Success Comes from Charging through Failures

Even the best Rhinos will make mistakes and the more audacious your goals the bigger your mistakes will be!  The point to remember is that mistakes are the foundations of success.  You cannot be successful without having a string of failures in your past. Full grown Rhino's understand this and realize that Charging on and learning from the big and small failures is how you will become a huge success.

There are two ways to look at the world: the benevolent way (the Rhino way) or the pessimistic (Cow) way. The cow worldview takes a victim stance, seeing life as unfair, seeing the world oppressing them and observing nothing but obstacles preventing a happy, successful life. The cows expect problems and misery and that's exactly what they get. They see the world as hostile, negative and unfair.  As a result, their perception creates their reality.

Rhinos have positive worldview.  They see the world around them is filled with opportunities and possibilities. They look for the positive in all situations and they focus on positive events rather than negative setbacks.  Most importantly they see the universe as benevolent, conspiring to do good and help them achieve great things.  The benevolent universe approach helps the Rhino charge relentlessly at their dreams because they know that by following the Laws of the Jungle, the world will provide exactly what they need when they need it. It may not appear that everything is going to plan but the rhino knows if they continue to charge the right solution, the right rewards will present themselves. Rhinos approach their lives, their work, and their relationships with optimism, and a general attitude of positive expectations. They expect a lot of themselves and others, they are seldom disappointed.

Think and Act Like a Rhino... Eliminate Cow Thoughts

When you are charging through the jungle do not let cow thoughts penetrate your mind.  You will make mistakes its part of life in the jungle. When you make a mistake determine is it is worth your time to correct it or if you need to just move on. Sometimes you choose the wrong location for a business, hire the wrong employee or develop the wrong product.  Think with a Rhino mentality and determine if it is better for you to work through the crisis or if you should simply learn from the failure and charge on.

Eliminate Cow Actions

Failures and setbacks can allow the cow disease of inertia to set in according to Scott Alexander.  The worst result of failures is to develop cow fears, cow tendencies and then to take "safe" cow actions which might be no action at all.  Don't let fear of failures or actual failures paralyze you. Be aware of passive aggressive cow actions that become excuses preventing future success. You may have to fail 9 times to succeed on the 10th time. You may have to fail thousands of times before you are successful, just like Thomas Edison did.  Rhinos believe with positive emotion that eventually they will succeed if they continue to persist.  Cows hate change; Rhinos welcome change, mistakes and failures because they know standing still is the surest way to fail. A charging Rhino will out smart, out create and out last the Cow every time.

Learn from your mistakes, realize success will eventually be yours and charge into this benevolent universe.

Charge!
Dave

"Success is goals, and all else is commentary."

This week take time to write down your most important goals. Professional, school, family, money, and health goals should all be clearly written out so you can end your year strong.  Today is the perfect day to write down your goals for the rest of the year and review and improve your 5 year goals.

"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine". -Brian Tracy

Empower your children! If you have kids in elementary school, high school or college take some time with them this week and help them write out their Rhino goals.  Remember people that write down their goals are 90 percent more likely to achieve them!

The time is now to take action, Rhinos!

Write down your professional, family, health and money goals on two 3 x 5 cards.  Post one card on your mirror and keep one in your pocket, wallet or purse. Keep it on you at all times. Review the one on the mirror in the morning as soon as you wake up and before you go to bed. Review the one on you anytime you need to refocus.

Next, determine the prize! Determine what great things you can reward yourself with when you achieve your goals. If it's a promotion you seek, plan a weekend trip for when you achieve it. Make it special and important to you!

September is the perfect time to analyze, clarify and solidify your most important goals for the rest of the year.  The summer vacation is over and its back to the real world.  This shift in the seasons will allow you to focus on important projects, goals and issues that you can resolve by the end of the year.  This is your opportunity to make a big impact on your life and the life of others.  You can accomplish more in the next 4 months then most people accomplish in a year.  How????

First write your goals down. Put your most important thoughts, goals and dreams on paper. You need these goals to be posted on your bathroom mirror at home and keep a copy with you at all times.  Say your goals allowed twice daily with enthusiasm.  This will help your subconscious brain absorb your goals and make them part of who you are.  You will begin to "Act As If" you have already achieved your goals and this will increase your commitment and self confidence.

Second, make sure these goals are emotionally meaningful to you and make sure you believe you can achieve them.  A negative self image and self doubt will prevent you from staying committed to your goals and it will prevent you from going the extra mile to reach them.  You will not persist towards a goal if your self image and your own "self-talk" sabotage your success.  Make sure you convince yourself you can achieve your goals, and remove the bad images and thoughts of your past.

Third, Take Action. Take aggressive big action. Get out there and make your success happen.  Go the extra mile in everything you do, it increases your success and your returns.  It's one thing to write your goals down, another to believe you can achieve them but its an entirely different process to actually get up early, work late and take action every single day towards your goals.  The universe rewards action.  Don't whine, don't complain, don't look at the obstacles. Focus on your goals and charge until they are yours.

Fourth: celebrate success! When you achieve your goals celebrate the big and little victories they will help reenergize you and keep you charging! Work hard and play hard in true rhino fashion!

Now get out there and charge, Rhinos and remember"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" -Napoleon Hill