About Luck, How To Keep Your New Year Resolutions & More!
Hello Everyone,
I consider myself lucky but never take this for granted. I start and finish every day reminding myself just how lucky I am now, how lucky I have been in the past, and how lucky I hope to be in the future.
I like to believe that there is an endless supply of luck available for everybody. Sadly there is also a lot of bad luck around. If we can attract more good luck than bad luck we are ahead of the game.
I hope that you are going to be lucky. I will do my best to help you. I will keep it simple too. Many of my clients have been hugely lucky. In my book, Poker Genius, I share what I believe to be some of their lucky secrets. Besides, the book, I also offer one-on-one mindset coaching to Poker players as part of the 28-day VIP Program. Below is a testimony that is much appreciated:
“I have worked with Dr. Simpson for a couple of month and I must say that it has been a major impact on both my poker life and personal life. I use meditation and visualisation daily and a feel a lot calmer and positive. I don't let small stuff like a couple of lost all-ins bother my that much anymore (I still get annoyed but not at all as much as before). I will probably always have a tilt issue but now I have some tools for it so I don't let it take the best of my day. I can honestly say that this has been the best course related to poker that I have taken.” - Johan Cederlund
Now let’s talk about 2024 resolutions..
Setting and achieving goals is always a major part of my work with new clients. Carefully prepared goals are the foundation for a successful year, and avoid that sinking feeling on New Year’s Day of not knowing what the new year will bring.
Just in case your goals could do with a bit of spicing up you might find some of the following tips valuable. Perhaps the results might even exceed your wildest dreams? How good would that feel?
Any plan is better than no plan, so make space is your crowded life for some reflective thoughts, and so avoid Twain’s observation.
‘I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.’
Once you have decided on your goal, the more different ways you can remind yourself of your goal each day, the more successful you are likely to be. There are many ways to do this. Examples include writing the goal on stickers and fixing them to the bathroom mirror, the refrigerator, using the goal as a screensaver on your computer, mobile phone, and alarm clock.
The more places you can think of to display your note, the more likely you are to reach your goal. It directs your unconscious mind, and helps to build a self-fulfilling prophecy. Keep in mind that writing is the doing part of thinking, and is a powerful connection to your unconscious mind.
Follow the process, and the results will take care of themselves
Now you have set your brilliant goals can you sit back and wait for the good things to happen? Wouldn’t that be wonderful? But as you guessed it is not quite as easy as that. Life has a habit of interfering with our goals, and despite your best efforts you may not hit all your targets. Many things are out of your direct control.
One thing that you certainly can control are your processes. Focus on all the small steps that make your goal a means to an end, and the result of doing other things skillfully along the way. Rugby coach Clive Woodward spoke the following words, after England’s unexpected Rugby World Cup victory in 2003.
‘Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.’
When you reach your goal, do not be surprised when you look back and realise that the real fun was the journey, and not the destination. Tony Robbins makes a powerful point that is well worth more careful thought.
‘Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfilment.’
Another reason why we may not hit our goals is due to a lack of commitment. A classic example is the busy fitness center in January that is empty in February. One simple way to fight against any possible lack of commitment is to plant your goals into your unconscious mind, so that it can digest them at its leisure. Here is how it works.
Good intentioned thoughts often remain as good intentioned thoughts.
Spoken thoughts sometimes get done.
Written thoughts often lead to unimagined success.
So write a few words in the Comments Box in the online version of this newsletter, and put the champagne on ice!
To remind you, my calendar for 2024 is fast filling up, so if you’re keen to work with me, I recommend setting up a initial consultation and signing up for the VIP 28-day Program ASAP. The VIP 28-day Program has been developed for PGA Champions, Poker Stars, Finance Wizards, CEOs, Doctors, and high-level executives from any field, it will put you on a path to do more, do it more easily and reach new heights in your thinking.
If you’re a corporate and want me to deliver powerful techniques to your managers, please contact me soon and we can have a chat about your team’s goals. I offer in-person trainings to employees of all levels that cover tools & techniques that challenge limiting beliefs, help embracing a growth mindset, and creating a mindset conducive to success, fulfilment, and well-being.
I hope you find the articles in this newsletter to be informative. I’ll be back in a week or so with more tips and techniques for you as I’m working now on programs that will help catapult you into 2024, and hit the ground running. As always, please feel free to write to me if you have any questions, I look forward to hearing from you!
Best wishes,
Steve
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