Monday, January 31, 2011
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Powerful Persistence Strategies to Achieve Success
by Successful life
The persistence of the first stategy is to take responsibility for all your life. This is the first step towards having a successful and satisfying life. Stop blaming others, stop making excuses, and start changing your actions and reactions to events and occasions in your life to those who are positive.
Understand that everything you're experiencing today is a direct result of the choices you make in the past makes it easier to start taking 100% responsibility for all that. Once and for all, vowed to stop complaining and start jumped into positive action toward your dreams.
The responsibility is really about control (not blame). Do you want to control your life, or hand control over to others such as your family, media, and society?
Every day, remind yourself to take over the parts of your life is in your control, and release to try to control what or who is not.
"Most important things in the world have been accomplished by people who keep on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." ~ Dale Carnegie
Persistence Strategy 2 - Keep rolling the dice to come out as winners.
The most important quality that all successful people have is the power of perseverance. No matter obstacles, no matter what unforeseen obstacles, and no matter how big they appear, they are being or will successfully continue to roll the dice again and again.
The longer you play, the more likely are in your favor come the winner. When you realize that the success of the win could very likely become very next dice roll, you will understand that there is no point in despair and quit.
In every way towards the successful achievement of landmines buried out of sight you will almost certainly be trampled. When you do, do not panic! Remove yourself from the situation, step back and ask yourself three questions:
1. "What are 3 ways I can move over this hurdle?" 2. "What are 3 ways I can move below these hurdles?" 3. "What are 3 ways I can move this obstacle?"
Give yourself the time needed to find the answers. They exist, but only if you are looking for them!
"Nothing in this world can replace the persistence Talent will not;. Nothing is more common than men fail with flair Genius will not;. Unappreciated genius is almost a proverb of Education will not, .. The world is full of educated derelicts Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved and always will solve, the problems of mankind. "~ Calvin Coolidge
Persistence Strategy 3 - Be willing to do anything.
In the achievement of every dream lies a lot of walls, obstacles, setbacks, delays, and the big challenge that jump, crawl under, sail around, and charged right to be overcome. The practice, determination, consistency, persistence (and then even more practice!) Is an absolute requirement in your path to success final.
Knowledge and acceptance of this truth plus your willingness to do anything to add extra push you need to survive despite the pain while along the road. Lasting benefits waiting for you!
Do Whatever It Takes Simplified Instructions:
1. Fall. 2. Get up. 3. Dust. 4. Repair or rebuild any broken, bleeding, torn, or crushed. 5. Watch what you do to help cause the fall, then change your strategy. 6. Continuing.
"The mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they do not know when to stop Most men succeed because they are determined to .." ~ George E. Allen
Persistence Strategy 4 - Avoid the mentality of failure.
There are many actions (or reactions), you can choose to take when you hit a brick wall on the road to success. The response listed above will make you move forward in a positive direction. Three are listed below just will not work.
Rejection: Some people do not want to face the fact that there are obstacles in the way and that they should change their direction to get around it. Instead, they keep doing what they do to it again and again, produce the same dismal results every time.
Stop: Those who give up and cease to have (and develop even more than) the attitude of mind that they do not have what it takes to succeed, they are not smart enough to fulfill their purpose, or that they do not deserve to succeed. stop all really is making you stuck in the same place and mindset.
Anger: Throwing angry and shaking your hand on the barrier will not move it. Will not budge even when you're screaming, raving, and the fence about it to others. All you have to do is manage waste much time and energy, while the rest are stuck in the same place.
Remind yourself of the success of the assertion often: "When I feel inadequate, I remind myself that I have all the experience, tools and resources that I needed to cope with whatever situation I think through all the possible problems and know that I can rise above they are amazing .. "
You can and will when you believe!
Understand that everything you're experiencing today is a direct result of the choices you make in the past makes it easier to start taking 100% responsibility for all that. Once and for all, vowed to stop complaining and start jumped into positive action toward your dreams.
The responsibility is really about control (not blame). Do you want to control your life, or hand control over to others such as your family, media, and society?
Every day, remind yourself to take over the parts of your life is in your control, and release to try to control what or who is not.
