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Causality. You may have heard this word or heard someone utter this word before but have you ever asked yourself what does causality mean? How does it affect you? And most importantly, how does it affect your success?

Causality is derived from the words cause and effect. It basically means that for every action you take, there will be a reaction or consequence to that action. But will the reaction or consequence that occur be truly what you hope and want to achieve? Or will the reaction turn out being something you completely loathe and did not wish to obtain in the first place? For example, when you consume a sumptuous buffet of numerous exotic and mouth watering dishes and got gastric pains in your stomach, did you intend for that to happen in the first place or did you initially just want to fill up your empty stomach?

In fact, success is very much like the law of cause & effect. Success does not happen by chance. It is very dependent on the concise decisions and focus you make and the effective actions you take (cause). Only then will it be possible to see the positive results and outcomes that you intended to achieve (effect). This can be demonstrated by a simple analogy of a student who decides and focuses on scoring outstanding grades for his examination and studies hard and smart. Subsequently, he achieves remarkable grades and eventually tops his class.

Internet marketing is another very relevant example of how causality is very much correlated to success. A simplified example – an internet marketer may probably have the vision and focus of wanting to be wealthy. He then takes steps to attract traffic to his website, entice his customers with a striking sales letter, introduce unique products and provide substantial content. This will consequently generate massive sales and profits for his website and himself.

The testing and tracking of variables such as unique visitors, conversion rates, subscriptions, direct sales and affiliate sales, etc, obviously manifest the relevancy of the law of cause and effect especially in internet marketing – or in any area of life whatsoever.

So the next time you hear or think about causality, do yourself a big favour by asking yourself the following:

1) What decisions and choices do I want to make?

2) What specific, effective actions should I take?

3) How will these decisions, choices and actions affect my success?

4) Had my results and past successes been accidents? Or were they direct results of my taking specific actions?

There is definitely no doubt that you can achieve better degrees of success if you always bear in mind the law of cause and effect.

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Belief is a strange thing indeed. It can make a millionaire out of a former drug-dealing gang member, and fail millions of students at the same time. It is responsible for the airplanes that just flew above my head plus numerous other inventions, but at the same time the mastermind behind mass genocides and relentless insurgents’ attacks around the globe. It has been expounded upon countless times, with its effects evident wherever you see; but people still ignore its presence and how it can build, or destroy us.

The millionaire mentioned above is Stephen Pierce. He was a gang member whose brush with death and his violent past did not prevent him from achieving roaring success with his online business. The Wright brothers who invented airplanes were just bicycle repairmen, but they had created the flying machine despite negative feedback and setbacks. Your beliefs will always exert an effect on you, whether you believe it or not. So how do beliefs work? Here are four important things to note:

1. Empowering beliefs push us forward and open our perspective, while limiting beliefs hold us back and blind us to available resources.

Your beliefs are what truly limit you in your endeavour. Not your available resources, not your parents’ gene nor is it other people’s comments. It is your beliefs. Your beliefs will determine how far you can go. When you have a certain belief, nothing can stop you from committing yourself to it. Your mind will tap into its potential to prove that you’re right. If you think you ‘can’, your mind and body will utilised every resources available to help you achieve it. Similarly, if you think you ‘can’t’. Your mind will shut off all possibilities of ever achieving it.

2. Your beliefs can affect your body’s functioning.

Your belief is so powerful that it does not just direct your actions, makes your decision, but even alters your body chemistry. Have you heard of the placebo effect? Human test subjects who took what they thought were depressants display effects of the drug, even though the drug is actually a stimulant. Your beliefs can actually cause chemical changes in your body, regardless of prior drug consumption! This means that you can also control your body immunity system to a certain extent, simply by making a conscious effort to live healthily and maintaining the beliefs that ‘I am in control of my own health’.

3. A belief is just a thought supported by evidence.

For example, I used to think that rubik cubes are impossible to solve. But once I realize that the belief is due to one faulty idea and evidences that support it, I went all out to re-examine these evidences. They include: limited knowledge of its structure (the only thing I know is that it is made of plastic) and zero knowledge of how to start. I challenge all these evidences by posing new and stronger evidences. Just to name a few, I dissected a few cubes and started watching diy videos at ‘YouTube’ until I’m convinced that it is possible.

Imagine a truck cruising down the highway. What gives the truck the pushing force? It is the engine. But the engine does not make up the truck. It also requires the wheels, the chassis, fuels and other parts to move the vehicle.

A belief works exactly the same way! If a belief is likened to a truck, the engine will be the thought, and the other parts of the vehicle are evidences that support the thought and help to run your belief. To complicate matters, all these apparels, including the engine, are provided other people or events. As long as it is compatible with the engine, you will take it and never consider other options.

So how do you change the faulty engine and customize every part of the car?

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If you are facing social anxiety or shyness, here are some helpful tips that may give you a better chance in overcoming it. Try to come out of hiding and be more courageous in facing your fears.

Steps to overcome social anxiety:

First, you have to make sure of yourself that you are committed and willing enough to undergo the process of conquering your phobia. This is not simple, due to your fear of being humiliated. But that is just the fear sticking in your mind. Convince yourself that you can undertake this simple task.

Note down stuff that make you feel uncomfortable, like certain situations or people – perhaps strangers do this to you. Try visualizing over and over being in such situations or with those people until you have managed to convince yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of.

The next time you see the people you are uncomfortable with, try and manage to say just even a simple greeting or simply acknowledge how they look. The more you give a positive impression, the more confidence you will build up for yourself.

In situations that you are not comfortable with, try to remember them and record them in your thoughts. In this way, you can sort of playback the things that went wrong or what makes you uncomfortable in that situation – until finally you will catch your reactions so you can correct them.

Relaxing is a big help in conquering social anxiety, even if it might seem a little strange. Relaxing your mind will give you a clearer outlook on scenarios and situations that you are afraid of. Relax your muscles and stop your uncontrollable trembling and unwanted movements. Relaxing your breath so that your heartbeat will be controlled too also helps. Sometimes when you are in a situation you are not comfortable with, you might start by breathing heavily, kind of like panting or labored breathing. Repeating this over and over again will help you achieve your goal of a desired level of socializing.

We all know that this is a very hard process, but believing in your self will make the process lighter and more possible to overcome. Not giving up what you believe in will eventually work. Try not to look on your mistakes with frustration.

If a bad conversation might result from your efforts, at least look on the positive side, that you at least made an effort to converse with people. Counting even the slightest success and learning to examine what turned out wrong will give you a more optimistic outlook.

Once you have gone through these procedures, repeat them again and again and you will notice how easy it is the next time around. And as it becomes easier and easier, it means that you have overcome your social anxiety.

It will really take a lot of work, self confidence, positive thinking, a lot of guts and a lot of practice to undergo these steps. But this is a lot easier than being locked up with your phobia until you get older and older. If you just leave it alone, it becomes harder to beat.

There is always hope to overcome shyness. Believing alone will not take you there, but exercising what you believe in will lead you to success.

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