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Hardcore Success Methods -
10 Tips For Grabbing Life By The Throat!
by Joe DePalma
WARNING: These success methods are like nasty cough medicines. You may not like them, but they work and they are for your own good. So pay close ATTENTION!
Hardcore Success Method #1: If your life sucks, it's your fault. (Hey, I told you this was hardcore!) Your life will only cease to suck when you begin to take full and absolute responsibility for your daily ups and downs. Stop blaming your job, your family, your town, your friends, the government, luck or the weather for everything that is not working in your life. Your success and failures will always begin and end with YOU!
Hardcore Success Method #2: Kill your television! TV is a tranquilizer and a killer of ambition. The average person spends between three to six hours a day watching television. Staring blankly at empty talk shows, cheesy soap operas, overrun sitcoms, ridiculous (non) reality shows, and cliché music video programs over and over again won't make you a successful and satisfied individual. Many people say they don't seem to have the time to invest in doing the things that will make them truly successful. However, this notion is absurd because most people never think of killing their TVs or at least cutting way back on the hours they spend wasting away in front of them. If they did, they would be astounded by how much more time they would have to make themselves successful in all aspects their life.
Moreover, the three to six hours per day on average most people spend watching television doesn't even factor in the unbelievable amount of time some individuals spend playing video games. Simply put, if you drop the controller and reinvest your video game time into your quest for total success, you'll be a much happier and satisfied person in no time. Kill your television! Blow up your video games! Or keep them both and stop complaining that you're not as successful as you want to be.
Hardcore Success Method #3: Throw away your overly complicated success blocking 25-pound planner/organizer. These organizational “tools” cause more stress than anything else. They were created to save you time, but overall they waste your time and cost you energy. Instead, try using a small simple date book that has a little box for each day, and record the times and titles of what you're going to do and nothing else. When you make the change to a smaller date book and paper clip the current week or month to the cover of the book, everything you need will always be right in front of you when you open your planner.
Hardcore Success Method #4: If you hang around or take advice from people who are sitting on the sidelines of life, you will probably become a watcher instead of a doer as well. You cannot fly with the eagles if you are hanging out with the pigeons. More often than not, an individual's ambitions and motivations are in line with the people and places they surround themselves with. Do you hang out with people who have meager ambitions and no desire for success? Do they tend to drag you into griping and whining sessions? If so, then stop hanging out with them right now if you want to reach higher levels of success. You must create an environment for yourself that encourages and breeds success. If you surround yourself with people who are playing the game of life to win, it is much more likely you will become a winner as well.
Hardcore Success Method #5: Money matters! Find a way to earn money and manage it responsibly. The #1 rule of becoming a millionaire is “Don't Spend Money Like A Millionaire.” Control your money and your spending habits yourself! Don't rely on someone or something other than yourself to ensure that you will always have at least a few bucks in your pocket and all of your bills are paid on time. You need to learn to do this yourself because when you're broke, you're stuck, and you can't blame it on anyone else. So don't spend your money on material junk. Make sure you always have some money available to keep all of your success breeding options open.
Hardcore Success Method #6: Feed your head! Read, read, read everything you can about the pursuit of success! Nothing will influence your success more than a great book, inspiring article, imaginative poem, informative website or even a blog. Successful people read often. If you want to be successful too, you must read! Start TODAY!
Hardcore Success Method #7: Act like your own crazy fan. If you're not confident in yourself, why should anyone else be? Successful people believe in themselves, which forces others to do the same. If you're shy about being unique, talented, and powerful…you're doomed to mediocrity forever! Let the world know what you're capable of doing, and then back it up. Your success is all about you, your attitude, and keeping your confidence high. Be your own SUPER FAN!
Hardcore Success Method #8: Lead by example and never jeopardize your karma or integrity. If you find a wallet on the street with some money and an I.D. inside; return it! The money you'll take is not worth the loss of character you'll experience. Even if no one else knows you kept the money, you will know you did. Then, how can you expect anything better from anyone else? Lead by example and success will find you. You cannot outrun or trick karma. It will find you eventually. Do the right thing and you'll be amazed at how much easier success becomes.
Hardcore Success Method #9: Find a Mentor. A mentor is someone who has done what you are going to do and can teach you from their experience so you don't have to make the same mistakes they made. Every successful person realizes they aren't the first person to attempt to do great things. Decide what it is you would like to do, learn or accomplish, and then find someone who is already doing it successfully. Then, simply ask them if they can offer you some advice or guide you along until you are able to take off on your own. Successful people never start from scratch and have to figure everything out for themselves along the way. Instead, they find a mentor who helps them skip over all the thick headed people who have decided to do it on their own.
Hardcore Success Method #10: Get up in front of people and do your thing. If you want to be successful, it's not going to happen behind closed doors. Find an audience and show them the unpolished gem that you are. Don't sit around waiting to be “better” at what you do before you go ahead and display your talents and ambitions. Whether you're into singing, dancing, painting, sculpting, teaching, cooking, marketing, website design, performing music, car repair, wood working, etc., you will learn more and become better at what you do if you do it in front of an audience. No matter how good or prepared you think you are when you first get in front of an audience, you will discover that you have the ability to be twice as successful the second time. Then, that sensation will build within you as you continually get up in front of people and do your thing!
* ACTION STEPS *
Consider the 10 Hardcore Success Methods a nine week course in serious achievement training. You must start with method #1 and apply it to your life for one full week; then move onto number #2 and so on. However, the trick is to take notes along the way to see which secrets are affecting your success the most along the way. Then, after the 10 weeks are up, you should review your notes and apply the most powerful secrets to your life on a full time basis right away.
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