Expect to Succeed in Order to Realize Your Dreams

By expect­ing the best you free your­self from thoughts of fail­ure, this kind of free­dom will allow you to put all of your energy into achiev­ing every­thing you can, or you want to dream about. If you expect to suc­ceed, the sky is the limit. How­ever, if you expect to fail, then you inevitably will.

Suc­cess is a com­bi­na­tion of skill and belief. Use the fol­low­ing guide­lines to release your doubts and suc­ceed at every endeavor you undertake.

Let go of doubt.

Let go of doubt and truly expect the best out­come pos­si­ble. The human mind has a sneaky way of achiev­ing what it views as fact. So if you firmly believe in the best out­come, your mind will auto­mat­i­cally lead you to achiev­ing that out­come. To achieve this, use your affir­ma­tion and visu­al­iza­tion skills skills to develop your out­come and strength your belief in its possibilities.

Con­vince your­self of the pos­si­ble out­comes

Noth­ing works bet­ter to con­vince you that you can achieve what­ever you want than your past accom­plish­ments. You can use your past suc­cesses to strengthen your belief in your­self and increase your confidence.

Imag­ine a base­ball player who is expe­ri­enc­ing a home run streak. By visu­al­iz­ing his past suc­cess and con­vinc­ing him­self of his future suc­cess, he is able to increase his chances of repeat­ing a pos­i­tive outcome.

This same exer­cise can be uti­lized in busi­ness as well. If you use your past achieve­ments as a way to increase your belief and visu­al­ize your­self obtain­ing the next achieve­ment, you will auto­mat­i­cally increase your chances of reach­ing your goals.

Allow your­self to dream, and then decide to dream big

Dreams are impor­tant com­po­nent to suc­cess. If you never allow your­self to dream then you will never give your­self a rea­son to push for achieve­ment. With­out dreams, you have no goals.

Once you believe in the impor­tance of dreams, then you need to allow your­self to dream big. In order to har­ness the long-term moti­va­tion needed to con­tin­u­ing pro­gress­ing toward achiev­ing your dreams, you need a prize at the end of the jour­ney that wor­thy of work it entails.

After you have agreed to include the skill of dream­ing in your pos­i­tive think­ing arse­nal, set aside time on a reg­u­lar basis to dream about your future. Where do you see your­self, both per­son­ally and pro­fes­sion­ally? At what level is your busi­ness oper­at­ing? How would you describe your future suc­cess? What attrib­utes would you assign to the future you?

Once you can answer these ques­tions you can begin to set goals for achiev­ing the future you envi­sion. With­out a dream, you will be miss­ing the road map to your future. Obvi­ously, it is not enough just to dream of expand­ing your life and your busi­ness. You need to dream about the ways in which you see your­self doing it and then turn those steps into con­crete goals and plans of action.

Turn you dreams into con­crete goals

Once you have a pos­i­tive vision of your future suc­cesses in place, it is time to cre­ate a plan for reach­ing those successes.

For exam­ple, if your dream involves start, grow and expand­ing your inter­net busi­ness, you need to lay out the steps nec­es­sary to achiev­ing that expansion.

The eas­i­est way to do this is to work from the future back­wards. Start your list with the pos­i­tive out­come of your goal.

• I will start, grow and expand my busi­ness and own three fully oper­a­ble, highly suc­cess­ful inter­net stores.

Then, write out the steps that need to hap­pen just before this out­come is realized.

• I will open a third inter­net store.
• I will research new prod­ucts and decide which type of store holds the most pos­si­bil­i­ties for my busi­ness right now.
• I will achieve the level of profit nec­es­sary for fund­ing a third store.

Now list the steps that would need to take place before you could move onto those goals.

• I will improve my prod­ucts, per­fect my mar­ket­ing and cre­ate more oppor­tu­ni­ties in order to increase my prof­its from my sec­ond store.
• I will open a sec­ond inter­net store.
• I will research new prod­ucts and decide which type of store holds the most pos­si­bil­i­ties for my busi­ness right now.
• I will achieve the level of profit nec­es­sary for fund­ing a sec­ond store.

Finally, lists the steps that you need to take right now in order to begin work­ing toward real­iz­ing your dream.

• I will look for ways to improve my cur­rent inter­net store.
• I will research ways to cut costs while increases my prof­its.
• I will use my pos­i­tive think­ing skills to boost my suc­cess rate.

While it may seem unnat­ural to set your goals in reverse, but this approach is impor­tant in two ways.

First, this rever­sal of order will allow your sub­con­scious to believe in the goal before it has been com­pleted. If your brain is think­ing in terms of “I achieved this goal, now, how did I get there?” instead of in terms of, “I want to achieve this goal, but how do I get there?” it will be more focused on the out­come than the journey.

Don’t ever ask your­self “How can I do this?” always ask, “How did I do this?” The dif­fer­ence in the lan­guage seems sim­ple, but the mean­ing behind the lan­guage is vastly different.

Sec­ondly, the order is impor­tant because it forces you to focus on the achieve­ment first. By begin­ning your focus there, you will be less likely to get caught up in the maybes and what ifs that can lead to quit­ting. If you start with suc­cess, your main ques­tions turn from thoughts of “where do I go now?” and “Will this ever work?” to thoughts of “What steps must I have taken already?” and “That obvi­ously worked, so this will too!”

If you are still not con­vinced, and then try mak­ing your list in the oppo­site order. Chances are good that you will get hung up some­where between the imme­di­ate goals and the future outcome.

Once you have a dream and a plan, you need to take the entire exer­cise fur­ther and elim­i­nate thoughts of defeat from your con­scious thinking.