Develop a Higher Ability to Get Results

Dear loving people,

Today, I provide you with some precepts that can enable you perform better and to get results faster. To begin with, you have to know that personal excellence is perhaps the most important of all invisible and intangible assets that you can acquire. 

Achieving personal excellence in your life or business requires a lifelong dedication. But once you get into the top 10% of your field, you will be one of the highest paid people in the country. You will enjoy the respect and esteem of the people around you. You will be able to live your life the way you want to live it. You will enjoy high levels of self-esteem, self-respect, and personal pride.

One key determinant of your ability to get results is your knowledge and understanding of how you can get there or how to get financial results in a competitive market. This includes your knowledge of your skills, products and services and how to sell them.

It includes your knowledge of customers and suppliers and how to deal with them. It embraces your familiarity with bankers, lawyers, accountants, and government officials and how to interact with them effectively. While this type of intellectual capital may take years to build, it is extremely valuable to your organization and your personal quest for greatness.

Your first responsibility to yourself is to develop your earning ability and your affinity to succeed to a high level. This includes achieving one major success that can condition your mind to producing more successes in the things you do. 

You do this by continually increasing your intellectual capital, by upgrading your ability to do your job, by becoming a valuable part of your organization, and by getting more and better financial results for your organization.

Your Secret To Success

Dear loving people,

Have you taken time to reflect on what the secret to success could be? Let me use this write-up to tickle your mind as you reflect on it.

Every great achievement begins with a vision, a dream of something exciting or different, a feeling that inspires and motivates you to aim higher and beyond anything that you have ever achieved before. What then is your vision for your life? Be honest to yourself, after all, it’s your success we are talking about here.

Just imagine for a moment that you have no limitations on what you can be or do. Imagine that you have all the time and all the money, all the knowledge and experience, all the skills and resources, all the friends and contacts. If you could have anything in your life, what would it be?

Project forward five years and imagine that your life is now perfect in every way. What does it look like? What are you doing? Who is there with you? Who is no longer there? Describe your ideal future as if it was perfect in every respect.

After years of searching, I read about a wise and wealthy man who wrote on the key to success. He also explained the reasons for failure and under-achievement in life. There is nothing short of truth in all that he said, his discovery about success was quite simple, as all great truths seem to be.

He said, “The key to success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle, and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it.”

By achieving one important goal, you create a pattern, a template for success in your subconscious mind. Forever after you will be automatically directed and driven toward repeating that success in other things that you attempt. 

By overcoming adversity and achieving one great goal in any area, you will program yourself for success in other areas as well. In other words, you learn to succeed by succeeding. The more you achieve, the more you can achieve. Each success, especially the first one, builds your confidence and belief that you will be successful next time.

The fact is that you can accomplish almost any goal that you set for yourself if you persist long enough and work hard enough. The only one who can stop you is yourself. And you learn to persist by persisting in the face of great adversity when everyone around you is quitting and every fiber of your being screams at you to quit as well.

Let’s look at a practical example; when you subject certain chemicals to intense heat, the chemicals will crystallize and form a completely new substance, a new composition in which the crystallization process is irreversible. A lump of coal, for example, becomes a diamond under intense prolonged heat and pressure.

In the same way, you become a person of great strength by persevering in the crucible of intense difficulty until you finally succeed. Each time you force yourself to persevere, rather than giving up, your character “crystallizes” at a new, higher level. Eventually, you reach the point where you become unstoppable... 

... but no one starts out as a diamond. It's the early process of motivating yourself to set and achieve that FIRST goal that moves you one step closer to becoming a diamond and one step further from a lump of coal.

Attitude is Essential to Success

Dear loving people,

Has it occurred to you that anyone, regardless of education, can learn how to be successful in life? That is what Living Lectures is all about, to teach you the success principles in life mindful of the fact that the experience can only be yours. I have reasons to think that irrespective of your intellectual capacity, you can become successful if you stick to the rules and take a firm decision to make it in life. Making a firm decision however begins with adopting a new way of looking at the world. In other words, you need to start thinking success and think like a successful person.

Living Lectures is designed to teach you how to "think success." It doesn’t matter what you are now, even if you have been such a failure in the past, thinking success hence is a matter of reshaping the way you think and the way you do the things you have to do.

