What is My Best Recipe For Success?

by Brenda Freeman

Mind Recipes. What does this mean to you? I have often been asked this question about how recipes and personal development mix. My answer is simple - I use many different ingredients in my personal development journey to create my end result - My Recipe for Success.

Success has many different meanings. If you asked 100 people, they would all come out with different answers, but the typical ones tend to be "more money", and "better relationships."

How do we go about achieving success in these areas? Is it as simple as getting a pay rise from your boss and finding the right person? Or are there things you can do to create the environment which will produce your desires?

First of all you need to determine what success means to you. This will be different for everyone. Some may want to drive their Ferrari to their beach mansion. Others may want a simpler life and not have the worry about providing food for their families table, and others may just want a partner they can come home to every night and feel safe and secure.

My Recipe For Success was created like this:

1. I wrote down what success meant to me. This was not as easy as it sounds. I had to think about what makes me happiest - was it things or people. I realized that although I enjoyed things - it didn't excite me the way choices did.

2. My relationship was one of my major references for my success. I have been married for nearly 29 years, and one thing my husband and I do EVERY year is to put aside a day where we discuss our relationship, and what we can each do to enhance the relationship. Not 50/50, but 100% effort from each of us to continue our successful relationship. During this special day, we answer the question "What am I doing which is enhancing our relationship, and also What am I doing which is damaging the relationship?"

This can be a little bit confronting at first, but it truly is a recipe for relationship success. By giving each other a forum to openly discuss your relationship without fear of retaliation opens up the lines of communication and creates a wonderful result. We always set aside this yearly event, which we top off with a lovely dinner to celebrate our relationship.

3. My health success recipes are one of my most important. Recent events have bought to the spotlight how important my health is. My Recipes for Success are equal to my Recipes for Health. Goodness in - goodness out. Rubbish in - rubbish out. It really is that simple. Your body needs good nutrition to work at its optimum level, and my gauge of success starts with my health, emotionally and physically.

How do you determine Your Recipe For Success? I read as much as I could, went to seminars, checked out as many websites as I could, undertook courses on hypnosis, personal development, and health. I took bits and pieces out of them all, threw them together, just like I do with cooking, a pinch of this and a dash of that and came up with My Own Recipes.

Now, it is your turn. See what creations you can discover to find Your Best Recipe For Success, whatever that means for you.

Mind Recipes - Your Recipe For Success by Brenda Freeman