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Success depends on action, not procrastination. Dreams are great springboards to success, but only if they lead to action.
Becoming a success and realizing your dreams requires hard work – and action. Don’t let what others might say keep you from starting. These are your dreams, and realizing them is totally up to you.
We remember Thomas Edison as a great inventor, but before he succeeded, he invented a lot of “failures.”. Abraham Lincoln is remembered as a great President, but before that, he failed many times in his life. Babe Ruth is remembered as a great baseball player, but before he hit all his home runs, he struck out many times.
We must be proactive, and take our best swing, if we ever hope to become successful.
I’m sure Babe Ruth got free “walks” many times – but that was because he was such a great hitter that the pitchers were afraid to let him bat. In order to become successful, we’re going to have to do the work required to get there.
How many times have you heard someone say, “Don’t rush me, I’ll get around to it” (i.e., when all they ever do is sit on the couch, snooze, or play golf (the “Round Tu-It” trap).
But taking any action to realize their goals? Oh, no, “I’ll get around to it.” Don’t be one of those couch potatoes. Your dreams are important to you, but the only way to realize them and accomplish success in life that you both want and deserve is to get up off the couch and take some action.
What could you do in the next five minutes to further you goals and put yourself on the path toward success and fulfillment in life?The Infinite Income Plan can be your roadmap to financial security.
Don’t procrastinate; do it now!
Small business is the life blood of the country. Small shops are situated in the locality to reach the local customers easily. Products are sold on local demand.
You have to be well acquainted with the idea of starting a particular business. At first you have to analysis the market strategy and gather information about the product which contributes best to the local needs. Then you have to make plans about future prospects and capital investments. Before starting a small business you need to select the position of the shop that you will buy. After that you have to arrange capital for your business. You can either take bank loans or invest capital with the support of your relatives and friends.
You can choose sole proprietorship or partnership structure of the business. In sole proprietorship you are the entrepreneur of your business. You have to take the burden of all risk and responsibilities of your business. In partnership you can share every risk, responsibilities and capital among the partners. Than you have to make trade license which gives permission to start your business. Then you have to open a bank current account which is entitled to the name of your business.
You should sell quality products at low profit margin so as to give them benefit according to their need. You need to do market survey to get the information regarding market price and it will help you to make optimum profit. You have to promote your business by providing good service and material to your customers. You should give them some offers and discount. You should create goodwill of your business through advertisement, good quality products and service. Your shop needs small decoration if it is trading and service oriented. You have to hire employees to help you in your work related to service and accounting. The trucks like commercial pickups assist in transportation of goods.
You should ensure that you are giving your maximum effort and concentration to build your business.
The path to make your business successful is not easy. It takes many days to create your potential in business. You have to pass through many difficulties before that. You are required to follow some rules to accomplish your target.
Firstly, you have to be impassioned in your business. The warmth and feeling towards your work will guide you in the right path. Secondly, you have to be highly ambitious to accomplish the desired result. High target stimulates you to put maximum effort and achieve monopoly position.
Thirdly, you have to keep outstanding attitude in your business line. You have to launch a unique product which has hardly any competitors in the market. If you introduce common line of business then you have to adopt new and unusual ways to attract your customers. Fourthly, you have to appoint perfect employees. Employees are the part of your business that helps you in the smooth running of your business. You have to treat them as the members of your business.
Fifthly, you have to keep a dynamic outlook of the business world by joining training classes, reading books, business magazines and articles on the websites; and attending seminars. You can get help from business experts by taking their advice and suggestion. Sixthly, you have to do marketing of your product. Marketing is the key to success. You cannot just expect your business to flourish from the starting day. You have to publish leaflets and brochures and arrange advertisement through radio, T.V and internet.
Seventhly, you have to be conscious about timely delivery of your product. Time is the prime factor. It creates a good impression on the customers. Eighthly, you have to remain consistent in your business. Used dump trucks for example will help you succeed.
Ninthly, you can provide best possible service to your customers through your polite behaviour. Lastly, you have to think positive and work hard.
If you follow these steps, you will surely achieve your goal.
The recent statistics declaring that college graduates earn more income over a lifetime than non-grads is now being looked at skeptically and rightly so. The truth is, ambitious people generally make more money and are usually found among college graduates. Researchers also suggests that had these same people never attended college their earning potential would probably have remained the same.
This can also be applied to those who found success. It would not have mattered what steps they had taken, the outcome would be identical. The reason is success is an expression of the Authentic cause within each unique individual. Success is not achieved by following any set of steps or following any group of principals or assuming any archetype. That is why so called formulas for success continue to produce less than satisfactory results. Success (much like happiness) is not something you can put on a “to-do” list, but rather it is a “state of being”.
