Are you hoping for the success you want or are you working towards it?  This week is a short episode as I'm very under the weather, but it didn't stop me from talking to you about this important issue.  Often, we lean on hope for better things when the power is in ourselves.  You can be as successful as you want to be or fail as much as you can handle, but that's up to you.  If you're waiting on hope to save the day, you're focused on the wrong dreams and goals.  

We all have a place we want to be, but sometimes we aren't looking honestly at the requirements we need to get there.  Now, that may sound like an invitation to be self-critical, it's not.  Sometimes we need a license to compete and we just don't have it.  How would you rate yourself?  If you see the people at the level you want to be at as 9 or 10, how do you rank against them?  Again, don't criticize yourself, assess yourself.  If you are honest with yourself about what you need to achieve success, you'll go out there and get it!  If you think you're above it, you think you'll reinvent the wheel, you'll create a much harder road for yourself.  Get your license to compete where you want to thrive!

Pokemon Go is an amazing story of successful trends. John Hanke, the creator of the game has already driven over $2B in revenue.  The game only took about 4 months to develop.  What an amazing overnight success.  Well, not really.  The truth is, tJohn Hanke started his career 20 years ago and piece by piece helped to develop technology that resulted in Pokemon Go.

Where are you in your journey to achieve your dreams?  Are you expecting an overnight success, or do you recognize how many years you're putting into your overnight success story?

This week's episode is inspired by one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes featuring Ed Wynn.  Do you have that one thing, that one really big thing in your life you want to accomplish that would be one for the ages?  If so, are you doing the things you need to do to get there or are you completely on the wrong track?  Sometimes, we don't go after what we're supposed to be going after because we don't want to do the necessary things it takes to accomplish that dream.  We all have amazing accomplishments at one phase of our life or another, but do we all get to achieve our "one for the ages" accomplishment?  This week, think about how you're pursuing your one for the ages and identify if you're pursuing it properly.

How successful you believe you'll be has so much to do with the level of success you'll have.  Not only do you need to set the bar high, but you need to know you have a clear path of things you know you need to do to get there.  Sometimes, we create our path based on what we know how to do, not on what we need to do.  There can be a big difference between the two and you have to figure that out.  The sooner you do, the better your mentality for success becomes.

It can take 6 to 9 months for your goals to start taking shape in the way of meaningful results.  If you set your goals for 2016 and haven't reached them yet, what are you doing to make the needed changes?  You have less than six months left to turn your year around, you can do it!  How are you getting started?

Do you find joy in the work you do?  If not, where is it?  For those of you with the ability to find joy day in and day out, what are you doing to help others find that same joy?  For those of you without it, where can you find it?  Is it what you're doing?  Is it where you're doing you work?  What can you do now to start finding more joy at work?

Why do you really do what you do?  Is it your desire for fame?  Your desire to be wealthy?  Do you have something or someone bigger than yourself that motivates you to focus on picking yourself up each and everyday to strive for your success?  This week, we discuss how you'll find the answer to why you do what you do.

Making a purchase is an emotional decision.  It seems the more zeros that are behind the product or service's price, the more emotional it becomes.  How well do you concentrate on those emotions?  Do you have the next emotion (objection) thought through?  

Do you ever have an opportunity or invitation in front of you and your gut is making you second guess it, but you’re not sure why?  Sometimes, our gut is cheering along with our dreams and telling us to go for it.  Other times, our gut is trying to warn us to keep us safe.  Can you tell the difference? http://www.idea2actions.com.