Robert Saric

Today’s post is my personal moment of Zen to you. I am a strong believer in motivational reminders, these are words that I put somewhere in my office where I can see them several times per day. These are my personal credos of success and they include affirmations that push me even harder to succeed, encourage me to perform at my peak and to never [ever] quit!

Your personal/professional credo is more of a statement of your beliefs and promises as to how you will live your life and/or conduct your business.

Each day, you can evaluate your behaviors and compare them against the standard that you have set for yourself and/or your company. If you internalize your own credos and believe in these words often enough, with conviction, your behaviour will change subconsciously to reflect this. A change in behavior will eventually lead you to a change in performance. And when you perform at your peak, you succeed. It doesn’t matter where you are in life, or what you do for a living, if you just modify the way you look at things, the way you think about things, you can and will achieve success.

My personal credos are in my wallet and on a fairly large poster I taped directly in front of my desk. Purposely unavoidable but nonetheless, encouraging. They are as follows:

1.  Believe in yourself.

The most important resource you will ever have is you.  You can always accomplish more.

2.  Visualize the “finish line”.

Always focus on the goal and not the road to get there.

3. Worrying is a useless emotion.

Just keep moving forward or fix it.

4. There is never an excuse.

Excuses are the exchange of the poor and money is the exchange of the wealthy. Money can not buy happiness and neither can excuses.

5. Make meaning with everything you do.

Collaborate, inspire and change what is needed to improve a life besides your own.

Three of my five personal success credos were inspired from Daniel Pena. Daniel Peña is a man who took his own energy corporation from an $820 investment to an incredible $400 million in market capitalization in just eight short years! Since the late Seventies, Daniel has based his life and success on 5 “basic” credos – he writes these down every month, along with his goals, and repeats them every day.

Daniel’s  five personal credos of success are:

1. Yesterday’s Dreams are Today’s Realities

Or, what you dream about today will be your reality tomorrow – if you don’t have a dream how can it come true! His personal example of this is Guthrie Castle – he dreamt of living in a castle, and visualized walking through each room, upon the grounds, in the garden – and this dream is now his reality – he lives in a 15th Century storybook castle – Guthrie Castle, Scotland!

2. Seeing Dreams Ahead

It’s important to see yourself as you want to be – where you want to be – see yourself at the “goal line” – most people get stuck on the “rocky road’ – Focus on the Goal not the Road to get there, because the “road to success” is always under construction.

3. Simulation: Practice Within When You’re Without

People regularly practice playing a sport like golf or basketball – but few people think about “practicing being successful” – Daniel had practiced meeting the Queen of England – what would he wear, how he would stand, the handshake, so when he did meet her he was comfortable – for he had practiced the moment for years. You should “practice” success before you reach your goal.

4. Act as if There are NO Limits to Your Abilities

Daneil coaches his mentees to act as if they are invincible – to act as if they could accomplish anything! Once one “acts” this way – they actually internalize the concept and start believing it themselves – one can accomplish much more than they usually ask of themselves;  always ask for more!

5. Enthusiasm: Greek God Within

Enthusiasm is from the Greek – meaning “God Within” – there is not one high performance person alive (or dead) who is not over enthusiastic about their business, their life – enthusiasm is contagious!

So now it’s your turn. What’s your credo? (Feel free to post one here, or to put it in your own blog).