If you were to speak to the very top business people around whether that be in the corporate or entrepreneurial environment, you would find that they would all have many different characteristics and totally differing styles and personalities. However, it is likely that they would share a few things in common. One would be the understanding and the positive mindset and understanding that no one ever truly succeeds unless they fail first. After all, as a very young child you fell over literally hundreds of times before you walked and now the vast majority of us have the capacity to complete a marathon. If you had given up after the first or second attempt at walking where would you be now? The reason that you never gave up was that no one had ever told you that failing was an option. Yet let us take a look at your life now. Too many outside factors such as peer pressure, fear of embarrassment and fear of failure have a negative affect on us.

These things and more have a huge affect on all of us, each and every day. In my role as a trainer and management consultant I come across many people with mental blocks that are stopping them achieving so much in life; mental blocks that can be removed by you now if you really want to get more out of your life. There is an old saying that states ‘if you think you can or you can’t you are right.’ If you apply the same thought process to your life now as you had when you first tried to walk, then every failure becomes just another step on the road to success.

The first step on the way to removing the fear factor, being more positive and achieving better results is to take some time out to complete the following short exercise. Once you complete it by writing down the answers I am going to ask you to take a look at your answers first thing every morning for the next two weeks. You will not have to tell me or let me know the results because I know them already: You are going to be more positive and more confident – that’s right YOU ARE going to start to achieving results more quickly and have a happier time completing tasks and you will start to succeed more often.

So what is the exercise? I would like you to take a blank piece of paper and sit down with no disturbances for a few moments and write the following heading down: “I am so lucky to have…..” . I now want you to write down all the reasons that you can think of and start each sentence with ‘I’m so lucky to have’. Complete as many as you can and then read them back to yourself - your whole attitude to life will be given an immediate energy boost. When you get up every morning for the next two weeks I want you to get that piece of paper out and read them all once again and if any more spring to mind then add to the list. Here are a few on my list:

I’m so lucky to have a supportive team around me.
I’m so lucky to have three great kids.
I’m so lucky to have a job I really enjoy.
I’m so lucky to have good health.
I’m so lucky to have learned so much from my life already.
I’m so lucky to have the ability to get more out of life every day.
I’m so lucky to have my future in my own hands.

Do your list today and you will be totally surprised and, I am sure, grateful that there is so much that makes you so lucky. By the way if you want to email or phone to tell me it worked it would be great to hear from you. Be lucky!

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