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It's a fact of life that less that one in five of the people who talk about success are actually doing anything constructive toward actually achieving success. The more you talk without doing the stronger you reinforce in your subconscious that success should never be more than a theory for you.

Here are some steps that you can take to get onto the ladder of success and actually start climbing. If you follow this advice then your life will become an exciting and rewarding adventure.

Step 1: Find a book, audio or course on success that is full of practical exercises for you to do and then do the exercises.

I hate to be the one to break the news to you but reading about success, listening to success stories or sitting in a seminar room listening and taking notes will never make you successful. Unless you combine that input with some practical exercises you will never emotionally learn the teachings.

What do I mean by "emotionally learn"?

Your conscious mind learns logically. You take in information. Weigh it up, compare it to knowledge you already have and then you gain a logical understanding of the material. This allows you to explain it to others and to theorize about its applications, but it doesn't change your life in any practical way.

When the subconscious mind learns it learns emotionally. It learns from the experiences of pleasure and pain and it takes the learnings and incorporates them into your habit patterns and eventually into your personality. What you learn emotionally via your subconscious mind will change your life.

A good book, audio or course is full of practical exercises specifically designed to help you learn emotionally so that your can enlist your subconscious mind to actually help you change your life for the better.

Any other form of teaching is just an intellectual introduction to the subject. While it is good to be introduced to a new subject you will still have to seek exercise based learning to actually utilize the learning to improve your life.

Step 2: Take what you have learned through the exercises and apply it daily in your life.

Once you have started the emotional learning processes through your exercises the next step is to extend it into your day to day living. The subconscious needs a lot of repetition in order to change non productive habits into productive habits. It is up to you to provide it with that repetition.

Extending your learning exercises to your real life situations will initially cause some stretching of your comfort zone and you will meet with some resistance. But if you persist with the new strategies then, over a period of time, they will become a part of your new comfort zone and they will be automatic, reflex behaviors for you. It is worth the initial discomfort in order to establish rewarding habits.

Getting on to the ladder of success is the hardest part. As you persist with your new strategies you will begin to build a momentum that will take you all the way to the top. You just have to be willing to push yourself for those few early rungs and then the ladder of success will become a whole lot of fun to climb.