Growing the Seeds of Success

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And so it is with personal development, in the quest to live the life of your dreams there
comes a time when it is advantageous to take a step back and re-examine how well you
are adhering to the fundamentals.

Whether you have seen significant progress in your life, plateaued in pursuit of your goals,
or have been stuck for longer than you care to remember, reviewing three key fundamentals
of personal development—or seeds of success—can help you along your path.

Seed of Success #1 – Living Your Passion and Purpose

The majority of people do not live their life as much as they let life live them. They wander
aimlessly never really knowing “what they want to be when they grow-up.” But even for
those who have defined their life’s purpose, it is easy to be thrown off course. This is why
reconnecting to your passion and purpose on a regular basis is one of the fundamental
seeds of success.

Your passion and life’s purpose represent what you are here to do. It is a mission that is
unique and that only you can fulfill. It is what you are drawn to again and again. In short, it is
something that you cannot “not do.”

But life happens. You get so busy with the “should-do’s” that you neglect the “want-to-do’s”
and as a result, that burning drive you once felt begins to diminish; until one day, you wake
up and wonder how you got here.

If you have yet to discover your life’s purpose, you can begin by taking inventory of those
times in your life where you felt your most joy. Think about activities that when you were
involved with them, you lost all track of time. Think about your strengths or natural talents
and how you felt when you used them. All of these things will give you an insight as to what
you are here to do.

Now, if you haven’t already, begin writing these activities down. Don’t get hung-up on style
or form. You just want to begin the process. Too often, people worry about following the

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“rules” when it comes to discovering their life purpose and never get started. Well, there are
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no rules. You can express your life purpose however you want. It could be a statement, but
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It is for this very reason that you need to review your life purpose consistently to make sure
you are on course.

Ideally, every decision you make should be influenced to some degree by your life purpose.
Some people have found it beneficial to review it on a daily basis while they are meditat-
ing or visualizing their goals. Others reconnect to it on a weekly basis when they plan their
schedule. The frequency is up to you. But it has to be often enough to make you aware of
any necessary course corrections before they become too big.

You will also find that something interesting will happen when you keep your life purpose in
the forefront of your mind…It will evolve and gain a deeper meaning. This doesn’t neces-
sarily mean the words on the page will change—although they might—but it means you
will begin to see the words and how they manifest themselves in your life with a new set of
eyes. You will gain a greater understanding and appreciation for what you are here to do.

Don’t forget to live your purpose and passion.

Seed of Success #2 – Practice the Art of Setting Meaningful Goals

With your life purpose in hand, you are ready to practice the art of setting meaningful goals.

Why are goals fundamental to your success? Think of it this way…Imagine driving a car
with its wheels out of alignment. Regardless of whether the mis-alignment is causing you
to either drift slowly to one side or is pulling you forcefully off the road, you must apply extra
energy to stay on course. With your life purpose to map out the journey ahead, meaning-
ful goals help keep you on the road. When your actions don’t complement or support your
goals, it is like driving a car that is out of alignment. You let outside forces pull you in differ-
ent directions.

So what are the fundamentals to setting meaningful goals?

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Write Your Goals Down

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helps you to cement your ideas in your mind and increase your ability to recognize the op-
portunities that appear while you work on your goals.

Set Performance Goals to Reach Outcome Goals

Most people think of goal setting in terms of what is called an outcome goal. An outcome
goal is a vision you want to make a reality. It is the house on the hill, the corner office, the
vacation at the posh resort. The problem with outcome goals is that sometimes they are so
big that people have a hard time getting started with making them a reality. Now this isn’t
to say you need to have smaller dreams, quite the contrary, dream as big as you can. Just
make sure you pair your outcome goals with significant performance goals to help you hold
yourself accountable.

Performance goals are goals that you set to do something and to do it consistently until you
reach your outcome goal. In other words, if your outcome goal is to double your income,
then what daily or weekly goals do you need to set to get there? Do you need to make
40 cold calls per week? Do you need to make 5 presentations a month? These are per-
formance goals. Performance goals are the definitive “yes” or “no” as to whether you are
working towards your objective and that kind of accountability is priceless.

Be sure to practice the art of setting meaningful goals.

Seed of Success #3 – Manage Your Time

With your life purpose and meaningful goals in place, the last fundamental seed of success
is being sure to manage your time so you can get the most important things done.

Time management is really a misnomer when you think about it, because you cannot actu-
ally manage time. All you can really do is manage yourself. Time will go on whether you’re
sitting on the couch or at the gym. It is for this very reason that successful people have
mastered the art of making decisions as to what they will do and when they will do it. This is
what time management means.

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In order to make the best decisions on how to spend your time, you need to decide before
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your schedule for the day. The night before or the morning of determine what your objec-
tives for the day are in addition to the appointments you’ve already scheduled with yourself.
Be sure to leave “wiggle-room” for those interruptions and unforeseen events that will inevi-
tably come up during the day.

Also, be sure to provide yourself free time when constructing your plan for the week and
day. It is in these free moments that you rejuvenate yourself and provide yourself the abil-
ity to approach your tasks and appointments as your best self. If you never allow yourself
downtime, you will find that your creativity and intuition will diminish and you will be prone
to making more mistakes. Planning to do nothing is still planning!

Learn to manage your time, by managing yourself.

The Bottom Line

Living with purpose, mastering goal setting, and managing your time are the fundamentals
that will help you grow the seeds of success.

Whether this report was a review or introduced you to new ideas, the point is that without
the basics it is impossible to achieve any degree of lasting success. So be sure to take time
on a regular basis to reconnect to the seeds of success and harvest the life of your dreams.

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