Looking for the Formula for Success? Well, Here It Is!

Just like baking a cake, there is a recipe for success and it really is no more difficult than baking cake. All it takes are some very simple tiny steps.

1. Declare a possibility for yourself like: "I am the possibility of being outrageous and loving."

2. Now that you have created a possibility for your life, stand in that possibility and think about what your life will look like three years from now. Think about what you will have or be doing. To create the next three years of your life, really stand in the future as if you are looking back on what you have already accomplished.

3. Every quarter (three months), review your 3-year vision and create goals based on it for that quarter. When you create your goals every three months, remember to see yourself standing in the future looking back on what you have accomplished over the last three years.

You'll notice that we always say that you should "stand in the future as if it has already happened." The reason we do this is that your subconscious cannot tell the difference between reality and fantasy. It's why you get scared when watching a horror film. Furthermore, if you stood as the future as say the President of the USA, would your life now seem that difficult? This is a key ingredient to your recipe for success.

4. Create a recipe for success workbook, your Unleash Lifelog, to prioritize your actions each week. Time and again, people make the biggest mistake of all: not writing things down. Writing things down makes it real and makes it much more likely to happen because your goal actually exists in the physical world. There are so many stories of people that discover that their success happened because of something that they wrote down years before but never saw it since then.

If you take nothing more away from this article, we really want you to get that your world is create by your words. President Kennedy is at the core of the best example of this principle when he asked the top American scientists how fast the United States could put a man on the moon. He was told that it would be at least 40 to 50 years. Shortly after meeting with these scientists, he then upped the ante and declared, "By the end of this decade, we will have put a man on the moon!"

Kennedy stood in the future and made it happen at least 20 years before even the most optimistic experts said it could be done... even though he would be assassinated six years before it was accomplished. Can you imagine what the world would be like now if Kennedy had never made that bold declaration? Think about it!

While at the same time keeping you on track with the basics, this structure is key to the recipe for success because it gives you the ability to create infinite intentions, possibilities and goals.

Easy and simple! Now, you have already set your three year goals as well as goals for the next three months. So what do you have to do to guarantee the results you set out to achieve? Monitor and complete your goals that you declare on a weekly basis in your Unleash Lifelog. It's like the old saying, "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!"

To further guarantee your success and even go well beyond your goals, revisiting your current goals and three year goals will propel you even farther ahead.

Here's how you can revisit your quarterly goals:

Reread each of the minimum and targeted intentions that you declared in your Unleash Lifelog and think about each one.

If it's done, put a check mark beside it and congratulate yourself.

If you are absolutely, positively, 100% sure you will complete it by the end of the quarter, write "OK" beside it.

However, if it is predictable that you will accomplish your goal, then do yourself a favor and either redeclare your goal so that it is achievable or delete it all together if it does mean anything to you anymore.

You may think this is cheating or giving up, but here's the deal: you probably weren't going to complete those goals anyway! So, why pull your hair out? Save yourself a lot of energy and reduce your aggravation and pain of trying to accomplish the impossible by recreating your goals.

Remember: there is no penalty for setting modest goals and overachieving. You won't feel bad about that! However, if you set a high goal and don't achieve, you'll probably feel like a failure right? Ponder this example: say that your original goal was to lose 20 pounds in 60 days but after 30 days you only lost 5 pounds. How would you feel if you didn't recommit to a goal that is more realistic? Probably pretty miserable right? And guess what, since we don't like to do things that make us feel miserable, you'd probably fail anyway! Recommitting is not failing or cheating... it's just smart!