Are you frustrated with your situation? Disappointed with your results from work? Feeling out of sorts? Do your goals feel out of reach?

The good news is that you likely have everything you need to turn it around. The first place to start? Change your attitude.

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This may sound strange. When life feels off track, we all are likely to look for a reason outside of ourselves. When we don't like our bank balance, it must be because of the economy, our boss, customers, taxes, or inflation. Or if our health and fitness is off-track, it's due to our schedules, the holidays, food prices, or how hard it is to get to the gym.

We just keep coming up with how it's someone else's fault we aren't living up to our goals, but that's never going to help us succeed.

What happens to us, happens to just about everybody and yet many find success despite those same challenges.

That's why, fixing our attitude is the right place and really the only place to start.

Let's look at what other leaders have to say on how to get this right:

1. To have more, you must become more

Jim Rohn described this need simply. If you want to improve your life, you must change your philosophy. Everything you believe and every aspect of how you view yourself and the world has gotten you to your present moment in life.

If you aren't satisfied with that, your philosophy, your attitude, your view of the world must change in order to embrace new opportunities, take new actions, and achieve new results.

• Let go of excuses. They don't serve you
• Take ownership of your current and future situations
• Be gentle with yourself. This is not about regret, but renewal

When I talk about these topics, I often hear from people who say, "sure, that might be easy for you, but you don't know how hard I've had it."

I'm not suggesting this fair, but only that there's no other way to move forward except by shedding the excuses. They are only going to keep you from making progress.

Don't give those bad experiences power over your life.

2. Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right

Henry Ford famously made that quip about self-confidence and it teaches something to use today. We must have confidence in ourselves first in order to achieve.

When we allow external reasons to block our path, we have failed before we've even gotten started.

Brian Tracy suggests there are two powerful ways to bolster our confidence in our plans to reach our goals:

• We have previously achieved this goal and can do it again
• Someone else has achieved this goal and we can see it can be done

Believe in yourself or borrow a little self-confidence from the success of others. Either way, don't get blocked by doubt.

3. Start with why

As Simon Sinek highlighted in his book, Start with Why, massive success comes when emotion backs action. This happens when we align our goals with our fundamental personal motivation.

Everyone has a deep-seated purpose in their lives, but only rare individuals take the time to reflect, define, and focus on that purpose. Find your why and massively accelerate your success.

• What do you value?
• What motivates you to action?
• What values are essential to you?

Focus on your driving causes or beliefs that are most meaningful to you. You will struggle if those don't align with your goals and plans.

4. We do not attract that which we want, but that which we are

James Allen, wrote that sentiment in his classic, As a Man Thinketh. The world doesn't provide what we desire or even what we need. It only provides what we deserve.

This is why it's so critical for us to do the necessary work, to keep commitments, and build positive, healthy habits.

• First we must put in the work
• Only then we can reap the rewards
• It simply isn't possible to do it any other way

5. Your actions come from your identity

As Benjamin Hardy, wrote in Be Your Future Self Now:

"When your identity is rooted in current commitments, rather than your future self, your actions are weak and unaligned with your goal. The only way to realize your future self is to be your future self now.”

• Our minds only allow us to succeed when we believe ourselves to be the kind of person who accomplishes goals like those
• Don't let your current actions define you if you don't like your current condition
• Elevate your self view in order to elevate your results

You must first start acting and seeing yourself as a person who has fully achieved your goals and only then will you start seeing the results of that commitment.

Action Summary

It many not seem obvious at first, but if your results aren't good, the first place to check is your attitude. It might be time to reset and take command of your philosophy. What hasn't served you, discard. And, whatever you've been missing, build up.

• Drop your excuses and take ownership of where you are today
• Focus on the "why" behind your latest goals. Is that motivating enough to keep you powering though the toughest challenges?
• Resolve to build the skills in advance to become the kind of person who succeeds in reaching goals like these.
• First, become the person you wish to be in your thoughts and let that perspective drive your actions

Nothing much can be achieved if your attitude won't support it. Refresh your philosophy and watch the impact it can have on your life.

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To your success,

Christopher

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