Success Mindset: The Three Pillars of Success
In July 2011, I was privileged enough to see Anthony Robbins speak for 5 hours non-stop at the National Achievers Conference in London. I’d seen videos of him in action on YouTube, but wasn’t convinced that he was THE personal development coach for me, even given his huge reputation! However, seeing him ‘perform’ live, changed my perception entirely.
Tony Robbins live is an enigma to behold. He is energy personified. And his information or content is succinct and profound.
I want to share with you his Three Pillars of Success, as I, personally, took a lot of meaning from them, and they have helped change the way I take action and move forward.
Success Mindset: Pillar I – Focused Goals
You need to have sharp, laser targeted focus on what you really want to achieve, why you want to achieve it, and by when. You must make your goals so clear and compelling – and that’s not just ordinarily clear, but crystal clear, because where focus goes, energy flows.
Why?
It’s all to do with how the conscious and subconscious parts of your brain connect. Now this is key, so keep reading.
Imagine your brain is a computer. The conscious part of your brain is the screen and keyboard, while the subconscious is the information stored on the computer. So the computer screen and keyboard is how you interact with the world around you and is used to set your goals and measure performance.
Your subconscious controls about 97% of your perception, behaviour, beliefs, and achievements, making you who you are.
But it’s also a bit stupid.
Your subconscious is only stored information so depends solely on the instructions passed to it by the conscious mind and can’t work anything out on its own.
Most people identify so strongly with their conscious mind, they think their conscious mind is enough to give them successful results in their lives.
But how can this be true if it’s only a keyboard and screen and only accounts for approximately 3% of what we do? It can’t possibly produce long-term sustainable results.
So, most people set goals only with their conscious mind, then get discouraged and sidetracked because results don’t show up.
However, if your goals are well defined, realistic, measurable, and timely, and you habitually repeat them, they will be mass stored in your subconscious and your conscious mind will have no choice but to retrieve them.
By repeating your goals you embed them in your subconscious. Your conscious mind starts believing the goals are true and you then have a much greater chance of achieving them.
Phew – that was deep.
Back to basics – without focus, there’s simply no point setting goals!
Without the constant repetition of a crystal clear, defined target, your unconscious mind won’t form the behaviour and belief that you can achieve exactly what you want to achieve – and this won’t get etched into your conscious attempts at measuring performance.
Success Mindset: Pillar II – Resources Toolbox
Tony Robbins pointed out that the reason for most people’s failure isn’t from a lack of resources, whether it be money, time, energy, other people.
Most people’s failure results from a lack of resourcefulness.
Successful people get the resources when no-one else can. So to be successful, you need to go out and hunt down the best strategies, the best mentors, the best tools, the best map/blueprint/steps, and the best coaching – in order to achieve the best results.
You need to find someone who has demonstrated that they have the answer to your problem and can tick all of the above qualities. It’s always sensible to copy someone that is successful, by doing what they do (without question), and copying what they do.
Nothing succeeds more than the pattern of success.
Success Mindset: Pillar III – Integration – Get Inner Alignment
Work out what your big driving force to succeed is, and what’s important for you today. Resolve any inner conflicts that you have to ensure that everything you want is aligned. Like will having success mean that you’re still loved?; or can you have success if you have an issue with money?; or will you still fit in society once you’re successful?; if you’re a spiritual person – will your success impact your spirituality?
If you unlock and unleash your vault resolving inner conflicts, then you align your life with what you really value. When all your inner beliefs are aligned, there won’t be any inner conflict, and you will take action – you won’t be able to help it – massive action will happen automatically.
Once you achieve your goal, you must then celebrate it.
Then contribute – take what you’ve learned and bring it to someone else to continue the cycle of joy and fulfilment.