"Most important things in the world have been accomplished by people who keep on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." ~ Dale Carnegie
Persistence Strategy 2 - Keep rolling the dice to come out as winners.
The most important quality that all successful people have is the power of perseverance. No matter obstacles, no matter what unforeseen obstacles, and no matter how big they appear, they are being or will successfully continue to roll the dice again and again.
The longer you play, the more likely are in your favor come the winner. When you realize that the success of the win could very likely become very next dice roll, you will understand that there is no point in despair and quit.
In every way towards the successful achievement of landmines buried out of sight you will almost certainly be trampled. When you do, do not panic! Remove yourself from the situation, step back and ask yourself three questions:
1. "What are 3 ways I can move over this hurdle?" 2. "What are 3 ways I can move below these hurdles?" 3. "What are 3 ways I can move this obstacle?"
Give yourself the time needed to find the answers. They exist, but only if you are looking for them!
"Nothing in this world can replace the persistence Talent will not;. Nothing is more common than men fail with flair Genius will not;. Unappreciated genius is almost a proverb of Education will not, .. The world is full of educated derelicts Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved and always will solve, the problems of mankind. "~ Calvin Coolidge
Persistence Strategy 3 - Be willing to do anything.
In the achievement of every dream lies a lot of walls, obstacles, setbacks, delays, and the big challenge that jump, crawl under, sail around, and charged right to be overcome. The practice, determination, consistency, persistence (and then even more practice!) Is an absolute requirement in your path to success final.
Knowledge and acceptance of this truth plus your willingness to do anything to add extra push you need to survive despite the pain while along the road. Lasting benefits waiting for you!
Do Whatever It Takes Simplified Instructions:
1. Fall. 2. Get up. 3. Dust. 4. Repair or rebuild any broken, bleeding, torn, or crushed. 5. Watch what you do to help cause the fall, then change your strategy. 6. Continuing.
"The mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they do not know when to stop Most men succeed because they are determined to .." ~ George E. Allen
Persistence Strategy 4 - Avoid the mentality of failure.
There are many actions (or reactions), you can choose to take when you hit a brick wall on the road to success. The response listed above will make you move forward in a positive direction. Three are listed below just will not work.
Rejection: Some people do not want to face the fact that there are obstacles in the way and that they should change their direction to get around it. Instead, they keep doing what they do to it again and again, produce the same dismal results every time.
Stop: Those who give up and cease to have (and develop even more than) the attitude of mind that they do not have what it takes to succeed, they are not smart enough to fulfill their purpose, or that they do not deserve to succeed. stop all really is making you stuck in the same place and mindset.
Anger: Throwing angry and shaking your hand on the barrier will not move it. Will not budge even when you're screaming, raving, and the fence about it to others. All you have to do is manage waste much time and energy, while the rest are stuck in the same place.
Remind yourself of the success of the assertion often: "When I feel inadequate, I remind myself that I have all the experience, tools and resources that I needed to cope with whatever situation I think through all the possible problems and know that I can rise above they are amazing .. "
You can and will when you believe!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Life Is Wonderful!
by Successful life
It is very simple and very easy to get what we want that we have a hard time to believe. We're programmed to do things the hard way and hard, to get what we want. We can not believe that we can get nothing without hard labor sweat and tears, barriers and misery.
This is nothing but a tough old programmation, a conditioning of our childhood. If you're like me, you are bombarded as a child with an expression from adults about how hard life is and how we should fight to get something. We handed over to a dangerous universe or God of revenge that could pick us out without any reason to take revenge on us for something we do wrong. We need to avoid the bad or wrong, but the disease can strike us all. Sometimes they even say: "This is another good one who is punished, and that bad off easy as usual without paying anything!". We learned that life is not fair. We live in fear and think life is a valley of tears, fear, struggle, pain, disease and death?
How it will happen if they had told us the truth? Truth, nothing but the truth? life is easy, beautiful. That miracles happen all the time and that we have the power to make them happen in our own lives! That the universe loves us. That there is wealth and health for all people. That we do not live in the universe of scarcity but of abundance. That we only need to put the right thoughts in our heads to make dreams real for us.
What would your life look like if your parents and teachers will teach you the truth?
