How Success is Created

We’re now going to talk about how success is created.

First thing’s first: can we really make generalizations about success? Lets say I were talking to a student, an entrepreneur, and an aspiring athlete – could something useful be said to all them about how to succeed?

Yes. This is my claim.

Success itself has a method. If you don’t learn it, then success comes to you either by accident – or not at all – therefore you ignore the study of success at your own risk. But if you do decide to learn its method, then creating success becomes much more likely. Inevitable, even!

This isn’t magical thinking, it’s not get-rich-quick, and I’m not playing the role of your lifestyle guru. In fact I’m not even claiming this method as my own! The wisdom that I’m going to share with you is timeless, ancient. It goes all the way back.

In fact this shit, as you will soon see, is obvious. It’s right on your nose. It’s the air you breathe. So much so that as I share it with you here, you won’t be learning so much as remembering. You’ve been told this stuff before, and then you forgot about it. I’m reminding you again. You’ll need to keep remembering until you stop forgetting. That’s when the real magic begins.

So let’s start with the main idea and then we’ll talk about how to integrate this into your life.

How Success is Created

Vision, Intention, Belief, Action

The first three are the “inner game” and the last one is the “outer game”. Consider them as aspects of a feedback loop, where you start with the vision, which leads to intention, which leads to belief, which leads to action, which leads to belief, and so on. As you continuously move through this loop, you develop what Napoleon Hill refers to as the “white hot heat of desire”. Desire in this case doesn’t mean intense “wanting” but magnestism.

Terms like “magnetism”, “vibration”, and “attraction” have an alienating effect on some readers but they refer to techniques that you can use to your great profit. If you’re unwilling to use them, then you’re restricting yourself to the dry, dusty world of “just action” where your whole plan is just to work and work and work until something happens. I don’t recommend this, it’s a waste of time and totally unnecessary. Instead, just keep your mind open and try working with these esoteric techniques.

Start with a vision

All success begins precisely here: vision. What can you envision for yourself? What’s possible for you? How jaded have you become about your visions that you can no longer bear to get excited about them anymore? We need to start from a place of possibility. So your job now is to settle on a vision of something that you suspect is possible and declare: “This is possible.”

Congratulations, we’ve just defined success! That’s the easy part. The hard part is when you try to succeed, but end up failing, and then starting to doubt your vision. Your job is to not doubt the vision. Will you commit to this now?

Good.

Form an intention

Having chosen a specific possibility worthy of our attention – the next logical step is to form an intention to accomplish it.

Intention.

I want you to see intention as a form of internal action. It’s not passive, it’s a doing. You can feel what I’m talking about. Your job now is to intend to realize the possibility that you chose. Do it internally first, and then declare it externally.

Say aloud: “I intend to [BLANK].”

To say it aloud is to put yourself in the ring. It’s to commit yourself. Once you intend something, you are declaring that you care, that you are no longer indifferent to what happens. You are now in the process of making something happen. Underneath the surface something else is happening – you are calling on a situation to take place in your life. A psychic connection is being formed between this reality and the one that you intend to enter. The gap is now beginning to close.

Update your beliefs

It may seem strange to say, but it’s possible to envision a possibility, to intend for it to happen, but not really to believe that it’s possible. This happens when you have a private moment of inspiration where you perceive an exciting possibility – but when the next day comes, you’re ready to just throw it away. You’re not “feeling it” anymore. This is where belief comes in. “Possibility” and “Intention” began the process, but belief and faith are required to sustain you over time.

There is a deep body of theory on how we change our beliefs, more than we can possibly get into here. But here’s a short-cut: If your beliefs run contrary to your sense of possibility – then it means that one of them must be wrong. After all – is success possible or not? One must be true, no?

Choose deliberately, then. Choose the original possibility. This means your “limiting beliefs” are wrong. Decide this as firmly as you possibly can. You can do this, you have the authority.

When this is done, commit to living from the belief that what you’re doing can happen, can succeed. This belief is essential.

Action

With possibility, intention, and belief in place – we now take action.

In my 1-1 work with clients, this often shows up as "the big one". The fear-mind

tolerates the possibility bit, dislikes the intention bit, hates the beliefs bit, and outright loathes taking action.

Why would this be? Because taking action turns the cranks, moves the gears, sets things in motion.

Action makes things real.

Not just any action though, it has to come from a place of wisdom. Here, we ask “what is the most intelligent thing I can do this week to create this vision of success?” Whatever answer comes up from this inquiry – you will not want to do it when the time actually comes to do it. This is procrastination.

You will almost certainly be guided outside of your comfort zone, to do something that will make you feel insecure or worried. To create new success, you’ll need to undertake new action. Focus on staying true to your word, and following through on what you say you’ll do.

The Feedback Loop

Now complete the circuit by plugging action back into possibility.

1) When you take your first real-world step toward success, it demonstrates to you that what you suspect is possible... is indeed possible!

2) When you take true, inspired action, you demonstrate to yourself your ability to create your life as you envision it.

3) When you take action, you get real-world feedback which gives you a more accurate sense of how to accomplish what you’re seeking to accomplish.

So create a ritual around affirming possibility, affirming your intention, affirming your belief, and taking further iterative action.

For example, every day in the morning, revisit your vision of success. Go into the vision. Actually feel it. Be it, become it. Breathe it in, taste it. Feel the emotions of gratitude and satisfaction. This more deeply entrains you on success.

If you take this advice and implement it, you will turn around 30 or 60 days later and find that you’re in an entirely different reality. There are endless accounts of this, it’s real and it’s true.

My work as a coach is to put clients on this loop, remove all friction, accelerate, and assist you in attaining this success. I point out the pitfalls, traps and delusions along the way to make sure that you don’t waste your time in them.

If you’re interested in how I can help you, then go here to learn about it and get a free coaching overview session to see if that’s the right move for you right now.

Do you have a similar process in your life? Leave a comment to tell us about it.