This post is going to be about my “secret” to success. It will tell you how to succeed in anything whether it is affiliate marketing or creating some other kind of passive income online, learning a new language, or become in the shape of your life. In short, this works for anything.

I have to mention that this is (of course) not my own invention or anything, this is simply what I have learned by studying the life of successful people, and listening to what they say… and guess what, they all say (and do) the same thing.

Another thing that is important to say is that this is the exact same “secret” that I have used to achieve any success myself, that is above average.

One more thing that I feel I have to say to you before we start is that this “secret” is something that I was completely “unaware” of myself before, or at least I didn´t take it seriously…

I don´t judge you if you ain´t understand this yet, however, if you are serious about success, and want to accomplish something great, something above average, whatever it is, then you need to understand this and implement it in your own life right away…

You WILL see results if you do, it is just a law of nature…

The longer it takes you to understand this… Well, the longer time it will take for you to reach your desired outcomes, in whatever area in life you want to be great at.

The secret is that there is no secret

It is funny how hard it can be for us humans to understand things that in reality are very simple to understand. Or maybe we don´t want to understand, I don´t know, however.

For example,

I am in great shape, and I have been that for many years now,

I get a lot of questions from friends, and people at the gym all the time. Like “Hey John how many hours do you work out?” or “How many days per week?”

Or in my online business, I have been doing affiliate marketing for 5 years now, and some days I make more money than a normal 9-5 monthly salary…

And people ask me “Hey John, what do you do to make those amount of money online?” “What is your tactic?”

And I get the impression that they are looking for “tricks” or “secrets”!

And yeah, maybe there are tactics to use, but there are no secrets.

First of all, what may work for me may not work for you, we are different and different things (tactics) work better for different people.

However, one thing I DO… The MAIN THING I do… is that I am CONSISTENT…

and I KNOW it will work for you also, no matter the tactic you use.

You got to be consistent… You got to be consistent to be successful in ANYTHING.

Even my friends have a hard time to understand this

For example, I have many friends, and I have told them that they have to stay consistent when they tell me they want to get in great shape… and not only with their workouts but with their diet.

I always ask them, ok so what do you eat, what diet are you going to follow?

And (very rarely) they have no plan at all, they just say stuff like “I eat good”

Or they come to me and say (all proud) “John, I was eating a salad yesterday”…  Like that would mean something lol!

That means absolutely nothing!

You have to do that at least 6 days per week for months to see results from “eating your salads” in order to lose weight… 1 day is nothing and if that is how you plan to do things then I would recommend you to not do it at all, as it simply won´t lead anywhere.

How to succeed in anything

You have to do it CONSISTENTLY for a longer period of time to accomplish ANYTHING. Whatever it is, in any aspect of life. Whatever it is, fitness, business, academics… You will only get better and become successful if you put in consistent efforts… Week after week, month after month, year after year…

You simply cannot do stuff sometimes and expect amazing results. I don’t work like that.

You cannot eat clean “sometimes” and expect good results, you cannot work out sometimes… You cannot study sometimes… You cannot work on your online business sometimes… But the funny (or tragic) thing is that many people do this…

Many times I get questions from people… “John, my website doesn´t get any traffic” or “John my posts don´t rank on Google” and things like that.

I always ask the same thing, “How often do you post new content?”

And (many times) I get the answer “Well, I post now and then” or something like that…  In short, they do it whenever, or randomly…

Very rarely do I hear someone say “I do it every day” because if they did they would rank (if they use keywords of course).

Seriously… If you ain´t gonna stay consistent then do NOTHING.

I am serious, if you ain´t gonna stay consistent (in whatever area it is you want success in) then I would much rather prefer that you do nothing… than do something sporadically, and random…

You hear it all the time, right? People saying things like:

“Ooh but eating good sometimes is better than eating badly all the time”, or “working out sometimes is better than never working out”, or “publish sometimes is better than not posting at all”… 

Personally, I would say NO, it is really NOT. You are much better off, doing nothing in that case. Because the results you will get from that nonsense effort is negligible. You are much better off just staying home, or at least put that energy into something that you really can do consistently.

Sometimes is NOT good enough… I’m sorry but that is just how it is on planet earth.