You will suffer much less! You will not believe you are less than nothing. You will not be filled with fear for your ears hurt or fail, to be stupid or not good enough.
If you would know from the beginning that you are a creation of the Creator, that you will always remain, that you will always be around, that you created for a reason, and when you find these reasons you will be happy, what is your life would look like now? If you are notified that you have the talent, unique qualities, which makes you someone special, and that you are on the earth with a mission to offer this gift to others, where you will be right now and what will you do now?
Is not that nice? Genius who created all of this is very good: we sent to earth with a mission and to be able to assume our mission, we are already complete from the beginning: we are gifted with natural talent and all we do is develop our talents and offer them to the world! Just saying, we must do what we can do easily have done and what we are gifted for, and of happiness, contentment, love, money and everything that we want to come flowing our way!
This is so beautiful, this concept! What we have to do is do what we love! And of course we need to stop once for all to think we do not deserve happiness or wealth or health. All these thoughts wrong because they go against the principles of the creation of the universe.
We're beautiful! We've loved! We're rich! We're free! We're smart! We're healthy! Why? Because we all are before we start our lives. This is how we really are. This is how we created, we were born. This is the truth about ourselves. Everything else is "studying" afterwards.
The good news is whatever is learned can be un-learned. Every programmation can be changed and replaced with new programs.
And again, life is beautiful, because positive thoughts are 10,000 times more powerful than negative thoughts. So you do not need to take another 40 years to undo the negative conditioning in your head. One positive thought can offset the negative 10,000.
Can you imagine? Are not we lucky?
If you choose to do so, you can quickly turn your negative programs in your head. Go to the bookstore, buy some books with positive thoughts, put them in every toilet in the house, in the bathroom, in your bedroom, in your living room, and read it every time you think or see them. No matter if you read one page after another, or if you just open a book like that falls in your hands. Your message will receive will be one that is right for you at the time.
Every morning you start your day by saying thank you to the Universe for your bed, your home, a roof over your head, people living with you, the water that comes out of your faucet, light switching by a simple attitude of your hands, food available, the choices you can make that day, the love you receive in your life and love you will receive, a miracle will happen today and the air you can breath.
Inside your car, listening to a CD or cassette with positive programmation. Listen to them while you make dinner, clean the house or ironing your clothes.
Surround yourself with positive people and stop talking negative social nutritious. Do not watch television unless there is some program that is really positive.
There's a lot you can do to make a positive change in your life. Do not think you can do anything. You are responsible for your life now. Make your choice! Know that every thought you think is the one that will weaken you, or one that will make you feel strong. You are free to choose!
This is nothing but a tough old programmation, a conditioning of our childhood. If you're like me, you are bombarded as a child with an expression from adults about how hard life is and how we should fight to get something. We handed over to a dangerous universe or God of revenge that could pick us out without any reason to take revenge on us for something we do wrong. We need to avoid the bad or wrong, but the disease can strike us all. Sometimes they even say: "This is another good one who is punished, and that bad off easy as usual without paying anything!". We learned that life is not fair. We live in fear and think life is a valley of tears, fear, struggle, pain, disease and death?
How it will happen if they had told us the truth? Truth, nothing but the truth? life is easy, beautiful. That miracles happen all the time and that we have the power to make them happen in our own lives! That the universe loves us. That there is wealth and health for all people. That we do not live in the universe of scarcity but of abundance. That we only need to put the right thoughts in our heads to make dreams real for us.
What would your life look like if your parents and teachers will teach you the truth?
You will suffer much less! You will not believe you are less than nothing. You will not be filled with fear for your ears hurt or fail, to be stupid or not good enough.
If you would know from the beginning that you are a creation of the Creator, that you will always remain, that you will always be around, that you created for a reason, and when you find these reasons you will be happy, what is your life would look like now? If you are notified that you have the talent, unique qualities, which makes you someone special, and that you are on the earth with a mission to offer this gift to others, where you will be right now and what will you do now?
Is not that nice? Genius who created all of this is very good: we sent to earth with a mission and to be able to assume our mission, we are already complete from the beginning: we are gifted with natural talent and all we do is develop our talents and offer them to the world! Just saying, we must do what we can do easily have done and what we are gifted for, and of happiness, contentment, love, money and everything that we want to come flowing our way!
