Speed Up Success! | Jack Canfield

Today I'm going to share with you what to do when you find that success is coming too slowly or more slowly than you want. Now, how can you speed up success? Is there an antidote for those times you're experiencing slow outcomes? Despite all your planning and all your hard work? What's the secret to seeing huge results right now? Well, I get these questions frequently from people who feel frustrated that the sluggish progress that they're having in their journey to success. And despite all the know how and principles they rigorously employ, they're not getting where they want to go fast enough. But let's get one thing straight. When you look at the life of a successful person, when you focus on the end product or the end result they've achieved, too often you don't really consider the effort and the time that it took to get there. You don't see all those years they spent honing their craft or building their business or earning their reputation. Unfortunately, failing to see this process often cultivates unrealistic expectations, especially the idea that overnight success can happen through careful strategy and an execution of sound advice. If truth be told, success typically follows a series of small achievements and little events that can seem to take an eternity and which include a few disappointments along the way. But this process often challenges you to the core. Your stamina, your courage, your integrity, and even your willingness to keep going. But if you focus on these disappointments, guess what? As you struggle to succeed, you'll be coming from a place of aggravation, impatience, as your mind constantly conjures up all that's wrong, and you may even have negative thoughts like, I'm not good enough, it will never work, or Something must be wrong with me. Well, what this mentality does is it engenders more of these counterproductive feelings. And given what we know about the Law of Attraction, you tend to attract what you're feeling. So negative experiences, people, and results will beget more negative experiences, people, and results. And there's not much success in that. The key then is to focus on what is working. And to do that, I recommend two simple practices, journaling and meditation. Maintaining a journal is a great way to steer your attention to the positive and continually renew your vision for yourself. So start each day by reflecting on what you're grateful for, and then list them in your journal, all the things you're grateful for. And then end every day with notes on what went right, however small these victories might seem to you at the time. In addition to practicing gratitude, spend time each day in the morning and again at night in quiet contemplation, prayer or meditation. Meditation can be a powerful tool for arriving at solutions to problems and shifting your attitude to attract success sooner rather than later. And the magic of meditation is that its ability to shut down your judgmental, highly critical brain and for a short while, allow your unconscious mind to take over. And meditation lets you enter a deeper state of inner peace and joy, tapping into a higher level of creativity that will help usher in the results you want. So let's say you're doing all these things, but you still aren't happy with your results. Well, I'll ask you then, are you taking real action or are you simply doing the things you've always done? I often say that if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always gotten. Moving forward on your goals then, is simply a matter of practicing new behaviors. So shake things up a bit and see if you can take some new actions or modify some existing ones. And always remember the rule of five. Every day, do five specific things that will bring you closer to your goal and change up those five actions regularly. And also be open to feedback from others and from yourself and from the results you're seeing so you know when you're off course and when you're on course. And lastly, I want to remind you about patience. It's natural to underestimate how long a certain goal can take, especially a profound one. When I set a goal to become a millionaire, that was in 1983. How long did it take me? 11 years. It took time for Chicken Soup for the Soul to hit the best seller list. And that's a lot of patience for someone who initially wanted overnight success. I can identify with that. So yes, patience is a virtue. Whatever is going on, keep at it and in no time you'll be only one week or one day away from your ultimate success. And remember, be grateful, reflect on what is working and continue to keep taking action. So I want to leave you with a small bit of homework to complete after you've done watching this video. Resolve to start a gratitude journal to begin steering your attention to the positive and and continually renew your vision for yourself. So leave a comment below on how keeping a journal has helped you and I'll follow up with you to make sure you're staying on track. So thanks again for watching. And remember, nothing will change for the better until you do. Now, if you found this video helpful, make sure you like it. Share it with a friend who may need it and subscribe to my channel. For more videos like this one, and for some additional resources on how to become focused on success, visit my website at jackcampfield. Com.