Factors leading to success - How to create awareness

As defined in my second posting, awareness is the ability of a person to perceive the situations surrounding him or her. In the stated posting, I described how awareness leads to success and I promised to write about how awareness can be created.

The objective of creating awareness is to neutralize the forces holding our subconscious mind back. Awareness can be created by reading books, attending seminars about motivation and success, by associating yourself with successful people, by watching good television programs, visiting better places and neighborhoods than where you are currently living, and by having the capacity to observe situations, things and people.

Reading books about success is a good way to create awareness because of the level of personal involvement. When you start reading, you discover a different world out there. The reason for this discovery is that the textbooks we are accustomed to reading in schools are meant to teach us specific skills. No college textbooks teach how to create business, how to create jobs, or even how to thrive in a competitive job market. Talking about success or being rich in a college classroom is considered a taboo. So, you have to read good books if you desire to be successful. Reading books is the cheapest way to create awareness and obtain valuable information.     

Another way to acquire awareness is by attending seminars about inspiration and motivation. Since success is not taught in formal education, seminars are good ways to hear experienced people speak so you can start questioning certain concepts and paradigms. This will change your way of thinking. If seminars are good for training and coaching company executives, why shouldn’t they be good for you?        

You can also increase your awareness by associating yourself with successful people. By doing this, you will have the opportunity to study how they organize themselves and the level of focus they have. Many people make the mistake of surrounding themselves with people like them. You should always surround yourself with those better than you so they can push you up instead of pulling you down. Learning from people better than you is a good way to change your way of thinking.

 You can also increase your awareness by watching good television programs like interview of successful people, visiting better places and neighborhoods than where you were born, and by having the ability to observe situations, things and people. Other ways of achieving the same goal is by asking yourself the following questions:

·         why are others successful while you are not?;

·         successful people are created by the same God who created you, so don’t blame your religion;

·         successful people also have culture just as you have, so don’t put blame on your culture;

·         compare your parents background with successful people’s background;

·         in the case of highly educated people, why should other ones with similar qualification be more successful than you do?;

·         how often have you gone to public libraries to look for information?

·         think about how you can transform unorganized knowledge into an organized one;

·         some successful people also came from poor neighborhoods and unfavorable environment as you do. Find out how they did it;

·         remember that if you don’t produce, you need to buy from those who produce and make them rich while you are getting poorer;

·         remember that whether you participate or not, those who have awareness will continue making progress;

·         if you do not occupy your space, others will occupy it for you;

After meditating over the highlighted points above, you will start thinking differently. Human beings are given the power of making choices and everything you need to make that happen is readily available to you. Only act and create awareness today!

 Tell me what is holding you back from acting now.