I think we all realize this if we are honest with ourselves… I mean,

• What if a teacher only showed up sometimes? (the teacher would get fired)
• What if you show up to work only sometimes (You WILL get fired)
• What if you only produce results sometimes at work (You WILL be fired)
• What if a kid only showed up sometimes in school? (The kid would fail HARD in school)
• What if you only water your flowers sometimes? (They would die)
• What if the aeroplanes only took off sometimes at the airport?
• What if Burger King only had hamburgers sometimes?

Lol! You get the point, right? ?

It is like that in EVRYTHING… You have to be consistent…

That is the nr 1 rule, and as long as you aren´t consistent don´t even look for answers on why you ain´t getting your desired results…

And I don´t speak about if you have been consistent for 1 month… Because that is not enough… Not even 3 months… Come and ask me why you ain´t getting results if you have been consistent for 6 months maybe, but not before that.

How do you start to be consistent if you have never been?

It is actually a lot easier than you might think, and believe it or not, it will make you feel A LOT better as a person, and something that is a great benefit is that you will actually become A LOT more confident by doing so.

I explain more about why your confidence WILL become HUGE in this post

In short, what you do is that you make a daily to-do list (the day before) on what you are going to do, and also exactly when you are going to do your things… And then you simply follow that plan.

This is easy but yet hard for people, but guess what, it is only hard in the beginning and once you start to see results it WILL kind of become easier to stick to it if you know what I mean ?

You will start to get addicted to those results… And if you stick to this for 1 month it will become a habit, and eventually something you will not even reflect over anymore… You just do it… They say it takes 21 days to build a habit, and that might be true, however, it will become easier and easier the longer you do it.

For example, me, I HATE working out, at least 90% of the times… But I just do it… I don´t negotiate on that for NOTHING… Yes, I am serious… Because I LOVE the results… It makes me healthier, happier, stronger, more energy, great looking body,

but maybe most importantly, it builds my discipline… Because every time I go (even if I would rather stay home on the sofa) I build discipline…

And I know… (it also works the other way around) if I would start to “skip” a workout here and there… It will become easier to skip one the next time, and even more easy the next time… and so on…

Discipline is just like a muscle… You build it stronger every time you use it… However, beware that it also works the other way around… You build your “skip muscle” stronger every time you use that one also…

It is actually dangerous NOT being consistent

I strongly believe that if you just do things randomly (you will, of course, get random results) you will get depressed because you ain´t getting to where you want to be.

I actually saw a study once on how they gave mice random punishment, and those mice went crazy… They eventually just stood still or just laying down… (they got depressed)… Then they died…

Am sure you understand that they didn´t do that experiment to see how mice will react on random punishment, they did it to see how YOU will react to random.

I strongly believe this is one very strong factor to why so many people are depressed today… They are not getting the results they want… and the reason they ain´t getting the results is that they are not consistent…

Also, if you have a daily to-do list there will be very little time for you to “think too much” and become depressed from your own thoughts… You simply will have no time for that… and why would you want to have time to feel bad?

==> Read why being consistent will give you GREAT confidence <==

So please, if you really want to achieve success in ANYTHING then start being consistent. Because that is how you will succeed in anything. That is the (simple) formula to do it.

I hope you found this article helpful and please share your feedback and questions in the comment section below and I will be more than happy to answer your comments!

I wish you success!

John

Founder of: $tart Make $top Waste

Today’s post is going to be on how you can achieve goal setting success with a weird secret trick I have used with GREAT success, and I strongly believe that you can use it yourself to achieve great things faster than you might think is possible. As the “trick” or “strategy” is a bit controversial, I ask you to have an open mind. I know it might sound like Mambo Jambo, and there was a time, not many years ago when I would have laughed at this and called it Mambo Jambo myself… I don´t call it that anymore though… This is actually so effective it might be scary, so I warn you, you might just reach your goals faster than you might think by using this secret trick.

Intro – How I found this secret trick:

First of all, I am not the one who invented this trick, of course not. I have found out about it during my years of studying goal setting, and success by reading such books on self-development and self-help by high achievers and successful people. This particular secret trick I found by reading the book Maximum Achievement – By Brian Tracy.

