Reflect back on some of your greatest successes and achievements. How did you think? How did you act? How did you get there?

You started off with a dream or a vision that sparked a burning desire. You felt that gut feeling telling you to do it – to jump into action – just like a tiger eyeing its prey with pinpoint focus. I bet you have felt this way before.

There are three personal drivers: Thought, Desire, Action. These drivers are within you, ready to be explored and developed. All three attributes go hand in hand in achieving the goals you set for yourself. Achieving the success that you want is a mindset, an attitude that you need to continually nurture and develop. It is a never-ending process that allows us to keep improving our lives.

Can you do it yourself? You are not alone.

It’s important to surround yourself in a positive environment where growth, encouragement and success is unbounded and championed. Negative thoughts taint your mind and cause you to second-guess your thoughts, desires and actions. No one has the right to kill your dreams before you’ve had a chance to advance them.

Also, don’t get caught in a mind trap that I call “thoughtless thinking.” What do I mean? Your thought patterns become routine and automatic. You do things the same way, over and over, because that is what is expected and that is how it has always been done. This is the easiest and fastest way to get stuck in a rut and never advance.

Progression will never occur when your thinking is stuck on a narrow track. You need to break out of that thought process and allow yourself room to think and grow.

The rise of the Internet is a great example of how dreams and vision were explored and played out. Sure, there were quite a number of failures but these failures are lessons that have become the next thought form. Without trying and expanding your thinking, how will you know if you will ever achieve success? It’s only natural to want to get a feel for things and to build confidence. Start small and start slow but make sure you get started.

Let’s now take a closer look at the three drivers that we have all experienced and continue to use in our lives. Embracing these three drivers will continue to bring success, happiness and an abundant life.

Thought

This is more than just thinking about what you want. Saying that you want to be rich or you want a better is job is not enough. Everybody has those thoughts. You need to visualize and imagine it. It becomes a part of your existence and the image becomes clearer and specific. Your thoughts and dreams shape your creative thinking and ideas. Allow yourself to think freely and without limitation. Thought is a powerful tool used to generate ideas that will guide you through the path of success. How else will we advance if no new thoughts or ideas are born?

Desire

Desire is the means by which you drive your thoughts into action. Without desire, putting your thoughts into action can be very difficult or even impossible. We have all experienced this sort of feeling so we try to find ways to get out of that rut and rebuild our passion and desires. If not, you really need to dig deeper and seek out what will fire up your burning desire!

Desire will fuel your faith, commitment and belief in yourself and what you have set out to achieve. When you want something bad enough, you should be able to see it with laser focus. You just know that you are on the right track and you start developing an action plan to get you where you want to go.

“A person must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought”
–Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

Action

This is where it all comes together. Your thoughts and ideas drive your desire to act. Taking action leads towards the outcome you have dreamed and visualized. Is it always easy? No! A lot of people fail or don’t get exactly what they want, but the power of dreaming, adapting, learning and seeking fulfillment will guide you to the right place.

Positive experiences will help break out negative or skeptical feelings and will help you believe that you are capable of great things.

Your success formula: Thought + Desire + Action = Results

Have faith, purpose and courage. If you want to get there, you will!