This is so beautiful, this concept! What we have to do is do what we love! And of course we need to stop once for all to think we do not deserve happiness or wealth or health. All these thoughts wrong because they go against the principles of the creation of the universe.
We're beautiful! We've loved! We're rich! We're free! We're smart! We're healthy! Why? Because we all are before we start our lives. This is how we really are. This is how we created, we were born. This is the truth about ourselves. Everything else is "studying" afterwards.
The good news is whatever is learned can be un-learned. Every programmation can be changed and replaced with new programs.
And again, life is beautiful, because positive thoughts are 10,000 times more powerful than negative thoughts. So you do not need to take another 40 years to undo the negative conditioning in your head. One positive thought can offset the negative 10,000.
Can you imagine? Are not we lucky?
If you choose to do so, you can quickly turn your negative programs in your head. Go to the bookstore, buy some books with positive thoughts, put them in every toilet in the house, in the bathroom, in your bedroom, in your living room, and read it every time you think or see them. No matter if you read one page after another, or if you just open a book like that falls in your hands. Your message will receive will be one that is right for you at the time.
Every morning you start your day by saying thank you to the Universe for your bed, your home, a roof over your head, people living with you, the water that comes out of your faucet, light switching by a simple attitude of your hands, food available, the choices you can make that day, the love you receive in your life and love you will receive, a miracle will happen today and the air you can breath.
Inside your car, listening to a CD or cassette with positive programmation. Listen to them while you make dinner, clean the house or ironing your clothes.
Surround yourself with positive people and stop talking negative social nutritious. Do not watch television unless there is some program that is really positive.
There's a lot you can do to make a positive change in your life. Do not think you can do anything. You are responsible for your life now. Make your choice! Know that every thought you think is the one that will weaken you, or one that will make you feel strong. You are free to choose!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Successful Transition Planning
by Successful life
Life is full of changes, some good and some bad. As you grow, you'll hear a lot of catch phrases that warn you how difficult some of the changes may ... people who tell you to "roll with the punches" and let you know that "this is the best year of your life." Do not let these things fool you into thinking that things will only go down to you once you reach a certain age, though, life is what you make of it, and as long as you stay focused on your dreams, you will always make progress. You are on the move. Yes life is about change, but you can select your own changes and put themselves responsible for the direction your life will be taken.
Recognizing Need for Change Before you can choose to make changes, but you must realize that there are changes that need to be made. These changes are likely to be something big, or maybe something that will not make much difference, but still something that should be addressed. If you delay this change or try to avoid decisions that they represent, then you will eventually reach the point where you no longer have the opportunity to choose your own path. As soon as you realize that something is wrong in your life and that change is needed, you need to begin to see the options that you have that opportunity to make your own choices do not go away.
Checking Your Choice When you realize that there is a change in the air, you are faced with a decision ... This decision may allow you some choice, or may have only one or two. Regardless, you should carefully consider every option you have and determine the best changes for you, your career, and the people around you. When you consider your options, you must realize that now is when you have the power to take control and make changes to live according to your dreams.
Choosing to Change Many problems, both in life and in business, are caused by people who are afraid to change the routine that has worked for many years, even when the routine is not working properly anymore. Choosing to make major changes can be difficult, because you will leave the comfort zone was established with no guarantee of success. So long as you keep your goals and dreams in mind when taking this risk, but you will always work towards your final destination and will not suffer from the setback is too long.
Building Toward Something Better As you continue to make changes in your life, well aware of the impact for good or bad. Make sure that you continue to work towards a goal or dream. A problem or negative changes can be turned into a positive by using it as a good inspiration or as a starting point to bring you to a place where you really want to be. Even when you find a stumbling block and it seems that all your plans will be destroyed, there will always be some opportunity for you to continue to work towards things that are better just as long as you are willing to recognize and choose to take risks that may be associated with a particular choice .
Change is not easy for most but can be more tolerable if administered. A wise man once said, "The change imposed is a change opposed - author unknown." Create your future is yours!
