Simple Things That Affect Your Success

Everywhere you turn people are looking for the magic formula to achieving success and avoiding failure. If a success pill or failure vaccination were ever made available, people would camp out in the nude overnight in zero degree weather just to get it. Many may not know that there is a simple recipe for success and you don’t have to freeze your buns off to get it.

So what’s the recipe?

What I am about to reveal to you is nothing new.  Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Jeff Olson, Jerry “The Rhino” Clark and many others have all trained on this recipe.  If you are looking for something complicated or flashy, you will be deeply disappointed. This reccipe for success is a classic formula that has been proven time and time again.

Success comes by practicing a few simple disciplines every single day. It’s about being consistent with those core activities that contribute to your ultimate goal. It’s about staying focused and committed.

For example, most would agree that exercising for 30 minutes a day five times a week is beneficial to your health and well being. Is it simple to exercise for 30 minutes? Yes, but it is also simple not to do.

Maintaining a healthy diet of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fresh fish has been proven to increase your energy, reduce your risk of illness and maintain a healthy weight. Can anyone go to any grocery store and get healthy food. Of course but it is also easy to choose the donuts and chips instead.

Reading a personal development book for 15-30 minutes a day will help you develop new skills, improve your relationships and gain what Jim Rohn calls “The Wisdom of the World”.  Isn’t it simple to get a good book and read it for 15 minutes. If you have a library card, you can check out the books for free. It can’t get any more simple than that but again…can anyone come up with a simple reason not to do it? You get the idea.

Not exercising, eating the wrong foods and not reading that personal development book are examples of simple errors in judgment. Over time, these simple errors in judgment will create failure and possibly even disaster.

So why would anyone continue to do something that would contribute to their failure? The reason is that failure can be very subtle. Eating those donuts won’t hurt you on the first day. In fact, you probably won’t feel any difference in the first week or the first month but if you continue to eat unhealthy foods, over time this simple error in judgment will lead to disaster.

The good thing is that you can learn from your errors in judgment and make a new choice any time that you want to. You can also learn from others’ errors and decide to take a different path. 

The key to success is to never abandon your quest for personal development. Practicing a few simple disciplines every day will eventually lead to your success. Stay focused and resolve to make success a way of life through your practice of simple disciplines. 

Yes it really is that simple!