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To be open to learning and improving yourself is a secret of success. We can always improve somewhere, somehow. Success is not bought with money; it is bought with effort. Effort is a price that only you can pay. Nobody else can put forth effort into your own success and have it work; only you can do that. Test yourself constantly, challenge yourself daily. Success is yours and all you have to do to get it is to put your mind to it and not give up. Concentrate on doing what you can, when you can and as much as you can. Doing the minimum or just skating by is not success; you are not putting forth the effort or the focus.

The person who finds success is not the smartest man, nor the richest man, nor the most talented man; but he is the most determined man. He does not let failure define him or get him down and knows that by applying his mind, that he will overcome any hurdle.

The untrained mind will act without logical thought on many things: passions, emotions, impulses, and outside events. We let our automatic thinking take over instead of applying rational and logical thought. These actions are never going to be our best course of action.

To ensure success and solid decision making, that sort of thinking must go out the window. As humans, we are impulsive and emotional. When we are full of excitement, passion, intense emotions, or stress, we are in such an excited state that we are not able to concentrate.

Training your mind to be able to overcome such an excitable state and to be able to restrain those emotions and impulses will enable you to pull your concentration and focus onto making the best decisions. We are not suggesting that you close down or not be emotional or have impulses, we are suggesting that you train yourself to handle them rationally.

The successful people are the ones that can stay cool under pressure, not lose their heads over a heated situation, or panic in a crises. They have learned to keep their feelings in check and trained themselves to take stock of the situation and to focus on the correct course of action instead of acting upon the first impulse or emotion that they felt.

Concentration allows you to focus your mental and physical energy and put it to good use. It keeps your mind from wandering or being forgetful. Being scatterbrained, being anxious, and daydreaming will only waste energy that had better uses.

Concentration will give you focus, calm you and direct your energy in the way in which you need it to go. You must train yourself to keep focused on your goals, your plans, and your wishes. Monitor yourself closely for several weeks. When you find yourself making decisions, stop to reflect before acting on it.

Are you about to act on impulse or emotion? See your goals and what you want clearly in your head; is the action you are about to take in line with these? Pull your mind towards only achieving what you want to achieve, make your decisions based on that. When we act on emotions only, we are letting ourselves get flustered. Being flustered will cause us to lose sight of our goals. When we are full of unchecked emotions, we do not have the ability to focus, we will be all over the place both physically and emotionally, and it serves no purpose.

After a while of monitoring your decisions and your actions, your decision making and actions will start to automatically be geared towards your goal and less towards your emotions. You will be able to focus through the impulses and the emotions and act in a clear and concise manner consistent with your goals.