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Secrets to Success Deborah Cole Micek |
Don’t feed
your gremlinsAre you as smart as you need to be in order to be successful? This is the question that trips too many brilliant people up. In coaching and studying the lives of extraordinarily successful people, I've made an interesting discovery about the key ingredient that makes or breaks people.
Believe it or not, the universal success characteristic of highly successful entrepreneurs is not intelligence, talent or education. It has nothing to do with age, money or connections. It is how well you use that magnificent, super-computer that resides between your ears.
People who are outrageously successful in all areas of life have learned how to destroy the limiting beliefs that pop up after every idea they come up with. Our coaches call these limiting, idea-squelching beliefs, "gremlins."
These gremlins are the thoughts that deflate rather than uplift. They attack, instead of nurture. They instill fear, instead of confidence.
It's not that highly successful people have better ideas than others. They just know how to nurture their ideas so they can develop and flourish. They don't allow their ideas to be attacked by gremlins, and those conceptual ideas begin to take on a life of their own.
Clear out the gremlins living in your brain and you'll create more space for the neurons to do their job properly. Ideas will be allowed to spawn into bigger visions that you can develop and implement.
The more you believe in the possibility of your conceptual idea or vision, the easier it gets to ignore the naysayers -- both internal and external. You're able to press on and bring your idea to market sooner than others. All because you have the advantage of being able to destroy the gremlins before they destroy you.
If you saw the 1984 movie "Gremlins," you know what damage these creatures can do if you allow them to multiply.
The same phenomenon occurs when you allow self-defeating beliefs to fester in your brain. Not only will these gremlins destroy any idea you may personally come up with, but you'll learn to perfect the ability to quickly crush other people's ideas and dreams as well. Walking around with gremlins is not a very good way to attract other successful people who could be instrumental in giving you the connections you need to succeed.
Use these four steps to defeat your gremlins.
>> Step one: Recognize when you put down other people's ideas. That's a sure sign you are doing the same thing to your own.If you're ready to destroy your gremlins, and set yourself up for success, e-mail me for the action report, "Train Your Brain," which will help you take this success habit to the next level.>> Step two: Stop yourself -- in mid-sentence -- anytime you hear yourself saying, "No, that won't work, because ... "
>> Step three: Make the shift and look at all the ways an idea "might" work if you put the appropriate system into place.
>> Step four: Analyze whether to fine-tune this new idea, or come up with a new and improved idea that would work.
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John-Paul Micek is a small-business strategist
and chief operating officer at RPM Success Group.
Reach him at JPM@RPMsuccess.com
or toll-free at (888) 334-8151.
Deborah Cole Micek, chief executive officer
of RPM Success Group, is a business success coach
and life strategist. Reach her at DCM@RPMsuccess.com
or (888) 334-8151.