HOW TO ACHIEVE TOTAL SUCCESS IN LIFE By Anne-Marie RONSEN The totally successful person is rich in love, faith, self-esteem, health, friendships and personalized achievements, as well as being financially independent. You were born a winner, but you have to recognize and effectively use the valuable hidden assets you already possess. It will come with some sacrifices in certain areas, but it will reap many benefits in your life – health, relationships and happiness to name a few. You can obtain success in all areas of your life, but.... First, you must believe in you! - Set a goal. Figure out how fast you can do it, then create a plan to increase your potential. This is not an easy task, but it is an essential one - Don’t make too many changes at once. Start with small changes. This means developing an eagerness to encounter new ideas, studying them and assimilating those which best serve your personal success requirements and success goals. - You must be willing to learn to love everyone unconditionally, including yourself. JOY and PEACE are required to bring heaven to Earth, and LOVE is the only way it can ever happen. Real love is not given in order to earn rewards or concessions. The great gift is the giving and not in any expected payoff. If you give love, you will receive love. By continuing to circulate love in your life, you will reach rare new heights of higher consciousness. Love is reason for life itself. - Make a ‘To Do’ List – Then put these items in order, starting with the most critical. If you could only get one thing done today, what would be the most important?   - Don’t Waste Time – Use your spare minutes well. Take the train to work instead of driving and use that time to read critical reports you may have to review, or read your new equipment training manual on the bus on the way home.  - Just Say ‘No’ - If your boss wants you to work late and you have a family engagement, but you could work late the next night or come early in the morning, suggest alternatives and see if those will work. Don’t be so quick to accept the command without probing to find out if there is another way to handle it. Don’t just take the project on and then not finish the other task she gave you, or you will both be unhappy. Speak up! - Know Your Brain – Do you know what the Circadian Clock is? It’s that little clock in your brain that controls when you feel the most wide awake and when you want to go to sleep If you are a morning person, attack the most difficult problems in the morning when your brain is the sharpest. That way you won’t have to rework the problem the next day when you discover that the ‘afternoon you’ made the wrong decision about the budget. - Get Enough Sleep – Your brain can operate on a short nap for a day, but if you are not sleeping enough, you will not think well or process information and you’ll make mistakes and end up staying late to fix them. - Advertise Your Schedule - If you hate getting phone calls first thing in the morning, before you get your day organized and have your first cup of coffee, then let your calls go to voicemail until you feel ready to take the calls. You will be more focused and get more accomplished, instead of having to say, “I’ll have to get back to you on that” after hearing a ten minute explanation of the latest crisis. - Be Your Own Master – Sit down with a pencil and paper or a calendar and figure out how much free time you have. Schedule and plan your activities at work and get your personal and family obligations on the calendar. Treat these personal obligations with the same respect you would treat a business meeting. - Don’t Procrastinate or Agonize – Don’t spend time during a family dinner worrying about the presentation tomorrow. Put your mind back where it belongs. Worrying never helped anyone accomplish a goal. Don’t procrastinate because you don’t like a particular activity. Put things on the calendar and stick to the dates – don’t talk yourself into waiting or you will just have more to do tomorrow! - Train and Delegate – Don’t tell yourself you don’t have the time to show someone else how to do that job that you REALLY don’t have to do. - Don’t worry that the employee will take your job. If you create a functioning team with everyone performing well, your reputation as a manager, mentor and coach will give you a shot at that promotion you want. The other benefit to this time management technique is that, when you go on vacation or take that long-awaited three day weekend to go skiing, you will not have to call the office every hour to be sure there isn’t some problem you have to solve. Your family will greatly appreciate having your attention on a dedicated basis for a few days of much-needed bonding. And don’t overlook job-sharing programs, and cross-training as concepts that will nicely cover responsibilities and ensure that the company keeps running when you are not there. - Get Organized – It is impossible to manage your schedule if you can’t find things or if you have to recreate work or reinvent something because you lost it. Take that Action List to heart and, starting today, put a task at the top of the list to organize files, or to rearrange the store or inventory so it is easier to stock or to find things. Once you have things organized, don’t let them get out of control again. The only way to justify the work involved in that reorganization is if you KNOW you will never have to go through it again!   - Visualize and grow with your goals – and use positive affirmations: “I AM”, “I CAN”, “I WILL” and “I DO”...   -  Keep a Realistic Perspective - Setting unrealistic goals is a mistake – whether it is the completion date of a software project, or the time you think you can deliver that report to your manager, if you underestimate the time required to get the work done, you will end up working late and you’ll look bad to your boss. Be realistic about when you plan to complete tasks and do your homework to be sure that you can accomplish the task in this timeframe. Consider other ways to get the job done if you think these considerations will help you meet the deadline faster, but don’t promise what you can’t deliver. It is good to set goals that challenge you, but if you can never reach the goal, you will not do yourself any favors. To gain control over your mind is to gain control of your life. Success is not just the feeling you get when you reach your goal. It is also the great feelings you experience as you strive for your goals.   Think positively and act abundantly. Go to your source for your good. You have ability to define, set and achieve goals. Defining, setting and achieving goals is the pathway to abundant living.  Let other people be positive channels of your good, and equals with whom you share the fun, love and excitement which is life. You’ll be pleasantly surprised by the tangible results you can achieve. Choose wisely! And be patient, be persistent, be creative! And Think Like a Winner! ******************************************************** Anne-Marie Ronsen is the author of many wealth and self development books for women.  Download FREE e-books and software from http://www.e-bestsellers.com , http://www.PLRbestsellers.com  or http://www.UniversalPublishingltd.com  … You will learn about the best tips and recommendations  to improve your health, weight and wealth.  You'll also discover how you can get a top position that will mean loads of traffic, recognition and sales for you and your business.