Have you ever had the experience that you know what to do but for whatever reason you still didn’t do it?

Have you ever started projects, even gotten them to 80% complete and then got distracted and not finished them?

I know I have, recently I have found myself staring at the computer screen doing everything I can from doing actual productive work.

Have you ever felt like this before? I know this is not the first time for me and probably won’t be the last, however at least I now I have (and so do you) a solution or a different strategy to help get back on track to the fulfilment of your desires.

After thinking about this for a while, (yes more procrastination) I realized it is really a focus issue, I was more focused on the actions I needed to take rather than the results I am looking to achieve from taking the action.

I was too focused on the task at hand which as enjoyable as it may be, the action is never as exciting as the end result. After all you don’t really want to rank videos in the search engines; you want the affiliate sales that will come from getting your video ranked in the search engines. (For example)

So my question to you is what are you focused on? The action you need to take or the results you desire?

This is just a small shift however a very powerful one.

What I also like about this distinction is that is in alignment with the teachings of law of attraction. By focusing on the end result and not so much the action you are taking you are in a mind state of positively expectation and not hung up or emotional attached to a specific action which may or may not bring you the goals you desire.

I don’t want to get all spiritual and quantum mechanics on you, and there are many ways to address this issue I described at the start of this post however to just keep it simple and break it down to what it really is, which is – what are you focused? Your actions or results?

The results you get are based on what you focus on and the meaning you attach to it in any given moment

If you are focused on actions the meaning you will associate is different and not as empowering I would imagine as if you focus on the end results you desire and the reason why you are taking that action in the first place.

To help me, I have this saying stuck on my mirror.

By being focused on why you are doing a certain action – the result you are looking to achieve you will be more motivated and driven to follow through with that action and live experience the results you dream of.

For as long as I can remember I have been a seeker for knowledge, exploring, reading books, going though courses, etc.

I really just like to know how things work and how people get certain results. Heck when I was around 5 years old or so I took apart my pram and put it back together, just to see how it all worked. (Should have seen the look on my mum’s face when she saw the pram all in pieces )

One question that I have been determined to unlock like many other people is the combination to financial success and fulfilling happiness.

Unlocking Success

As I started reading personal development books and studying successful people I have noticed some commonalities such as: Success is not held only for a select group or a certain type of person, basically anyone can become successful in any area they desire when they direct their focus on the right things and do these things in a certain way.

Almost every success book or successful person I have read or studied all talk about mind set and how you think and another commonality or distinction is that successful people do little things over and over again until the compound effect kicks in.

They have a bunch of success habits that they do on a consistent and persistent basis that are usually very subtle but make a massive difference in their lives.

Many of these success habits are easy to do, yet they are just as easy not to do which is often why many people don’t do them or simply dismiss how powerful these little actions can be.

Successful Habits

It doesn’t matter if you want to improve your health, lose weight, earn more money, have better relationships, get more traffic to your website, or anything else you desire if you study the people who are successful in these areas or already have the result you desire you will find that they all do certain yet often very subtle actions on a consistent basis.

These actions and habits are very subtle because these habits won’t make your successful over night, just the same by not doing them won’t make your a failure over night. This is why many people simply over look them or dismisses them.

Think for a moment that there are two people, one doing the small success actions perhaps like reading 10 pages of the good book every day, or meditating for 30 minutes every day, or visualising their ideal end results for 15 minutes every day, which are all easy to do.

For a while it may seem like there no differences between these two people, and it would be easy to say or think that it is not making any difference, so why take the consistent action or make it easy to dismiss it and say that it doesn’t work.

Yet over time the difference between these two people in 1, 5, 10, 20 years time their lives would be on completely different paths.

It is the little things that make the big difference

This is the same when it comes to the Law of Attraction, I heard that millions of people all over the world have seen the movie The Secret and been exposed to the law of attraction.

Almost every teacher of the law of attraction talk about writing down what you are grateful for every day, visualise on your end results every day and write down your goals or ideal day every day, amongst other things.

Most people get excited and start out doing this and then after a week or a month or so they stop, they go back to their old habits that have gotten them the results they are getting and say that this law of attraction stuff doesn’t work, really? I hope you see the clues here.

Again success and failure rarely if ever happen overnight it takes time.

Here is a great audio track from Jeff Olson author of the Slight Edge about the power of success habits and the subtle actions that lead to success.

Make sure to leave a comment and tell me what success habits you are going to commit to or have been doing that have brought you great results in your life.