4 Keys to Success
Part 2

Here is Part 2 of 4 keys to success.

Key #2

Two days ago you learned the 1st key to success: Success is ALIVE - your success is like a seed. What this means is that success is a process, it takes time. You cannot rush it, and you must follow each step just as a seed first germinates, next it sprouts and it grows, so is your journey to success.

A seed planted in good soil will grow into a plant. And in a similar way, success is planted in your thoughts way before you can see the outer results.

In today's lesson you'll learn what the 2nd key to success is. What happens when you seem to be doing everything "right," and yet there seems to "no" success in sight? What can you do?

"Perhaps you say, 'Oh, that is a very pretty picture but my potato patch was a failure.

Then you planted failure with your potatoes. When you were plowing and planting and hoeing you were telling yourself all the time that 'there is no use - nothing ever did well for you - it seemed to be your lot to drudge and pinch and worry along and never have anything - there is John Smith over the way - he can take it easy and have fine stock and hire men to do the drudgery while he rides around and bosses - and here you are - everything against you - damn the stones on this land anyhow - your spuds never do well - ground is no good - why can't you take it easy like other folks?'

[Does this sound familiar?]

"And so on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, your mind meanders, while you, with less than a half a heart get through the "drudgery" any old way - just so you get through."

The Power of Your Thoughts

We all have days like that where everything seems to go wrong. And we get to "cursing" our "luck", or blaming anyone and everything for our "fate". On days like these, listen to your thoughts for a minute. What are you telling yourself?

Exercise

Here is an exercise I highly recommend. If you already have a journal, great! You have taken positive a positive step on your path to success. If you don't have a journal yet, don't worry, start today. Find a notebook where you can write down your thoughts.

Make sure you feel ok with writing your thoughts and that no one will read what you write, unless, of course, you choose to share with someone you can trust - friend or family member.

Now find a quiet time and place where you won't be interrupted. This is your special time - a date with yourself. For the next 2 days write down your thoughts you have during the day.

Be completely honest with yourself. No one will judge you. And no one should have access to your journal unless you want to share it with a very special someone who will absolutely respect and honor your privacy!

Ok, let's continue...

"Potatoes are not the only thing planted. You planted thoughts in every hill. You cursed every hill you planted - cursed it with mean thinking. You planted failure and you will reap ditto. Every idle thought will bring its meed of failure and subtract from money that might have been yours.

"It takes the finest seed potatoes, good land, and thinking to match, to insure a good crop and good prices.

"The successful man (and woman :-D)puts her thought into her work. The unsuccessful one turns his thought away from it as if when she was supposed to be watering her garden she should turn the stream over the fence into the road, leaving her garden dry and gasping."

So the 2nd key to success is - Your Thoughts are Powerful: The kind of thoughts you have or allow yourself to dwell on will determine the direction of your life - your success, or the lack of it! Success is not a matter of "luck", "fate", or "destiny". You choose to either have "success-directed thoughts" or "failure-directed thoughts".

Remember:

"Watch your thoughts - (they become your beliefs).
Watch your beliefs - they become your words.
Watch your words - they become your actions.
Watch your actions - they become your habits.
Watch your habits - they become your character.
Watch your character - it becomes your destiny."

-Unknown author

(And between the parenthesis, my input!)

Today, just listen to what goes on in your mind, what you tell yourself, without judgment, as if you were watching a film, unattached. What did you tell yourself today? Write it down.

In Part 5, I will expand on this. So be on the look-out for your e-Course! I'll be back in two more days with Part 3 of 4 Keys to Success, where you'll discover what the 3rd key to success is. Don't miss it!

To your success,

Romy Macias
and Elizabeth Towne

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