Recognizing Need for Change Before you can choose to make changes, but you must realize that there are changes that need to be made. These changes are likely to be something big, or maybe something that will not make much difference, but still something that should be addressed. If you delay this change or try to avoid decisions that they represent, then you will eventually reach the point where you no longer have the opportunity to choose your own path. As soon as you realize that something is wrong in your life and that change is needed, you need to begin to see the options that you have that opportunity to make your own choices do not go away.
Checking Your Choice When you realize that there is a change in the air, you are faced with a decision ... This decision may allow you some choice, or may have only one or two. Regardless, you should carefully consider every option you have and determine the best changes for you, your career, and the people around you. When you consider your options, you must realize that now is when you have the power to take control and make changes to live according to your dreams.
Choosing to Change Many problems, both in life and in business, are caused by people who are afraid to change the routine that has worked for many years, even when the routine is not working properly anymore. Choosing to make major changes can be difficult, because you will leave the comfort zone was established with no guarantee of success. So long as you keep your goals and dreams in mind when taking this risk, but you will always work towards your final destination and will not suffer from the setback is too long.
Building Toward Something Better As you continue to make changes in your life, well aware of the impact for good or bad. Make sure that you continue to work towards a goal or dream. A problem or negative changes can be turned into a positive by using it as a good inspiration or as a starting point to bring you to a place where you really want to be. Even when you find a stumbling block and it seems that all your plans will be destroyed, there will always be some opportunity for you to continue to work towards things that are better just as long as you are willing to recognize and choose to take risks that may be associated with a particular choice .
Change is not easy for most but can be more tolerable if administered. A wise man once said, "The change imposed is a change opposed - author unknown." Create your future is yours!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
What Is Success Anyway
by Successful life
Success is creating what you want the way you want.
This, in fact, travel. And, like all travel, your ship will sail through calm waters and money in the storm. If you stay on track, keep upgrading your navigational instruments and adjusting to feedback, you will reach the harbor of your dreams.
Everyone has had the experience of shipwreck. Their most cherished dreams collapsed despite their best efforts.
The difference between those who succeed in life and those who fail is not the number of shipwrecks nor the severity of the storm. The difference is in their persistence. It takes perseverance to complete the journey. Some people choose to build one ship after another until they reach their port of call. Others leave the trip immediately after they fled to the reef.
Success, then, is a process. It is the incessant improvement of the strategy until something finally works.
Success starts with goal setting, and then goal setting is followed by action. Whether your goal setting theory and the actions you have to be perfect. The key to success is to start anywhere, from time to time, your vision and your actions will clearly improve.
Here is a simple but effective strategy. 1. Start where you are with what you have now. 2. Note what works and what does not work. 3. Keep trying new things until you have better results. 4. Continues to add what works and discard what does not work. 5. Arrive at your destination.
Another name for success is mastery. When you achieve mastery over something that you know what to do to get the results you want. And you can repeat this method again and again to ensure the flow of gifts.
Mastery is persistence over time. They appreciate the benefits of perseverance and motivation of self-development that is underway. In fact, intrinsic motivation will allow you to do anything, overcome obstacles, and overcome hesitation. In addition, the more intense your motivation, the better the chances of success when you start on any new business.
In the Middle Ages, the mastery of the profession is done through a guild. Someone studying directly under the master. At first, he was an apprentice. Later, he became a daily worker. Eventually, he became a teacher in his own right.
Success is a continuous learning strategy. this study both the theoretical and practical. Finally, when you do something long enough, you become very good. This process is accelerated when you follow someone who can guide you past common mistakes.
Once you find a mentor, you must remain consistent, refused to despair with the challenges that will arise due to your lack of knowledge or resources.
Ideally, the mentor can be an expert. However, you also can achieve guidance through multimedia materials and educational associations. Every business success story is due to the presence of a mentor. And every other kind of success can benefit from one as well.
Wherever you are, start the journey. We humans are teleological. We need goals, a high ideal, and attractive raison d'etre. Deny us our meaning and herbs, feeling empty, and even become self-destructive.
Success, finally, is fully YOU!
You are here on this planet to express your potential.
You are here to find a decent life and meet reasonable goals. The whole universe will benefit from your success, because everything is interrelated. Someone who is goal-oriented evolutionary force in the movement.
