You Must Want It More Than Anyone Else

SUCCESS – You have got to want it more than the next guy (or gal!). Plain and simple.

Everybody wants to succeed at some level, but it’s those who hustle, work their butts off, and unfailingly move forward towards their goals who usually achieve them. You have to crave your goal. If it doesn’t get you excited, keep you up at night and get you up early in the morning, you don’t have the right goal.

Should Versus MUST

Are the actions that you need to take to reach your goal on a daily basis a “should” or a “MUST“? If it’s a must, almost nothing will stop you from achieving them. The problem is with the “should” which is where most people fail. I should lose weight, I should do a blog post today, I should do this or that. As Tony Robbins says, most people should all over themselves! Don’t let that be YOU.

If you want to succeed in life, banish the word “should” from your vocabulary.

Here is a quick goal setting formula that I use:

1. Make sure that you have a goal that completely energizes you, makes it hard to go to sleep every night and springs you out of bed excitedly EVERY SINGLE MORNING.

2. Start at the end of the goal and work your way back to develop an action plan that will give you actions to take on a daily basis to achieve your goal. Make SURE that these actions are “MUSTS” and not “shoulds”. Schedule them and knock them out every single day.

3. Every week or so, evaluate your progress and see if there are other people, resources, or things that you can leverage to achieve your goal even sooner.

4. When you achieve your goal, and you WILL, celebrate! You are one of the few who took action and changed your life. Now imagine what else you could accomplish? Just about anything is possible if you are committed and it’s a MUST!  

In case you are wondering why there is a picture of a Pug at the top of this blog post, it’s because pugs LOVE food, they will do almost anything for it. If you have that same attitude about what you want to achieve, you can’t fail.