| ACHIEVING
PERSONAL SUCCESS IN YOUR LIFE
PART 3
PACESETTER – your guide to personal success
In Part 2, we examine the first four elements of the
PACESETTER. In brief, to achieve
personal success, you need to work on your Perception
and be Passionate about what you
are doing. You need to create a positive mental Attitude
and have a sense of
Commitment in what you are doing. This will require
Energy, both physical and mental
to allow you achieve what you want in life.
Let us review the rest.
SELF-SUGGESTION
Your brain is your greatest asset and liability. It
is an asset if you are able to self-suggest
effectively and view life from a positive point of view.
Likewise, if you are daily
confronted with problems and feel that life is just
like that then you are going to tune
yourself in a path of personal destruction rather than
success. By means of selfsuggestion
you could learn to re-evaluate your role and what is
it that you want in life.
Your brain works on the kind of information you feed
it with. If the information that is
going into your brain is negative, then the outcome
is negative. It is like the proverbial
glass of water. You can either choose to visualize it
as half empty or half full. Philip
Dormer Stanhope once said: “Idleness is only the
refuge of weak minds.” Remember
you have a choice. You could choose to have a bad day
or you could engage yourself to
seize the day. It’s all a matter of what you suggest
to yourself.
ENRICHING ENVIRONMENT
Have you ever been to a funeral and felt happy? This
might be a morbid question. But
the fact is you are influence by your environment. If
you are working in an environment
that is unattractive and has a lot of toxic energy built
up, you will feel miserable. You
have to make your environment enriching. In your workplace
keep your things tidy and
neat. Remove unwanted clutter from your desk. If you
work on a computer, make it a
point to clear the unwanted files in your system. Put
some inspirational quotes around
your house and possibly your workplace. If you can,
try to remove anything that
depresses you. You may want to remember this nice little
quote from Maxim Gorky:
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When
work is a duty, life is slavery”.
TARGETTING
Set targets in your life that you want to achieve.
Write them down on a piece of paper.
Carry the paper with you all the time. When you have
achieved any one of the targets
that you have set, don’t cancel it. Circle it
with a bright coloured pen as a visual
reminder of your achievement. Writing down the things
you want to achieve is an
integral aspect of achieving personal success. When
you just think about achieving
something, you will notice that at the very first sign
of resistance to the idea that you
have, you lose interest as the idea gets displaced and
looks insurmountable to achieve.
However, when you write it down, it forces you to engage
in what you intend to do. You
feel yourself being drawn towards your target.
TRUST
You can only achieve the targets you set in your life
if you learn to trust yourself. Trust
begins with you. When you trust yourself, you will mean
what you say and say what you
mean. This will allow other people to develop trust
in you. To learn how to trust
yourself you need commitment. You have to develop your
mental energy and remain
resolute to your beliefs and principle. Do not allow
yourself to feel beaten when you fail
in something that you have tried to achieve. View failure
as feedback and try to get back
on your feet again. Accept the fact that you will not
win every time. That is the Law of
Nature. There will be times when there are others who
might do better than you. The
important thing is to trust yourself so that you know
that you’ve given your best.
EFFICACY
Efficacy is an emotional and physical inclination
towards producing a desires outcome.
It is about being efficient and effective at the same
time. To be efficient you may show
up as a person who know his/her job well enough. But
when you are effective you show
up as someone who knows what is to be done and gets
the work done at all cost. You can
learn to become efficacious by developing your observation
skills. Make it a habit to take
note of what is going around you. Be wary of changes
that are occurring and make sure
that you learn to adapt quickly when there is a need
to do so. Do not be like the
proverbial ‘frog in the well.’ Learn to
tap into others ability and see how you can benefit
them as well. As Stephen R Covey who wrote ‘Seven
Habits of Highly Effective People’
puts it ‘Think win-win’ and ‘put first
things first’. When you become more efficacious,
you will inevitably develop a sense of bearing as to
where you are going and this
naturally will make you personally more successful.
RESPONSIBILITY
Ultimately, being responsible and taking responsibility
is what is going to make you
stand out from the rest. Here again the choice is yours.
As Shakespeare puts it succinctly
in Julius Caesar: ‘…some are born into greatness,
others achieve greatness and others
have greatness thrust upon them…’ Whatever
the situation you can only feel a sense of
personal satisfaction if you learn to take responsibility
of what you do in life. This brings
you back to the first element of the PACESETTER –
Perception and Passion. That is the
whole circle of life after all.
Right now, you can begin on the road of your own self-discovery
by applying the
PACESETTER in your life and you are on your journey
to achieving personal success.
Article contributed by:
D Theyagu is a keynote speaker and seminar leader for
many conferences and training
program. He runs Lateral Solutions Consultancy which
designs and conduct
competency based training for organizations. He can
be contacted at:
dtheyagu@singnet.com.sg; www.lateralsolutionsconsult.com;
Fax: 67522160
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