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6.2 The Seven Success Steps
The truth is that you can be anything that you want to be—but you
do have to work at it.
1) The first step is to have the courage to dream.
2) The second step is to make an intention (even if you don’t have
a clue on how to start).
3) The third step is to choose a role-model. Who is already doing
what you want to do? Who is already the consummate actor, the
best-selling writer, the charismatic businessman, the internet
marketing millionaire, or the great humanitarian? Whatever you
want to be—there is someone who is already an expert at it.
4) The fourth step is to study all you can about that particular
person and that particular field of endeavour. You need
knowledge…lots of it…you need to enter the arena mentally at
first.
5) The fifth step is to emulate your role model. Adopt that person’s
habits and skills from your reading or even from your actual
relationship with that person. Do what they do to have what
they have—and when you do this, you’ll be like or better than
them.
6) The sixth step is to continue to study and practice. It’s one thing
to have the knowledge and to see how it is expressed in the form
of someone doing what you want to do—and it is another to
have it so deeply rooted into your subconscious mind that it
seems like second nature.
7) And the seventh step is to persist. Obstacles will arise.
Challenges will have to be faced. And you will have to work on
your own disbelief that something extraordinary is possible for
you; but if you persist long enough, you’ll learn from your
mistakes and become the person you really want to be, and do
the things that you really want to do, and have the things that
you really want to have.

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