A quick tip on learning the so called “secrets of success” is to first identify those who have obtained your life’s dream and read everything you can find about them. By considering people who satisfy your definition of success you will find there is only one cause that they all share and that is persistence.
A Short List of Successful Failures
According to “The Secret of Success is Not a Secret,” by Darcy Andries, Tenacity or being persistent in maintaining, or seeking something valued or desired is the name of the game. Here are just a few examples from her book:
Clint Eastwood
This producer, director and actor, was fired early in his career. He was told by an executive at Universal studios: “You have a chipped tooth, your Adam’s apple sticks out to far and you talk to slow.” He took on odd jobs to earn a living then one day he starred in an Italian movie called, “A Fist Full of Dollars.” The film was a massive success. The director decided to make him the star in, “A Few Dollars More” and “The Good, Bad and Ugly.” Once these movies were released he became a global sensation.
Walt Disney
Walt began with entrepreneurial failures early in life and was forced into bankruptcy. He was also fired by a newspaper editor as he “had no good ideas.” He spent 4 years producing “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” despite his critics and it cost him1.5 million which almost took him to the brink of having to fold up shop. Since its 1939 release “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” has amassed well over 400 million bucks. Walt Disney also holds the record for receiving the most Academy Awards, twenty-six, with sixty-four nominations.
Albert Einstein
Because of his lack of interest and poor grades Albert’s school teachers considered him mentally slow. Most considered him to be a failure with no future. Later he took the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology entrance exam and failed. And his doctorial dissertation was viewed as “irrelevant and fanciful.” It wasn’t until “The Special Theory of Relativity” was published that he gained any recognition. Einstein won a Nobel Prize in 1921 for Physics.
David Letterman
Letterman got fired from his job as a weatherman in Indianapolis. He later landed ordinary roles on two television programs that were both canceled only after a few episodes. There was another series to be called “Leave it to Dave” saddly it never made it on TV. His new morning show called, “The David Letterman Show,” was caned after only four months on the air. Finally Dave was given his own show “Late Night with David Letterman” earning five Emmy Awards and thirty nominations. Later he moved to CBS to host “The Late Show” with more than fifty nominations taking home nine Emmys awarded.
Clark Gable
It would be ten long years before Clark would pique Hollywoods curiosity. As he traveled form Ohio to Oregon he took on roles in small theater productions. He sold ties to make a living. He had to take on work as an extra in silent films due to failing his first MGM screen test. Leaving the movies he fled to the stage. He auditioned at Warner Brothers and unfortunatley was turned away. They felt his ears were just too large. Gable returned to MGM in 1931 and found a role in The Painted Desert which was a success. Gable seemed to get a bit of an ego and MGM in an effort to teach him humility lent him out to smaller studios. Instead in 1934 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in “It Happened One Night.” His most famous role of course was as the male lead in “Gone With the Wind”.
Abraham Lincoln
Lincolns story is one that shows the successful pay off of persistance despite repeated failures.
- In 1831 his first business, a dry goods store failed.
- A year later he fought in The Black Hawk War as a Captain. Three months later he was demoted and left the Army as a Private.
- In 1832 lost an election for the State Legislation.
- Opened another store, which also failed leaving him in debt in 1833.
- As a postmaster he had the worse efficiency record in the county.
- He won in 1834 for the Illinois House of Representatives but in 1838 lost for Speaker of the House.
- Lincoln lost the election in 1843 for U.S. Congress.
- He ran again and won but later lost the 1848 election.
- 1855 he lost his bid for the U.S. Senate
- 1856 he ran for Vice President and lost.
- 1858 he again ran for U.S. Senate and lost again.
- Finally in 1860 he ran for president of the United States and won with 40% of the popular vote. It was assumed that he would lose re-election in 1864, but he won with 55% of the popular vote.
What success program did Lincoln or these others subscribe to? What “Success Principles” workshop did they attend? Based upon that, what does this tell us about the truthfullness of the “Law of Attraction?”
The Inevitability of Your Success
The above stories reveal the dynamics of real life. These are typical examples of how people discover real success. Notice it is not a straight path. Success comes only after failure and persistence. It was their inner drive, fueled by passion that compelled these people to press forward against repeated failures and disappointments.
To sum it up, I feel actor Tony Curtis said it best. This is how he put it when interviewed for the book “Great Failures of the Extremely Successful” by Steve Young.
