Ingredients Of a Success Mindset

By Tony Leslie

Being successful and reaching our full potential is a major aspiration of practically all human beings. However, most people don't achieve these goals despite changing their strategies, seeking inspiration, changing their fields of investments, their jobs among other things.
The main problem isn't the things they try to change. The prime problem is they don;t have the right mindset. Nobody can solve his or her problem using the same mind that causes that problem. Changing one's life requires a complete mind metamorphosis. One needs to think and act like successful people to achieve success. Ingredients of a Success Mindset contains the framework of a success mindset - exactly what you need to achieve success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tony Leslie
• Release date: Aug 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463985519

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INGRIDIENTS OF A SUCCESS MINDSET

By Tony W. Leslie

Copyright 2018, Tony W. Leslie. This book is in copyright

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

INGREDIENT 1: ESTABLISH THE UNDERPINNINGS OF SUCCESS

INGREDIENT 2: CULTIVATE A WINNING ATTITUDE

INGREDIENT 3: THE LAW OF THE GIANT MIRROR

INGREDIENT 4: THINK AND ACT LIKE A WINNER

INGREDIENT 5: DEPART YOUR COMFORT ZONE

INGREDIENT 6: TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE

INGREDIENT 7: HANDLE OBSTACLES LIKE SUCCESSFUL PERSONS

INGREDIENT 8: COMPREHEND THE ART OF BEING AN EXTRAORDINARY FOLK

INGREDIENT 9: CULTIVATE THE MASTER TRAIT

INGREDIENT 10: BE CURIOUS

INGREDIENT 11: PURSUE EXCELLENCE, THE ONLY GUARANTEE FOR SUCCESS

INGREDIENT 12: BUILD THE RIGHT PRODUCTIVITY HABITS

INGREDIENT 13: UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF HABITS IN PURSUING SUCCESS.

INGREDIENT 14: FIND HAPPINESS IN LIFE

INGREDIENT 15: CULTIVATE A PROGRESSIVE MINDSET

INGREDIENT 16: MOTIVATING YOURSELF TO PURSUE YOUR DREAMS

INGREDIENT 17: LOVE AND BE PASSIONATE ABOUT YOUR JOB

INGREDIENT 18: AVOID PROCRASTINATION

INGREDIENT 19: BE RESILIENT AND SUCCEED WHERE OTHER PEOPLE FAIL

INGREDIENT 20: MAKE OUT WHY YOU NEED ROLE MODELS

INGREDIENT 21: LEARN HOW TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS

INGREDIENT 22: AWAKEN YOUR MOTIONAL GIANT

Introduction

That morning kelvin Enrick stood alternative to the door of the fifth computer laboratory, the peak laboratory at Delvicx Technologies. He gazed at it with widened eyes of admiration and a smile on his face. After a few seconds, the smile on his face was supplanted by a mask of gloom. That's where I belong. He said silently as he walked away his head facing downwards. He had always wanted to work there but Mr. Edward, his boss, had adamantly refused to permit him because he thought his skills were limited to the third computer laboratory.

That evening he said enough is enough. As he drove to his home, he passed by the book store, bought a pile of artificial intelligence books then resumed his journey.

He started spending up to seven hours a day immersed in the books and practicing what he was learning from them. Six months later, he completed his studies.

Mr. Edward walked into the fifth laboratory and found Enrick working on a computer. Hi Mr. Enrick! Don’t you work in the third laboratory? He said walking towards him. Yeah. He tilted his head to the right side and focused his eyes into Mr. Edward’s narrowed red eyes. That is where I was assigned, but working in that laboratory is limiting myself. Technically speaking I don’t exploit my abilities fully, you know. He stood to his full height and started walking towards a white robot that was standing five meters away from the computer's monitor. Mr. Edward was looking at him with narrowed eyes and a gloomy face. He pressed a green button on the robot's chest. Hi Mr. Edward! Why are you angry and sad? The robot asked in a soft female voice. You mean she can detect my emotions accurately? He said fixing his widened eyes of astonishment on Enrick. Enrick nodded confidently. Spectacular! He said walking towards the robot. Wow! I can see that you now happy." The robot said. Mr. Edward started conversing with her.

