Introduction. Have you ever stopped to consider what makes a person successful? Most people would give you

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2 Introduction Have you ever stopped to consider what makes a person successful? Most people would give you long lists of qualities that could help you become a better person, or even be considered as a positive, outstanding being. However, these are not exactly the descriptions you may be looking for. Over time, I have found it useful to retrace my steps. This is obviously going to assist you in recognizing any mistakes that could have been made during a certain process, yes, but also, to understand what is it that you did correctly. One must focus on the positive side, without forgetting to balance the negative. This is a key step to achieve the type of self confidence that you could really benefit from. A mind with a goal set, will work thousands of times betters to achieve said objective. In order to think positively, you need to act positively right from the start. What could this mean? Well, it certainly does not mean you need to see everything through a set of bright eyes, although this approach can help. It is more of a way of living in every aspect. Let us study an example. Many people go through with their daily lives oblivious to the amazing amount of opportunities there are and this can be attributed to their lack of a positive mind. A delay in traffic can be an advantage if you decide to learn something new instead of rubbing your teeth together and getting in a bad mood. This might look simple, but think about it. Figure you learn a new piece of information, you can then use it to project your confidence and your disposition. Every little aspect has an influence on the outcome we receive from the multiple endeavors we set ourselves to complete. Through the following pages I will be sharing my secrets with you to help you become that person you have been trying to become. All you will need is your best attitude and an open mind. Remember, this is not a miracle advice or something similar, this is only understanding that you already possess the characteristics needed to be successful, confident and motivated. All you

3 need to do is release your full capacity, I guarantee, you will be more sure of yourself when you finish with this book. Shall we start?

4 Confidence This is such a great word that gets said an awful lot. But, what is confidence? Many people would describe it as the quality one possesses to face daily tasks with a feeling of accomplishment, others would put it as simple as looking at yourself in the mirror and being happy with what you see. Well, it is a combination of both, and some extras. Confidence resides within the efforts you put in developing yourself as a better person. For example, a reader can feel better about his language skills simply because of the time he has put into crafting his abilities in this field. Confidence works very similar. The steps to acquire it require precision, constance, discipline and something that some of the people forget to add, believing in what you are doing. I believe recognizing your achievements, how ever petty they may sound to you, is the beginning of a healthy road towards a more successful version of yourself. You must always remember that it is not fair to judge your personal triumphs or loses yourself, even when you have to do it. However, a third party opinion may vary from yours and allow you to get a new perspective on your actions. Remember! Your advantages will always be seen from different angles, so expect to be blind when it comes to praising yourself. And this is good, too, otherwise, you could cross the line between being a confident person and a presumptuous one incapable of delivering results. To build confidence, one of the most important aspects in which one must work on, is the ability to feel good in your own skin. You have to assess your strong skills and stick to them, develop them and learn to use them to your favor. Your main job is to strengthen your positive qualities by attempting to find a use for each one of them in your daily life. This is vital to comprehend that your confidence will be built from the things you find natural to act upon. It is what people call instinct, and, as common knowledge dictates, you need to learn to trust yours. This, however, is not the only thing one must do. Security plays an important role. This can mean how secure you are with public speaking, your current weight, the amount of knowledge on certain

5 topics, and many more. You can begin to build this by immersing yourself in new material and comprehending you are giving it and everything you have learned until this point a unique, personal focus, which you must know, can be useful for the outsiders perspective. Confidence will help you achieve greater goals than those you could have ever dreamt of. A confident person projects trust to your interlocutors and invites them to take the words you choose to speak, as something they can learn from, rather than the average opinion. It is true there are certain accessories that could help you build confidence, like your clothing, your appearance or a charming attitude. These are amazing tool when you learn how to combine them with true and genuine confidence, which you will only get from working in bettering yourself and take yourself serious in any new journey you decide to partake on. Nothing can beat the sure feeling of trusting your arguments and movements. Feeling comfortable with the person you are makes you evolve into the person you one day wish to become. This process is not automatic, and you have to work every day in steering yourself in the right direction. If you manage to accomplish these simple steps and start building a strong facade you can rest assured, people you interact with, regardless of their own levels of confidence, social class or importance, will notice you and will at least, give an ear to your voice. Which, in these fast times in which nobody has the time for anything, is saying a lot. Your new path towards successfully accomplishing your objectives, begins with a look in the mirror and a confident feeling that you are able to be the person they need. Always believe you can, and better yourself every day. If you do, confidence will be a given.

6 Motivation There are plenty of ways to get motivated for do something. Everybody can start something new, the real problem is to continue at the same pace once we start facing more difficult situations. This is real motivation. Once you find the wall, you will really need to apply yourself in order to bring it down. This is another reason why you should never attempt to take the easy road. No matter how simple something appears to be or actually is, it will teach us a lesson, which can be used later to face new, unexpected challenges. This can be as small as a little push to get you our of bed in the morning or as big as the efforts you will put into learning how to seal a big work deal. But it all starts by having the necessity to amount to bigger things. Nobody needs motivation to stay in bed, but rather to go out and make something wonderful. What can be considered motivation? Whatever suits your needs! Most people use the same principles we discussed when we talked about confidence, but many have been known to use what is commonly called negative energy to motivate themselves to do better. Why is this? Because energy gets you working, regardless of whether it is good or bad and how you are labelling it. A very common example is the pleasure of doing something to prove somebody wrong. The force you are working with could be considered negative energy, but suppose you manage to accomplish what you wanted to and ask yourself, why would something that helps you produce the result you were aiming for be negative? This teaches us that as long as you are thriving and you are accomplishing results, you are motivated. It does not matter at all how you are gathering the strength as long as you are able to deliver what you have been working for. If there is something that could bring you and your intentions down, is getting your head around the idea that you are not motivated and you can t do anything to get your heart pumping. This is an excuse. There is always something that motivates you, but remember, the longer you run, the

