You were born to succeed. If you aren't aware of this then you are fighting nature.
Nevertheless, many do not succeed. But since you, like everybody else, were born to succeed, what's stopping you? Merely not being aware of the simple fact that you were put on this planet to succeed. Like succeeding at anything, first people need to be aware of the possibility of success--that it's there for the taking. After awareness comes desire, but not just any desire, not just wimpy desire, but according to Napoleon Hill burning desire. After burning desire, you must then begin to get some specifics. Specifically what is desired? Specific goals, deadlines, dollar amounts, and so on.
You've got that all down, so now what? Well, you need to purge your head of mistruths. What are they? Read on.
Some people hear the phrase "Failure is not an option," and believe it in the extreme. Let's qualify that phrase. If your goal is to become an investor and earn a million dollars in two years and you don't do so, are you a failure? Yes and no. Certainly, you should set specific goals, but should you adhere to them so strictly? How flexible can goals be? Let's take another look at our example.
You didn't achieve your goal in two years but in two years and three months. Have you failed? You may have failed if you believed that failure was
not achieving what you desired in the required time frame, meaning that you stopped after one year and didn't make the million dollars. Some say that success is usually just on the other side of the last straw, or that failure that stopped the person from trying again. But if the person knew that he or she was born to succeed, wouldn't their attitude change? And wouldn't they have a greater desire to keep trying? Not give up?
Consider the following, there are many who say that success comes upon continual effort, effort that almost ignores failure, failure that passes under the bridge of one's desire like a calm trickle. Never upsetting. Never discouraging. Why? Well, let's have a well-known gentleman give us the answer.
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."--
Thomas Jefferson
Yes, the universe wants to reward you. But only if you believe and believe with some great big desire. Napoleon Hill tells us that it needs to be a burn-all-your-bridges, blazing bomb fire of a desire, a desire that will not take no for an answer. Not failure, for it will come, but "no" as in not giving up on one's dream. And it appears that you need big dreams, that the universe doesn't like the weak, wimpy, measly dream. According to T Harv Ecker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind , unless you believe you will be awarded with abundance you will not receive it. He states that the universe will only put what riches it can into your basket. To increase your wealth you must increase the size of your basket or the belief that you will obtain great wealth.
Why is it that over 80% of lottery winners lose all their money and never get it back while people like Donald Trump lose billions and get it all back, and then some. Trump knows the pshychology of money. The others never had the training. Money isn't just made, it's managed.
To be successful one needs to establish a particular mindset, among other things-discipline, focus, mental toughness (unaffected by criticism), specific goals, management and control of emotions and so on. But what is probably the most amazing aspect of success is the fact that as you go and get it on a regular, tenacious basis it will seek you out.
"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become."--
Jim Rohn
It's interesting that in going and getting success we have to improve in many ways and in doing so, in this changing, in this becoming anew we attract success.
Point of note, as I was working on my degrees, my schedule was very full but my goal was clear: get my BA and MA; teach college six years; acquire knowledge, class management and speaking skills; and then go into the private sector to teach motivational material and write. I planed for this to occur over a period of 11 years or so. Because my plan was so mapped out, my goals so specific (yet flexible) things began to occur that I was not prepared for . . . good things.
Because I was working on my degree and working 30 hours a week as well, my time was limited. At times I was not able to turn assignments in on time or get things done when they were supposed to be done. But an interesting thing happened, an amazing thing. Not some of the time, not most of the time, but every time I couldn't hand an assignment in on time a class was cancelled, assignment moved up, or I was allowed to hand in the assignment at a later date.
Having clear goals, being flexible, understanding that we were put here ultimately to succeed, that temporary failure is a part of our education, that we must burn with a desire to succeed, that our basket must be large enough so that the universe can be generous are some of the essentials we need to be aware of in order to succeed.
Believe, visualize your successes, and don't give in to the naysayers who don't want you to succeed because they know it will make their hopelessness more real than they can bear. Succeed. Succeed. Succeed.
Success:
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."--
Bill Cosby
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."--
Henry A. Kissinger
"Success doesn't come to you... you go to it."--
Marva Collins
"Success is never final."--
Winston Churchill
"Success is a journey, not a destination."--
Ben Sweetland
"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you are doing is work or play."--
Warren Beatty
"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."--
Zig Zigler
"The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary."--
Vidal Sasson
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."--
Amos Bronson Alcott
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."--
Thomas Jefferson
"I am a great believer in luck, The harder I work, The more of it I seem to have."--
Coleman Cox
"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability."--
Flower A. Newhouse
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."--
William Feather
"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."--
Napoleon Hill
"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."--
Sir Winston Churchill
"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet, each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward. Turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future."--
Og Mandino
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."--
Henry David Thoreau
"Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success."--
David O. McKay
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."--
Aristotle Onassis
"The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard."--
Helen Gurley Brown
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."--
Frank Lloyd Wright
"I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. Their turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. They were going to succeed. Some people make that decision at 15. Some people make it at 50. Most people never make it at all."--
Brian Tracy
"Recipe for Success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing."--
William A. Ward
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."--
Charles Dickens
"The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success."--
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."--
Herman Cain
"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become."--
Jim Rohn
"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."--
Henry David Thoreau
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."--
James Bond
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