DAY 94

UPDATE: Tuesday, 14-Jun-2005 1:37 PM

After some pc problems and getting things back to normal, I will conclude with the below discussion about personal success.

At this point I believe I have gotten started in my journey to master personal success habits. In this discussion I will conclude what I learned from my latest trip to Sri Lanka as I finish the discussion of analyzing IF I am committing the some of the blunders that I saw people doing day after day.

I have said over and over everything counts. The question is am I doing some of the same things that keep others in a cycle of failure? Once the below discussion is done, I will proceed to business building and business success --which I have already started, but now will focus 100% on for the coming months.

OK. Back to the personal success conclusion...

17. Do I posses the right mind set to make this happen?

The above question was what the past 90+ days were all about. When I first got started, I was a long way from getting all of my acts together and making sure that I worked on exactly what I needed to do.

As I went about analyzing what I needed to do better, the first conclusion was that I needed to make sure that my mind set was up to the challenge of success.

I have to make sure that 100% of the time I was thinking, planning, doing and learning to become what I wanted to become.

Once again, IF the mind is set and you become what you are thinking. IF you think 100% of the time about failure and all that goes along with failure that is what you will continue to do day in day out.

However, when you think about the actions that will become part of your success and then go about doing the actions that require you to become successful, you then are living it 24/7 and that becomes you.

You become a success. Success becomes you. It's all in the mind.

I have been to a lot of places where the people just don't think like this, and I had to conclude that a major part of success is the WAY ONE THINKS.

If you think failure, you become failure.

When you think success, you become success.

Don't believe me? Just think about the last 'bad' day that you had and why it was a 'bad' day?

IF you had been thinking differently, would the type of day have changed? DId outside forces result in an environment that contributed to you having a 'bad' day?

All of this is mind set. Think you are a success. Then you will become that success.

Somewhere along my blog I left the quota by Buddha: "Think you can, and you will".

Along the same lines of thought now I would like to go back to the second episode of the STAR WARS movies. I think this was in the early to mid 80's. The second one I think was called "Empire Strikes Back". The scene is where Luke Skywalker has crashed his battle ship into a swamp near the home of Yoda.

The battle ship is almost completely in the swamp when young Skywalker is using his 'powers' to bring the ship back to dry land, without much success.

He keeps trying, without success. After several attempts Yoda appears and says perhaps one of the most stunning sequences of words that changes the "mind set" of the young Skywalker.

I am not going to give away what Yoda said to the young Skywalker who was trying to master the power of the force. I want you to do some homework and see the movie to find out.

I wont turn you to movies to 'cultivate your mind set' but in this instance a movie produced by George Lucas is a good one full of philosophy and other small lessons to learn about.

Anyway, it's the SWAMP SCEAN at the point where Luke Skywalker first meets Yoda. Never forget what Yoda says to Skywalker. May the force be with you!

Ok, next behavior that is guaranteed to keep you at the bottom of the pit...

18. Am I understanding the tasks at hand? Am I solving the problems at hand and lastly am I innovating myself to make everything better?

In my case I am up to my nose with problems. I have to deal with staff. I have to work with deadlines. I have to make sure that items work. I have to make sure that things are done right.

All this leads at times to getting overburdened by everything that needs to be done.

I think the most useful process I have learned from the blog and my personal success building is the TO DO LIST that I keep writing, updating and working with.

Note that I talked extensive about how the TO DO LIST is setup several weeks ago. To find it search the site via Google.

The list literally had hundreds of items in it over the past year. The biggest list was undertaken when I started planning for the move last year.

From that time, each item that was done kept getting erased and each time I did that, I was one step closer to getting the entire project done. Sure there were times when I added MORE ITEMS than I scratched off. But that will happen with everything that you do.

That is LIFE! Welcome. It never ends. The lists keep growing!

But what do you do?

How do you overcome it? How do you concur it?

Just keep going at it. Just keep moving forward. Sooner or later, keeping the focus on what you have to do, you get the job done.

That I am afraid is the only good answer there is.

The TO DO LIST and the way it is organized has made a great difference.

I believe the only item that consistently gave me problems in getting done were the PRESS RELEASES. Those have yet to be done.

Guess what? They will get done, as have all other items.

But the organization does not happen overnight. You'll need to practice and come up with a process of organizing that you are comfortable with. Then you'll need to practice, practice and practice.

Just do it. Just get started. Then all will fall into place.

