Failure is Never an Option

How might your life and home-based business change if you were certain that you couldn’t fail, if you knew that everything you attempted was guaranteed to succeed 100%? What would you do differently? What risks would you take? What jou
eys would you embark on? In short, how would your material, mental, emotional, and spiritual outlook change and how would those changes manifest themselves in your daily life and in your home-based business? Take a few moments to let this question seep in and see what answers come to you.

Having pictured your ideal life or home-based business, my next question is: What’s stopping you? Why aren’t you achieving the results you want? Where are the obstacles on your road to success?

The answer is that each of us is conditioned to expect a certain amount of success. We carry built-in limits that specify how materially wealthy we can be, how much happiness is enough, and the extent to which we can follow our dreams. Exceed those limits and a correction takes place. Imagine a thermostat set to 70 degrees. On a hot day, the temperature in the building rises to 71. Sensing the heat, the thermostat kicks in to cool things down. On a cold day, the thermostat comes on to heat the building when the temperature drops to 69 degrees. The thermostat is therefore “hunting”, or moving up and down while maintaining the average temperature.

Look back at your life and I’ll bet that you’ll see periods of extraordinary (relative to the average) periods of wealth, happiness, business profits, etc. You will also see periods of hardship, struggle, and seeming inability to make anything happen no matter how hard you try. Average these two out and you’ll probably arrive at an amazingly level average. That average is your comfort zone. Think about that comfort zone and how faithfully you’ve stuck by it and you’ll realize that you haven’t failed at all. Quite the contrary, everything you’ve done has been absolutely perfect for maintaining that safe, navigable average. Congratulations! You have been 100% true to your commitments and have reaped 100% success from those efforts.

It gets even better. Your 100% success rate with your life or home-based business to date means that you can create any kind of success you want just as successfully. That’s right: All of your trials, tribulations, and hardships mean that you can have anything you want. Hey, if a computer can execute Program A flawlessly, it stands to reason that it should execute Program B just as effectively, right? The program may be flawed, which could cause crashes and other problems, but the computer is executing that program faithfully, right down to the errors because it can’t distinguish between good and bad programming. I for one would be more than a little scared of a computer that didn’t follow its programming, even if that deviation meant avoiding an error.

Fix the programming and the computer will run it perfectly. The same analogy holds true for you. If you don’t like the life or home-based business you have, then all you need to do is change how you define success and everything else will change accordingly. Changing a definition is easy- and therein lies the problem, for this change literally is unbelievably easy. The inability to believe just how simple this change is means that actually doing it often requires months or even years.

Changing your definition of success is as easy as 1-2-3:

First, own the fact that you and you alone are responsible for your life, your home-based business, and everything in it. In this context, “responsible” literally means “able to respond”. You alone have the ability to respond to what you want in your life and home-based business. Ability is another word for power. Own your power.

Second, define exactly what you want materially, emotionally, and spiritually. The only way to get where you’re going is to know where that is.

Third, get used to the idea that there is no such thing as failure. You have achieved absolutely everything you were truly committed to. Change your commitments and you will achieve them with equal success.

How would your life and home-based business be different if you were guaranteed 100% success? It’s a trick question. They already are. The moment you commit to the success you are interested in, you’ll start receiving it. The only problems are when your interest and commitment are mismatched. Match your interest (what you want) with your commitment (what you actually do) and your success is absolutely guaranteed.