In the book, he writes about a man, a multimillionaire, who is honestly thinking that the world is conspiring against him in a way that it will happen great things to him, each and every day… Funny thing is, that great things happen to this man all the time…

I continued to read about this man, then I found out that people had tried to copy his attitude, one who did it with HUGE success simply started every day by saying to himself “I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today” and guess what happens to him?

Before he started doing this he was unemployed, he was in debt and had legal problems… He got 2 job offers after saying this to himself every morning, within the first week (!) and his legal problems just seemed to vanish one by one miraculously.

Goal Setting Success – This is how I did!

First of all, if I have read this kind of text for let´s say, 6 years ago I would just have said it was nonsense and laughed and not even tried it. However, I now know that success is created by me and not by luck or circumstances. I create my own luck and my own circumstances. I am sure you know, or at least understand that yourself if you have read this far :o)

Anyway, this is my experience by trying this method:

I wrote the words “I believe something wonderful is going to happen for me today” on a piece of paper and put it on the wall in front of my bed, so it was the first thing I saw in the morning.

Then I started to say it to myself over and over 5-10 times.

I wrote another piece of paper with my exact goal for 3 months, it was a goal that was really a bit hard to reach in such short amount of time, but I felt deep inside that it could not be impossible. It was that I should make 100 sales of an online product, that I had made around 15 sales of… in 10 months so far…

Anyway, I put that piece of paper in front of my “workstation” where I sat and worked toward the goals from my daily to-do list, in order to reach my final goal.

1 month went by… Not many sales…

2 months went by… Not any difference in results…

2,5 months went by… The sales literally EXPLODED and I went from around 15-20 sales in the first 2 months to over 110 after 2,5 months…

I had crushed my 3-month goal before the 3 months was even finished…

I strongly felt that it was due to this secret technique and it was almost a bit scary…

I challenge you to try this!

Just imagine yourself how much easier and fun your days will be if you go around and believe that the whole universe is conspiring against you to make great things happen to you. Every event of your day will be exciting and joyful, instead of the other way around.

And I can almost promise you that if you actually believe in this yourself you will experience something (or a couple) of great things only after 3 days. If you continue, (and of course do the work required each and every day) you both can and WILL reach a goal that might seem too hard when you set it, give it 3 months, for a goal that you actually think you need 6 months to achieve and let´s see what happens.

Please come back here and tell me your results after doing this trick (if you dare) ;o)

Also read: ==>  Before you set ANY goal do THIS first!

I hope you found this short post on how to achieve your goal setting success to be helpful, and now you should have a clear understanding of how to go ahead and do this yourself. Please, if you have tried this yourself then share your experience in the comment section below. Also, if you got any questions about this then I will be more than happy to answer them below!

I wish you success!

John

Founder of:

$tart Make $top Waste

There are right ways to set goals, and there are wrong ways. Most people do it wrong, however, I believe you are one of the few who does it right, or at least knows how to do it right. If you don´t know how to do it right, then please read how to do it here.

Over the years I used to believe that success depended on luck, being at the right place at the right time, circumstances, and having the right connections, being born with a talent, and so on.

Sure those things might be true in some cases, but what I have learned, and I wish I knew this earlier in my life, is that luck is made by you, circumstances are made by you, connections are created by what you do, and talent is very overrated.

P.S.

I will not discuss the “right” way to set goals in this post, however, if you are interested in that I have gone over it in another post a couple of years ago, click here to read my post on how to set goals the right way.

Before you set ANY goal you need to see your target

Let me ask you something, How are you going to hit a target if you do not see it? Do you think it is easier to throw a basketball in the basket in a dark room or in a room with light? Stupid question, right? Yet, many people try to do exactly that when they go after their goals… No wonder they fail…

What I mean is, how are you going to accomplish something if you don´t know what it is you are trying to accomplish? If you want to be serious, you first of all have to be perfectly clear about what it is you want.

Every success I have ever achieved (in a set time frame) have only been done after I have taken the time to go through exactly what the goal will look like. And I am not alone on this, as a matter of fact, it is (of course) not my own idea or invention that this is how it is done, I have of course studied other successful people to be able to come to this conclusion.