So, there you are. This is the humble beginning that I moved along way back when, and now I can talk about it. Things are moving, and things are working. It all takes time.

Now here is another item that you will find out works to your advantage as you begin this process: That is you'll find yourself innovating in your daily life. At first, you will work had to innovate yourself. And you will find out that you are leading a better life on a daily basis. Then you will find out that this is an automated process and everything that you lay your hands on will work like that.

That is when the fun will begin. Trust me it feels good. It feels VERY GOOD.

Then you will find out that you are doing the same at work. In the end you will see that your entire home and work environment will elevate with everything that you do!

Just get started and you'll see what I mean...

19. Am I communicating the best I can and as clearly as I can?

This must be one of my most important tasks on a daily basis. Most of the people I work with are strewn over many continents and time zones. IF I try to keep up with all of it and don't manage the time, then I end up working 24/7.

To make sure that I have a life, I need to foresee many of the needs and wants of everyone. I need to make sure that I am thinking two steps ahead.

Well, that is not that difficult to do so long as I have the right information to make decisions. However, the problems lay when I don't get the feedback from staff.

Then I have to make decisions like a blind man. Ever hear of the tale that a one-eyed man is a king among a arena full of the blind?

Information is KING.

I need to make sure that my communication and that of the staff and now the people that I work with is the best and freest. And did I forget to say in a TIMELY MANNER? Oh, yes, it has to be timely.

To make sure of this I stepped back and looked at some of the problems we have had and came up with a solution.

Now that solution is at http://www.maxsimo.org. Here is a new page if you wish to go there and take a look. This is a forum program that I setup to take the leadership in the discussions that we need to have and make sure that the problems are discussed in an open forum that everyone can see.

This is very American and thus very open. It will not at all times present information that I want to see. But then again, as long as I and the staff do what we need to do and do it right, I will see more and more pleasing posts in the forum. I hope.

If we don't do it right, then we'll see our mistakes talked about there too.

But then again that is how you learn and progress and build and grow.

So, I think that I have setup the communication channels correctly and now I need to sit back, monitor them and write about what we need to do.

Then again, I shouldn't forget about my other daily communication tool. This blog is now posting in the 200+ page count.

That too means I have elavated my communications and that I am laying out on the table everything that I want to do and wish to do --for everyone to see.

Then, I better get it right. I better do as I say! AND I better say as I do... {B>)

With that I move on...

20. Have I taken on too many tasks and then failing at all instead of doing a few things very well?

In my first 90 days of blogging I believe this was a theme that I went back and forth several times.

I kept talking about this very fact. Have I taken on too many tasks.

Often I have failed just because I tried to do too many things at one time and ended up never doing any one of the items right.

Then obviously the idea is to stop doing everything and pick an item or two that I can focus on and get it right.

I believe I have done that. I believe now I have gotten to a good rhythm and that I am following it on a daily basis.

I must admit that I haven't kept up with some aspects of the stock market. The reason purely is that we have hit a "soft spot" in the economy of the US of A and now it's a matter waiting a few more months until things pick up. That may be two or three more months. But until the market gets some "feet" and established direction, the best spot for me is to wait in the side lines.

Other than that, I am doing everything that I need to do and not much more. Personally, even the hobbies I have at this moment are manageable and don't take up a lot of time.

My entire focus has thus become to make sure that I get the items that I am working on the best they can be.

Having done many aspects of that --making sure that the things I do are done the best that they can be done, and elevating myself in the process, I have found out that things begin to work in my favor.

Little, little things begin to work in my favor and then I am sure after 10 little, little things there will be one big item. I know that is how things work because I have seen it work like that in the past as well.

When you are working on projects for your success, don't count on getting BIG THINGS done all the time. Get them broken down into as many MINI PROJECTS as you can and get the mini projects done. Then you will see that those big projects are easy to get done too.

Even break things down to 31-STEPS as I have done with many things here!

And having said that, I need to end my personal success discussion. I will now turn to business success building for this site and my primary project --the maxsimocard at www.maxsimo.com. If you'd like to go there, here is the link with a new page: www.maxsimo.com.

Now to some paper and pen as I layout some of my business building plans. I will discuss them starting with DAY 95 and go from there. Wow, still have days to DAY 100. As I said, I got a bit late when my main PC locked me out. But that happens. Now I am running like hell to catch up and that is going great.

So, see you there... Sam.

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