Success is the attainment of an objective. Success starts in
the mind. Where was the Model T started? In the mind of Henry Ford. Your next
accomplishment will start in your mind.
Self-improvement requires a person to CONTROL THE
CIRCUMSTANCES in which he operates. WE MUST BE CREATORS OF CIRCUMSTANCES AND
NOT CREATURES OF CIRCUMSTANCES. Anyone can do so if his desire is strong
enough, and if he puts his mind to it.
Another interesting thought about our minds is that we can
entertain only one thought at a time.
Therefore, our destiny may be determined by one simple
thought. It is up to each of use whether we want to make it NEGATIVE or
POSITIVE. Our ACTIONS, ATTITUDE, and LIFE will be directed accordingly.
Once we get our minds right we get in the habit of winning.
To get in this habit of success we only have to succeed in each small act each
day. This is why success is not luck. Success can be predicted. If each day is
successful, the results will be a successful week, a successful year and a
successful life. Live one hundred percent for today, as though each day were a
building block. Do each day what should be done that day.
"Look to this day For yesterday is already a dream, and
tomorrow is only a vision; But today well lived, makes every Yesterday a dream
of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to
this day."
How can you build yourselves into this dynamic, self
confident, successful person? The only obstacle you have to overcome is
yourself. First of all you must have FAITH IN YOURSELF. If we have the faith
that we can then we will. Faith is knowing that a thing can be done. Success is not a question of
physical superiority or education. YOU have the needed potential and genius,
but THE FAITH YOU HAVE IN YOURSELF will be the underlying factor of its
development.
Someone has suggested that we are blessed with a conscious
and a subconscious mind. We think with the conscious mind, and we feed the
subconscious or creative mind. Our mind operates like a computer. The creative
mind stores what it is fed and determines our habits and attitudes. The
wonderful part about this is that the subconscious mind is neutral. It does not
care with what it is programmed. The subconscious mind will take in whatever it
is fed. If a person programs his neutral subconscious mind with a successful
image of himself, this will be taken as absolute instruction and the mind will
not be satisfied until success is attained. Likewise, if a negative reading is
put through, the person goes along with "almost" and feels content
with no success. Just as a hypnotized person takes orders as direct
instructions from his controller, so will your creative mind take instructions
from your own conscious mind.
If you want a better memory, tell yourself you have a good
one. Say "It will come to me in a minute" instead of "I can't
remember." If you have a feeling that you will not succeed then this is
registered on the subconscious mind, and your subconscious will accept failure
with little intelligent reasoning. If you feel you will not succeed, combat it,
be positive. The leaders of the world are those who know that greater things
are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about.
Once a person knows where he is going, and that he will
succeed he is already halfway there. If you can see yourself succeeding, the
chances are you will succeed. This is called VISUALIZATION and is a very
important principle in the process of accomplishment.
Treat everyone as though he were the greatest person on
earth. It is your attitude toward others that will determine their attitude
toward you. This positive relationship in your life starts with: DESIRE
DESIRE leads to BELIEF and is the starting point of all
ACHIEVEMENTS. The power of a BURNING DESIRE has greater impact than goals that
use no emotion. We need to get INVOLVED in our goals in order to succeed.
Successful people sail through life. Join them! Act "as if" you already
have what you desire. Do not procrastinate.
We grow into the molds we think about. Henry David Thoreau
says, "Man becomes what he thinks about all day long." Emulate
someone worth emulating.
William James has told us, "The greatest discovery of
any age is that men can change their circumstances by changing the attitude of
their minds." As you change the attitude of your mind, your circumstances
will change in an instant. When we solve our problems and stay continually
positive, it means we have mastered the attitude of our minds.
The key to success is making up your mind where you are
going, then working hard to get there.
Don't be afraid to dream big dreams. This is the beginning
of success.
The key to happiness is doing what you should do when you
should do it.
The greatest men came to the top because of the strength
that grew out of OVERCOMING RESISTANCE. We should anticipate stumbling blocks
that we may encounter and be prepared to respond positively. The overcoming of
problems builds character.
