The difference between success and failure is sometimes a wide gap and sometimes a matter of milliseconds. But there is a crucial point to be made for all successful achievers out there.

How do you measure success? Is it money in the bank? Trophies won for a special achievement? or maybe it is simply the recognition and gratitude of your peers or society as a whole that gives you the confirmation that you have accomplished something.

Whatever it may be, tracking your success along the way is the key to advancement.

An athlete has a coach that covers both the tasks of tracking success and motivating higher performance. You and I, although we may also have a coach to help us with staying on track, need to incorporate this simple step into our daily routine.

Let’s assume you wish to increase your income to a certain point but as life has it, that total income figure is made up of several sources which all vary from month to month.

You wouldn’t know if you are making progress or sliding backwards if you didn’t at least track those income streams on a regular basis and use them to adjust your strategy. Nothing seems more silly than having to bring in 5 million a year just to make sure you are left with 1 million in the end because your don’t track your cashflow.

The energy you expense to get the other 4 million can be used for other things and if you want a million, then simply put, get clear on how far you have yet to go and go do what you need to do.

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Since we are at the end of the month I thought that today would be a good time to write a post that was originally inspired by a TV commercial. Don’t worry, there is nothing for sale here, the concept the ad firm used illustrates a very important concept that I’d like to share with you.

But first let me describe the commercial so you have some background.

The first image on the screen shows a pro-surfer riding on the the famous big waves that looks at least 30 foot high if not more. He is doing a superb job and surely the male audience to which this is geared can identify that we would love to be able to do this. The caption reads: “Step 1,042″ and then it fades to the next image.

We are brought back to a different reality and see an acountant type thirty something male sitting over a bowl of healthy cereal at his kitchen table. The caption this time reads: “Step 1″

The commercial goes on for a few more seconds, but this is the gist of it.

I believe that the mjority of us that have a desire to accomplish anything in life have made this mistake. It’s the faulty thinking that we can start at the end result and go from a TV dinner and McDonald’s diet to being a Hawaii pro surfer and impress the ladies with our washboard abs instantly. Not so fast I say…

Virtually nothing that we set our mind to and wish to accomplish is out of reach, and that is the good news. However, the Internet and our society is also filled with the thinking that we can go from broke to billionaire overnight or from nobody to CEO in the same timeframe.

Here’s what those ads and society does ommitt: The period of cultivating the seed of your desire.

Have you heard the commercial that says: ” Make $50,000 from home per month, no selling, training and capital required.” Sounds great, does it not? Or we read about figures like movie stars and celebrities that seem to come out of nowhere and all of a sudden get paid 25 million dollars to do a signle movie and end up on the A-List of Hollywood.

But let’s look at what really happens in thes cases: The actor that gets the gig to be the next James Bond may be virtually unknown to pop culture, but did we acknowledge that he started with really small roles at the tender age of 5, then went to theatre school and did small scale plays before landing bigger gigs much later?

What about people like Barak Obama? A celbrated speaker and gifted politician who was working in the shadows of Chicago fro a long time before his tipping point came and he delivered a keynote address that would change his life forever. He didn’t just walk out of Harvard and into the Democratic party and get nominated to be the next presidential candidate.

We often forget the middle part that lies between forming our desire in the mind and the tipping point where the flood gates open and it is all there for us in total abundance. The length of that time period is individually different, but let me tell you that it is rarely an overnight thing.

So when you feel like you are not going forward in your dreams, may they be of becoming a millionaire or otherwise, remember that every seed takes time to grow into a big tall tree. The mental attitude you take in that time frame should be one of considering it already done and acting as if. But don’t think even for a moment that it’s not moving forward just because the end result is not in fron of you yet.

Enjoy the long weekend and I’ll see you in September with more exciting posts and a suprise for all my loyal readers.

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