3 reasons why Steve Jobs (Apple Computers) is this a success

Apple Computers legend, Steve Jobs, had a difficult start in life — he was put up for adoption at an early age, dropped out of school after 6 months and returned Coke bottles for 5 cents deposits to buy food.  Despite all that, he went on to start Apple Computers and Pixar Animation Studios, and is now one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time.  So how does he do it?

Small Manageable steps

As my customers know, is the key to successful break sometimes overwhelming tasks in bite sized pieces so that the tasks manageable and easy to action.  For that reason I examines three of Steve's rules today that I believe are critical for the first time, consider:-

1. do what you love to do

Steve says "search your true passion.  Do what you love to do and make a difference!  The only way to great work to do is to love what you do ... "

I couldn't agree more!  A work that you don't like is like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole ... you slog your guts out at work every day, but never really seem to achieve the success that you feel you deserve, and every day is a stroke-or at least one obstacle to overcome – because it's all about getting through the day and getting home at night, rather than enjoying the moment.

When you're focusing on trying to get the day job, or spending time on the projects or tasks that are uninteresting, create the task at hand is much more difficult for yourself.  When the passion is there, and you love what you do, you become more productive, energetic and fun to be around.  Which scenario you think would lead to success in the quickest and easiest way?  As they say, it's not rocket science.

So first things first, if you want to be really successful in life, it is important to take time and effort in realizing what you love to do, and then finding a strategy to achieve this.  This sounds simple, but not necessarily simple-you must be willing to do some true Tong and find out what passion is really up to you, instead of what you think your colleagues, family, friends or society expect.  Just because your parents you a top lawyer or accountant, does not mean that that's where success and passion in front of you.

2. Start Small, Think Big

Steve says "don't worry about too many things at once.  Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones.  Thinking about tomorrow, but not only the future. "

Overwhelm you literally in your tracks.  It's a nasty epidemic that crashes of many people on their journey to success, so it's important to stay focused at all times.  Overwhelm creeps in when we take our eye off the ball and a host of other things to flooding in our conscious mind.  A moment that you are focusing on a mission critical task thats going to accelerate your success, and then the next minute you're thinking about a hundred other things that you need to do-hey presto, is stunning!

As I said, if you have the larger tasks into smaller, manageable pieces that will break you allow yourself to experience success after success, as you achieve each of the smaller tasks.  This in turn will build momentum and motivation, and will also allow you to progress to more complex tasks if you rely on to build and eliminate overwhelm.

3. Be Entrepreneurial

Steve says "look for the next big thing.  Find a number of ideas which must act quickly and decisively followed up and jumping through that window.  The first step is sometimes the most difficult.   Take it!  Have the courage to your heart and intuition to follow. "

All too often I come across wonderfully smart and intelligent people who have a great idea or business opportunities, but they are not willing to take the "jump" that Steve is talking about.  What tends to happen in these scenarios is that they know what they want, but they are not how they are going to get it figured out, so that they stop and not forward.

It is important that a plan or strategy to implement your ideas, it is also essential that you don't allow yourself to be as strong focusing on how you are going to achieve your goals you literally come to a standstill.  Sometimes you WON'T know all the answers, and that's fine — just keep moving forward one step at a time and eventually all details that you need will unfold.  By silent, that is if you're going to get.

Jim Rowland once said "discipline weighs grams; Sorry weighs tons ". Have the discipline and courage to keep taking baby step after baby step forward, and you'll never regret it of the progress you books.

Stayed tuned for my next distribution of Steve's requirements to success, and in the meantime, don't forget to register for the success of rules example Teleseminar by clicking my details below.

Written by Faye Hollands, Chief success coach on the success of rules and surpass consulting. Faye specializes in working with entrepreneurs, business owners and ambitious professionals who want to achieve significant success in the quickest, easiest and most economical way possible.

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3 more reasons why Steve Jobs (Apple Computers) is this a success

I had a great response to last week's article on Steve Jobs ' (Apple Computers) rules for success, so I'm going to share with you 3 more of his top tips so that you can continue to accelerate your personal and professional success by learning from the Apple legend! (Check out my list of articles if you missed the beginning of this series)

Small consistent steps

1. Be different

Steve says "Be Different. Think different. Better be a pirate than join the Navy "

I love this because both the "Marine" and the "pirate" resonate with me! I have 14 years in the corporate world (not to mention a stint in the reserve army!) but I "escaped" setting surpass consulting and the rules for success. Now neither scenario is better than the other, but I think the main point to think about here belongs to which you want to be.

If we lived in a world where everything was constantly changing would we feel in a State of chaos.

However, as a successful entrepreneur as Steve Jobs, it is necessary that you keep challenging the status quo, looking for new ideas, innovative and creative. After what has been done before you is more likely to result in "the same" instead of something cutting-edge and new.

Do you want the challenge and the modification, or would you consistency? Be honest with yourself, because not everyone is created for the Navy, and not everyone wants a good pirate!