This, in fact, travel. And, like all travel, your ship will sail through calm waters and money in the storm. If you stay on track, keep upgrading your navigational instruments and adjusting to feedback, you will reach the harbor of your dreams.
Everyone has had the experience of shipwreck. Their most cherished dreams collapsed despite their best efforts.
The difference between those who succeed in life and those who fail is not the number of shipwrecks nor the severity of the storm. The difference is in their persistence. It takes perseverance to complete the journey. Some people choose to build one ship after another until they reach their port of call. Others leave the trip immediately after they fled to the reef.
Success, then, is a process. It is the incessant improvement of the strategy until something finally works.
Success starts with goal setting, and then goal setting is followed by action. Whether your goal setting theory and the actions you have to be perfect. The key to success is to start anywhere, from time to time, your vision and your actions will clearly improve.
Here is a simple but effective strategy. 1. Start where you are with what you have now. 2. Note what works and what does not work. 3. Keep trying new things until you have better results. 4. Continues to add what works and discard what does not work. 5. Arrive at your destination.
Another name for success is mastery. When you achieve mastery over something that you know what to do to get the results you want. And you can repeat this method again and again to ensure the flow of gifts.
Mastery is persistence over time. They appreciate the benefits of perseverance and motivation of self-development that is underway. In fact, intrinsic motivation will allow you to do anything, overcome obstacles, and overcome hesitation. In addition, the more intense your motivation, the better the chances of success when you start on any new business.
In the Middle Ages, the mastery of the profession is done through a guild. Someone studying directly under the master. At first, he was an apprentice. Later, he became a daily worker. Eventually, he became a teacher in his own right.
Success is a continuous learning strategy. this study both the theoretical and practical. Finally, when you do something long enough, you become very good. This process is accelerated when you follow someone who can guide you past common mistakes.
Once you find a mentor, you must remain consistent, refused to despair with the challenges that will arise due to your lack of knowledge or resources.
Ideally, the mentor can be an expert. However, you also can achieve guidance through multimedia materials and educational associations. Every business success story is due to the presence of a mentor. And every other kind of success can benefit from one as well.
Wherever you are, start the journey. We humans are teleological. We need goals, a high ideal, and attractive raison d'etre. Deny us our meaning and herbs, feeling empty, and even become self-destructive.
Success, finally, is fully YOU!
You are here on this planet to express your potential.
You are here to find a decent life and meet reasonable goals. The whole universe will benefit from your success, because everything is interrelated. Someone who is goal-oriented evolutionary force in the movement.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Do You Feel Lucky
by Successful life
Do you feel lucky Kid "Anyway?, I think more in terms of the general question of the particular situation. I mean in a broad sense, I always feel lucky. No, I do not gamble. I mean my whole life. If I list all the bad things happened to me, it will look pretty bleak. It was worse than some, not near as bad as other people. But if I listed all the good things, people will say I'm blessed! And that's how I feel.
I'm not rambling on about me to be selfish, I just use myself as an example. My point is, you can see the glass half full or half empty. It's really up to you. But I do not just feel lucky and grateful for what I have, but I feel fortunate about the future. I saw an opportunity and I felt like I had just as good a shot at goal given as the next person. I hope to succeed. I do not expect to fail. I think that's the difference between successful people and those who fail.
I have not succeeded in everything I do, but I have with a lot of things.
When I look back, I can see all the rest I'm lucky and the time when things work out right so I can move along the process. But then I realized that I put myself in position to receive a 'lucky break' issue. But even more than that, I expected that lucky. I do not mean in an arrogant manner. I just figure when I start a project that I will succeed, that I'd be lucky.
I am also grateful for the success I had. I do not feel arrogant like "Look what I made all by myself!" I feel grateful that I have the resources I need at the right time to finish whatever it was. I am grateful for their 'lucky breaks' along the road. I feel like I deserve my success, and I deserve to succeed in the future. This does not mean that success just fell in my lap. You must work at it. But I always felt like if I worked on pretty hard, I will succeed.