George Bernard Shaw told us, "People are always blaming
their circumstances for what they are. I
don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the
people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't
find them, make them." If we could
but learn that the time has come for the greatest idea in the world to take
possession of our consciousness. It is a simple idea. I WILL SUCCEED BECAUSE I
WILL NOT ACCEPT FAILURE. If we have this in our hearts to succeed because we will not accept failure, then our goals will become
realities.
The fire that will lead you to success comes from within.
This desire and enthusiasm, however, can be misguided and misused if you do not
know where you are going. Too often we let chance make our goals and then we grow into them. With a
goal and a purpose, a person can go further in a year than he would have
previously gone in a lifetime. THE ONLY LIMITATION ON YOUR SUCCESS IS YOU. To
get into action we implement:
THE SIX STEPS TO SUCCESS
1. SET A FEW DEFINITE LONG-TERM GOALS. State what kind of person
you want to become and what you want to accomplish. Do not just say, "I
want to become successful." State more specifically what you want to
become and what you want to accomplish. Fix your mind and your energies on this
goal. Become RESOLUTE in your work.
2. SET DEFINITE SHORT-TERM GOALS. You will achieve your
long-term goals when you persistently succeed in reaching your short-term
goals. A short-term goal should be specific and should relate to a single
problem. A person may be working on more than one short-term goal at any one
time.
3. BUILD A SET OF PRACTICAL PLANS to achieve your goals.
Determine exactly WHAT YOU INTEND TO GIVE to accomplish what you desire. Use
your knowledge, your experience as a foundation. BEGIN NOW.
4. ESTABLISH A DEFINITE DATE FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF EACH
GOAL. A good goal is always a function of time and is measurable and specific. VISUALIZE CONTINUALLY THE REALIZATION OF
YOUR GOAL. Cultivate faith in your ability to accomplish your plan within the
specified time.
5. OVERCOME ANY FEELINGS OF DISCOURAGEMENT YOU HAVE ABOUT
PAST FAILURES. HAVE FAITH THAT
YOU CAN DO IT. Begin at once to put your plan into action. If your plan
collapses, try another and another until you find one that will work. Visualize
yourself accomplishing the goals you have set for yourself.
6. WRITE OUT A CLEAR AND CONCISE STATEMENT OF YOUR GOAL AND
YOUR PLAN. Read it first thing in the
morning. Read it the last thing at night. Develop fortitude in making it a
reality. DARE YOURSELF TO ACCOMPLISH these written goals.
Become proud of your goals, and as you see them in your mind's
eye. Also visualize yourself being proud of your future goal accomplishments
and act accordingly in this "realm" of success. ALL THE
"MATERIALIZATIONS OF LIFE ARE SIMPLY THIE RESULT OF A STRONG POSITIVE
"VISUALIZATION". Whatever you do, don't doubt these goals. You are
the only chance they have to be realized. As Shakespeare put it: "Our
doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to
attempt."
Once a goal is chosen, the only thing we have to do is
prepare a plan and resolve the problems that stand between where we are and
where we want to be. Be sure you are not wasting time worrying about things
that have nothing to do with the real problem. Someone has said that 40% of our
worries never happen, 30% are over and past and can't be changed, 12% are
needless health worries, 10% are miscellaneous, and 8% are real.
Remember that we make our goals as real as we desire by the
ACTION and DETERMINATION with which we back them. How strong must this be? At
the bleaker moments of the war, Prime Minister Churchill was asked what the
policy of his country would be now that France had fallen to the Nazis. His
answer was, "You ask what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by sea,
land and air with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a
monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human
crime. That is our policy. You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word
victory, victory, at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror, victory however
long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
Following this Gibraltar-like statement, Mr. Churchill followed up with directives
to his commanders in the field with new instructions for their areas of
command. It was at the bottom of each of these sets of orders that was written
the now famous charge "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never,
never, never- in nothing great or small, large or petty."
This bulldog -like attitude, this unquestionable,
irrevocable determination that would not be denied, simple in its declaration,
momentous in its scope, had much to do with the survival and eventual victory
of the Allied forces. Winston Churchill demanded one thing of himself and of
those with whom he associated, "Victory at all costs."
Your "acre of diamonds" is where you are right
now--your family, your job, your friends.
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