Anyway, what is important here is that this stuff works. So please do it.

Having a clear vision of exactly what it is you want, in every aspect of your life, not only in how much you want to earn, will be a VERY strong motivational force for you and it will help you to move forward towards it faster than you might think is possible.

Believe me, it is POSSIBLE.

So please do something that very few people ever do.

Do this:

You have to decide on EXACTLY what “success” means to you. You have to decide on exactly what your life will look like once you reach your desired outcome.

How you begin to do this is by imagining that you could go back to scratch, in every situation of your life and start over.

Then ask yourself,

“If I had this decision to make today, knowing what I know now, what would I do differently?”

Do NOT compromise on your answers.

Be 100% honest with yourself!

Define your ideal desired situations before you start to come up with reasons why it isn´t possible for you… ALL great achievements begin with YOU deciding on what it is you really want.

Once you have done that, only then can you dedicate yourself to attain it (with all your heart).

Start today and then start working towards it tomorrow!

P.S.

If you don´t know exactly how to set and accomplish a goal then please read this (takes 3 minutes) and you will know EXACTLY how to do it the right way.

I wish you success!

/John

Founder of: Start Make Stop Waste

Today I want to highlight 5 habits of successful people, and show you that you can implement them into your own life in order to become a success yourself! They are not hard to understand and you will know what to do in 5 minutes from now!

Intro

You need to know that all of this habits are used by the most successful people in the world, study their lives and you will find that they all (pretty much) got this 5 habits in common. The only one they might not have in common is nr 4 on my list, I will explain why I decide to put that one there once we get to the 4th habit.

5 habits of successful people

Ok, so this 5 habits will be things you can start implementing yourself starting today and I can also guarantee you that if you do implement them and stick to them consistently over a longer period of time you will see amazing results from doing so and you will probably not only reach your goals faster than you thought was possible but you will smash them!

Ok, with that being said, let´s get right into them! :o)

1: Wake up early

Ask ANY successful person, and you will get the same answer. ALL of them wake up early. Have you tried it? There is something special about doing this, first of all, “the world is quieter” there are fewer distractions and you will have time to do a lot before “your day” starts and people and other stuff will try to interrupt you and scream for your attention.

2: Turn your phone of (minimum until noon)

Your phone is a “productivity and focus killer”. It is pretty much created to steal your attention in so many ways it is not even funny anymore… ALL successful people turn their phone off. I do it and you should do it also. Keep it turned off at least until noon so you won´t be interrupted by some text message, phone call or e-mail… Your private working time is MOST important…

3: Do the 3 MOST Important tasks first

Always do your 3 most important tasks (that will take you towards your goal the most) first. You might have more than 3 things on your daily “to-do list” but let´s make a deal with yourself that if you at least get those 3 things done your day is a success.

If you keep doing this… Your day will be a success each day… Your week will be a success each week… Your month… Your year… Your life.

4: Workout and exercise

The truth might be that most will say meditation here but I never liked that so I will just say workout here… Sure, you can meditate if you want, or why not just take 15 min or a half hour to relax?

However, the reason I like working out so much is that it is physically challenging… and every time you do it (even if you rather would sit home and chill/meditate) you also build your discipline… It will get stronger each and every time you go and workout… Just like your muscles…

Discipline is: Doing things that you should… No matter if you feel like it or not… Do you understand where I am going here?

5: Plan Your Day The Night Before

This is very important and also something that you will find that ALL successful people do… You do NOT want to start your day off by thinking about what you should start your day with, right?

That would be a HUGE waste of time.

Instead, you can jump right into your tasks in the morning as you know exactly what needs to be done!

Conclusion

Ok, there you go! I tried to give it to you straight without any confusing bla bla bla… and just give it to you straight, as I like to get things told to myself that way. Please if you aren´t already doing this 5 things above then PLEASE start doing them now and I guarantee you that you will see a dramatic increase in your productivity and in your own success, whatever it is you are trying to accomplish!

I Hope you found this short post on the 5 habits of successful people to be helpful and interesting. Please share your experience if you have tried any (or all) of these habits. Also, if you got any questions I would be more than happy to answer them below!

I wish you success!

John

Founder of: $tart Make $top Waste