8 Principles Of Success

Here are the 8 principles:

Principle 1 - Action
Without action, nothing can be created. Action is the driving force behind all things, to eat you need to act, to breath you need to act, to love you need to act, to be successful you need to act.
If you think working hard is working for the man 9-5 and having weekends off for 45 years, think again, working hard is working 9-5 in your job,then doing 8 hours a day on top of that plus the weekends to build your business 5-10 years and have the choice to retire if you choose to. This is what action and hard work do.

Principle 2 - End Results
Can you imagine what the world would be like if there were no dreams, no end results people worked for? We would have no growth. In fact, we'd have stagnation and regression. Knowing your end result is all about having a vision, a destination that you have in your mind, and are continually working towards. Many of today's successes started out as visionaries, starting out with little or nothing, and creating an empire from scratch, this is what knowing your end result can do for you.
Now, your end result doesn't need to be grandiose, it can simply be that you want to be able to replace your income, and to be honest, if you've never built your own business, that is where you should start.
Replacing your income is where freedom starts, because it gives you the choice to start doing what you want with your time. But you need to be very clear, and very careful at the same time, about how you picture yourself in that end result. Whenever you do this, you need to see this as though you've already done it, or already have it, and be 100% certain that it is exactly as you want.
The cold reality, is that we cannot do everything in this world in a single lifetime, so choosing what we want to do is of great importance, and replacing your income or getting your finances simply allows you to design your life how you want it to really be.

Principle 3 - Focus
A focused life simply means someone who exerts their entire will and being into a single, purposeful activity until that activity is mastered. This is what creates champions; of industry, of sport, of religion.
Read this, carefully: You buy a book that teaches you about Adwords, and directing traffic to affiliate links, and it sounds awesome, you do that for 30 days, start to get a little results but it isn't producing what 'they' told you it would.
Then the new course comes out and you learn how to build "flawless Adsense and affiliate sites" over and over again to produce a virtual real estate empire! So you go hard at that for 30 days and just as you start to get your first few clicks in Adsense, you think to yourself, this is getting a little boring, I have to do the same thing over again..Then a new method called 'arbitrage' comes out where everyone is making... and on it goes, jumping from one thing to the next.
What really happens is that in 12 months time, you burn out, and you tell all your friends how it's impossible to make money on the internet. And how do you know? You tried it all!
You know, everyone of those methods probably would work if you stuck at it for 6-12 months and did just that one system. The fact is that we really don't know which system works good and which not. The only way to know which system is succesful and which isn't, is knowledge. We have two parts of focus, first, to be able to find out what is good and what isn't and second, choosing a single method to stay with until works.

Principle 4 - Discipline
We all love to hate, but discipline is what keeps you moving forward following your goals and action steps to achieve your end result. Discipline is a part of all aspects of your life, from the smallest of tasks and choices, to the largest and greatest. Everyone has aspects of what they do that they absolutely hate, and not even hate a little bit, but sometimes hate with a passion, and will put off until the very last minute. But it is usually these things that are key to keeping your success on track, and without them you'll soon find yourself floundering. So remember, discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Principle 5 - Time Consciousness
Time you spent will never came again. It sounds like cliche but is also the truth because the time is only finite resource that we as humans.
You have here, let's say, 4 steps. First one is when you are merely existing, going through the motions and at some point your dreams died. Maybe they were crushed, maybe they were just thrown out as being "too hard" or "people like me can't do that", but the end result is that this is one of the saddest events in the world, and it takes a significant even to break someone out of this apathy.
Second step is when you are aware of time but you are not time. Contradiction, but it means that you "know" that you need to be aware of time, but your actions dictate otherwise, in other words, you wasting time doing activities that are not really going to help you.
Third step means that you are aware of time, and working things which will moving you towards your end result. You will spend minimal time doing activities that don't propel you forward, though you will feel you haven't yet reached your "limit".
Fourth step puts you into a challenging position. You have become aware of true opportunity cost. Literally, if you spend time doing one activity, you lose the time to do the other activity, and you are forced to choose between these solutions. At this point, you'll start to question what you are doing, because you will be pushing your own boundaries on what you can accomplish.

Principle 6 - Whatever It Takes
Would you do whatever it took to be successful? Hope, you answered no, because if you answered yes, go sell drugs, steal cars, who cares! If you want to make money without consideration of ethics or honesty or the effects that it has on other people, you need to rethink your perspectives on life.
In simple words it means that you do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, you don't wait, you don't delay, you don't make excuses, you take responsibility. When opportunity arises you seize it with both hands and don't let go until you've driven it forward!

Principle 7 - Effective Communication
Communication is the result you get. What this means, is that if someone has totally understood your point, and can explain back to you what you just said in their own words, you've communicated effectively.
When you look at communication as "the result you get", which is the essence of this principle, what this principle does, is give you ownership over the interactions with other people in your life. This is not easy to follow, you should think about this principle from the other persons perspective, and constantly be asking yourself the question "how can I say this in a way that they will understand".

Principle 8 - Leverage
The previous principles have had much to do with your internal self, and things you can control, on the other way leverage in most forms involves other people, but is also where your growth rates go from percentage increases, to multiple increases. There are 3 main aspects to leverage, the leverage of time, the leverage of money, and the leverage of applied knowledge.

The Leverage of Time
We discuss this in Principle 5 - Time Consciousness, where you being aware of time, and that when you reach fourth step you are literally at your limit. Essentially you are leveraging your time by utilizing other peoples time to accomplish what you need to do. By employing people to work with you, hiring outsourcing agents, or out tasking the grunt work to data entry workers across the world.
The leverage of time can set you free.

The leverage of money
Investment circles and educators call this OPM - Other Peoples Money, and say that it is the best way to invest. This isn't always true, and particularly when we talk about online, because of the minimal barriers to entry ($9 for a domain, $30 for hosting and the rest can be done by you), you may not need to employ the leverage of money.

The leverage of applied knowledge
Can you imagine if you had to learn everything for yourself? How long would it take for you to figure out what needed to be done and how to do it properly? The idea is ludicrous, but there are also methods for speeding up your acquisition of knowledge, things like speed and photo reading, etc..
Knowledge by itself is wasteful, it is the application of that knowledge that helps you to move forward.
Sometimes to apply knowledge though, you'll need several pieces, so you may learn one thing, and it may take 6 months, 3 years or more to actually put that knowledge into application, and for all the pieces to fall into place.
A simple method for getting around this however, is that you learn about what you need to learn about, when you need to learn it. If you are having cash flow problems in your business, learn how to bring more customers on or get your existing customers to spend more, don't read and learn about how to find the best deals on eBay.
So, the leverage of applied knowledge with Principle #3 - Focus, can have powerful effects. It means you are doing that which needs to be done, with the knowledge to get it done correctly the first time around.

So, these are the principles you should apply to your complete life. Understanding this is just the beginning. If you can't apply them to your life than find something that works and fits with you and who you want to become.