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• Get clear spe­cific and prac­ti­cal guid­ance you can put into practice.
• Receive answers to ques­tions about your life’s journey.
• Com­mu­ni­cate with the soul of your busi­ness and learn what it needs in order to thrive.

Here is the exercise:

Divide your life into three time periods. For example, if you are 40, you may want to go from 5 to 18 years old, 19 to 29, 30 to 40. In each of these time periods think of at least three times when you felt proud of something or successful. On the right side of your page write the event,  on the left, why it felt successful. The left side is the most important part of this exercise.  The event could be as small as collecting eggs on farm to winning the national poster contest. It is really not the event that is important, but why.

After you have completed each section, go back over your paper and read only the reasons why the events felt successful. You will begin to see patterns in what you need to have in your life.

Write down the patterns and from there you will be able to create a one or two sentence definition of what success means to you.  Good luck

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and asking him to imagine how his life would be different if he was financially successful. I was mentioning the typical things that most success books and programs have you imagine, new car, great home, being able to travel where ever you. He said, “Well, those don’t really excite me. What excites me is being able to take any class I wanted no matter how expensive.”

Contrary to what the media would have us think, success is not the same for everyone. For example, if I was CEO of GM, (which is pretty improbable) I would feel like a failure. It’s because it doesn’t have meaning to me. Now, being a best selling author, that would feel successful.

In the next post I will share an amazing exercise that, if you take the time to do it, will give you a real insight into what your definition of success is. In the mean time, I’m going to share a wonderful tip that I learned a number of years ago.  Get a little notebook that can be your success journal. Document the little moments of the day when things worked or you felt successful. (You can also take five minutes at the end of the day also) One person I suggested this to went from years of impatience, high stress, and never feeling like anything he did was enough to feeling a sense of peace and happiness. Ultimately, is that what it’s all about? Oh, don’t read back what you wrote for at least a month. When you do, notice the patterns you begin to see in your posts. It will give you a lot of information about is really important to you. Enjoy!

These are his words:

“I wanted to pass on that I’ve been diligent about the ‘daily diary’ — writing down the little successes and the good things that happen in the moment.

The experience has been truly transformational. It’s amazing how a small thing like this can make such a big difference. I find myself looking for the good so I can write it down in my diary, whereas before, I’d go from one problem to the next without taking time to ‘enjoy.’”