Did you know there are eight dominant beliefs that will help you get the things you want? Everyone really does have what it takes to create a beautiful life, and that life starts with your routines and habits, the things you do every day.

Let’s start with the first mentality, that of the A player who never declines. It really is a simple idea: Decline happens when you’re most successful, and it’s something we don’t even realize. When you’re successful, that’s when you’re most vulnerable. If you’re running a business right now and are rocking it, at the top of your game, or if you have a career where you’re on top of the world, you can still slip into a dangerous place, because nothing fails like success.

How this happens is that when we become successful, as human beings, we fall in love with our winning formula. It becomes easy for us to start stagnating, to listen to people who say, “Wow, you’ve achieved more than anyone I’ve seen,” and then we start to think about slowing down, maybe writing less, taking early retirement, not going that extra mile anymore for others in our communities, or not getting up early. Instead, we decide to sleep in and then begin deciding not to learn anything new.

The most important thing to remember is that you don’t want to decline from your success, no matter how successful you are, how physically fit you become, or how much money you start making. Dial up your productivity. Don’t be successful for just a week or in just one window of opportunity. Keep your boots on the ground and think about how to sustain that success over a lifetime. If you want to keep that physically fit body you’re now rocking, you need to maintain it, and how you do that is by not becoming complacent.

Keep learning every day, and never lose that fire inside. This comes down to two things. Always ask yourself, “How can I make everything I touch better than how I found it?” and “How can I make everyone I meet more inspired than when I met them?” Write down the answers to these questions, and post them where you can see them every day. By making a written statement and posting it everywhere instead of being complacent and letting life pass you by, you will keep going and nail down your powerful new habits so you can lift the bar even higher.

Next week's blog will be the second mental mastery: Being Strategic instead of being reactive!