I believe when it comes to success, there are three kinds of people:
1. Those who think and dream about success.
They are like window shoppers. They always go out to see what’s in the market, they know all the latest trends, all the ups and downs, but they are not part of it. They know who is in business, and who is out, but they never get in. These are people that give others a great business ideas. They talk imagine and talk about all the great strides they wish to make but remain inactive. The sad thing is they imagine themselves rich but never get to it. They are like a man who brings in game from his hunting expedition but fails to roast it for good meat. I once heard one say you cannot till the ground by tuning it over and over in your mind.
If you fall in this category, you are one who tend to think rich and successful thoughts but are afraid to make mistakes. By the time your life comes to an end, you will b regretting how you allowed birds to hatch in your head, but never got to eat their meat. Norman Cousin, a writer and editor wrote this powerful statement: “death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies in us while we still live.”
2. Those who talk about success.
I believe that we were created with two great abilities that can be developed for better use: the ability to think our own thoughts and the ability to speak and say what we want. Sadly, some people talk and never do what they say. Others wait for things to happen so they can talk or write about it. They have no thoughts or activities of their own, they need you and me to develop things so that they can talk about it or write articles about it.
They are like columnist shoppers. They know all the trends, they talk about it. They can even write about in and advice others about things they have never known nor experienced. They can talk about someone’s business as if they are in it first hand. But they never dare do. They know how to talk about things, but they do not know how to copy good tricks.
On the contrary, some may be filled with more negative talk than the group I described above. When you share ideas with these kind, they will give you all the reasons why it cannot be done. Be careful of this type. They can kill a good product before it is even born. They are what is described as firefighters.
Firefighters are those people who go all the way to stop the passion or the fire in other people. They prevent you from releasing what’s inside you before it comes out. They kill dreams. When ever you come up with a good ideas or plan to do something, be it personal, at home, at work, in sports and any other area, they will pull out all fire fighting equipment’s they have in their minds.
You will notice them with the following common sayings every time something new comes up:
• Its not in the budget
• That’s not practical
• We tried that before and it didn’t work
• We have never done that before
• Yeah, Yeah... but...
• That’s not the way we do things here
• It will never work
• No one will believe that
• You are getting too big for your shoes
• Who do you think you are
• No one will fund that
• Its not good enough
• You are not qualified for that
• You are black, it will never work.
3. Those who do succeed indeed.
They don’t talk much. They do much. I learn this from my wife. When she sets her mind on a thing, she goes for it and gets it. She is so disciplined and focused. It is an a quality i noticed in almost every successful person i've studied. I is also sited by many authours on the subject of selfhelp, business, family, sports, music, art and reliegion.
You have be so determined that you can’t be easily deterred her off target. You have to “focus on the end result”. Rudy Ruittiger said “if you really believe in your dream, you will get there.” You have to deal with the doubts that are created in and around you to break the cycle of negative influence. Franklin Roosevelt said this profound words that fit here well: “the only limitation to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today”.
I believe that most of the changes, successes and breakthroughs that we need in our lives and business do not necessarily require money or physical strength but psychological strength: believe in yourself. That is an attribute of successful people. They believe their beliefs and doubt their doubts.
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