Here are 7 steps to claim your power and create the success you want.

Whether you realize it or not, you are a magnificent creator. Your entire life is your creation. Do you know anyone else with a life exactly like yours? While you may not have the life you desire, you were powerful at creating the life you have…including your business.

What this suggests is that you have the power to create a new life for yourself and a highly successful business – and do it positively.

Recognize your power! Claim it! And use it to forge the life and business success you want!

Follow these 7 steps to effectively use your power to change:

1. Take full responsibility. The first step is to take full responsibility for all the good and challenging things in your life.

If you believe that you created them, it’s easier to believe that you can change them. Even if some of the things you wish to change aren’t really your ‘fault’, it is still 100% your responsibility to change them. Who else is going to do it?

Taking full responsibility is critical if you want to create success in your business and life.

2. Look at your past successes. Notice all of the good things you’ve accomplished in the past and how you brought them to fruition. Acknowledge the influence and the power you had in your successes.

3. Look at your past ‘failures.’ Notice the influence you had on things that may not have turned out the way you wanted. Maybe you inadvertently created a challenge or didn’t take positive action. Take responsibility for your part in the unfavorable result.

Learn to view failing as a positive (albeit not so pleasant) outcome. What have you learned from past ‘failures’ that can help you eventually succeed in your endeavors?

4. Set inspiring goals. Many people live like a feather blowing in the wind, never having a true direction. It’s important to choose your destination. Leaving things to luck and chance is choosing not to use your power at all (and having goals that don’t inspire you is no better).

Consider that a sandcastle never spontaneously rises from the beach. You have to intentionally build a sandcastle for it to materialize. Luck and chance will never get the job done reliably.

5. Reinforce your goals. Each day, review your goals, dreams and aspirations and imagine how you’ll feel when you accomplish them. Focus on your priority rather than all the other minutiae around you.

For example, you might want to create a seven-figure business but you don’t want to learn what you need to in order to create that. You focus on the dream and then immediately get into overwhelm about how to have it happen. So your vibrations and energy are all over the board. Pretty soon, you’re contradicting yourself and it all gets the same low priority.

Reinforce your goals daily, and they’ll become a priority over all the other noise in your head.

6. Measure your progress. It’s important to constantly measure where you are against your goals. If possible, measure every day.

If you want to make more money, how much money did you make today?

You can’t make the proper adjustments if you’re unaware of your progress. In other words, don’t expect what you don’t inspect!

7. Take a step closer to your goal each day, even if it’s a baby step. Every day, do something to move forward toward the success you want. Baby steps lead to avalanches!

Ask yourself, “What did I do today to create the success I desire?”

Do you see how you’ve been using your power all along, but perhaps not for what you really want? And you will continue to use that power, whether or not you realize it.

The real question is: will you choose what you’re going to create?

The alternative is to rely on luck and circumstance. Life is short, so claim your power to create the success you want to experience in your business and your life. Set a few goals that will change your life and use these steps to have them happen.

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