Have you ever looked at super successful people and said to yourself, “I wonder what their secret is?” However, “I wish I could be as successful.” Well you can! Success has a beginning and a foundation. And right now I’m going to share with you what that basis is. This is the start of your success right now.

The humble beginnings of the personal computer and software giant Hewlett-Packard, or HP, clearly demonstrate this fact. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard graduated from Stanford University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1935 and initially went their own way. In 1939 they made the vital decision to form their own electronics manufacturing company, Hewlett-Packard, in a garage in Palo Alto, California, during the Great Depression with only $538 in the bank, circumstances clearly not geared towards success. They both could have stayed employed in regular, well-paying jobs, but they made a vital decision to make their college dream of starting their own business a reality. Its humble beginnings in a garage in Palo Alto also gave rise to the world famous Silicon Valley.

Today, everyone is familiar with the result of this company. In 2006, HP posted annual revenue of $91.7 billion, making it the world’s largest technology provider in terms of sales. In 2007, revenue was $104 billion, making HP the first information technology (IT) company in history to report revenue in excess of $100 billion. HP is now the world’s largest seller of personal computers, surpassing rival Dell, according to market research in January 2008; HP is also the fifth largest software company in the world.

Look at its beginning: during the great depression era; in a small garage in the backyard of a house; and only $538 in capital (not much even in those years). So when were they successful? When did they post the billions in revenue years later? Do not! They were a success the day they decided to start their own company! That’s the day it all started.

Your success started with your decision, not your results.
Success doesn’t start when the stars, moon and planets align perfectly for you, when your circumstances and everything else in your life is perfect… It starts when you decide it starts!

The secret to success lies in understanding the following truths: You can be as successful as you decide to be…Success is not just for a select few…You don’t need to be born to succeed…Your Origin family needn’t have been successful… And you don’t need a track record of success!

The ultimate truth about success, and indeed the first step to success, is understanding the fact that you can start being successful today! In fact, the moment you decided to start reading this article could be the first step to your success. This is because…

… Success is not the end result of a long journey of hardship and failure, it is not the sum of all your hard work and endurance!

Success begins the day you make certain decisions about yourself and your life. Specifically about: who you are, what you are and where you are going with your life.

That’s because success is not an act… It’s not something you do… Success is a state of mind!

One of the biggest fallacies about success and success in life is that people believe that they will only be successful the day they reach a certain goal or accomplish a certain feat. There’s nothing wrong with reaching a certain goal someday, but it gets you into a kind of “one day” thinking: one day I’m going to be somebody; one day I will be famous and then I will be successful.

But success doesn’t just start when you reach a certain goal or accumulate certain things!

It doesn’t start in the future… It starts with the mindset that’s between your ears right now!

Your success mindset starts with your attitude, your decision about yourself, and how you see yourself right now. Your decision about who you are and where you are going with your life is the cornerstone, the foundation and the beginning of your success.

Maybe your life isn’t perfect right now, but does that mean you can’t be successful? The good news is that your success doesn’t start when your circumstances are perfect, not at all! Success begins the moment you make a new decision about your life. And sometimes you have to make that decision in the face of adversity, when apparently everything was going wrong.

This is the first step towards your success: regardless of where you were born, what continent you live on or what your personal circumstances are, who you are today is determined by one thing only: who you think you are!

You are who you are today not as a result of your circumstances, but because of the way you think, because of the decisions you made at some point in your past about who you are and what your life will be about.

That is the force that controls your life today: the decisions you made about your life and your circumstances!

The decisions you made in the past about your life formed the dominant ideas that have shaped and controlled your life up to now, regardless of your circumstances. I recently read in a newspaper about a man in my hometown who, with one decision, changed his life, unleashed his potential, became super successful, and made his dream come true.

Shortly after graduating from college with a degree in accounting, a young man found a great job as an entry-level accountant. He got married and was ready to start his life as a “good employee”. Shortly after starting work, his boss called him and told him that he could no longer afford it. He was shocked and dismayed, but at his failure, he looked at his boss and said, “I’m looking at the last man to employ me.” He went out and bought a small hardware store on the outskirts of town. At that stage, anyone starting a business so far from the main part of town wasn’t considered the sharpest tool in the shed. He is now in his eighties and, over the years, has turned his small shop into a big business. Even though two well-known hardware chain stores literally opened on either side of his store; his business continues to drive. By the way, the area around his business is now considered “the main part of the city”.

Are you ready to succeed? You can start today! So, what are you waiting for…
Start turning your dreams into reality today!