Daily Success

Change is the way of life, and we need to understand that whenever it happens, it is guided by a Higher Power that has some strong motive behind it. We need to trust this power and trust that the change is happening for good. If the change is disruptive, that means we’re progressing ahead. Our souls will expand and our minds will evolve unlocking new possibilities.

Identify what you really want, not what you think you should want, and just go after it. There’s nothing selfish about pursuing things that make you truly happy.

In this episode of Daily Success, Parth discusses some key points and lessons that can help you become free from credit card debt.

It’s good to have an optimistic mindset but that doesn’t mean you need to let go of reality and harbor yourself in delusion. Instead of sprinkling fairy dust, we must work towards cultivating objectivity and acting rationally.

Hope and pray for things to get better, but also prepare for the worst-case scenario. You never truly know what curveball life may throw at you, and that’s why it’s wise to contemplate and train in advance. Prior preparation can be an incredibly useful tool in our arsenal to combat the deceptive illusions of “fairy dust” thinking.

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An essential aspect of goal setting is that our goals should stretch us so that we are able to expand ourselves and enter new levels of success. Set up Big, Hairy and Audacious Goals — also called BHAGs — for yourself. There are different areas of our lives where we can set up goals in: Impact, Income, Relationships, Health and Fitness, Spirituality, Personal Growth, Lifestyle, Traveling and Adventure. You can start by writing goals for each of these areas.

Once you’re done, the next step is picking the 3 BIG Goals that you’re truly passionate about and can impact you and/or your lifestyle dramatically. It's best to follow your heart and not get blinded by shiny objects as you do this process.

Learning how to set effective goals is a master skill of success. Goal setting is a process that starts with a careful and deliberate consideration of what we want to achieve and requires consistent actions. We need to have well-defined steps that are in sync with the specifics of each goal. Knowing these steps and executing them is crucial to accomplishing the goals that we set for ourselves.

Another important piece that a lot of us miss is that we need a reliable management and control system to operate our plan, keep us on track, measured and monitored through our journey, and through any obstacles that we may face.

Goal setting, in essence, is all about drawing a map about how we are going to reach our destination and define the resources that we’ll need to arrive safely.

When it comes to attaining higher quality and quantity of successes, it all comes down to one skill: setting, sticking to and committing to BIG goals. Goal setting is key to living a rich, diverse and vibrant life full of achievements, experiences and contributions.

Our everyday swipes are tearing the delicate fabric of our personal finances and creating a gaping hole in our bank accounts. Making a budget, tracking our expenses and paying by cash will help us realize how much money we’re spending at a whim without our awareness.

Jim Rohn has said, "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure."

So, what are the daily cuts (or swipes!) that you engage in every day that are affecting your well-being and stopping you from building a fortune?

Friendships have to be nurturing and uplifting rather than toxic and demeaning. Often times, it becomes so hard for us to build friendships from scratch that we settle as soon as we find a group of people around us. Even if there are no mutual interests, we are scared of breaking friendships and cutting out people from our lives because we don’t want to feel isolated and lonely.

But we are only fooling ourselves and living an illusion. If our friendships are not serving us and our well being, then we should let them go. A great by-product of committing to a life of minimalism is that I have cut out all the unnecessary friendships from my life that were not serving for my greater good and contributing to the achievement of my goals.

We do need friends and a sense of community, but not at the cost of our well being. Our friends and associations determine our success, and it’s our responsibility to be careful while choosing them.

Some of us operate with an all-or-nothing mindset. We believe that unless our favorable conditions are met, we won’t be able to participate in an activity that we know when done benefits us.

But it’s not about the magnitude of action, it’s about sustaining momentum. Not all days in our lives are perfect, but that doesn’t mean we have an excuse to let go of our commitment and discipline. Imperfect something always trumps perfect nothing.