If there was one secret to success, I think it might be the ability to focus 100% of your intention on a desired outcome.
If you can achieve a state where you know exactly what you want, and you then move forward with this goal firmly in your mind, there is likely nothing you can’t accomplish.
If you could see a glimpse of the future, and you saw that you were working in the field you want to be in, or you were living in a certain house or with a specific type of partner, and you absolutely knew that this was your destiny, would you not be able to move forward confidently with no doubt as to the eventual outcome?
If you believe it then you can see it. Then you can make it happen.
If you can resist attaching negative emotion to an unintended result you have produced that you might label a failure, then with crystal-clear clarity you can learn from what occurred and refine your process.
Great inventors must have possessed this ability to be so focused on an outcome that temporary setbacks meant nothing to them. They would brush them off as if brushing off a pesky fly.
How many times did you try to learn to walk when you were a child before you could do it? Who knows! The answer is, as many as it took for you to figure it out.
You tried to walk. You fell, so that was a failure. If the story ended there then you never would have learned to walk.
Everything we learn happens in this manner. We try, fail, refine, try again, fail again, and so on until success is finally achieved.
It is only if you stop trying that the process ends in failure. The thing you do right after an unwanted result has been produced is the defining moment in what your life will be.
The human spirit is resolute when a desired outcome is focused upon with no intention of giving up until it has been reached.
What have you wanted to do in the past that you tried and then gave up on? Why did you stop before you reached success?
At some point early on in life we learn about fear. All fears are learned, except for those of loud noises and falling which apparently we have as babies. All the other ones that we have are acquired.
Common sense doesn’t equal fear. I don’t fear snakes but I will avoid getting myself into a position where they could harm me. That’s just self-preservation.
Walking in a city late at night isn’t scary but it also isn’t intelligent. Putting yourself in a situation that could be harmful is reckless. Again fear has nothing to do with it.
The worst thing about fear is that it stops us from becoming who we truly desire to be. We fear the judgment of others so we don’t try something new.
We have so many irrational ways of conjuring up worst-case scenarios in our minds that some people become fearful even to leave the house.
So if you had that glimpse into the future, and you saw yourself doing exactly what you wish to be doing, fear no longer could control you. Success would be guaranteed, and any evidence opposing it would be disregarded as a temporary setback.
Through this focused intent and fixity of purpose you can achieve anything you want. The choice is yours.
See exactly what you wish to accomplish and then focus on nothing else other than that outcome. It can end in no other way than success.
Never stop trying before you accomplish that goal, or you will never realize what could have been.