Your success depends on this...

Practice makes perfect!

This conversation has been on my radar this week—what is it that makes someone successful at what they do? How does that relate to manifestation—and better said, what we can control? I.E., is success a dial that we can turn up or down? Is it a gift? Luck? Or is there a formula?

What does success depend upon? And by success, what do I mean? I mean with anything you set your mind to, be that business goals, personal goals, health goals, family goals... whatever you're striving to achieve.

I've been at this a long time. I've been to countless talks, workshops, and seminars on mindset. I've followed all the greats, read a lot of their books, and studied, attempted, and mixed up more techniques than I can list.

And for me, it all boils down to one thing.

Consistent, equal effort on both the task and yourself.

Let's break that down.

Consistency: Doing something over and over until it's second nature. If you did that with your goal—let's say your goal is weight loss—if you were consistent with eating healthy and moving your body on a daily basis, will you lose weight? Arguably, yes, but we so often hear that people don't. Where's the breakdown? Let's keep going.

Equal effort on both: That means both the task you want to achieve—the goal, and yourself. Working on the goal is paramount. You can't sit on your couch eating ice cream and expect to lose weight. But likewise, you can't eat healthy, move your body, and think negative thoughts about your body, and lose weight.

You can, however, lose weight, but thinking more about it positively than doing the do, because the mind is a powerful thing. If you visualize being your goal weight as often as you can, you eventually won't want to eat ice cream on the couch because your mind is powerful and knows the two aren't connected. You will start wanting to eat healthier and move daily.

Recently, I heard that success is directly quantifiable with your personal growth. The measure of success is a graph that parallels your inner work. Do the inner work consistently, and success will come. In adverse, don't do the work—don't find your blindspots and shine the light on them, don't correct mistakes, don't reprogram your bad programming, don't heal your wounds—and you won't see success. Or, rather, your success will dig as deep as you do.

The question I get asked most on this topic is:
How do you do that if you don't know where to start?

So, if it isn't obvious... ask yourself a few questions:

What are your weaknesses? What are your strengths?
What are you afraid of? What excites you?
What are you challenged by? What comes easy to you?

By asking both sides, you get to see where you can improve/dig deep, and where you can excel easily. Apply all of these to your goal, and you'll move the needle.

So, if your goal is losing weight, and your weakness is doughnuts, but your strength is long runs, then go for a long run every time you want a sweet thing. If you're afraid of not losing the weight, but live concerts excite you, then every time you hear yourself saying you don't think you can do this, schedule a dance session and shake it off. If you're challenged by counting calories, but technology comes easy to you, then swap the counting for an app that does that and commit to entering your macros daily so you know you're eating a balanced diet to support your changes.

Make sense? We constantly beat ourselves up for what we aren't doing. That's not going to move the needle, it's just going to make us feel worse. And eat more doughnuts.

Remember...
Consistent, equal effort on both the task and yourself.

You got this.