Enrick had just accomplished a masterpiece that the company had rendered a conundrum after investing over two hundred million dollars. He had proven his incredible prowess in robotics and computer science. Mr. Edward was really impressed with his action. This compelled him to make Enrick the president of the fifth laboratory.

You need to emulate Kelvin's approach towards life. If you want something, go for it. If you are not happy with the state of your life, change it yourself. Dreams are achieved through taking massive action that correlates with them. You can’t be a jazz maestro through rapping, you can’t be a legendary footballer through honing your biotechnology prowess, and you can’t be an astronaut via studying molecular biology. The same way you can’t achieve your dreams through doing things that do not pertain achieving them, or doing nothing about them. You must take action for your life to change.

Practically all human beings have goals that they want to achieve. Some of us dream of becoming millionaires, others dream of becoming industrialists, scientists, artists among things. Tragically, most people don’t achieve their goals. They do their best to achieve those goals but not what it takes to achieve them.

Most folks try to do exactly what this farmer was doing. He planted grass on his farm then waited for it to mature. Three months later, the grass became yellow. He slashed it then left it to regrow, when it regrew, it became yellow again. He slashed it and left it to regrow five more times but he received the same results. He started wondering what the heck was amiss with the grass.

The heck that was wrong with the grass was its roots, not its leaves. They needed enough mineral salts and water. All he had to do was to add fertilizer and water the grass.

We operate in two worlds: The visible world and invisible world. The visible world constitutes our physical world. The results we receive in life like our levels of happiness and our achievements. The invisible world is the mental world. It constitutes our minds. This is a fact that has skipped the minds of most people. For this reason, they keep on trying to pursue success by dealing with the physical aspects of their lives as they exempt their minds. They try to achieve success through changing their geographical locations, jobs, and even the niches of their investments. Unfortunately, they receive the same results perpetually. This is called disaster. No matter how many times they try, they will keep on failing. This is parallel to typing information into a computer in English then printing it before passing it through a language translation software expecting to have a printed document that is in French.

Your mind is like a universal powerhouse. It houses all the ideas that govern every aspect of your life. It’s the underpinning of all your results in life. Technically, there is nothing you will ever change in this world if you don’t change your mind. Being successful in anything you do requires a total renewal of your mind. Anything else you try to do related to pursuing success without changing your mind is a waste of time.

Changing your mind involves developing a success mindset. A success mindset is the belief system that successful people have towards success and life in general. It governs everything that they do as they pursue their dreams.

Why should you cultivate a success mindset?

Before schools were established, people could learn through apprenticeship. Someone who wanted to become a doctor could become a doctor's apprentice, someone who wanted to become a philosopher could learn from a philosopher, someone who wanted to become a merchant could learn from a merchant. The same system has been extended to the contemporary word only that it’s in a different form. Doctors learn from professors of medicine; astronomers learn from astronomy experts among other professions. This can’t be done the other way round. A professor of medicine can’t teach an astronaut how to fly a rocket. Doing this is instigating a catastrophe.

The reason why we must find relevant persons to teach us what we need to know about those fields is that those teachers have delved into those fields, studied them, and experienced them. The same principle applies to success. To achieve success, you need to learn from successful people and cultivate a mindset that is parallel to theirs. In order to achieve success, you must have a success mindset. You can’t become a millionaire if you have a poverty mindset.

Human beings have potential, but they must be trained in order to reach their full potential. They are great but they must be trained in order to achieve greatness. Our potential and greatness are suppressed by the fact that we have been born and brought up in average societies. We have been taught the average ways of living our lives such as embracing our comfort zones, settling for less than we can become, shunning economic progress, searching for the convenience of success without the inconvenience that comes with it among other self-limiting things. After being programmed with these ideas, they create our reality, which is the average results the societies we live in have received.

This book is going to guide you through the framework of a success mindset. The lessons you will find here will put you into perfect harmony with the principles of success and enable you to awaken your personal power.

This book doesn’t contain everything you need to know about success. I have just demystified the frameworks of a success mindset. In order to benefit from it, read a single chapter, then close it and contemplate what you have learnt and how it will help you to achieve your dreams.

