Creating a Better Life

The first step in Tony Robbins’ “Ultimate Success Formula” is to Know Your Outcome.

Different writers, philosophers, and personal development experts have put it different ways:

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” — Lewis Carroll

“Begin with the end in mind.” — Stephen R. Covey

“Fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want and begin to give thanks that you are getting it.” - Wallace Wattles

Does anyone other than me see a pattern here?

Imagine you are heading out on a food shopping trip without knowing the outcome you wanted.  You know you need “food”, but beyond that, you just have a general, fuzzy idea of what you want and need.

You get in the car and start driving.  Since you only have a very general idea of what it is you need, instead of ending up at the grocery store, you just pull into the first convenience store you come across.

You park the car, go in, and grab a basket.  Once again, you’ve got no plan, so you just start throwing anything that looks somewhat edible into your basket.

Whatever happens to be nearby goes in the basket. You throw in cat food (you’ve got no cat), you grab some mac and cheese (you hate mac and cheese).  That beef jerky does look good.  It may be $12 for a single piece, but what are you going to do?  You’ve gotta get food, don’t you?

After all of this, you pay with your debit card, and wonder if the transaction will go through… you can’t remember if your rent check cleared the bank yet.  Everything goes fine - the bank was kind enough to allow the transaction.  Of course, you might as well just add the $35 overdraft fee that you’ll be charged to the price of the groceries.

So now you are eating overpriced beef jerky, cat food, and macaroni and cheese - and have an overdrawn bank account as well.

Are you living your life like this?

Wouldn’t it have been much easier in the long run to simply:

• Check Your Budget?
• Decide On Where You Want To Shop?
• Have a List of What You Want and Need?

As Jim Rohn says… “It doesn’t get any better than easy!”

And that’s what having a set outcome, for whatever you want to do, is.

Easy.

Knowing our outcome makes our lives easier… and achieving our goals just that much quicker.

Do yourself a favor and right now (yes, right now), write down 10 things that you want in life.

Come on - tell your brain to shut up - just write them down.

From having a clean garage to owning that million dollar business.

Just write them down.

I’ll tell you what - I just did.  I stopped in the middle of writing this article and fired up a brand document.  Now if I could do that while writing, can’t you take a break from reading for just a few minutes?

If you did it, guess what?

You are at least 25% on your way towards their realization.

Congratulations!

Next up… Taking Action!

An introduction to Tony Robbins’ Ultimate Success Formula work - and a discussion of whether or not it works.

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