7 more tired the legs will be. So, let s move on to those cases. When you have already walked a long road and in order to escape a possibility of getting stuck you require an even bigger motivation is where the real challenge begins. This does not mean that starting is not difficult, it means that once you start, you will face many other similar obstacles as the first one. You must remember there is no gain in quitting at any point. You will be left with a sour taste and an unaccomplished feeling that will only try to sink you deeper. The best advice I can offer in these cases is, find the way to pull through. Look at all you did to get to the point in which you are and out of respect for yourself and all those who assisted you during the process, find an alternative to giving up. Once again, this is a personal decision, there is no black and white, rather the color you decide you need to see it. Motivation is a very important step in accomplishing great things. There is no finish line without that last effort and sadly for some, there is no success without that last moment in which you could either fall and stay down or close your eyes, listen to yourself and trust your instinct, and keep it on for the last few meters. Motivation can be crucial for many of us, and in my personal experience, most of the things I have accomplished and which I am quite proud of, had a point in which a single touch could have brought me down. You know what kept me up and ready for the fight? The idea of following my dreams and carefully stepping towards success, because there is nothing better than becoming the best version of you. That is a fact, and if you learn how to motivate yourself every morning, you will have no problem making in it through the end of the day.

8 Success Is there a more beautiful word in the english language? Since we were children, we were taught to finish our moves, regardless of the result. And, in essence, success is nothing more than that. You cannot measure the level of success on person has over the other, and if you are doubting your accomplishments, you should ask yourself these questions: Did you quit? Did you work hard for it? Did you learn? Did you achieve it? These four simple questions can help you evaluate the real result of your endeavors. When it comes to success, however, one must be just the normal amount of liberal. Because success must teach us to be better and not to fill ourselves with the ideas we are indestructible. This will eventually find a way to bring you down, confidence is not something you can abuse or you will end right where you began but with the emotional baggage of losing a very lengthy battle. Success is the finish line! But remember, no world champion stays undefeated and untouched. You have worked hard to accomplish your goal and you have learned many tricks and tips that cannot be taught, rather lived. This must fill you with pride, although there are types of pride that could rather damage instead of making any good. To achieve success, you need to think like a winner. You need to be confident, motivated, believe in yourself and your cause. You must always face the challenges and look your opponent eye to eye. After all, what would success be without bumps along the way? If it was not difficult, it would not exist, because all of us would consider ourselves successful. You have a right to fight for what you want and there are many formulas, but in my particular case, success is the result of many years and many falls. I could never have become the man I am right now if I did not keep a humble front and an open mind to learn from both enemies and allies in my particular line of work. This is very important when we speak about success. A successful person

9 is one that can listen to thoughts from outside sources, handle criticism and recycle all these ideas to build a strong, durable project. When can you consider successful? Well, this is a broad term, as you might have figured by now. Is finishing a day in which you accomplished all of your objectives a success? Of course! Looking at it from the point of view of a small triumph. However, is it enough to call yourself a successful person in all fields? Probably not, and this could better be used to face the next challenge than utilize it to grow an ego. Success and egos can be good friends, but you have to learn how to help them get along! This is not simple, you can think of a thousand examples of people that haven t been able to do so. All in all, there is no magic formula when it comes to success. The only road to it is construed with the rigor of discipline, the every day fight to become a constant person and finally, the ability to bring out your confidence and use your motivation to achieve exactly what you set out to do. A friendly reminder would be to not abuse yourself with big expectations, but never compromise quality because your ideal result requires a more demanding set of requirements. This is a universal truth, satisfaction should only come once your initial idea is met, be sure to keep your feet on the ground when scheming your goals. A badly thought plan, or unrealistic goals will be an enemy hard to defeat. It is better to grow at an exponential rate, than trying to cover the whole distance with one jump. Success is a result that will come if you set the right pieces in motion. By consistently working towards your goals, your effort will be rewarded and what you consider success will come knocking on the door. But remember, if you don t step confidently, and motivate yourself along the way, success could be always a mile away.

10 Conclusion These three steps will act as the base in building a new you. A you that can be proud to be called a hard successful worker. You must always take a second to analyze whether you are listening to those voices pointing you in the right direction. It is important to recall that a simple misstep could cause years of efforts and planning to fall down, but at a patient and secure pace, in which you never forget to build your confidence, increase your motivations and eventually reach success, you will be able to look back in time and react joyously to all those obstacles that made you the person who you are now. There are no heroes walking an easy road, there are no medals for those who never dare push themselves further ahead in the road, and lastly, there is no success for those who close their minds and never listen to advice, or don t respect the concepts in which thousands of successful economies have flourished and nurtured the world along the many years we have been acting as a society. This is your chance, and if I can, you can too. Just remember; be confident, be motivated, be a success!

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