Ingredient 1: Establish The Underpinnings of Success

Having a strong intention to make consistent progress is the primary requisite for reaching your full potential and being successful. According to most people, the major framework of success constitutes: goals, strategies, and massive action. However, achieving success requires more than the three. Its foundational prerequisite is being in a position where you can achieve it. You can't carry a 90-kilogram gunny of corn if you don’t have the strength required to lift it, you can’t fly a rocket if you don’t have the skills required to fly it, and you can’t code a software in C++ if you don’t know its principles. The same applies to success. You can’t achieve it if you aren’t in a position to succeed.

Legendary motivational speaker Jim Rohn said, The biggest challenge in life is you can have more than you got or become less than you are; unless you change who you are, you will always be the same person. Success far exceeds personal development. Unless you grow to where it is, it will never come to you.

Mr. Rohn's words elucidate the meaning of being in a position where you can succeed. You need to improve yourself consistently. Personal development is a basic facet of achieving success. It puts you in a position where you can succeed. Moreover, it separates you from the multitude. It makes you a very unique person.

There are three main levels in life. The below average level, the average level, and the above average level. Falling in any of these levels is a personal choice.

The below average level is also called the level of indifference. People who dwell here don’t give a damn about life and success. They go with the wind wherever it blows. They are, died at thirty buried at seventy ideologues. Moreover, they are synonymous with the belief that the rich get richer, the poor get poorer; consequently, they don’t have to dissipate their time striving for success. They are fine within their pathetic state.

People on the average level unlike below average are interested in life. Moreover, they want to succeed, but they do not know what it takes to do it. Therefore, their attempts to succeed fail. After some of them fail to succeed, they relinquish their dreams after branding them the title unrealistic dreams and decide to live a satisfactory life – having a good family and income is enough for them.

People who are on the average level are at the growing zone. They have an indescribable zeal for success, learn what it takes to achieve it, and take massive action. They are determined to grow in their own unique ways and reach their full potential.

You need to rise above the two precedent levels if you want become successful. Those are zones of mediocrity. Success is found on the above average level. When you reach the above average level, you will become a unique person. You will develop an above average desire to win, an above average desire for knowledge, above average eyes for opportunities in your environment, an above average inclination for living a life of purpose, an above average purpose in life, start above average relationships, and have an above average perception of failure. Every significant aspect of your life will be above average.

Most people want above average jobs, above average health, to drive above average cars, and live in above average homes, yet they have confined themselves to the average or below average levels. This is like trying to install an IOS application in an android device expecting it to work.

It is beyond the realms of possibility. The two operating systems are incommensurable. Trying to pursue success yet you are not on the growing level is the most absurd irony in the world.

When you embrace below average and mediocre ways of life, you limit yourself. You limit your success, you limit your happiness, you limit your health, and you limit your potential.

You need to emulate the desire of the young but unlimited eagle. When she was hatched, her mom placed her in the nest. While in the nest, she asked herself why she was limiting herself to the tiny nest yet she could explore the environment beyond the nest’s vicinity. She left the nest.

As she explored the environment she saw trees then asked herself why she was limiting herself to the ground, yet she could fly above the trees. She flew above them. As she flew above the trees, she saw taller trees then she asked herself why she was limiting herself to the short trees, yet she could fly above them. She flew above them.

As she flew above the trees, she saw the tallest trees then asked herself why she was limiting herself to them, yet she could fly above the tallest trees, she did the same, but in the process she discovered that she could fly high to the sky, so she flew higher and higher and higher until she could fly no more. She not only saw the vicinity of her nest but also the whole jungle. She reached her full potential. Didn’t she?

Don’t settle for less than you can become. How many significant books can you read? As many as possible. How hard can you work? As hard as you can. How productive can you be? Beyond your imagination. How far can you reach in life? Further than you could ever imagine? How creative can you become? Beyond infinity. There is no limit to how much of your potential you can exploit or what you can become as long as you embrace life with deliberate purpose to grow. Just the way the eagle couldn’t settle for less than she could become is the same way you should not settle for less than you can become. Life and time are too good to be wasted in the lower levels.

You are like a black smith, he has created manifold things out of metals: pans, locomotives, houses, cutlery – name it. You can’t become everything on earth. However, you can achieve more than you can ever imagine only if you get out of your comfort zone, learn the philosophy of success and step into the above average zone with a training spirit and a deliberate purpose to succeed.

You can reach your full potential by doing that single thing you choose to pursue. It doesn’t matter what sort of field you are in. When Walt Disney got into the animation industry, it