| Success Secrets Still Valid By Wayne Van Dyck 15 | | | | business, would it be a tape you'd be proud of or |
| top motivational gurus distilled 8 Secrets to Success | | | | embarrassed about? Make the decision today to work |
| they all agreed upon. These secrets are still good | | | | at being the best in your field. How? By finding out |
| today and are as follows: 1. Take 100% Responsibility | | | | what the "best" in your field are doing, and do what |
| for Your Life - In a society where people blame | | | | they do. 6. Write Out a Plan for Achieving Your Goals |
| everything from their parents, to the media, to the | | | | - Write out an action plan/map for how you're going to |
| government, for failure, those who don't buy into this | | | | achieve your goals. Trying to reach your goals without |
| mentality or succumb to the "victim" thinking succeed. | | | | a plan is like trying to drive from Los Angeles to |
| To blame somebody or something other then yourself | | | | Chicago without a map. A goal that isn't written down |
| is saying they have control of your life and not you. | | | | is merely a wish or fantasy. 7. Never Give Up - Never, |
| Someone else's opinion of you doesn't have to | | | | never, never give up. Once you're become fully |
| become your reality. 2. Live Your Life On Purpose - | | | | committed to achieving your goal, giving up is not an |
| What separates motivational thinkers from the | | | | option. You must be willing do whatever it takes to |
| unsuccessful is that they don't just believe they're | | | | make it happen. The power of perseverance is an |
| doing what they were put here to do; they know | | | | awesome force. As someone once said, "inch by inch |
| they're doing it. The difference between this and just | | | | it's a cinch". Think of the lowly inchworm - if it pondered |
| living is that the latter is just getting through the week | | | | the length of the trip from start to finish before it |
| with the least problems. But when you live your life on | | | | started, it probably would never move. To a worm's |
| purpose, your main concern is doing the job right. For | | | | point-of-view, the garden path must look like a trip to |
| the entrepreneur this means finding a cause you | | | | Mars. Never give up! Keep on going like the Eveready |
| believe in and building your business around it. 3. Be | | | | battery bunny, and pretty soon you're there. 8. Don't |
| Willing to Pay the Price - You should be willing to pay | | | | Delay - Nobody knows exactly how much time they |
| the price for your dreams. Wanting a big house, a | | | | have left to accomplish their dreams and we mustn't |
| luxury car, and a million dollars in the bank is all very | | | | forget that we don't have forever. The clock is ticking, |
| nice, and everyone wants these things - but are you | | | | and sooner or later your number comes up and you're |
| willing to pay the price to get them? This is one of the | | | | gone. Successful achievers know this too, but they |
| major differences between the successful and | | | | don't view it as a "negative". Achievers use it to "spur |
| unsuccessful. 4. Stay Focused - Every day we're | | | | them on". They go after what they want as |
| bombarded with an enormous amount of tasks, phone | | | | energetically and as passionately as possible, for as |
| calls, messages, and everyone competing for our time. | | | | long as they have. I had a friend who used to say, |
| Focusing requires giving up something in the present | | | | "Today is a check - cash it! Yesterday is an I.O.U. - |
| because you are investing your time in something that | | | | forget it! Tomorrow is a promissory note, don't bank on |
| will pay off huge down the road. Jack Canfield and | | | | it!" I think that's a pretty good summation of life, so go |
| Mark Hanson were rejected by 30 publishers when | | | | out there and cash in on that "today" check. |
| they submitted the first "Chicken Soup for the Soul" | | | | ========= Wayne Van Dyck is a former venture |
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| the best-seller that spawned an entire series which | | | | set up online businesses in less than 30 minutes. It's |
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| the best at what they do, are constantly improving, and | | | | ========= Permission to reprint this article in |
| will do almost anything to improve. If someone followed | | | | unchanged form, including author bio. |
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