Are You Too Tired To Become Successful?: 4 Strategies To Get The Energy For Your Success!

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ARE YOU TOO TIRED TO BE SUCCESSFUL?:

4 Strategies to Create The Energy You Need for Success!

Yesterday morning I had a conversation with one of my clients (let’s call him “George”).

I asked George, “How have you been doing with your assignments?”  It seemed like the phone went dead for five minutes, although it was only about five seconds.  I could feel the tension in George’s voice as he said, “I have committed to improve and want to do the things I need to do to be successful, but I just don’t have the energy.”

Can you relate to this?  I’ve heard statements like George’s many times.

All of us feel a sense of fatigue and being overwhelmed (and may even feel like quitting) at times when we work hard to improve ourselves.  We need energy and motivation as we focus on new tasks, responsibilities, or relationships.  Because of this, we need to look for strategies that maintain and even increase our personal energy and influence.  As we do, this will lead us to take action during times of change.  We all know that success requires us to take action.  Right?

Here are strategies that have worked time and time again to provide the energy and influence needed for continuous self-improvement.

Make a Personal Development Action Plan:
Many of us have workout plans or diet plans.  Do you have a personal development plan?  Make personal development a daily activity.  Read inspiring books, (I recommend at least 10 pages a day).  Listen to motivational CDs for about 30 minutes each day.  Learn about what you desire, if you desire wealth, study wealth.  If you desire better relationships, study relationships.  If you desire success, study success.  Learning provides a natural energy.  I guarantee you by committing to personal development you will become even more than what you are today.  When you become more you will receive more.  The key is making personal development a daily routine.  When you work hard on yourself, you’ll make a fortune.

Create a Vision:
There is nothing more personally energizing or influences action more than following a compelling vision.  Visualize yourself succeeding as a result of the actions you have taken.  See yourself, in high definition (1080p), as the person you wish to become.  Imagine the benefits of growing — creating new opportunities, building a more exciting and dynamic future, and opening up new opportunities for success.  Write out what you have envisioned in as much detail as possible so you can refer to it often.  If you want to get even more energy, imagine your life if you don’t take action.  Imagine THAT LIFE 5, 10, 20 years from now.  (You should write that down too!)

List Opportunities:
Ask yourself, “What are the opportunities presented by taking action?”  Make a list of all the ways you can grow, add new skills, meet key people, have more influence, experience new things, and add value to the people you care about.  This is sure to give you energy and influence you to take action.

Create Networks:
It is often difficult for us to create energy when we are alone.  Most people need the stimulation of other individuals and their ideas, input, feedback, and support.  Create (or expand) a support network and spend time with people who understand you, believe in you, and are willing to help you move forward.  Your fans will only cheer when you take action.  In many cases, members of your support network will see the results of your action even before you do and encourage you to keep going.

Build Bridges:
If your avenue for more success involves changes within an organization or moving to a new organization — embrace it.  Organizational change normally involves the establishment of new relationships.  Sometimes we resist these new relationships, especially if they involve a new supervisor or a perceived loss of authority.  Instead of retreating from the new relationships, draw energy from them by embracing them and building bridges between yourself and people you encounter.  Meeting new people is usually highly energizing because it gives you the opportunity to find commonalities in your values and goals and in the creativity of collaboration.

A Word of Caution:
Sometimes we fall into the trap of trying to change too much too soon.   This causes us to feel overwhelmed.  Being overwhelmed saps our energy and motivation to take action.  I recommend that you don’t try to implement all of these strategies at the same time.  I recommend doing them in the order they are listed.

These strategies are sure fire ways to give you the energy you need to succeed.  Whenever you feel like you don’t have energy or need to be influenced to take action:

• Do something from your personal development plan
• Pull out your vision
• Refer to your list of opportunities
• Interact with your fans

When you do this you will have the energy you need to succeed!

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