Guaranteed success formula

If you really thought you couldn't fail, what projects could you take on immediately and what effect would this have on the quality of your life? If this idea excites you you will want to have a way of taking on new and challenging projects that absolutely always guarantees to deliver the result you want.

There are many versions of the guaranteed success formula, and they all essentially tackle the problem of getting the result you want. You can use this simple six-step version straight away:

1. Decide what you want - remember, you are a goal-seeking organism.
2. Plan what you need to do to get what you want - you’ll need a map.
3. Take the necessary action. - this is where confidence comes into it.)
4. Notice what result you're getting - results are feedback, take them on board.
5. Vary your action in light of your results - don’t give up, change your approach.
6. Repeat Steps 2 to 5 until you get the result you want - as long as you still want it.

If you are tempted to cry "foul" at this point don't! Life never promised that you would one-day know exactly what to do to get the result right first time every time. It's enough to know that provided you don't give up you can literally never fail. Great empires have been founded on this formula.
 

Perhaps the most-cited example of the benefits of this approach is Thomas Edison, the American inventor and entrepreneur, who is credited with having found 9,999 ways of not inventing the light bulb before getting it right. His greatest invention was the process for experimentation, improvement and delivery to market. A process based on the guaranteed success formula.

Appearing confident

An important and really effective adjunct to the Guaranteed Success Formula is something we call "Modelling". When you are after a specific result, such as appearing confident, you can cut out a lot of the trial and error by finding someone who can already do what you want to be able to do and copying, or modelling them.
 

In our workshops we give you some powerful and precise tools for doing this very effectively but for now you can see for yourself how powerful this approach can be by doing the following:
 

1. Go to a crowded place. This could be somewhere impersonal like a shopping mall or a more private space like a garden party or function room.
 

2. Look around until you spot someone who appears confident to you. Be discrete, although most people would be flattered by what what you are doing you don't want anyone to be freaked out by your staring at them.
 

3. Analyse what it is that makes you think they're confident. You don't know how they are really feeling of course (we have tools to elicit this in detail) but to you they look confident in the way you would like to look confident. So what is it about the way they carry themselves, the way they are speaking, gesturing and so on that makes them appear confident to you.
 

4. Consider how you can imitate or incorporate these qualities in your own behaviour. Whatever they are doing you can practice, either in the moment if that is appropriate, or later in front of a mirror until you feel you have it right.
 

5. Because your physiology affects your feelings you will find this a powerful way of changing your state when you beginning to feel your confidence ebbing. Don't be a slave to it but whenever you feel your confidence slipping away assume the body posture and gestures of your confidence model and you will immediately feel better.

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