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Struggling bloggers and internet marketers often fail to realize that success is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It’s really a matter of your expectations.
Another way to say it is that whatever success you decide to achieve… you will.
People sometimes confuse this reality with “positive thinking,” “confidence,” “self-esteem” and so forth.
None of these things are required for success, though.
They don’t hurt, but they’re not essential ingredients, either.
What is essential is that you decide to succeed at something, and that you believe it.
Believing Is Seeing
Wayne Dyer wrote a book called “You’ll See it When You Believe it.”
I’m not sure if he was the first to use that phrase, or the one I’ve used here that “believing is seeing.”
But I first became acquainted with this particular language through Dyer’s work.
It’s really just a sort of poetic way of rephrasing what I meant when I’d tell people that they “decide their future.”
Whatever words or phrases you like to use, the reality of goes well beyond any words we attach to it.
The underlying concept is that your really do decide what success you are capable of attaining.
You can decide to achieve very high levels of success, or you can totally undermine your ability to achieve something by deciding you’re not capable or able to.
The future is not pre-determined.
Success is not a matter of luck.
It follows lock-step in line with your decision making processes.
If you decide you will be a successful blogger, you will behave differently on a day to day basis than you will if you decide that you’ll “try” to one.
Your Own Self-fulfilling Prophecy
When you decide to succeed, the first thing you do is to tell yourself you will.
Do that long enough, and you’ll start projecting your assumptions about yourself.
In other words, you’ll start demonstrating to others that you are successful.
As you do, you become even more assured that you’re on the right track.
Now, these things can be happening on a conscious level with affirmations, self-talk, vision boards and the rest.
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More often, they are occurring on a sub-conscious level.
People prophesy their fates to themselves, as an interior conviction and belief.
Others see the strong faith they have in themselves and begin to treat them as successful people.
You see, it’s really a circle of creating the prophecy, and then fulfilling it through everything you do and say.
We all know what we mean when we talk about a “self-fulfilling prophecy.”
But it’s usually associated with doom and gloom.
Sure enough, a hypochondriac can actually and physically create illnesses.
Are they really sick, or just manifesting symptoms that are psycho-somatic?
The truth is, it doesn’t matter.
The illness is manifest.
You really can be sick, and the question of whether you caused your illness, or if something else did is only an academic discussion.
In either case, the illness is real insofar as it manifests the symptoms of the illness.
So it is with any self-fulfilling prophecy.
You may be a successful blogger, not because you’re such a great writer, but because you’re living out your own self-fulfilling prophecy… your inner conviction that you really will be a great blogger.
On the other hand, you can fail in your blogging business because you are subconsciously convinced that you cannot succeed
The Process of Success
The reason that success is a self-fulfilling prophecy, is that everything you do and say results from your decision to do or say it… Or, your decision to fail to do or say it.
All that you do as a blogger, to continue using that example, results from the processes you set up for yourself, and that you repeat over and over.
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What you think about every day is part of that process.
When you believe you are successful, you may think about things like guest posting on a huge, influential blog.
When you believe you are incapable of success, you won’t even try because “they only accept other influential bloggers” or whatever other excuse you decide to use in playing out your self-fulfilling prophecy.
What you talk about or ignore as part of the process you use in developing your blog…
Who you connect with or fail to…
What you focus on doing every day, what you dwell on in your silent, interior self-conversations and imagination…
All these processes are part of what you decide is within your range of possiblility.
They each play their role in how you enact your own self-fulfilling prophecy of success.
Decisions Determine Success
As bloggers, as internet marketers, as network marketers…
we decide every single day what to do and what not to do.
It’s not luck, it’s not an accident, it’s not some looming, detached fate.
Our daily decisions lead directly to our success or failure.
Will you post a video to YouTube each of the next 30 days to drive some traffic to your blog?
Or have you decided that you’re not very good at that?
Will you set up a system to share your blog posts to a series of social media sites, or did you hear somewhere that you’re “wasting your time” doing that?
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Will you interview an expert in your niche, or do you assume that he/she will never accept your request?
Will you blog once a week for a year, or has someone convinced you that if you can’t do a blog post every day you’ll “never make it?”
Will you sit down at the beginning of your work day and start creating something to add to your blog?
Or would you prefer to hang out on Facebook for a few minutes that turn into hours?
Might that decision be based on the little voice inside your head telling you that you can’t really succeed, so you might as well just go through the motions and than tell yourself later that you “tried?”
You see, you might fail to operate a successful blog.
But if you do, it’s because you decided, not to fail, but to do all the things that would lead to failure.
You enacted your self-fulfilling prophesy and now go around telling everyone, “see, I tried, but it just doesn’t work.”
Success Is A Self-fulfilling Prophecy
On the other hand, you can make the decision today that you will start doing the things that will result in success.
You won’t make that decision out of fear, though, you’ll make it because you really believe in yourself.
You’ll do it because you choose to surround yourself with others who really believe in you.
You’ll make the right decision because you know that when you believe you will succeed, you will.
Believing is seeing.
You will see your success when you intend, determine, pronounce, and prophesy your success.
That’s because, in truth, Success Is A Self-fulfilling Prophecy.
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Do you believe that your abilities to succeed are unlimited?
Or do you think there are reason that you just “can’t do it.”
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