How To Set Yourself Up For Success

Can you set yourself up for success? Well, yes, I think you definitely can. Today I want to share some top tips with you that I believe will set you up for ongoing, long-term success.

Set yourself up for success at the start of the day

I feel like the way we start the day really impacts the rest of the day. If I wake up and groan at the thought of having to get out of bed, then everything seems that bit harder.

Now don’t get me wrong, I definitely have those days where I drag myself out of bed, especially on a cold dark morning.

But what I try to do is shift my thinking. Shift my focus to the positive reasons to get out of bed. Even if that’s just a slight change of focus to “The bathroom’s nice and warm and I love a shower.”

Stretch your body even before you get up, and pop a soft light on in the winter months. I have a light that comes on gradually to wake me up naturally in the months when I need to get up in the dark and find this really helpful.

Before you even get out of bed try this tip. Think of 3 things you’re grateful for and 3 things you’re looking forward to that day. This will really help you to put your focus on positive things and raise your vibrations (super important in law of attraction terms).

• 3 things you’re grateful for
• 3 things you’re looking forward to that day

Train your thoughts for success

Your thoughts are important. Mike Dooley, from the hit law of attraction movie The Secret, famously said: “Thoughts Become Things.”

Now, I do think there’s more to this story (read Is the law of attraction just positive thinking). However, your thoughts greatly impact the way you feel and this is super important.

Thoughts Become Things – Mike Dooley

One way that really helps me to keep my thoughts positive is using affirmations. A few of my favourites are…

• All is well in my world
• I’m always in the right place at the right time
• Every day in every way my life gets better and better
• Today is a wonderful day
• I’m so grateful for all the wonderful things I already have in my life…

I encourage you to read Morning Affirmations and if you’re a business owner, check out this special Affirmations for business success post.

You can also try AFFORMATIONS. This is where you ask a question such as…

• “Why is my life so amazing?”
• “Why does success come so easily for me now?”
• “Why do I always know what to do?”

The idea is that you are telling your subconscious mind that this is already true.

This is an interesting video to watch from the creator of Afformations Noah St. John. In the video, Noah does muscle testing to see whether the body accepts afformations more than affirmations. Watch Noah St John Afformations Muscle Test – How to Change Your Life with Afformations

I encourage you to try both and I have a tip a little later on to help make affirmations more believable for you. (see the Clear any limiting beliefs section)

Visualize yourself successful

Visualizing is simply daydreaming with a purpose. You’re not just letting your mind wander aimlessly, you’re putting a deliberate picture in your mind.

When you do this, you send a message to your subconscious mind and your subconscious mind thinks what your visualizing is real and will support you in actually making it a reality.

You can visualize all sorts of things, such as how you want your day to be, achieving a certain goal in life or business, and pretty much anything you can think of.

Keep it positive and in the present. So, imagine it is happening right now. I will often do this before I get out of bed and especially before I go to sleep but you can do it any time.

Here are a couple of quotes I love to get you all inspired and make my point.

“If you can see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.” – Bob Proctor

“If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this was started by a mouse.” – Walt Disney

Have a clear vision of your success

Know what you want to achieve. You don’t need the entire life picture mapped out but being clear about the kind of person you want to be, the way you want to live your life (show up in the world) and knowing key things that are important to you is important.

I encourage you to read How to have a clear vision for life.

Write your goals down

I’m a huge fan of goal setting but not just for the sake of having goals. I believe our goals should help us to live our best life and if wanted, our best business for ourselves. What I mean by that is to create the life (and business) you want and not what society or someone else considers successful.

In my opinion, goals must be clear (SPECIFIC) and measurable, so that you actually know when you’ve achieved them and can track progress.

Write your key goals down and keep them in front of you, well, where you’ll see them regularly.

Top tip: Every day, Ask yourself: What can I do today to move me close to achieving my goals? Then take the action required.

I encourage you to read these posts…

• Why you’re not achieving your goals
• Goal setting tips
• Most important factors for goal setting success
• Yearly goal setting to create the life you want

Know what to prioritize and make it a habit for success

Know what’s really important to you in life and business and make those things your priority, always.

Sure, we all have all kinds of things we need to do on a day-to-day basis but always be clear about what’s most important and put those things first.

I encourage you to read How to balance and improve all areas of your life. This post will help you to get clear about what matters the most to you.

For me, my priority is my son, other family members and loved ones, my dog and cat, my business, financial security/financial growth and my health/wellbeing.

I have clear life and business goals and I also make these a priority. For example, in my business, at the start of each business day, I focus on the goals I want to achieve and ask that power question “What do I need to do today to move me closer to my goal?”