2. do your best

Steve says "do your best on every job. Success generates more success. So are hungry for the "

This is such a critical point, that I cover thoroughly in the rules for success. If you get stuck thinking about how to be successful, or wait for it to happen, that's exactly where you are staying. And frankly, are not yet indicate you are hungry enough to actually want to be successful.

You want to get on with the job, and get the wheels of the motion move because every little taste of success that you experience-no matter how small-help will generate more and more success. As the momentum builds, your level of performance, which in turn even more dynamism and motivation builds. It is the snowball effect at its best, but you want to hunger to achieve your goal and willing to get to experience the move.

3. learn constantly

Steve says "there's always" one more thing "to learn! Cross-crazy taxi ideas with others, learn from customers, competitors and partners. If you partner with someone you don't like it, teach them-like to commend them and take advantage of them. "

If you don't grow, your die. This can be a hard statement to swallow, but there is no middle ground here-you are either develop, learn and grow, or you're wasting away and die. So who would you be?

Steve Jobs has clearly the right balance-he didn't get where he is today by sitting back and what he already knows. He continually create and innovate, which comes only from continuing education.

By building an effective network you can learn of intelligent people who challenge of your way of thinking and help you develop new ideas and strategies to achieve success. Education is all about money-you can develop each day by the recognition of the strengths of those around you, or by picking up a book instead of the plonking itself in front of the TV. The choice is yours.

Written by Faye Hollands, head coach on the success of rules and surpass consulting. Faye specializes in working with entrepreneurs, business owners and ambitious professionals who want to achieve significant success in the quickest, easiest and most economical way possible.

Currently you are only one click away from discovering the rules for success proven secrets to accelerate your personal and professional success. Click on the following link and you'll also get free VIP registration for the rules for success teleseminar preview http://www.thesuccessrules.com/previewcall.html training-

You can also get your free download of the audio on "How To actually achieve your goals this year" by clicking on http://www.outshineconsulting.com

You can contact: Faye fayehollands@outshineconsulting.com on or call + 61 2 9571 1684

Causation and the Endless Search for Reasons

Stop looking for causation and start changing behavior. That’s what I tell people these days. Modern trends in psychology point toward identifying irrational thinking rather than emotional catharsis. Trying to pin down causation is a difficult and often pointless task when the real issue is distorted thinking. Who really cares why you think that way? Most of us would rather just identify the error and correct it.

Old school psychology loves to ask the question “why”. In my line of work, dealing with criminal types, I can’t use this “why” based focus. It encourages the criminal to blame someone other than themselves for their poor choices and criminal behavior. Rather than trying to get the criminal to cry, morn, or place blame on past experiences with mom, dad, the church, a friend or a trauma, I focus on their present behavior and present thinking errors.

Change the thinking and you change the behavior. In regard to our emotions, they follow our thinking, not the other way around. So, if you want to feel better… change the thinking. Do you get the picture?

It’s especially true that criminal personalities do not benefit from placing blame. It’s actually counter productive and they will use it as justification for their behavior and/or minimize their responsibility for their criminal actions past, present and future. We are all accountable for our actions as adults no matter what was done to us, or not done for us.

Early on in my counseling experience, I treated a multiple personality client, now called Dissociative Identity Disorder. I spent a lot of fascinating time chasing causes. Her father was probably a bad man, but the problem was that her memory was severely compromised and the facts were impossible to corroborate. Eventually I had to stop trying to determine how she got these thoughts and who did what, and simply work on changing current behavior by identifying the current distorted thinking.

Identifying false guilt, shame or false responsibility is a natural by-product of addressing distorted beliefs or irrational thinking. Where it came from is ultimately inconsequential to changing behavior. We older folks forget so much as we age and young children often have distorted recall and the average person’s memory changes so much that we can never know exactly when, or where the erroneous thinking started. It’s enough to know that it did and it’s enough to know that we can change without going back and digging in the past.

People seem to have a love relationship with trying to identify why they do what they do, or did what they did. It’s as if this knowledge will lessen their culpability, or reveal some inner emotional need yet unmet. Oh come now, do we really need this? If you ask me, no, but don’t tell practitioners of some of those really groovy psychological orientations that want you to look at your family of origin. That may be fun if you have lots of time and money, but for most of us real world people, we just want to change behavior and increase our happiness and success in life, not emote over the past.

Those countless pop psychology books, which once seemed so chic, are now fodder for Goodwill stores in every state of our illustrious union. They were fads, which made someone a paycheck, but the long-term benefit is highly suspect. If you want comfort, or feel like emoting, go talk to a caring friend. It is way cheaper, and personally I think it’s much more satisfying. If you really want to improve your life, change self-destructive or self-defeating behavior then its time to identify distorted thinking which leads to inaccurate emotions and ultimately wrong behavior. It’s time to apply some good old… err newer, cognitive behavioral psychology.

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