Mind Your Own Success: Thinking your way to a better life

Mind your Own Success:

Thinking your way to a better life

By Derek Turner

Copyright 2011 Derek Turner

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Most of us go about our daily lives without much thought to how we could better use our time. We operate on a kind of auto-pilot whereby we rarely make goals and when we do, we simply try to achieve them over a long period of time. Often we don’t revisit these goals and revise them when necessary. Sometimes we make goals that are so grand, that it will take most of our lives to achieve them. Whether you aspire to be a CEO or run your own business or make a million dollars, by the time we achieve these things our lives may have changed so dramatically we don’t really want or need them all that much anymore. For instance, if we finally make a million dollars but our health is so bad we can’t enjoy it, what was the point?

And then there’s this idea of happiness. To be happy in our lives we must first understand what it means to be happy, find ways to ensure we remain happy, and set ourselves up to ensure that we don’t get derailed and feel bad. Essentially we need to mentally prepare ourselves to make the most out of life, whatever it gives us. These are the first steps of the Mind your Own Success program.

You will see that these are only the very beginnings of the program. There are so many of us who fail to achieve our goals because we don’t set them properly. Furthermore we don’t even plan them in a way that will make them achievable, or at the very least have a large chance of succeeding. I’ll walk you through a process to not only set goals, but a system by which you can also achieve them. Furthermore, I’ll demonstrate how you can get the proper support you need in order to ensure that you have the greatest chance of success.

Much of what is to come will seem like obvious ideas on how to be more successful in life. But the reality is that most of us never do these things. The reason is more than likely that common sense has become a rare thing indeed. If people had common sense, and used their given imaginations in the right way, there wouldn’t be a need for this guidebook. The truth of the matter is that few of us ever spend the time we need to dedicate to improving our lives because we are so busy living them. The simple steps in this program are designed so that anyone can do them. Regardless of how you define success, you should