I write down my answer and do this task as soon as possible in the day. For me, as a blogger/writer, my first task is always to write, whether that’s here on my blog, on MEDIUM, creating my weekly newsletter or creating a new download for my ETSY SHOP. The bulk of my time is always focused on writing.

Focus on your priority tasks and be very clear about the order and importance of each task.

Priority tasks are the things that will move you closer to achieving your goals.

Are you willing to make this a habit? What do you need to prioritize?

Clear any limiting blocks to sucess

Emotional Freedom Techniques, EFT is a fantastic way to clear limiting beliefs that can really keep you stuck. Positive EFT tapping will also really help you to raise your vibrations (high vibes) and help you to be more of a match for the success you want.

I encourage you to read my EFT, How to tap guide. This will really help you to understand how to use EFT effectively. It’s such an easy technique to learn, no special skills are needed. And the reason I love EFT so much is that you can use it any time you need it.

Here’s a fantastic EFT clearing script you can use…

Set-up tapping the side of the hand – I’m tapping today to release any blocks that could keep me from achieving the success I want.

• Top of the head – Success
• Forehead – I release any blocks
• Eyebrow – Success
• Side of the eye – I release any blocks
• Under the eye – Success
• Under the nose – I release any blocks
• Under the mouth – Success
• Collarbone – I release any blocks
• Under the arm – Success
• Tap the wrists together – I release any blocks
• Side of the hand – Success

RECOMMENDED DOWNLOAD: EFT for Clearing Limiting Beliefs (available to download now on ETSY)

Do several rounds of this script to really release resistance to success and allow the success you want. If we don’t have what we want, we are resisting it, so it’s always worth doing these clearing EFT sessions.

I personally do these regularly to keep my energy flowing well and to keep clearing any limiting beliefs that come up as I move forward on my own success journey.

Other EFT Posts to read…

EFT – I’m Not Enough This is such a common belief and really limits us unnecessarily. Use this EFT script to clear this belief.

BUILD A POWERFUL SUCCESS MINDSET WITH HYPNOSIS and Improve your confidence EFT, Affirmations and Hypnosis.

BONUS TIP: Combine affirmations with EFT to release resistance and allow yourself to believe the affirmation can be true for you. If you feel like your affirmations are a lie then try tapping as you say the affirmations to release resistance. This really is incredibly powerful.

Believe in yourself

Believe in yourself or get someone on board who can believe in you enough to push you forward until you can believe in yourself. This could be a coach, a mentor, a good friend or a trusted family member.

I encourage you to use the affirmation “I believe in my ability to succeed.” and combine this affirmation with EFT – Read Why EFT and Affirmations are a power combo.

Affiliate Link – Check out this fantastic hypnosis download Believe in yourself more

And here’s a bonus EFT session…

Here’s a quick POSITIVE EFT session you can follow, I’ll leave some links for more EFT scripts below.

Set-Up (Tapping the side of the hand), say… I’m tapping today to build a strong belief in myself and my ability to succeed in all I do.

• Top of the head – I believe in myself
• Forehead – I believe in my ability to succeed in all I do
• Eyebrow – I believe in myself
• Side of the eye – I believe in my ability to succeed in all I do
• Under the eye – I believe in myself
• Under the nose – I believe in my ability to succeed in all I do
• Under the mouth – I believe in myself
• Collarbone – I believe in my ability to succeed in all I do
• Under the arm – I believe in myself
• Tap the wrists together – I believe in myself
• Side of the hand – I believe in myself now and always

Keep learning and growing to achieve more and more success

I think this is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves, whether it’s learning a new skill that will help you in business or learning how to relax more, I encourage you to keep learning and develop a growth mindset.

Keep reviewing your success progress

Review your progress regularly to see what’s working and what’s not and adjust accordingly. It will also keep the end result in the front of your mind.

Also, remember that if something isn’t working, you just need to work out what will work. Don’t keep putting time and energy into things that aren’t working. Sometimes it takes a slight adjustment, sometimes you need to change directions completely.

How To Do A Monthly Goal Progress Review

Celebrate every success

Don’t wait until you’ve achieved those really big goals to celebrate, and praise yourself… do it with every success. Give yourself mini rewards along the way as this will help to keep you motivated.

Keep a success journal

Keep a special notebook where you write down all your successes. This will really help to keep you motivated over time when you can look back and see everything you’ve already achieved.

Set yourself up for success recap

I hope you’ve found today’s post really helpful. Here’s a quick recap.

• Start your day in a positive way
• Work on keeping your thoughts positive
• Visualize the success you want
• Have a clear vision
• Write your goals down
• Know what to prioritize and make it a habit
• Clear limiting beliefs
• Keep learning and growing
• Review your progress
• Celebrate every success
• Keep a success journal

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