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