A Simple Success Formula For You

Posted on 04. Oct, 2011 by Steve Little in Business Development, Business Strategies, Success Secrets

Do you have a strategic plan or success formula in place to help you with your annual planning?

With the New Year coming just around the corner, you are most likely thinking about starting to plan out the coming year. Wouldn’t it put your mind to rest and be comforting to know you have the perfect success formula in place?

You are probably excited and enthusiastic with the anticipation of all the new opportunities, goals, objectives and plans for the successful and prosperous new year to come. This will be a time where you will reflect on all the events and accomplishments (and perhaps a few disappointments) of this past year.

I would like to share my secret, my success formula, that I rely on each year to plan the coming year both in my business and my life.

Each year for nearly 40 years, almost without exception, I conduct something I refer to as a ‘Review-Preview‘, my success formula to get me ready for the coming year. It’s not fancy or tricky. It doesn’t require any special tools, equipment or training. And best of all, it has never failed me. To date, this success formula has proved to be very useful to me.

The approach to this success formula will require you to confront the habits and practices that curtailed or limited your successes this year and will force you to define the changes necessary to accomplish what you want in each of these categories in the coming year.

For example, there are a great many goals and intentions I had set for this year that I achieved and in some cases exceeded. However, there are also goals and intentions I had that I did not reach this year.

I begin with a review of all the written goals and intentions I had set for the year in each of the 7 success categories I’ve talked about several times, to use for recording the accomplishments you are truly committed to:

Business & Vocation
Money and Finance
Recreation & Fun
Health and Fitness
Relationships
Personal Growth
Community Contribution

The key, and the principle challenge of this success formula, is to remain 100% authentic with your evaluation and 100% individually responsible for each and every outcome; desirable or not.

For each accomplishment I catalog the key decisions and actions that contributed to each success.

For each disappointment or failure I explore and record the lesson(s) and learning(s) available to me from the experience.

By using the “Review” process I just described, it is precisely clear to me which decisions and which actions contributed most to accomplishing the successes I enjoyed throughout there year.

And I am also clear on what I might have done differently with regard to achieving the goals I did not reach.

With this new knowledge and clarity I find I’m properly equipped to enthusiastically apply this wisdom to a new and/or revised set of relevant goals and intentions (again in all seven areas) for the new year.

Once you have categorized your goals and intentions you can continue by recording five to seven key success intentions as positive, declarative statements for EACH of the seven success categories (listed above). I record these statements as if they have already been accomplished and with no reference or attachment to the past or to others.

Once you are satisfied with the resulting set of intentions and that they truly and accurately represent each success you want to accomplish in the next year, then start to record for each intention the specific actions you will take on a regular and consistent basis to accomplish the intention. The list for each may include dozens of activities but there MUST be a minimum of 3 listed.

This will give you a simple step-by-step success formula for accomplishing your goals and intentions in every single area of your life. All you need to do is follow the steps.

To guarantee you follow through record each routine and activity in your calendar, allocating the appropriate amount of time to each. You can make adjustments where necessary but this process pretty much guarantees that you will remain focused on only those activities that directly contribute to accomplishing the intentions you set for the year.

I remain empowered by this success formula and process throughout the year and I can make adjustments, reprioritize or even change course completely if I need to by simply altering the arrangement of activities I commit my time to completing.

This simple, yet extraordinarily powerful success formula system guarantees accomplishments and removes all the struggle, strain and frustration of failure.