Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues!
There’s one more reason people don’t change—they get into a “pressure cooker.”
People climb into the pressure cooker again and again! How can you avoid it?
The 7 Steps of Conscious Change
STEP 1: Get Disturbed
• Be honest with yourself. Don’t use softeners or rationalizations; don’t compare yourself
with others to make yourself feel better.
• Get associated to the problem. If necessary, make it worse than it is to get yourself
to take action. If you’re not disturbed, you’re not going to change.
• Surround yourself with people who have what you want. Seeing them will disturb you, and
either you’ll run back to your old friends to make yourself feel better or you’ll join a new
peer group. If you want to be good at tennis, play with somebody better than yourself.
What do successful people have in common? Successful people have an RPM for their lives.
STEP 3: Create a Massive Action Plan
It’s time to “draw the MAP.” To make sure you follow through, come up with a list of actions that will absolutely produce results.
STEP 4: Change Your Limiting Beliefs
A belief is nothing more than a feeling of absolute certainty about what something
means. Beliefs control our behavior. They can be unconscious or conscious, and they often
stem from things we’ve heard or seen, felt a lot of emotion about and then repeated to
ourselves again and again until we felt certain.
STEP 5: Set Yourself Up to Win
• Reward yourself. When learning something new, most
people don’t do it perfectly the first time. To win the
game of life, you’ve got to reward yourself for doing
things approximately right in the beginning.• Score the experience. Do things that add emotional
intensity and make the process more enjoyable
along the way. If you’re working out, you can listen
to music, work out with a buddy, pray while you
exercise, etc. Choose things that meet all of your
6 Human Needs.
• Take advantage of NET time. Increase the value of
your time by doing several things at once. It takes
NET . . . no extra time!
• Measure your progress. You’ll be excited about your results if you measure your progress.
Set yourself up to win by measuring in more than one way. For example, if you only
measure the pounds you lose, there may be days when you don’t see results. Measure
anything that can give you growth.
STEP 6: Take Massive Action
• There is no time like the present! Never leave the site of setting a goal without doing
something toward its attainment. Do something while you’re inspired, while you’re “in state.”
The more massive the action, the more committed you will be to achieving the result.
• The power of incantations—you can’t just get rid of a negative belief; you have to replace
it. Try incanting your new beliefs, saying them again and again, changing the emphasis
and changing your state. By changing the emotion, you change the impact you feel, and
you begin to condition yourself for even more action
• Massive action creates momentum. You don’t have to do a thousand things; you just
have to do something.
STEP 7: The Seventh Power
When you care how people feel about you, you make them
your peers and you give them power to influence the way
you think. Tap into the Seventh Power—the power of
environment. Choose a peer group with a high standard,
utilize a coach and immerse yourself in an environment
that reinforces you for your wins and challenges you to
greater heights.
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