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IN BUSINESS. IN RELATIONSHIPS. IN LIFE. YOU CAN SUCCEED! |
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Mid August 2003 |
Monthly E-Letter to Opt-In Subscribers to help you:
- Look forward beyond your past
- Learn to live and love life
- Laugh and help others laugh too
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Unleash your incredible potential
- Succeed! Succeed! Succeed!
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SUCCESS EXPERIENCE
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I attended a seminar this past weekend and found myself
disappointed and accelerated with excitement all at the
same time.
I went to this seminar ready to be blown away by some
fairly popular speakers and entrepreneurs. When it came
time to listen to the first keynote (who I was pumped about
hearing) I found myself deflated with disappointment when
it was over. I thought to myself, "I hope the rest of the
weekend isn’t like this."
I was disappointed because the main person I wanted to
hear and meet was all excitement and no substance. There
wasn’t any meat to what he was saying. He just yelled and
screamed a lot and had the audience yell and scream, but
none of us were any better or knew any more than when we
first arrived. And I heard others saying the same type of
comments.
Then it occurred to me, "This guy who is speaking is me." He’s
you. Every day we do the same thing. Most of the time, though,
it’s not on such a big platform.
What’s the point?
How many times have we set out to achieve a goal but attacked
it with no plan. We made a lot of waves but never made a
difference. The problem the speaker had that night was he had
no plan of attack.
Neither can we just go through life expecting to succeed in our
areas of choice without setting up some kind of plan to achieve
our already decided successes.
On the excitement side of the coin, I went to a class the next
day at this seminar that floored me. I couldn’t believe the
class facilitator’s passion. Like the first speaker, this guy
had excitement, passion and a couple of other characteristics
that hit home with everyone there.
You see our decision to accomplish a goal is VERY important.
But the decision alone is not enough. We must have a few other
things in place to help accomplish that decision. These things
are the same characteristics I saw in our class facilitator on
Saturday.
The following are a few things we can do to prepare for the
successes we’ve already decided in our lives:
PASSION
We’ve already touched on this but it’s worth repeating. Trying
to succeed without passion is like calling a soggy bowl of
cereal a hearty breakfast. It just leaves you wanting more and
eventually you’ll just pour it down the drain because it just
isn’t appealing.
So, to be successful, develop a passion in your area of choice.
INTEGRITY
This is an outstanding asset and seems to be fleeting in today’s
society. If you have a true, upstanding character that lands you
in the category of integrity, then you are miles ahead of the
rest.
Anyone loves to work with people who have integrity. This is a
characteristic that isn’t easily attained. You have to work hard
to be recognized as one of these people. But once you’ve got the
label of a person of integrity, you’re worth more than any
product you will produce or endorse.
HARD WORK
Hard work is essential for success. I knew this going in the
Saturday class. But to hear it reintroduced was a great
refresher. Work doesn’t just "get done". Someone has to do it.
And you know how you want things done. And if you have an
unlimited amount of money, chances are things won’t get done the
way you want them even if you hire it out. When it comes to hard
work, excuses have no place. There’s no short-cutting hard work.
RELATIONSHIPS
This is vital. Without relationships, you will be in the same
place you started when you decided to work toward your endeavor.
Your relationships are one of the main avenues to your success.
The company you keep, the partnerships you make, the every day
interaction that you maintain will be a gauge for your
achievements.
You will be able to look back once you have won a victory and see
how the relationships played a part. In the midst of working
toward your success, you may not see it. But once you’re living
your success it’s obvious. Rarely, if ever, can a success be
claimed by one.
Take these areas and enhance them. You’ll be glad you did.
There’s a great success waiting on you and a victory to claim.
Choose it.
Chase it.
Achieve it.
Until next time keep looking and living forward.
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adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness and regrouping
to basics can launch a comeback."
-Pat Riley
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