The very first thing you have to come to grips with is the fact that you have to be convinced your present situation needs to change for the better. Once you sincerely know that what is happening all around you is not all what you deserve, that you are worth a fair share of the gifts of nature and that you can become better than what you are presently, it fires the desire you need to move ahead.

On the other hand, if you surrender to mediocrity, and accept your present status as all you can get out of life, no amount of talking or wishing will get you out of such a pit. You need to be sick and tired of what is happening around you and the marginal life you are presently living, only then can you be prepared to face genuine change.

Accepting to change gives room for effective goal setting. It has been said many times, and it is worth saying again: You can't get to where you are going unless you know where it is. Goals are the stepping stones to success. When set up properly, they are the ultimate success tools - they allow us to design and achieve optimal levels of satisfaction and happiness in all areas of our lives. Unfortunately, too many people misunderstand the process, and as a result, never achieve the results they are hoping for.

One of the biggest traps that beginners on the path of success fall into is depending on and or especially playing with their emotions. They get confused between empathy and sympathy when challenges and obstacles hit them in the face. The trick is to face the future objectively once you decide to make a change with or without obstacles and not depending on your personal feelings.

A crystal example is a young business man who is suffering the pangs of over taxing by the local tax system in place. Naturally, almost everyone feels sympathetic for the over taxed young business man who at extremes supports a huge dependent family. They tend to think that such a young business man with all his troubles and social responsibilities inherent should not be taxed that much because they promote the economy. 

However, real life situations as such demonstrate that some of the times, you should work at getting your economy better even when that of the state is apparently not working out and that you don’t have to give up simply because things are not working according to plan but that you should rather set to work than giving in to empathy. 

The fact here is that while you may not be able to get the national economy any better, you can always get your economy better such that supporting your social responsibilities no longer becomes an issue.

In all you do, be aware that succeeding in life is facing reality head-on; there is no time when things will be at their optimum but you can get your things and your life to the optimum if you set your sights high and commit to it. This, you need to demonstrate through action that it works by taking the right action.

Goals vs Wishes

Dear loving people,

Many are those who continuously think that goals are the same as wishes. Get it now from me, there is a huge difference. A wish is passive, it is something you hope will come to you without any effort on your part. On the other hand, a goal is an intention, it is active and it’s something you actively pursue by taking deliberate and conscious action toward. As a general rule, wishes do not come true until you convert them into goals.

Whenever we set a goal, we create an intention to accomplish a specific result. The process works by creating a focus point for our thoughts and behavior. This focus point gives us direction, and allows us to move toward what we want, and to simultaneously let go of what we don’t want!

In other words, a good deal of our negativity and procrastination are naturally replaced by positive thoughts and actions, simply by creating and committing to a well-defined goal. When set up properly, they stimulate our creativity, increase our energy levels, foster self-esteem and personal confidence, spur our levels of productivity, and put us on the fast-track to getting what we really want in life!

Another major distinguishing factor between a goal and a wish is that a goal is backed up by an organized plan to accomplish a specific result. Such a plan should:

1.      Define what you really want in life

2.    Commit all you have to it

3.    Work with limitations and obstacles

4.    Create a feasible action plan

As a person determined to succeed, you must have it in mind that success is never an accident. In order to achieve the results you want in life, it is essential to consistently take action.

2012 is a Blessed and Success-filled Year in Your Life

Dear lovely people,

On the fith day gone past the festive season, its time to wish you all a happy Christmas in areas and the best of blessings for the New Year.

Why this late? That’s true why this late? notice we conciously didn’t want to add to the clotter of messages you obviously were receiving from the day of our last post in December 2011 untill date.

We opted for a time when your mind will be back to focus on the essentials, to present to you the best of our wishes and to remind you that you have been such a wonderful assert to Living Lectures by reading and commenting on our writeups.

We pray that the all mighty gives you the strength and interest to continously be a kin participant of this new way of doing the same things you’ve always done thorughout 2012 and beyond.

Once again, let 2012 be a blessed and success-filled Year in your life and the lives of your loved ones. It will certianly come to pass that it was a year of new beginings and abundance in your lovely life.