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    Handbook of Success: How to Make your Life What you Want it to Be
    Handbook of Success: How to Make your Life What you Want it to Be
    Handbook of Success: How to Make your Life What you Want it to Be
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    Handbook of Success: How to Make your Life What you Want it to Be

    By Mikael Olsson

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    A Concise Handbook in Personal Development
    The Handbook of Success is a concise manual on finding success, happiness and quality of life. It contains a wealth of knowledge and wisdom on how to improve your life and make it into what you want it to be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMikael Olsson
    Release dateNov 3, 2011
    ISBN9781465861252
    Handbook of Success: How to Make your Life What you Want it to Be
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    Mikael Olsson

    Mikael Olsson is a professional programmer, author and web entrepreneur. He enjoys teaching, writing books and making sites that summarize various fields of interest. The books he writes are focused on teaching their subject in the most efficient way possible, by explaining only what is relevant and practical without any unnecessary repetition or theory. He can be reached online at Siforia.com.

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      It es necessary to give more data about changing habits. It es en excellent book.

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    Handbook of Success - Mikael Olsson

    Handbook of Success

    How to Make your Life What you Want it to Be

    By Mikael Olsson

    Copyright © 2011 Siforia

    First Smashwords Edition – November 2011

    www.siforia.com

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    Notice of Rights

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Notice of Liability

    The author has made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information herein. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. The author will not be held liable for any damages caused either directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book.

    Table of Contents

    About

    Success

    Goal Setting

    Time Management

    Health and Energy

    Wealth Building

    Growth

    Accelerated Learning

    Speed Reading

    Genius

    Emotional Management

    Happiness

    Beliefs

    Self-image

    Fear

    Motivation

    Mental Programming

    Habits

    About the Author

    About

    This book is an instruction manual on finding success, happiness and quality of life. It contains what I consider to be the most important wisdom from more than one hundred of the most influential personal development books of our time.

    In creating this book I have judged each idea based on results and results alone. Ideas that anyone can use to immediately improve their life. The material has been kept as simple and practical as possible to make it easy to understand and use.

    As you read this book, be aware of how you could apply the ideas in your own life right away. The longer you wait to take action on a new idea, the less likely it is that you will ever take action on it at all. Keep rereading this book until you internalize and apply the strategies, and you will set yourself up for a lifetime of increased success in every area of your life.

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    Success

    Success is making your life what you want it to be.

    Throughout history brilliant people have searched for answers to the question: why are some people more successful than others? Why do some people have greater health, more happiness, better relationships, make more money and get more fulfillment out of life than others do? Today we have the answers to these questions, which I will share with you throughout this book.

    Definition of Success

    Success can be divided into five separate categories: physical health, emotional health, relationships, finances and growth. Everything we want in life can be placed under one of these categories, and they are all equally important ingredients for a well-rounded life.

    1. Physical health – High levels of health and energy. Freedom from sickness and physical pain.

    2. Emotional health – Happiness, peace of mind and a high resilience against negative emotions.

    3. Relationships – Getting along well with friends, family and people in general.

    4. Finances – Enough money so that we are not worried or preoccupied with money.

    5. Growth – Personal growth towards the fulfillment of our full potential.

    Success comes from consistently increasing the quality of our lives in each of these areas. You must therefore become a master in all of them. We are not satisfied long-term by getting what we want or by reaching our goals. The only time that we feel truly fulfilled is when we know that we are improving each and every day.

    Take a moment right now to think about your own feeling of success in each area – not compared to others, but for yourself only. If you are satisfied in an area it means you only need to maintain your current strategy of improvement, and if you are not that suggests that it is time to find and apply a new strategy. A deficiency in any one of these categories will negatively affect all the others, while your success in anyone will improve your overall quality of life. The purpose of this book is not only to bring up your level of fulfillment for each of these areas, but also to help you maintain it.

    Goal Setting

    Success is the progressive realization of a worthwhile goal. – Earl Nightingale

    The ability to set goals and to make plans to achieve them is the one essential skill of success. In fact, becoming a continuous goal setter will contribute to your success more than anything else you could ever do. An average person can achieve more than even the most brilliant genius, if that average person has clear written goals and the genius does not. Still, less than 3% have goals in writing and less than 1% review their goals regularly.

    The very best way to predict the future is to create it. Goals allow you to decide how your life will change, making sure that the change is in the direction you want. The reason why people with goals succeed is because they know where they are going. It is as simple as that. When you create a vision of something you want in your life you will suddenly begin to notice the distinctions between where you are and where you want to be. You will become aware and alert to opportunities in your environment that can be resources for you to achieve the goal and you will get creative ideas and inspiration to take action towards it.

    Ambition

    A high level of ambition is a hallmark of all successful people. This means that you should set goals that are beyond your current ability and skill, yet still believable. You grow as a person from the demands you place on yourself, so always demand more from yourself than anyone else does. What is possible for you today comes from your past experiences, and if you limit yourself based on the past you will not go any further.

    Set ambitious goals and continually work to surpass them. Your goals only specify the minimum results you will accept, not the maximum. Ambitious goals push you into action and even if you do not achieve every one of them, you will still go farther than if you had settled for goals that were too easy. Find goals grand enough to challenge you. Goals that will push you forward and let you discover what you are capable of. There are no limits to what you can accomplish. The only limits are those that you place on yourself. Do not let the limitations of others be your limitations.

    Big goals will motivate and inspire you far more than less challenging goals. Most people settle for far less than they are capable of and get stuck in a comfort zone. The way to get out of the comfort zone is through continuous goal setting – to continually stretch yourself, always striving for something more. The more ambitious your goals are and the stronger your desire for them is, the more motivated you will be to make yourself do what you need to do to get where you want to go.

    How badly you want your goals will more than anything else determine whether you achieve them or not. You can have virtually anything you want in life if you know exactly what it is you want and you are prepared to do the tasks necessary to achieve it. The requirement is only that you do the tasks in advance and that you do all of them. To tell that the tasks have been completed is easy, because when they are the success will be there in front of you for all to see.

    Choosing your Goals

    Brainstorm at least 10 goals that you personally want to accomplish and organize them by priority. Write them all down with at least one for each of these major life areas:

    • Health, fitness and physical goals.

    • Emotional and spiritual goals.

    • Financial, business and career goals.

    • Family, social and contribution goals.

    • Material, leisure and experience goals.

    • Personal and professional development goals.

    To clarify what you really want to be, have and do in life, you can project yourself forward 5 years into the future and imagine that all of your dreams have come true. What does it look like for each area? What kind of lifestyle do you have? Where do you live? Who are there with you? Another powerful way to find your goals is to consider how you would spend your time if you had only 6 months left to live. What if you only had 6 weeks, 6 days or 6 hours left? Finally, what would you do if you found out that you had only 60 minutes left to live?

    The Five Steps to Goal Achievement

    When you are done deciding upon your goals, here are five steps for achieving them at the fastest possible pace.

    1. Define

    A real goal is specific, measurable, time-bound and in writing. Once you have decided upon a goal the first step is to define it clearly, exactly as you want it accomplished. The more specific and concrete you are, the better. The second step is to make sure your goal is measurable. How much do you want and by when? Set the criteria for achieving it so you can measure your progress towards it. The third step is to decide on the exact date when you will have the goal achieved. Give yourself a realistic, but challenging deadline. Without one you will procrastinate and put things off. A deadline will motivate

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