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Secrets to Success

BY JOHN-PAUL MICEK

Small steps, not leaps,
mark road to success

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You don't have to hit it big to be a success! Does that shock you? Take a closer look at the lives of the most successful people in the world and you will see that their current level of achievement is the result of something much different.

It is the smaller incremental changes you make on a consistent basis that determine where you will be a month, a year or a decade from now.

Have you ever found yourself looking for some great awakening to create a dramatic shift in your life? I know I have at times. Instead of waiting for that to happen, concentrate your efforts and make something dramatic happen in one minute. If you will strive for the future you desire minute-by-minute you'll become the person who is ready to live the destiny you were created for without even noticing.

Choose and practice a different one of these One-Minute Success Habits each day for one month and prove to yourself how you can succeed one minute at a time.

1. Go beyond the call of duty. Arrive early. Stay late. Put in the extra effort on the next project you are involved in to stand out from the herd. You will be recognized and your efforts rewarded accordingly.

2. Give people more than they expect. Simply put; under-promise and over-deliver. If you provide more value than what you're compensated for, then you will be rewarded with more than what you ever expected.

3. Maintain the highest standards. Life will pay you any price you demand. Prove you deserve the best by demanding peak performance from yourself. Others will recognize your code of conduct and adapt to your standards.

4. Do something each day for which you will not get paid. This will teach your subconscious that you have abundance in your life. Abundance of time, money, talent and emotions. If you never empty your glass, it will never be refilled.

5. Do ordinary things in an extraordinary way and don't be content with mediocrity. Push yourself just a little more than you think you are capable of. Make it a personal rule that whatever passes through your hands will have your unique fingerprint of excellence on it.

6. When you know there is a better way to do something, do it! Don't hesitate. If you do, someone else will step in to take action and get the rewards. Take a step in the right direction and change one thing today that you've been intending for sometime now.

7. Be sure to take a break, and recharge once a week. Take the time to focus on your goals, the big picture, your relationships with family and your creator. You will enter the new week recharged and ready for growth.

If you want exponential returns on your time, learn the lessons of from the people who have already made it to the top. Create your own success. And do it one minute at a time.

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John-Paul Micek is the lead business coach
and chief operating officer of RPM Success Group. Reach
him at JPM@RPMsuccess.com or (888) 334-8151.