Believe You Can Succeed and You Will
How many of us have heard that ageless cliche ? It has been the main message behind most success gurus for the last almost 100 years starting with Napoleon Hill’s Andrew Carnegie inspired book “Think and Grow Rich.”
It has actually been put forward as the main message through out history. The prophet David said “ As one thinketh in his heart, so is he. “ Emerson said “Great men are those who see that thoughts rule the world.” Milton in Paradise Lost wrote “The mind is it’s own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell or a Hell of Heaven .” Shakespeare said “ There is nothing good or bad except that thinking makes it so.”
After watching our recent election coverage on TV I felt we all might need to be reminded “There’s always hope.” Your life is your life politics be dammed ! (Pardon my English)
The great philosopher Disraeli said “Life is too short too be little.” Which could mean whatever we do in life should be done in a big way.
I think we all suffer from information overload bombarded with negativity to the point we could use a little positive encouragement. So if success is just a state of mind why is it such a struggle to be successful ?
How as an individual do you define success? Much of Society and certainly the news media seem to be impressed with material assets and money. Individual accomplishment can rank high in sports and entertainment also Professional accomplishments or personal relationships. We all have our own inner personal yard stick we use to gauge our own success. The mistake so many people make is to let others define their personal yard stick. It’s your life yours to define!
Today we have so much clutter thrown at us it can be hard to see through to define anything. Here’s some simple words of advice from someone that’s overcame 45 years of mistakes in business, life and relationships.
1. The most important thing in life is the people you love.
2. You can’t help the people you love if you don’t keep yourself strong.
3. Material things are temporary you take nothing with you when you leave.
4. Don’t worry we aren’t going to destroy the world. Will the world destroy us. I don’t know but I don’t see dinosaurs around anymore!
5. Bad things happen to good people all the time that’s just the way it is.
6. All success starts with belief but sometimes you have to throw in 40 years of 100 hour weeks to make it work! The gurus won’t tell you that because you wouldn’t buy their stuff.
7. Do the best you can. All you can do is all you can do and all you can do is enough!
Yours in Success
Larry
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