Let Success Guide Your Way

Do you have more energy, confidence and incentive when you focus on your successes or your failures? The answer is obvious to most if not all of us. Focusing on past and present triumphant efforts and outcomes will often lead us to feeling more energized, confident and motivated. This task is not always easy when life starts throwing roadblocks our way. Setbacks can feel overwhelming, tougher to face and to punch through, self-doubt may creep in and take hold, missed priorities raise anxiety, falling behind might create an emotional mountain to traverse, self-doubt and avoidance begins to creep in and any thoughts of prior or future success is unimaginable, and now you are stuck in the mud with no traction. 

A good way to short-circuit this unpleasant route is to direct your attention to previous efforts and outcomes that have hit the proverbial bullseye. Take a few minutes to recall and write out (I believe pen or pencil to paper is more impactful with this exercise than typing or talking into a recording device) the steps you took, the strategies you utilized, the resources you relied on, the roadblocks you navigated through, the positive feedback you garnered, the emotions you felt and the lessons you learned the last time you burst through your roadblock and sustained a rewarding and fulfilling effort. 

Make sure to read what you have written, silently and then out loud; record it and listen to it and finally post what you have written somewhere you will be sure to see when your momentum is stymied and you need a reminder of what your successes have taught you. Memories of successful endeavors can lead us out of the fog with great illumination.

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