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Love People

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Do unto others. To be a true success, you must care as much for the world around you as you do yourself. Though the moral reasons for this truth are obvious, there are also very simple, basic reasons why loving those around you will help you to achieve the success you crave.

No one reaches the top alone. There are those who you’ll find helping you along the way. Whether it’s your family or a stranger, you’ll be surprised at the people who will somehow be able to help you on your road to success. Like Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road, you can’t afford to turn your back on the man who seems to only be worth a bail of hay. You simply never know when that person will be there to return the love you once showed them.

Next: Develop a Servant’s Heart

Failure Is Not an Option

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

“Failure is, in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.” – John Keats

Failure is one thing and one thing alone. Failure is when you give up. While you will, no doubt, face many obstacles, dead-ends, and hard times, you haven’t failed. Success begins with picking yourself up, dusting yourself off and starting all over again until you get it right. Failure is an event, it is not you.

One way I look at it is – I was successful in discovering how something did not work. If you keep this attitude you will never fail.

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Be Willing to Risk

Friday, June 26th, 2009

“The way to succeed is to double your error rate.” – Thomas J. Watson

When Jon Krakauer faced the seemingly impossible climb up Everest, he knew the risks. He knew that there had been many that had gone before him and never made it back. As he climbed upward, battling sub-zero temperatures and passing those who had fallen before him, he knew he was taking a very big risk. However, he survived and became a national celebrity for it.

While you don’t have to climb Mount Everest to succeed in your goals, you must be willing to take risks. Without risk, success will forever elude you. Talk to any successful individual and they will tell you that, without risk, they wouldn’t be where they are today.

Next: Failure Is Not an Option