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Simple Seven Step Strategy To SuperCharge Your Success

1. Are you clear about what you really, really want?

If you genuinely want to make real progress on some important goal - its essential that you areable to describe what it will look/sound/feel like in sensory based terms. Why? So your brainhas something to focus on that it can fixate on and not some abstract term like "success".

By doing this you also enable:

- Your brain will map criteria for when you are getting closer to what you want- Increased motivation... by going through this imagination/thinking process you will bestroking the cinders of your motivation and setting the seeds for a big enduring motive to pursuethis goal- You will have a real world external check you can use to verify your progress against.

"Success" is subjective but to get a increase of $4000.00 this year is not. Understanding howthis goal fits into and colors EVERY area of your life will make the goal state very compelling.

2. Does your focus need more focus?

Is your attention split across many different goals/areas?

If so - bring your focus into focus and zero in on just ONE goal that when achieved will helpmanifest all the rest.

Its counter intuitive but this practice can work really well. By focusing in on your mostimportant goal and maximizing your effort towards that you will make progress quicker. If youwake up each morning with just one critical goal in mind you can ensure you are consistentlytaking action towards it.

Tighten rather than expand your focus and you will enjoy greater results in that direction.

3. Have you examined your performance from 2010?

In NLP we presume that all behaviour leads from some neurological process. And you don'tneed to have a PhD in people to notice that much of what we do is the result of other than

conscious habits... Therefore if you aren't getting the results you want - and you haven't been for some time - then it is likely that the behaviors your are doing are not sufficient to cause theresults you want. In fact several are most likely counter-productive and hurting your goalattainment... Do you know what these are?

You can't hope to benefit from identifying and changing these behaviors if you don't self-reflectand look to identify the underlying patterns which have likely been dictating key areas of your life for years, or perhaps decades.

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There are only 24 hours in the day, there is only so much you can do. Burning both "ends of the candle"is rarely the cure.

If you are:

* Clear about what you want

* Are focused and taking progressive consistent action* If you regularly examine your performance and learnfrom experience when it isn't working to produce the result you want

* You have entrained the core beliefs requisite for success inyour desired goal area (as best that you can identify them)

* And got a realistic and achievable learning plan in place

But you are still not getting the results you want then its time to question...

What strategy are you following?

Quit trying to work harder (doing more of the same) and presume that there is a error or issue in your strategy.

Become curious and map out what strategy you are pursing on a sheet of paper or with some stickynotes and identify where the "gap" is that is resulting the under performance. Perhaps it is with anassumption you have that doesn't hold up to fresh scrutiny or perhaps a resource isn't outputting asmuch you thought it would or maybe it is with some aspect of your own mindset and behavior. Ferret itout, establish a hypothesis of what you think it is then change your behavior and test to see if you get a

better result.

Bottom line - results manifest from actions. As Winston Churchill once said "The truth isincontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end there it is." If therequisite causes/actions that are necessary to produce a "result"aren't present then the effect can't be

present either. Quit trying harder - use your brain to work smarter.

7. Have you considered & adjusted to your environment?

The final tip is concerned with your environment. This topic is a much bigger area for discussion, butin terms of manifesting results, only personal development books would have you believe that the onlyfactor that counts is "you". In life you don't get a "A" for effort, but for results.

As an individual you are part of a series of much larger systems, each which operate by certain rulesthat guide their behavior and output. Hence if you have done all six items above (and repeated the

process iteratively) and still aren't getting to the result you want - then look to your environment. Arethere certain constraints that up until now were invisible to you that have been impacting your

performance negatively?

This may be certain people, contexts, market forces etc which are impacting on the system in whichyou are looking to produce a result. Failure to factor these things in and set a counter strategy in playwill result in lots of frustration.

The world and your environment, is constantly in a state of change. So is the field of NLP.

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As Darwin once said "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but themost responsive to change."

One of the big issues I hear from people often is that they have "tried, tried, tried" yet still notsucceeded at something and begin to feel a sense of hopelessness or that there must be

"something wrong with me".

This is mostly nonsense. While there is no doubt that in most cases a certain change in behavior willimprove performance - the cause for the under performance sometimes is factors that are external toyou. This doesn't mean you put your hands up and say the situation is hopeless. Hopelessness doesn'texist "out there" in the world, it like every other emotion, it is embodied in people.

The attitude of NLP is one of resourcefulness, go-for it, unbridled curiosity.

James Allen once wrote "Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him." It's one of myfavourite quotes.

When you face an obstacle on the road to your goal, become like water - move around it, flow over it,go under or over it.

Make sure as you plan and set your path for 2011 in motion that you use the environment to setyourself up for greater success.

Wishing you an awesome 2011.

To your increased mastery,