Personal and business success is self-fulfilling, incremental and flows into an upwards spiral. What exactly do I mean by that?

Let's examine these jigsaw pieces or components, one at a time. Let's take the psychological elements apart first, before we integrate them neatly back together again into a unified, working whole.

Success appears to create and fulfill its own expectations. It operates as a suggestion to the sub-conscious mind. The suggestion of a dream of goal achievement is literally programmed into the sub-conscious mind by repeated thoughts and statements, repeated actions, all carried out with a high degree of awareness. Personal and business success fulfills its own prophesy. It sets a high level of achievement expectation, then whispers through an intuitive process exactly what steps you need to take to keep on the path... to stay on the track towards goal-achievement.

Personal and business success is not immediate. It rarely appears overnight. It appears in increments, as you take care of component pieces.

For example, consider an olympic swimmer like Michael Phelps. He must study the start and refine his starting time off the block right down to about 0.5 or 0.7 seconds. His whole nervous system requires retraining to achieve this 'piece of success' behavior.

Next he must develop an energy-efficient stroke. A stroke with less resistance through the water. This is a truly time-tested task. But as well as this efficiency, he needs muscle mass and increased brute muscular power.

Yet another component of his personal, sporting success is 'the turn' at the end of the pool. Again, it must be fast and energy-efficient. Frictionless.

So these and other personal skill requirements and disciplines must be conquered in a planned and orderly manner before success beyond the ordinary can be achieved.

It may come as a relief to learn that personal and business success arrives little by little, mistake after mistake, increment by increment. Imagine working The Internet as a writer and you set yourself the goal of writing one hub page per day. The tiny added web space per day accumulates into 365 hub pages over one year. With monetization happening that could almost create an Internet business for you. So, do you see how business success has a time factor? It works in increments or pieces of virtual, web real estate. It also works by accumulating incoming web links.

Success breeds more and more success. It's a feedback process to your image of yourself. It feeds your ego, confidence and self-belief. Do something once and you can easily do it again. Stretch your horizons out and reach for the stars. Can you do it? Hey - - if you believe you can, using the magic of believing!

Not everyone is self-motivated. We all, without exception, require a mentor, a success-trainer, just as the olympian needs a coach. We don't have access to the best ideas and the optimal health solutions, the optimal feedback processes required for shaping up and developing top flight behavior.

One awesome system for success is a combination of accelerated meditation with appropriate hypnosis. This involves two audio sessions a day using binaural brain wave entrainment and a daily listening to high class hypnosis CDs such as those you can learn about at psychologypower.com which I wrote back in 2003, then improved upon. Surprisingly, the principles of success have not changed over the decades. You only need to listen to Napoleon Hill or read his Think and Grow Rich to understand that. I truly hope you become successful in both your personal and business life! Geoff P. Dodd