A FIRM BELIEF IN AND VISION OF YOUR OWN SUCCESS: The most effective way to do this is by programming a message of success in your subconscious mind.  Sound too "woo-woo" or "new age" for you?  Get over it.  We're talking about a simple process that has been used by high achievers for thousands of years.  Sometimes it's called creative visualization, sometimes other things.  But know this: People who have achieved great things, including famous sports stars, world leaders and even presidents of huge corporations, have used this technique with amazing results.

All you have to do is create a vision of what your success looks like once you have achieved it.  Then write it down, and read your vision or goal achievement statement aloud twice a day.  For best results, your vision statement needs to be framed AS IF it has already happened.  The key elements of your vision statement are the date, the setting, specific outcomes or goals, and your feelings, both emotional and physical.  If you're a bowler for example, and you wanted to bowl a perfect game, you would imagine how it felt to hold the ball, what the lane looked like, and then how your wind up and approach felt, along with the elation of bowling a strike.

Get the picture?  In order to form a clear vision, use these questions as a guide: What day is it?  What time is it?  Where are you?  What are you doing?  What specific goals did you reach?  What happened as a result of reaching those goals?  How do you feel?