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The IFTAR acronym has been trained by many successful people in the business and entrepreneurial world to help achieve desired results, and it is an important formula for all of us to follow.
Here’s more detail about what this acronym means:
I Stands for Influence
The meaning of Influence is the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself.
How are you being influenced in your everyday?
Are you continuing to grow positively, or are you watching negative news?
You see, what we absorb in our everyday affects our results.
If you hang out with someone that swears all the time and you don’t, you will notice you will start swearing. Have you experienced this? I have. I had to move my desk in an office last year and the person I was near swore all the time. After only a couple weeks I noticed I started to swear. I was being influenced in a way I did not want to be! I had to move myself away from him so I would not be influenced in this negative way.
Are you reading books that will influence you to grow personally and professionally? Or are you reading romance novels and living through someone else story?
The attention you put into your thoughts will influence you, good or bad.
Are there negative people in your life that are sucking life out of you? Perhaps it is time to make some changes in your life.
T stands for Thoughts
The meaning of Thoughts is things. An idea or opinion produced by thinking or occurring suddenly in your mind. They are powerful. They are pre-emptive.
The very thoughts running through your mind can help to manifest the life of your dreams or draw you closer to your greatest fears. But most people don’t realize the inherent power of their thoughts.
There’s no hiding from something that’s so real and exact that it can either be harnessed for good or leveraged for extreme evil.
But what are thoughts exactly?
How do they work?
Is everything in our lives right now the product of our thoughts?
Have we truly manifested whatever reality we might be experiencing at this moment in time?
Whether your thoughts are positive or negative they will manifest what you are thinking. What you focus on expands … Good or bad.
Whether or not you believe that statement is rather subjective, the truth of the matter is that we are the product of our thoughts. Think and you shall become.
Yet, it doesn’t happen overnight. For those that are serious, there is a pathway to achievement. As long as you can shift your thinking into the right direction, you can quite literally manifest your dreams.
Will this take time? Yes, of course. You have been living with your thoughts for as long as you have been breathing. For some it has been many years.
What are your thoughts focusing on?
F Stands for your Feelings
Do you agree the language we use produces feelings and emotions?
Most of us don’t realize how powerful words are and how big of an impact they have on our lives and emotions, affecting how we feel. Listening to ourselves can be quite an education.
When I say listening: I mean listen to the verbal words you use and the non-verbal words… the words you say in your mind to yourself.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity, which creates our feelings.
We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of discouragement.
Words have energy and power with the ability to help, heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
When we focus on negative words it will create more negative feelings. When we focus on positive words it will create more positive feelings.
A Stands for Action
The meaning of action is having something done. Typically to achieve an aim. Action applies specifically to the doing.
An action usually lasts through some time and consists of more than one act: to take action on a petition. An act is single: an act of kindness.
To take action, you must decide to do so.
Your thought is like the steering wheel of your mind and you must press the gas peddle for you to go the distance.
It is the act of “doing” that will take you to get the results you want. Thinking without action will not give you anything.
A vision/plan will assist you to take action. This should be written down for you to move forward. There are far too many business owners that do not write a plan out. Your plan is a strategy for your business.
With no action plan becomes a lack of self-discipline.
Success requires discipline. If you lack self-discipline, you are more likely to give up too quickly when problems arise. Similarly, a lack of discipline will make you, more likely, to give in to temptations or distractions that often leads you nowhere.
If you are undisciplined, you will see no reason in creating action plans.
R stands for RESULTS
Implementing all of the above will give you your RESULTS!
Good or Bad it is up to you on how you process all that you have read here so far.
The meaning of RESULTS is to achieve an aim. Getting something done. A result is something that occurs because of some action. … The result you get for a math problem will be wrong if you add when you should multiply.
The verb “result” means to follow as an outcome of some action. Simply put, if you don’t act you will not receive the results you want.
If you say “I never get results” guess what? You will never get results!
What you focus on shows up!
Now that you know what IFTAR stands for, make it a daily practice and habit to keep this powerful acronym in mind so you can create the results you desire in both business and in life!
Cheryl Bishop
About the Author, Cheryl Bishop
Are you wanting more success in your business? Do you at times feel you are alone doing business?
Cheryl has been in the business world her whole life. She was led by God to create Resilient Women in Business Mastermind groups to support women to achieve their heart's desires.
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