What Am I Doing Wrong?: 4 Common Mistakes Made on the Road to Success

1. Focusing on success in one area of your life rather than ALL areas: Success is a multi-faceted thing. It is not just limited to finances. Focus on your life as a whole rather than just one aspect of it.
2. Over-promising and under-delivering: Many people want to sound like they can be a success by saying that they will take on numerous, but fail miserably because they aren't able to make good on their promises. The goal is to under-promise and over-deliver. The truly successful person lets their excellent delivery make up for the fact that they promised little.
3. Being a jack of many trades and a master of none: Being able to do many things may seem like a great advantage, but achieving only adequacy in the skills you have acquired is not really going to get you anywhere. Successful people are successful because they mastered their craft. The people on the Forbes Richest List are not there because they could do a lot of things adequately. They are on that list because they mastered something that would give them the most significant results. Mastery is what guarantees success.
4. Doing the hardest work last: What is done first most likely will get the most quality attention. The hardest work usually is what gives you the most value or the most significant results. The hard work is the most deserving of your attention! The better quality attention you give the hard work, the more value you get out of it.

15 30-Day Challenges for Success

For 30 days you can...

1. Play to WIN rather than playing not to lose
2. Get FROM the day, not through the day
3. Do your best
4. Make the mundane memorable
5. Maximize your potential in some way daily
6. Be absent of hesitation. Go big or go home
7. Do the best things, not the most things
8. Leverage all of your resources
9. Build value daily in some area of your life
10. Exceed expectations
11. Invest your energy where you will get the highest returns
12. Raise the bar
13. Make choices that your ideal self would make
14. Think big
15. Make everything you touch turn to gold

The 2 Best Goal Setting Acronyms: S.M.A.R.T.E.R. and H.A.R.D.

We all have goals, but we don't always thoroughly assess whether the goals we think we want to go after are really worthy of the chase. Here are two great goal setting acronyms that will help you decide on whether your goals are truly worthwhile:

SMARTER

S pecific: Is your goal clearly defined or are you on a road that leads to nowhere?
M easurable: Can this actually be accurately measured?
A chievable: Can you really take action on this or are you trying to achieve something that is out of your control?
R ealistic:  Can this really be achieved or is it an unattainable pipe dream?
T ime Sensitive: Is there a real deadline or will the goal be achieved one day, when the time is right?
E nthusiasm: Does thinking about your goal make you want to jump for joy?
R eward: Even if your goal takes a lot of work to achieve, is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Is there a treat that is so appealing that you can't help but be drawn to it?

HARD

H eartfelt: Do you have an emotional attachment to your goal?
A nimated: Is it motivated by a vision, picture or movie that plays continuously in your mind?
R equired: Does your goal feel urgent or necessary? Is it something that you can't shake?
D ifficult: Will your goal challenge you to commit to excellence? Will it drag you out of your comfort zone?