Monday, October 12, 2009

Your Success and the Mindset You Portray is a Mosaic of Your Life

I've always admired mosaics, for their beauty and talent required to create one, and because of their similarity to our lives. A mosaic is a number of proficiently broken pieces of colored glass or stone, specifically placed to create a well thought-out design, which may vary in color, design and function.

That's exactly how your success, be it business success or personal success, shows up in your life. Whether you realize it or not, your every thought, impacts the mindset you function within and ultimately your success. Regular and similar thoughts impress your conscious mind, causing your behavior to align itself to those thoughts, resulting in a transformation of your beliefs.

Focusing on your success, ask yourself: "Have I designed a life mosaic I'm happy with?, Am I achieving real success that I desire in my life?, Is my life mosaic colorful and does it have a purpose?, Am I leading down a path that will assist me to achieve my goals?, Do I deserve more out of life than I am presently getting?"

If you are unhappy with your answers you need to spend time reflecting on the points below and focus on transforming the mindset to accomplish real success in your life - your future depends on it.

Let's consider each facet of the mosaic and identify the essential elements to resolve if you are to achieve real success and ultimately live the life you deserve.

Change The Result By Changing The Mindset

Your thoughts are compared to the artist's well thought-out design. What you think and pay attention to eventually creates the mindset within, and ultimately determines your reality. It's therefore critical to make a conscious effort to only pay attention and give thought to those things you want to accomplish.

Determine what your true resolution in life is and the goals and dreams you aspire to. Then put the required energy into focusing your mindset on achieving them. Don't be distracted by negative self-talk. Only pay attention to your intention - nothing else.

Your Success Requires Action

As with a mosaic, the specific placement of the tiles creates the chosen design, your specific actions will take you closer to your success, leading you to the life you have chosen to design. "A vision without action is just a dream. An action without a vision is merely a passing of time. But a vision with action can change the world."

Are you prepared to change your world? Are you willing to take the essential actions to realize your success?

Your Real Success is Displayed in Your Masterpiece

Your final mosaic masterpiece is your results. Your final result and your real success is the realization of your primary thoughts into reality. By adopting an unwavering certainty that you will achieve your goals and by deciding to move one step closer to achieving these goals with every action you take, you strengthen your mindset and belief in yourself. Realize however, that real success will require you to get out of your comfort zone and to close all avenues that will not lead you to achieve your success. Leaving no alternatives on the table, forces you to make decisions that will facilitate you in achieving the life you desire - and deserve.

Ultimately, your success is determined by the mindset you create due to the nature of your thoughts, the actions and behavior you take as a consequence of this mindset and your certainty and definition of real success.

That said, ponder on your failures and evaluate the mindset and actions you assumed which led to the failure. Consider what you could have done differently to have achieved a better outcome. In all probability you will realize that the mindset you had led you to make incorrect decisions and take the wrong actions. Use failures as a lesson to maximizing your success.

Your life is therefore a mosaic of your failures, experiences and encounters. Make each design a masterpiece you are proud of and one that will guide you closer to your victory.

By Carla Baldock

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