Along with determination and belief is
being enthusiastic about your goal. Everything that happens along the way is
another joyous milestone, moving you another step closer to success. Enthusiasm
adds to your positive perspective and affirms your belief in the outcome.
Enthusiasm comes from inspiration. Inspiration comes from knowledge and
enrichment of the mind, while ignorance fosters and intensifies fear.
Inspiration also helps you to further define and detail your plan of action.
Inspiration may be obtained through many sources. The most obvious is
education, whether it is motivational material to keep you on your path or
gaining more specific knowledge to achieve your success. Education may be
reading books, magazines, and journals, taking workshops and classes, listening
to tapes/CDs, and watching videos that educate and motivate in the area of your
goal. You become what you study, so expose your mind to anything and everything
that adds to the achievement of your success. Also, include educational and motivational
materials that will help you after your success is achieved. Currently, you are
in “the process”. Once you’ve achieved your goal, you need to already have the
knowledge and motivation to use the success in a positive manner and keep it
moving forward. Power of Association The people that surround you
influence your path, your attitude, your determination, your belief, your
inspiration, and the outcome of your success. You should surround yourself with
people who share your positive vision and desire to achieve your goal.
Otherwise, you may be eliminating your success through the power of
association. Associations may mean being around the people who can make your
success happen. Donald Trump did just this. He associated with those people,
whom he wanted to emulate and who could assist his success. Now, you may not
desire that type of success; however, associations still impact your goals. Let me give you an example.
Darren used to be an alcoholic. After he
hit bottom, he went into rehab and cleaned up his life. He joined Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA) and tried to convince his wife to join Al-Anon, an arm of AA
that helps spouses of alcoholics to eliminate all of their “old habits” they
developed over the years to cope with the alcoholism (however, they also
trigger a recovering alcoholic’s past habits, as well). She refused any type of
counseling and, at every opportunity, would “push Darren’s buttons”. Having
difficulty retaining his sobriety under his wife’s subconscious attempts to
return to her comfort zone (though it was detrimental to her well-being, since
Darren was physically abusive when drunk), Darren eventually divorced his wife.
He’s now been sober and happily remarried to a supporting spouse for many
years.
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