The 7 Triggers Of Authentic Greatness

Passion For Purpose

One common trait with all the people modeling success is that they are all passionate about their purpose. It is this passion that gets them out of bed in the morning before the alarm sounds. It is this same passion for purpose that keeps them up late at night working when the rest of the world is asleep. In order for you to begin living a lifestyle of success, you must get to the point of realizing your purpose and getting passionate about pursuing it. Passion purpose births determination, consistency and a natural fierceness within you that never takes no for an answer and never views failure as final. While travelling on the road to greatness, passion for purpose is your best friend.

Belief

It has been said time and again that as a man thinketh in his heart so is he. Your personal belief system determines who you are and what you achieve in life. Belief in the God that created you with a purpose and with gifts and abilities to accomplish that purpose is the fuel that keeps your passion for purpose alive. Authentic greatness is modeled by men and women who strive to be all that God created to be. It is an amazing fact of life that the people who believe they can accomplish something end up accomplishing it and those who believe they cannot accomplish something don’t acc

omplish it. In simpler terms, what you believe becomes your life. Forming a belief system that sees possibilities gives you the audacity to attempt the impossible and success becomes your lifestyle.

Strategic Planning

If belief fuels your passion for purpose, strategic planning powers belief. Strategic planning means that you put all the resources you have together and managing them in order to live out your purpose every given day. To me, this is success. Talents, gifts and abilities also fall under resources and people who never learn to manage their gifts, talents and abilities never achieve authentic success.  The resources you need to achieve the best you can be are within and around you and once you identify them; you must have a strategic plan in order to maximize their use. Strategic planning gives you the wisdom to look for the key that opens the door as opposed to breaking the door in order to get through it. No one ever achieves greatness without being excellent in strategic planning.

A clear set of values

You have the values that you live by and once these come together they form your value system. Your value system helps you define what is right or wrong in your day to day life. A sound value system gives you the ability to make sober and wise judgment calls on life’s issues. This way, you will prioritize what is essential to your success and avoid the distractions that lie along the path that leads to authentic greatness. You must therefore strive to protect your heart as this is what helps you live out those values. All the issues of life spring forth from the heart. The more you interact with God; His Holy Spirit brings out the fruit of the Spirit in you. The fruit of the Spirit is a depiction of all the values that will keep your success going through authentic relationships with people. 

Take Action

A very high level of passion for purpose, the best strategic planning, the right belief system and a sound value system will never produce greatness until you take action. You need energy and its twin brother enthusiasm in order to take action on your purpose in order to produce certain and specific results. In order to continually take action on a consistent basis, you must find ways to keep energized and enthusiastic every given day. Greatness belongs to those who wake up every morning to take action that lead to the accomplishment of goals. With energy and enthusiasm, your passion for purpose will never die.

Worthwhile relationships

All the success in the world will never be worth anything if you don’t have authentic relationships. The bonds you form with your friends and family create the platform for you to build and share your greatness and success. The platform also gives you cushioning against the disappointments and setbacks of life. A careful study of men and women who have achieved authentic success will show that they have developed worthwhile relationships and these keep them going. If you achieve personal success and have no worthwhile and authentic relationships, you will be a lonely recluse and sink into depression easily. 

Mentorship

So long as your success remains personal, you will never ascend to the heights of legendary greatness. Authentic success and greatness is marked by you mentoring other people to become the best they can be. Zig Ziglar says that if you help other people get what they want, you will eventually get what you want. It is when you begin depositing your passion for purpose, belief system, value system, philosophy and principles that you begin t cause change in the lives of others. You do this by using the talents, gifts and abilities that God has given you. The more you mentor other people to success, you become iconic and sooner or later, you will find your way into history books.

What are you waiting for? See you at the peak of legendary greatness.

The 6 Bullets That Kill Procrastination

Procrastination is the art of or habit of putting things off. One of the simplest ways of killing it is to learn to procrastinate on procrastination. The need to kill it is so important in that it is one of the most effective assassins of the greatness within you.  Below are some bullets that you can use to assassinate this beast known as procrastination.

1.       Get Started

I you carefully analyze yourself; you will realize that you normally procrastinate on the important tasks. The simplest way to start killing this

habit is to get started with what you need to get done. Getting started gives you the momentum to keep you going and as you keep at it, the momentum keep on growing.

2.       Schedule Your Time

The professional procrastinator operates on impulse. He has no calendar or schedule of events to guide their day to day activities. The first bullet of Getting Started only causes bodily harm to procrastination. The second bullet of scheduling your important tasks causes more injury and brings you closer to victory. It goes without saying that once you come up with the schedule you will need to stick to it.

3.       Divide Your Work Into Manageable Pieces

The more you feel that you have a big task to complete the easier it will be for you to procrastinate. The third bullet of dividing your work into manageable pieces is meant to initiate massive internal bleeding to procrastination. The small tasks that you incorporate into your day to day activities add up to complete the whole project. Completing small tasks at a time keeps procrastination bleeding and helps you achieve more.

4.       Learn To Do It Now

It s important that you understand that now is the only time you have. Thousands of people that have successfully killed procrastinated all learnt to do what they needed to do when they needed to do it. Never put off for tomorrow what can and should be done today.

5.       Set Daily Goals

As you set up your schedule of day to day events, add a column of goals that you want to accomplish every particular day. This way, you will find yourself easily achieving what you have always procrastinated on and this increases fatality of the shots you have already taken at procrastination.

6.      Enjoy Your Success

The biggest motivation for what you need to do today comes from the successes you had yesterday. Spare a few minutes every morning to review where you were successful yesterday and let that thrill energize you to get started on what you need to do today. By the time you are taking this last bullet, procrastination is long dead and you have become a person of discipline who gets things done when they need to be done.

Worry not; no one will ever arrest you for killing procrastination.