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Take Time To Look At How Far You Have Come With A Victory List — Ticking your victories with drawn checked boxes

I have always suffered from a lack of self-belief and the worthiness of my accomplishments. It’s been with me ever since I can remember. I use many strategies to overpower these feelings. A major one is the creation of a victory list.

I first learned this from Jack Canfield and I want to share with you how I use a victory list and the benefits you can receive from it too. It’s like the list after creating a bucket list with all your accomplishments to date.

Unlike many lists you have to do, this one is exciting.

Here’s why and how you should do it…

Why You Should Have A Victory List?

I think it’s common to go through life and undervalue your accomplishments. Most people are caught up in their past mistakes or worrying about the future. I have too been that person. But when you brush away the negative fog that’s blocking your mind. You will find clear routes to take.

End of the day no one wants to be stuck in life by their thoughts. So the quickest way to move forward is to find a way to channel the mind and release the chemicals that make us feel good.

A victory list is just that. It allows you to remember all the times you have succeeded and embody that emotion. For me sometimes I forget I’m actually a good public speaker. When I revert back to my introverted state I somehow think I’m not a good communicator when in fact I have spoken to over a thousand people and was congratulated on how well I did. That’s a victory that can be put on the list.

Having a victory list allows you to increase your confidence and self-belief that you can achieve anything in your life.

How To Implement A Victory List

There’s a simple 3 step process I apply to get the most out of my victory list

Recall every accomplishment. When I’m writing down my accomplishments I wanted to incorporate everything in my life. Sometimes we can take for granted our childhood accomplishments of walking, reading and writing but these are major accomplishments. Even been here today on earth you have beaten between 40 million and 1.2 billion sperm cells in the race to be alive. So when your write down your victory list include everything from birth to the present.

Create your top 5. Once you have a list of all your accomplishments you can order them in any way you like. I personally but them into decades. This helps me to see them more clearly. Then I create my top 5. These are the accomplishments that I gather the most energy from. The top 5 should relight the fire inside you that you can achieve anything you set your mind to.

Keep It close to you. Keeping your victory list close to you allows you to fuel up whenever you need. Some days you might need it more than others and haveing it quick to hand is important as having fuel stops nearby when you’re driving. I have it on my phone but you can write it out and laminate it. Get creative but keep it close by.

How To Create More Victories In Life

When I looked at my victory list after its completion. I was actually proud of myself and also shocked at what I have achieved.

After all the emotions had sunk in another thought popped up. “What else can I achieve?”

This is a great question to ask because your victory list is limitless. We all have one life and getting to work on achieving all the things we want in life without fear is the way forward.

Yes Theory practice seeking discomfort. This is a powerful message. By seeking discomfort in your own life you will find achievements abound. I believe also in creating discomfort. You have the power to create your future through believing and feeling your wants into existence.

Every achievement on your victory list is there because you seeked or created discomfort in your life. Everything on your list would have been a challenge or you overcame adversity.

The victory list is the best list you have and creating the rest of your victory list will be the journey of a lifetime. Just embrace fear when you’re going after your goals.

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Prepare The Mind To Fail

In the world of personal development, there is an emphasis on positivity towards visualisation of your future and a focus on everything positive. The problem with this mindset is that it sounds amazing in the preparation stage, but when real life happens, failure is inevitable.

What kills peoples confidence and dreams is a lack of preparation for failure. I have too been focused on all the positives that will happen and ending up a week later confidence shot and wanting to quit. Your expectation vs reality is crucial for your success and expecting failure and planning for all possible problems is of importance.

Training the mind to prepare for failure is actually a positive mindset. It’s very different to expecting yourself to lose because one is your attitude you can control and the other is your environment and being a flawed human which you have little control over.

So when you are sitting down to plan your world domination. Prepare the mind to fail at some stage. This will mentally prepare you to overcome this challenge and not set you back by giving up at the first hurdle.

Prepare For The Plan To Go Wrong

Once you have prepared the mind of all the potential failures that might arise. You also have to prepare the mind that your plan and the strategy that you have created will fail at some point.

I have personally spent hours detailing plans for myself and my team’s success. Always when I set them I expect them to go to plan even though I know that something out of the blue will happen that I didn’t plan for.

That’s why with every plan you should do all the best practices to planning but always have space and flexibility for it to change. When planning now I have a part that says.

“What will I do when it all goes wrong.”

Then I write.

“I will remain calm and be excited to find new solutions to solve my problems.”

This very sentence allows me to be ok with failure and not let it trap me. Instead, it allows me to move forward and re-enter back on the correct path.

The best analogy I can think of is the yellow brick road. The plan is the route and the goal is the wizard at the end of the path. The deviations of the lion, tinman and scarecrow are the parts that are failure and problems that have occurred and when you solve these problems only then can you get back on your path to your goal.

Make Failure Your Friend

Failure for many of us is painful. It’s that painful you can even train the brain to be so comfortable it does anything it can to avoid failure. Failure is seen too much within society as a bad thing but this is not true in reality.

How many famous inventors failed before they invented something everyone needed. You must know artists paintings that have failed to then years later to be loved. How many actors failed audition after audition to become movie stars and how many business owners failed to then to become the richest men and women alive. You can probably think of one for each category.

Failure is important as it allows you to understand where you went wrong.

Train your mind to make failure your friend will be the most important decision you could ever make. When you don’t train your mind for failure, it will destroy you mentally, but it will guide you to success when you do train your mind for failure.

Failure was once my enemy and now it’s my friend.

How To Train The Mind For Failure To Succeed

Best Practices To Train The Mind For Failure

Expect it will happen
Treat it as a challnege
Plan for it to happen
Take time to understand your failure
When you fail understand your headed to the right destination just on the wrong path

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