10 Ways To Fail Efficiently And Effectively Every Time.

Too many people seem to be telling you how to succeed in your personal development and lifestyle design journey, so I’ve decided to tell you how to fail effectively and efficiently every time, guaranteed. If you’re having problems failing then this will help you.

1. Aim ludicrously high.

If you’re a computer programmer wanting to start a company, make Microsoft and Apple your main competitors. Don’t worry about the fact that they’re both multi-billion dollar companies with money and manpower to burn and you’re just one guy in a shed. It’s all about belief and motivation, if you want it enough you can achieve it.

2. Benchmark early.

If you don’t see results within seven days of an endeavor then give up. It obviously isn’t a good idea. Move on as there are plenty more ideas out there. Remember, a new blog should have at least 50,000 hits within the first week or it isn’t worthwhile.

3. Benchmark often.

You can never assess your progress enough. Comparisons against your competitors (see step 1) should be done at least every 10 minutes, ideally every 5, any longer than 15 and you’re out of the game.

Don’t worry that this is leaving you with very little time to do anything else, making sure you have up to date information on where you stand compared to the best of the best is more important.

4. Do it all yourself.

It’s your idea, so don’t let anyone else get their dirty, stinking hands on it. All the fame and riches belong to you, so getting others involved, or even telling them your idea, is dangerous as it may dilute the greatness of your idea and your ability. If only Jonathan Ives was smarter and kept the iPod idea to himself and developed it in his spare time, imagine how much money he would now have.

5. Don’t listen to others.

All the great ideas seem to fly in the face of traditional convention and they all worked out. There are literally thousands of them; Google, Innocent Smoothies, Million Dollar Homepage. There’s nothing you can learn from people with experience in the field; they’re old fashioned and not thinking outside the box.

Remember, anything is possible, so if people tell you it’s impossible to make your idea work then you’re onto a winner. Soon you will be laughing at them from your Ivory Tower thanks to your visionary thinking.

6. Compare yourself to the best.

If you’re starting a company, compare yourself to Virgin, if you’re launching a blog then you must compare yourself against Engadget. Starting a fast food chain? McDonalds is the only chain you should be comparing your success against.

Starting going the gym? Then you need to compare your body against Arnie’s. If you’re not, at least, matching profits / turnovers / traffic or muscle size within 7 days (see step 2) then quit because at this rate there’s no way you’ll be bettering them by week two which you should be.

7. Go for the glory.

The biggest mistake you can make is to do something you love and, God forbid, enjoy. This will probably see you setting up in a small cake shop selling to the local oldies. What are you thinking? Where’s the vision? Where’s the fame? This sort of thinking is small, weak and completely wrong.

Millions won’t know your name and you won’t be swimming in money, so why bother? Get into the technology business and the Web 6.0 era, and don’t listen to people when they say technology is complicated, it’s not. People just believe the lie which stops them from creating products that compete with the iPod by themselves. You’re not that stupid so get out there.

8. Diversify.

Focusing on just one endeavor at once is just plain stupid; most things don’t require that much effort or commitment and most of the greatest ideas have just fallen into place for people with very minimal effort. Thus, get out there and start a lot of things all at once.

Remember if you had a good idea that could make you a million pounds and it only took you 5 minutes to think of, that means potentially you could make two million dollars in just one hour. It’s only stupid people who don’t think like this.

9. Take it easy.

The single biggest thing you should never do is work too hard. You’ll only get stressed and tired and then you’ll not be able to think properly which will restrict your creative thinking and stop you coming up with brilliant ideas. Don’t work more than about 3 hours a day or your creativity will be severely affected.

Luckily you don’t have to work as hard as someone in a 9-5 because you work more effectively, it’s all about quality and not quantity, remember that.

10. Re-read the above over and over and apply it.

Follow the above 9 steps to the letter and you’ll be assured of failure in any endeavor you attempt. Do not deviate at all; each step is vital to your failure.

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