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You must transform your dreams into actions to succeed. To achieve success you must take those actions each and every day. Most people never succeed because they lack the persistence to take action each and every day. Before you can succeed you must have a clear plan for what success means to you and how you’ll get it. Follow that plan up each and every day by taking at least one action that will move you closer to what you want.

But what happens to most people is that their actions come to a grinding halt. At first you’re all excited about your plans for success and eager to take action. Then the reality of the burden of the tasks begins to erode away at that excitement.

Then you run into obstacles and challenges that make getting success difficult. Without a strong positive attitude you may decide your plans won’t work and give up. Sometimes you’ll blame other people and make excuses for yourself for not being able to do what you planned to do. If you want to succeed there can be no excuses, and there’s no one to blame but you. You have to find a way when things seem impossible. There isn’t another person who can stop you from succeeding.

Don’t allow one day pass without taking action to achieve success. That one day that you chose inaction over action could be the very day that a key opportunity becomes available and you won’t be ready for it. You have to have commitment and persistence to take action each and every day especially when things get tough.

Someone can tell you exactly what actions to take each day to succeed yet you aren’t likely to do them. Unless you have a burning desire to accomplish what you’ve set out to do. Even when the actions you need to take will save your life you may not do them unless you have a burning desire an unstoppable persistent desire to achieve success.

Success is your choice. Are you willing to develop a plan for success? Can you commit to taking at least one action each and every day that will take you closer to achieving success? With a clear plan and a commitment to action there’s nothing or no one who can stop you from succeeding.

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Image by gebl via FlickrSo this week I’ve spent a lot of time reading a book called “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss after having hearing about it on Woody Maxim’s excellent blog.

This book is incredible and has completely changed the way I think about how I work and spent the time in my week!

Timothy goes on to explain how a new bread of entrepreneur called the “New Rich” (NR) work and use their time. Instead of the old model of working yourself to death with endless days and nights slogging away, the NR set up businesses that require very little or no time of their own to run.

This time can then be spent enjoying life to max and having “mini-retirments”. Who wouldn’t want to have more time to spend with family, friends and just exploring the world and all it has to offer?

Especially surprising is the section about outsourcing your life and work. You would be amazed at the things you can hire people to do very cheaply, especially when hiring from India and China where differences in currency strengh and other factors mean that you can get very cheap “virtual assistants” ready and willing to do whatever you need 24 hours per day.

It’s a $12 book folks, and an essential addition to your library of motivational and insprational works.