Brain Training For Success – Lesson 5.1 – Living The Best Year Of Your Life

Welcome to Module 5 of the “Brain Training for Success” course!

This final module provides tips, advice, and insight for having your best year ever.

The module concludes with a thorough example of what it takes to have a great year.

You can live your best year if you’re willing to do the work and stretch yourself.

Let’s Get Started On Lesson 25

This is the last module. You’ve undoubtedly made some great strides if you’ve put the lessons into action.

This final module is built around readying yourself to have your most successful and exciting year ever.

You may have tried to change your life before without much success. However, with the right process, it’s possible to achieve more in a single year than most manage to achieve in a lifetime.

• Most New Year’s resolutions are little more than wish lists with no chance of success. In fact, the average person forgets all about their resolution within a few weeks.
• Setting goals is a powerful process, but only if done correctly. There’s much more to be done than making a list of desires and then waiting passively for them to be delivered.

Your current life situation is a combination of several factors: your beliefs, past, habits, expectations, and resources are all factors.

A spectacular life requires balance:

• wealth isn’t a substitute for poor health
• a great relationship isn’t a substitute for having sufficient financial resources

Making the next year the best year of your life is within your control.

But there are several requirements.

You have to know what you want, develop the right habits, drop the wrong habits, deal with obstacles, and stay the course.

Review Your Past

Common wisdom suggests that you should keep looking forward and leave the past in your rearview mirror, but this can be a mistake, because the past has much to reveal.

At the very least, you can learn where you’ve made mistakes.

This is important, because you’ve been making the same mistakes over your lifetime.

• The reason your last relationship ended is likely to be the same reason your next relationship will end.
• Financial challenges repeat themselves.
• Your past challenges with work will be your future challenges at work.
• Your diet and exercise plans will fail for the same reasons they’ve failed in the past.

Failing to examine and address the challenges of the past is choosing to repeat your challenges and failures throughout the rest of your life.

The past also includes some pretty great things. Failing to identify these things is an obstacle to enjoying similar success in the future.

While answering the following questions, consider all parts of your life:

• Physical/health
• Finances
• Relationships
• Work
• Hobbies
• Spiritual/religious activities
• Family

Reviewing The Past Is A Critical Component Of Creating The Future

1. What were the highlights from last year? Create a list of at least five positive experiences from the last year. Go with your gut. Anything that fills you with positive emotions can be a highlight. It might have been something as simple as spending a perfect afternoon at the park with your child.Avoid relying on society’s values when defining your own success. It’s a success if it feels like a success. That may or may not align with conventional measures of success. Decide for yourself.
2. What were the low points and how could they have been avoided? It wasn’t all good. There had to be a few days or experiences you don’t want to repeat. Make a list of them and consider how this experiences could have been avoided. Minimizing the low-points in life is more important to your happiness than adding high points. Should you have been able to foresee the occurrence of these experiences? How can you prevent a future recurrence?
3. What were the best decisions you made over the last year? You undoubtedly made some shrewd decisions last year. What were they? How can you apply this information in the future?
4. What were the worst decision from the last year? Everyone makes mistakes. What were yours? When you look even further into the past, have you made similar bad decisions? Why?
5. What are five positive habits you’d like to add this year? Consider the long-reaching characteristics of habits. What are a few habits you can add that will make a big difference over the long haul? Diet, exercise, financial, and relationship habits can alter your future considerably. Keep this fact in mind.



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