There’s no way I can point to a single experience or event and say that from then on, my life was changed. It’s just the living of life itself. You cannot put that into words. It’s too variable. Too changing. Every moment, every second we are alive provides so may inputs and impulses that it’s too difficult to choose one and say, ‘That’s what did it for me.’ - Tony Curtis – Actor, Painter and Writer
It is tenacity of our inner motivation that is responsible for success, and tenacity is very simply the willingness to insist on expressing your true inner self in the face of any and all obstacles.
Passion for an idea, is the tangible evidence that you are tapping into your Authentic Side where your inner motivator resides. When you feel excitement and exhibit a sense of joy found in your accomplishments, you are expressing your authentic inner self and given time, success is inevitable.
Just don’t stop! Be persistent! Never give up!
However, there does exist an aid that can ignite more of that fiery passion within you. Think of it as a short cut on the way to your successful state of being. Of course, we are just scratching the surface of what your potential is. Do you require more?
By way of an introduction, ”The Law of Attraction” is a concept that has been around over many centuries and a number of books have been written on the subject, including the recent book “The Secret”. The Law of Attraction is ‘a theory commonly associated with New Age and New Thought philosophy The projection of positive thoughts and banning negativity from your life is the key driver. Manifestation is the process by which we project into our surroundings our needs and wants which will bring wealth and power. So let’s look at how to make the law of attraction work for you.
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The goal posts have moved and we now know that the law of attraction is but one of a total of 11 key, but intertwined principals. This Law or more importantly believing in this Law is the key to using the Law of Attraction to your benefit You must however, combine the law of attraction with the other principals if you are to achieve success
Do not become confused that by just knowing about the law of attraction you have the passport required to build the wealth and abundance being promised, you have to actually understand and practice the principals to get there
How to make the law of attraction work for you is a bit more complex than that portrayed in many documents or films popping up all over the place to try and cash in on the current public interest It takes time and a lot of effort to release the hidden potential you hold
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The first thing, which most people struggle with, is to face the reality of your current life, your current surroundings The life style you have is a reflection of your current and past manifestations, but not your future. They reflect the current and past workings of your mind Until you accept ownership and express appreciation for what you have, you will struggle to move forward and master getting the law of attraction working for you
You will notice the use of the word “appreciation” in the last paragraph That is a vital step in unblocking our wants drive that we all hold the want, the envy, the desire for what we don’t have. We need to express openly with our friend and workmates about being happy with our life as it is, what we have etc Our appreciation for our position in life needs to be voiced frequently to friends and workmates not just in our thoughts. All the evidence available would seem to support the need for being appreciative for this current position prior to taking further steps in our development So, give voice to your appreciation and open the supply lines for greater things`Let’s face it we all like to be appreciated and the law of universal abundance is no different.
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The second principal after having appreciation for what we have is, Giving. If you thought providing appreciation for your position was hard, more people find giving the actual hardest. I just lost you as a reader, didn’t I !! We have it within ourselves to give, but our society has taught us nothing but take, look after your self, sorry about you mate but I’m all right We often have the chance to give more but we tend more often to give a little and provide a sympathetic thought of, glad it’s you mate and not me, to ourselves when we could have given so much more
We are encouraged to give because the universe is full of unlimited wealth and abundance, enough for all to share and then some We become custodians, but not owners. We must understand that when we use the law of attraction we act as custodians of the wealth and our position is to distribute the wealth to the deserving. We do not have power over the law of attraction, but are its managers who must be dedicated to providing the best for all around us. Our success will be governed by how well we are able to freely give others the riches we receive through our manifestations. We need to instruct others in “making the law of attraction work for you”.
The final principal is the power to believe, really believe in the law of attraction. Without belief, there will be no health, wealth and bounty, for we will not be able to harness the power of the universe. We need to challenge our regressive thoughts, build success on smaller projects before challenging ourselves on the larger ones. For the most of us, we fail because we see no quick success and we become embarrassed about what we are doing.
Our mind is the worst enemy we have and it will attack your ability to manifest on every levels. The first area is our self-talk, what we say to ourselves, like we think I can do it then in the next breath I can’t do it come into our mind. Our primary brain gets distracted by day to day none repetitive issues from the task of the projection of our requested. The subconscious runs the automated items so it can project for longer periods any negative thoughts it holds which therefore becomes the reality that the universe responds to. Your actual projection can become that of your subconscious mind which may project your doubts etc so that the universe gets mixed messages and responds to the most repetitive.
Watch your self-talk, it’s the greatest enemy you face in meeting the needs of; HOW TO MAKE THE LAW OF ATTRACTION WORK FOR YOU.