Success Principles - #2

We are now in Chapter 2 of the Success Principles Workbook. In this chapter, we will look at cleaning up incomplete and messes. By doing so we make space for something new - this fits perfectly with the coming of Spring doesn't it?
At the bottom of this article is a chart that outlines the steps necessary to get a desired result - to reach success. Many great ideas or plans will fall apart somewhere on this wheel - they don't get started, or even don't make it through the planning phase!
So lets take a quick trip around this wheel. Once you actually 'decide' to do something, your mind and your energy are now free to start planning and executing your plan.
A lot of projects fail in the planning stage because people expect everything to fall right into place or to be 'perfect'. Your plan does not have to be perfect! This is the beginning of the circle! It is very rare in life that anything is perfect right from the start! You must be able to give yourself permission to make mistakes along the way, to experience failures. This is how you learn! We make mistakes, make adjustments and move on. There is a quote by Marshall Turber - "You can't learn less!" He's a world renowned entrepreneur, and should really know a thing or two about achieving success.
So, go ahead and START! You may not be able to see the road clearly right now, but one thing is for sure: you'll never get anywhere if you don't start!
Next we must CONTINUE! When you make mistakes, when things don't go exactly you planned, you must pull yourself together, stretch beyond what you think your limits are and go on. Many people quit when the situation gets uncomfortable - the workbook states :"If you're not a little uncomfortable everyday, your not stretching yourself enough."
Next, we actually have to finish! Sounds easy, but you wouldn't believe how many people don't finish a project because it is a way to escape failure. A personal example, I am a photographer and for years I avoided finishing the project of selling my work commercially. I had the idea in place, I had a plan for greeting cards and art prints, but I never took the final steps. Why? Because if I never put my work out to the public - they could never reject it! I could never fail. Now of course I see the silliness in the thought, because I could never succeed either, I would be forever in this limbo. So, you must FINISH!!!
Next we have COMPLETION, we must actually complete something in order to make space for something new. We all have incompletes in our lives. Bills unpaid, promises unfulfilled, little unfinished businesses that need tending to. Each time you make an agreement to do something, it goes into your present memory bank . The workbook titles the space each of encompass as an Attention Unit. For every, undone project or incomplete item in your life there is an Attention Unit,and as these build up you have fewer and fewer attention units available to you. With me? If you have twenty projects sitting around undone, you have very little room to bring new activities and abundance into your life.
Take the time now, to complete those undone things. How? The four D's - most of us have heard them: Do it, Delegate it, Delay it, or Dump it! This can apply to everything in your life from your email to a job, all the way to current relationships!
When you complete items, you make room for new things - you can begin the wheel again!
When you begin to look at everything you have that needs completion, it can be a bit overwhelming - I know it was for me! So don't think you have to and certainly don't try to take on everything at once! Set small goals for yourself, try to complete a few small things in a weekend. Set bigger projects bigger timelines etc. The important thing is that you DO complete them and then, give yourself a pat on the back!
If you keep this pattern of completing things, soon you will have room for abundance in your life!!! What are you waiting for? Get moving!!!circle