Here’s some incredibly useful, easy-to-implement-now guidance, from a true genius of the mind and super-achiever, Roy H. Williams.

It’s called the 7 Step Secret To Success and it has my commentary interspersed throughout the steps.

Just click the “continue reading” link to enjoy its power…

STEP #1: See your destination in your mind.
“When you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”
–White Rabbit

[ Barry’s Comment ]: Roy’s first step is all about understanding what you’re doing, and why you’re doing it. Said another way, in two words, “visual intention“, which is the art and practice of emotionalizing the outcome or experience you desire ahead of time… through your 5 senses.

STEP #2: Start Walking.
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Lao Tzu (604 BC – 531 BC)

[ Barry’s Comment ]: Ever met a successful achiever who doesn’t connect with people, immerse him/herself into research, study, ask questions, explore areas of interests and engage life? Yeah, me neither. Enough said on this step.

STEP #3: Think Ahead As You Walk.
“It’s like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” –E.L. Doctorow

[ Barry’s Comment ]: If you are just taking action toward something, and NOT thinking about it, planning it out, committing to it and believing it can be so, then you might as well be spinning in circles.

The Action Jacksons of the world make one very overlooked mistake: they put so much focus on doing something — anything — that they can’t find the quiet inner awareness to actually think about if what they originally wanted is what they still want… and why they want it.

STEP #4: Don’t Quit Walking.
“Don’t wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.” –Daniel Quinn

[ Barry’s Comment ]: Some people might interpret step #4 to be in contradiction with what I said about taking a breather above. But, not so. Preparation before action is essential and this is what gets you ready to take the effective (and right) actions that actually help you get what you want; however, it doesn’t mean to just STOP doing things.

What Roy is saying is Step #4 is essentially: keep on keeping on, bucko. Nobody ever would look at ya cross-eyed for not accomplishing your goal, task, or desire after only one walk (action). It’s all about persistence, and I once heard Terri Levine, one of our upcoming LWL Simulcast Teachers, tell some students this: “Failure is the path of least persistence.”

STEP #5: Make No Deadlines.
“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.” –Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC – 184 BC)
“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” –Margaret Thatcher, April 4, 1989

[ Barry’s Comment ]: What does this mean? How can you be a tried-and-true goal-setter, dream-achiever, and maestro of manifestation without some milestones to hit or some dates on the calendar to strive for?

Well, I still struggle with this one. Ya know, I gotta little miffed that LWL Coaching wasn’t ready on our March 18th target date then, after a few weeks beyond the due date, it dawned on me that going with the flow of our business, and being in harmony with serving our readers and listeners, is what really matters.

Sure, our Life Without Limits Coaching Program will be ready this year and, now that we’re in the flow with other projects, I’m 100% confident that other resources, people, and features will come along to help make it even more valuable. So, cheers to Roy for telling us to take it easy on ourselves every now and then.

STEP #6: Look back at the progress you made each day.
“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day.” –Genesis 1:31

[ Barry’s Comment ]: A little reflective atta-girl or atta-boy self-talk does the soul good 🙂

In all seriousness, this is something that I’ll venture to guess 90% of the people reading this post do NOT do (I’m guilty too sometimes). It’s a key component to super-achiever’s results. Assess and reward yourself for a day’s effort. How could it be that you can ever know what tweaks and modifications you need to implement if you first don’t know how far down the road you’ve come? I know for a fact that self-made millionaire, Jill Koenig, talks to Heather about this in her interview.

STEP #7: If evening finds you at the same place you were this morning, take a step before you lay down. “The magic isn’t in the size of your actions, but in the relentlessness of them. It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.” –Henry Van Dyke

Never let a day pass without making, at the very least, a tiny bit of progress. Do NOT tell yourself you’ll make up for it tomorrow. (That seductive lie is the kiss of death.) Make a phone call. Lick a stamp. Correct a misspelled word. Something. Anything.

You realize I’m talking about business, not hiking, right?

[ Barry’s Comment ]: Yes, why, yes we do, Roy… and we totally dig your enthusiasm, and cut-to-the-chase steps for success. They’re brilliant, and if there’s anything that I do get queasy over consistently, it’s this: not accomplishing accomplishment on a daily basis.

John Milton Fogg introduced the concept to me over 10 years ago, and it’s something that, to me, if we all strived to do, the world would be in a better place for the effort.

Here are the three ingredients that must be present to accomplish accomplishment and in ( ) the resulting feeling / experience if one of them is missing:

Ingredient #1) You Get Results (i.e., no income / no satisfaction)

Ingredient #2) You Learn, Grow, and Develop (i.e., you get left behind)

Ingredient #3) You Have Fun (i.e., you burn out)

How many of us have been in a situation where we were getting results, we learned something new, but didn’t have any fun?

Or, maybe we know people who learn, grow and attempt to develop their butt off … but aren’t getting results. That could either be the business person not “increasing sales” or the monastery monk who isn’t engaging in modern-day life.

A second common mistake is to get these steps out of order. If you skip Step 1, “See your destination,” and go straight to step 2, “Start walking,” you’ll be a wanderer, a drifter on the ocean of life, sadly on your way to lying beneath a tombstone that says, “He Had Potential.”

Even more dangerous is to go from Step 1, “See your destination,” directly to Step 3, “Think ahead,” without ever doing Step 2, “Start walking.” These are the people who never get started. Analysis paralysis. Lots of anxiety and plans and meetings and revisions and studies and evaluation and research can make you think you’re getting somewhere when you’re not.

Gen. George S. Patton said it best, “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” In other words, there is no perfect plan. Shut up and get started.

Visitors to Tuscan Hall will recall a beautiful stairway that leads into a wall, then does a 180 halfway up to finish in exactly the opposite direction. At the top of those stairs a magnificent catwalk runs the entire length of the building to a gallery of fine art overlooking the floor below.

This is the Journey of Life.

If you find yourself headed in the wrong direction, you can always correct your way.

But only if you know your destination.

Filed under: Manifestation, Personal Achievement