How much do you believe your attitude affects your success?

[Mark Ferguson]

I am a huge believer that our attitude and mindset helps us succeed. Think and Grow Rich is one of my all time favorite books and I am re-reading it right now. I was curious how many of you think your mindset and attitude are a big part of your success or non success (I don't like the word failure)? 

Over the last year I had a lot of success, but I didn't hit many of my goals. This is not always a bad thing when you have huge massive goals, but I also think I could have done much better. Here is my plan for the next year to change things, especially my mindset.  

1. Last year I got away from doing a daily routine. I used to meditate every night, write in a grateful journal, plan my next day and visualize my future success. I did this almost every night without fail. I went to bed relaxed, thinking about my goals and thinking about future success. In 2015 I stopped doing this as much. Some times I would go a week or two. I figured with 4 year old twins and everything else going on I didn't have to do it every night. The last the few months I have gone back to a daily routine and already seen better results. 

2. Goal setting. I am a huge believer in big goals. I have my goal to purchase 100 rentals by 2023 and I had  a goal to buy a Lamborghini in 2014 which I did! I continue to make new and big goals all year round. It helps to have a blog where I publish my goals to keep me accountable. part of my daily routine was reviewing my big goals every night. I got away from that a little as well. It did help that I was able to publish a four part series on my goals during the year for Realtor Magazine, but I need to do better on my own!

3. Being positive. Yes, I am a huge believer in being positive. There is too much negativity in this world or at least perceived negativity from the media. I try to be as happy as I can every day. It is not easy, but it sure makes me feel better when I can do that. It makes my family happier, which makes people they interact with happier and so on. It also makes me more successful, because I know no matter how grim things may be it will all work out in the end if I keep at it. 

Thoughts? How many of you are doing similar things?

[Elizabeth Colegrove]

My biggest key to success is that failure/giving up is not an option. Sure I scratch things that don't work. Put myself out and try new thing and reaccess and redo when they don't work but I don't fail. I think a lot of this is training as a military wife. My husband completed a 10 month deployment from 2014-2015 and a lot of things happened. The thing was I couldn't once through a tantrum and say I am done, I want him home NOW. That didn't mean I didn't go ask for help, have some cookies, it meant that I didn't throw the towel. That I think is what has made me successful.

My second biggest key is that my husband and I have a joint goal. Our goal is to be able to early retire at 44 and 42 (which is what I don't give up working towards as discussed in 1) and sail around the world. The eye on this prize has allowed us to stay focus and turn every crazy or lemon situation into lemonaid.