Success

Image result for success imagesSuccess Obviously, we all have different dreams and ideas of what we want to create for our lives. I'm very clear that who you know where you go and what you own are not the true measure of personal success. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more. It is the opportunity to continually grow emotionally, socially, spiritually, physiologically, intellectually, and financially while contributing in some positive way to others. The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

The power to magically transform our lives into our greatest dreams lies waiting within us all. It's time to unleash it! The fact is we live in an age where many people are able to achieve wondrous things almost overnight, to achieve successes that would have been unimaginable in earlier times, look at:

Steve Jobs:  He was a kid in blue jeans with no money who took an idea for a home computer and built a fortune 500 company faster than anyone in history.

Ted Turner:  He took a medium that barely existed "cable television"- and created an empire.

Steven Spielberg or Bruce Springsteen:  Entertainment industry.

La Iaccoca:  Businessman.

What do they have in common other than astounding, prodigious success? The answer, of course, is...... POWER. Ultimate Power is the ability to produce the results you desire most and create value for others in the process. Power is the ability to change your life, to shape your perceptions, to make things work for you and not against you. Real power is shared, not imposed. It's the ability to define human needs and to fulfill them- both your needs and the needs of the people you care about. It's the ability to direct your own personal kingdom- your own thought processes, your own behavior- so you produce the precise results you desire.

So why do some people generate fabulous results, while others just scrape by? The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone, who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word "Power" is "The ability to Act."

Often we get caught in the mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action. It's a "gift" that any of us can develop within ourselves. After all, other people had the same knowledge "Steve Jobs" did. People other than "Ted Turner" could have figured out that cable had enormous economic potential. But Turner and Jobs were able to take action, and by doing so, they changed the way many of us experience the world. Successful people's lives have shown us over and over again that the quality of our lives is determined not by what happens to us, but rather by what we do about what happen.

People who have attained excellent follow a consistent path to success. The first step is to know your outcome, that is, to define precisely what you want. The second step is to take action-otherwise your desires will always be dreams. You must take the types of actions you believe will create the greatest probability of producing the result you desire. The actions we take do not always produce the results we desire, so the third step is to develop the sensory acuity to to recognize the kinds of responses and results you're getting from your actions and to note as quickly as possible if they are taking you closer to your goals or farther away. You must know what you're getting from your actions, whether it be in a conversation or from your daily habits in life. If what you're getting is not what you want, you need to note what results your actions have produced so that you learn from every human experience. And then you take the fourth step, which is to develop the flexibility to change your behavior until you get what you want successful people, started with a target, because you can't hit one if you don't have one.

Steven Spielberg: At the age of thirty-six, he's become the most successful filmmaker in history. He's already responsible for four of the ten top-grossing films of all time, including E.T., The Extra- Terrestrial, the highest- grossing film ever. How did he reach that point at such a young age? It's a remarkable story.

From the age of twelve or thirteen, Spielberg knew he wanted to be a movie director. His life changed when he took a tour of Universal Studios one afternoon when he was seventeen years old. The tour didn't quite make it to take sound stages, where all the actions was, so Spielberg, knowing his outcome, took action.

For most people that's where the strong would have ended. But Spielberg wasn't like most people. He had personal power. He knew what he wanted. He learned from his first visit, so he changed his approach. The next day, he put on a suit, brought along his father's briefcase, loaded with only a sandwich and two candy bars, and returned to the lot as if he belonged there. He strode purposefully past the gate that day. He found an abandoned trailer and using some plastic letters, put Spielberg, Director, on the door. Then he went on to spend his summer meeting directors, writers, and editors, lingering at the edgesof the world he craved, learning from every conversation, observing and developing more and more sensory acuity about what worked in movie making.

Finally, at age twenty, after becoming a regular on the lot, Steven showed universal a modest film he had put together, and he was offered a seven-year contract to direct a TV series. He's made his dream come true.

He had the specialized knowledge to know what results he was getting, whether his actions were moving him closer to or further from his goal. And he had the flexibility to change his behavior to get what he wanted. Those who succeed are committed to changing and being flexible until they do create the life that they desire.

Kentucky Fried Chicken: How Colonel Sanders built the empire that made him a millionaire and changed the eating habits of a nation? When he started, he was nothing but a retiree with a fried-chicken recipe. That's all. No organization. No nothing. He had owned a little restaurant that was going broke because the main highway had been routed elsewhere. When he got the first social security check, he decided to see if he could make some money selling his chicken recipe. His idea was to sell the recipe to restaurant owners and have them give him a percentage of the proceeds.

Now that's not necessarily the most realistic idea for beginning a business. And, as things turned out, it didn't exactly rocket him to stardom. He drove around the country sleeping in his car, trying to find someone who would back him. He kept changing his idea and knocking on doors. He was rejected 1,009 times, and then something miraculous happened. Someone said "YES." The Colonel was in business. How many of you have a recipe? How many of you have the physical power and charisma of a chunky old man in a white suit? Colonel Sanders made a fortune because he had the ability to take massive, determined action. He had the personal power necessary to produce the results he desired most. He had the ability to hear the world "NO" a thousand times and still communicate to himself in a way that got him to knock on the next door, totally convinced that it could be the one where someone said yes.

Success is not an accident. The difference between people who produce positive results and those who produce positive results and those who do not is not some sort of random roll of the dice. There are consistent logical patterns of action, specific pathways to excellence, that are within the reach of us all. We can all unleash the magic within us. We simply must learn how to turn on and use our minds and believes in the most powerful and advantageous ways.

Bunker Hunt: The Texas Oil billionaire, was asked once if had any one piece of advice he could give people on how to succeed. He said that success is simple. First, you decide what you want specifically; and second, you decide you're willing to pay the price to make it happen- and then pay that price. If you don't take that second step, you'll never have what you want in the long time.


Some Brilliant "Success" Quotes

"There is only one success- to be able to spend
your life in your own way."   
                                       - Christopher Morley
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent
goals that it, goals that do not inspire them."  
                                        - Anthony Robbins
"Winning starts with beginning."  
                                         - Anonymous
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is
the probable reason why so few engage in it."  
                                          -Henry Ford
"Where there is no vision, people perish."  
                                          -Proverb 29:18
"The friend who understand you, creates you."  
                                          -Romain Rolland
"If you would win a man to your cause, first
convince him that you are his sincere friend."  
                                         -Abraham Lincoln
"In the right key one can say anything. In the
wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the
establishment of the key."  
                                         -George Bernard Shaw
"One can stand still in a flowing stream,
but not in the world of men."  
                                        - Japanese Proverb
"One who is too insisted on his own views,
finds few to agree with him."  
                                         - Lao-Tu-Tao Teb King
"A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance."  
                                            -Benjamin Disraeli


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