Most people believe that to become successful you have to have a certain IQ level or at least an above average intelligence. The fact is that most successful people are no more academically intelligent than the average person. In fact the most intelligent people on the planet are rarely financially successful although they achieve amazing results in academic areas such as Science and Medicine.

The biggest thing that separates successful people from ‘average’ people is self confidence and / or self belief. This has nothing to do with IQ. A successful person will never doubt themselves and when they set a goal they set it with absolute belief that they will achieve it no matter how extreme or challenging that goal may seem.

Everybody is born with an equal level of knowledge and awareness and those that believe in themselves the most, will achieve the most regardless of their background or circumstances.

If you look back at every time you tried something new but didn’t succeed, invariably you will find that at some point either consciously or sub-consciously you told yourself you probably couldn’t do it. On the other hand when you did succeed at something it was because you were confident and had no doubt that you would succeed.

This is the single most important psychological tool you will ever have!

Once you have mastered self belief you will be completely free of the one thing that prevents most people from success which is the ‘fear of failure’.

By having belief in yourself, I don’t mean “I think I can do it”…this phrase is loaded with doubt. You must absolutely know and believe you can. After all the most successful people in the world are no more intelligent than you or I, so there is no reason why you can’t achieve the same level of success.

The bottom line is that whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can’t - either way you’re going to be right!

Bye for now

Tim