Minding Success

Do you crave success? Are you always using words like “achievement,” “triumph,” “victory” and “accomplishment”? Do these concepts

Excite every fiber of your being?

Keep you awake at night?

Do you look at the Players in your world and say to yourself, “Look-out. Here I come!” If so, then you will want to be Minding Success. How do you do this?

Pay Attention!

Pay attention to where the market place is and where it is headed.
Pay attention to the geeks in R & D.

Pay attention to how others perceive you.
Pay attention to feedback from your co-workers.

Pay attention to feedback from your customers.
Pay attention to your skill level.

Pay attention to your competitors.
Pay attention to insiders, people in the know, the Powers That Be.

Pay attention to outsiders, outcasts, those about whom most everyone else is saying,
“That idea/product will go no where.”
Pay attention to the perceived and the potential potholes, barriers and roadblocks ahead.

Pay attention to your health: physical, psychological, and spiritual.

Turn-up ALL Five of Your Senses!!

Turn up your sensory acuity.

Pay attention to all the information that is coming your way via your eyes, your ears, and your physical sensations (kenisthetics).

Listen for nuances in the voices of others: nuances that can change the entire meaning of the words being spoken.

Watch for changes in skin tone and color, for dilation of eyes, for nervous twitches, for changes of posture—all of which are giving you important information.

Feel the energy of the person ... the room ... the deal. What is being communicated?

Visit a Ferrari show room: the aroma of Ferrari leather has been purposefully made into a scent that can be sprayed like a room freshener into the air. Wow.

Walk through the mall at Caesar’s Palace: the statues and water falls, the music and the colors and the gorgeous art all arranged to captivate the senses … and motivate you to stay and spend more money!

Go to a five-star restaurant. Notice the décor and the presentation of the food, listen to the music, smell the aromas, taste the food with its exquisite juxtapositions of seasonings … and listen to yourself as you drive back home. Wow.

Go thou and do likewise!

How do you look?
How do you feel to others? Do people gravitate to your energy?
How do you smell?
What about the sound of your voice? Pleasing? Captivating? Take some voice lessons.
What about the décor of your office or the packaging of your product? Is it…captivating? Does it thrill the senses?
CAPTIVATE all of the senses!

Maintain Laser-like Focus!!!

What is the outcome of this project?
Focus.
What is the outcome of this conversation?
Focus.
What are the outcomes for this particular leg of your career path?
Focus.
What is the overall outcome of your career?
Focus.
Before you set down in that meeting, what are the outcomes and how will you know when you have attained them?
Focus.
What is the outcome of this particular investment, of that particular expenditure?
Focus.
What results do you wish to achieve by Friday of this week?
Focus.
What is the outcome of your day off, your holiday, or your time with loved ones?
Focus.
What “impossible” things do you intend to accomplish by the end of your life?
Focus.
What is the goal, the outcome, the results…what is the point of it all?
Focus.
What do you want? What is missing? What are you going to do about it?
Focus.

Assert Your Consciousness!!!!

Be mentally active, not passive.
Seek to look at the world around you with new eyes: constantly seek a fresh perspective.

Be aware of anything and everything that may affect your outcomes, your intentions, your actions, your values and your beliefs.
Face facts—especially ones that make you feel uncomfortable.

Learn from your mistakes.
Better yet, learn from the mistakes of others.

Expand the field of your awareness, internally and externally.
What might you be seeing that you are choosing not to see?

What is being said that you are choosing not to listen to?
What do you know that you are pretending not to know?

Stay awake.
Think, concentrate, ponder, consider, reflect …

THEN ACT!

Copyright, Monte E Wilson, 2009