Many people put themselves into all or nothing positions of achievement. Many times, people aren’t even aware of it. I can’t say that I’ve been great about this in the past. I recently restructured my strategies to positively align with this principle. I even moved back to live in the place I’ve always hated. This is all about ensuring a meaningful base level of results. I’m very much about achieving the ultimate in life. However, losing virtually all results isn’t often a good thing either. One often needs a solid base of success in order get to the next level.

Most people are primarily looking to achieve greater levels of personal happiness in life. Some have committed to external achievement outside of the scope of their personal happiness. I’ve always known that I really don’t want to lose out on my significant goals in life. However, with one of those being jeopardized due to competition, I came to the realization that if I do happen to lose out on this goal, that it would be much worse to also lose out on my smaller goals as well. That is specifically to become a millionaire very soon and to live the dream life I’ve designed for this period of my life based on this level of resources and leverage. I want the ultimate results way beyond living a millionaire dream life in my twenties but I am not willing to put myself in a volatile all or nothing position anymore. That is because it likely leads to failure in this scenario.

I’ve realized that there are quite often lower lines of base results that are worth maintaining in many things. Ultimately this relates back to happiness with many people. However, it is also true with most other achievements that people are pursuing. Although, it is true that it is not worth it in some instances to accept nothing but the ultimate result at any cost. These are all my own opinions on technical valuations of results. You can develop your own. These are just what I see being prudent for significant success across many areas of life.

In the beginning of the year, I wrote a post titled Shoot For The Stars - Land On The Moon. This is closely related in that it talks about how developing a strategy meant to produce several times the results of your base level result will often give you much better odds for achieving it as well as results beyond it. I believe that is true. However, there are times when it can do the opposite and get you closer to the ideal result but further from the base level result. I think this is often more due to psychology and the action side of the results equation compared to success odds of pure strategy. This is what happened to me. I was closer to the ultimate results that I desired but locked myself out of the mindset & pattern of action needed to build my base level of results while pursuing the ultimate. I’ve always known about this, but wasn’t practicing it for a while.

So, what I believe is a solid approach on all of this is to diversify amongst strategies that take into account inadequacies of psychology for both your ultimate results and base level results. This means spend some of your resources on one set of strategies meant to give you the best odds on achieving your base level results. Then spend the rest of you resources on another set of strategies designed to give you the best odds in achieving your ultimate results. You may add more levels into this model, but I often don’t since added complexity has its own problems. That is one fundamental solution to this but one could take other paths of success.

All of this is designed to help ensure one’s base level of results that are still meaningful to them while allowing them to have legitimate leverage over achieving the ultimate. Obviously, synergistically designing an ultimate & base level strategy together is best. But if this synergy can’t be achieved, then strategically compromising is a good alternative.

Often the overall approach for successfully producing the result you want is not complex at all. I believe it was Les Brown who said “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” This quote has good infrastructure present within it but I reworked the systems to make it much more logical. One of the fundamental principles for success I go by is “Shoot for the stars. If you fail then you will land on the moon.” or the short version which is “Shoot for the stars. Land on the moon.”

So first let me break down this modified quote of mine. The base infrastructure here is the moon which represents the original goal you are going for and the stars which represents results several times that of your original goal. “Shoot for the stars.” This first part means create and execute a strategy that realistically has a chance of producing several times the results of your original goal even if the odds are not favorable. “If you fail then you will land on the moon.” This second part means that if you fail at producing several times the results of your original goal then the odds are still most likely in your favor that you will at least achieve your original goal if not more.

I believe that even if we understand the true nature of something, we can see it from a new alternative perspective and thus form a strategy that produces greater results than have been achieved in the past. Why is it that athletes consistently break records at every Olympics by only a small margin? If you add these advancements up over the years, it will equate to a large margin between the first and last record. I can extract multiple success distinctions out of this but if I analyze it through the perspective of “Shoot for the stars. Land on the moon.” then one obvious big distinction comes to mind. It was realistically possible for the first record setter to achieve the last record and it is possible for a person to go much further beyond the current record.

The principle of this distinction is not limited to Olympic events either. This is true for just about any result a person could want in the world that I can think of. Some of you may be asking “But if I can’t even come up with a strategy to realistically make my original goal a realistic possibility then how can I come up with one for several times the results of that?” It takes a big thinking mindset and if that doesn’t come naturally for you, like it does for me, then keep reading my content throughout the future to learn how.

This whole concept goes back to my Amplitude of Outlook post. I think that if most people just raised their chins up higher and started looking for ways to achieve bigger results then they actually would achieve a lot more in life. So simple. Just by changing their standards. It is easy to talk about numbers so let’s take the example of someone who is solely focused on becoming a millionaire. The world is full of these people but few actually achieve it. Now I bet that if all of these people stopped focusing on solely becoming a millionaire and instead really focused on becoming a billionaire then a whole lot more people would actually end up becoming millionaires and beyond. A huge part of this is the strategies that they will come up with. In both situations the person is starting off with the same amount of resources, especially including time. Because the person is truly attempting to build a strategy that can realistically make them a billionaire then they will automatically throw out several options that they would have considered if solely focused on becoming a millionaire, like being an employee, saving their way to the goal, putting earnings into a retirement fund, etc. So learn and apply the key distinction here! No matter what your goal is, create and execute the strategy that can produce several times the result you want. The odds are that you will get there faster and go way beyond.

Just take a second and feel the massive power that a strategy like this packs within it. Think of that big awesome result you want. Now what if you had a strategy that took the odds you have for achieving that and gave you those odds for achieving results fifty times greater? I’d be ecstatic! Most of the time this means that through this new strategy your odds for achieving your original goal will instantly increase by a large amount, many times almost guaranteeing you the definite achievement of the original goal. Through the implementation of this powerful success principle of “Shoot for the stars. Land on the moon.” I have gained ironclad levels of certainty in my ability to achieve most of my extreme goals in life. Can you legitimately say the same for what you are pursuing in life or are you just hoping? If you are hoping for success then change your approach.

My 1st Success Blog Post! Personal Success and Personal Development are definitely closely related. Psychology is a big part of both. Building yourself up is a solid way to produce results although there are several ways to achieve huge results otherwise. Using both strategies is the most effective. In this Success Blog I am not specifically talking about monetary success, although that is a common goal people have. What this is really about is universal strategies for how to achieve any goal you have. In my time, I’ve discovered some pretty profound ways of extracting the results you want out of life. Get ready to achieve the next level of your life!