And failure? Well, actually the failure is only successful project that I never finished. For one reason or another, I decided to stop doing the project. I strongly believe if I continue, I'll succeed. Here's an example: When I was about 18, I decided I wanted to be a rock star-n-roll. I know how to play guitar and I even sang a little in my Dad's band when I was young. But mostly, the idea of being paid to play loud music in the stadium and get drunk and have a girl chasing me is what I want. Is not that the dream of every man's 18-year-old?
Anyway, I started trying to figure out what I needed to do. After several years of playing a song with the band on a group of biker bar, I left the idea that some men with big cigars that will come and find me. So, I decided to record his own music and send to record labels. I've put together a small recording studio with extra money from playing in bars and I started to really learn the songs from the artists I like. I took apart chord progressions, lyrics, and melody. I experimented with different recording techniques to get different sounds that I heard on the record I liked. I taught myself to play bass guitar, mandolin, harmonica, banjo, and violin to fill the songs I write. I did not play any of them are very good, but I can imitate the sound that I heard on the record to achieve the same sound on my recordings.
To make a long story (8 years) a little shorter, I recorded two cassette albums and received over 30 rave reviews for my music and writing songs from local and national music publications. I also discovered I love the process of writing and recording music. At that time I play for many people. I even walked out on stage in front of 1500 people with only a guitar and played 45 minutes of music I own. Yes, it's scary and yes, I love it!
After all this, I'm finally getting some small offering of two small record label. But in a span of 8 years, I also quit drinking, moved out on my own, and found that although I love to write and record songs, I do not like playing live too, and I hate to travel. I really enjoyed staying at home. A dream away from me in 18 years.
Being a successful recording artist requires a lot of travel, tour and not very 'normal' life. In fact, it's hard to really ever have a home life. I found that in 26, I have grown to really love music (art) but hate the lifestyle (dream). I have to let go. I have no doubt in my mind that I continue to work, I'll become a successful recording artist now. Perhaps no other Bruce Springsteen, but I'll make a living. But that's life I no longer want. So basically I failed to achieve my goals, but only because my motivation changed.
All together though, I hope to be successful. And when I started my business I also mail order. Again, not an arrogant way, but in feeling tenaciousness. I feel that if I try hard enough, and keep my eyes wide open, willing to learn everything I could, that I will be successful. In fact, I felt there was no way I could not if I follow up.
I've said all this about me because it is the same for you. YOU CAN SUCCEED IN ANYTHING YOU SET OUT TO DO IF YOU WANT IT BAD ENOUGH! It's really simple. Of course be realistic play a part as well. At 32, if I decided that tomorrow I want to be a world class tennis player, I think I have to look at it realistically. I never played tennis in my life, my past year's most major big players', and I do not look good in white shorts. I have Andre Agassi's hair though. The point is, it's not very realistic that I will be successful in tennis.
So I hope that this tidbit selfish has inspired you and motivate you. If you start doing anything and you think it will not work, will not be! But if you expect success, if you feel lucky, and you put in the effort, you can not help but succeed!
I'm not rambling on about me to be selfish, I just use myself as an example. My point is, you can see the glass half full or half empty. It's really up to you. But I do not just feel lucky and grateful for what I have, but I feel fortunate about the future. I saw an opportunity and I felt like I had just as good a shot at goal given as the next person. I hope to succeed. I do not expect to fail. I think that's the difference between successful people and those who fail.
I have not succeeded in everything I do, but I have with a lot of things.
When I look back, I can see all the rest I'm lucky and the time when things work out right so I can move along the process. But then I realized that I put myself in position to receive a 'lucky break' issue. But even more than that, I expected that lucky. I do not mean in an arrogant manner. I just figure when I start a project that I will succeed, that I'd be lucky.
I am also grateful for the success I had. I do not feel arrogant like "Look what I made all by myself!" I feel grateful that I have the resources I need at the right time to finish whatever it was. I am grateful for their 'lucky breaks' along the road. I feel like I deserve my success, and I deserve to succeed in the future. This does not mean that success just fell in my lap. You must work at it. But I always felt like if I worked on pretty hard, I will succeed.
And failure? Well, actually the failure is only successful project that I never finished. For one reason or another, I decided to stop doing the project. I strongly believe if I continue, I'll succeed. Here's an example: When I was about 18, I decided I wanted to be a rock star-n-roll. I know how to play guitar and I even sang a little in my Dad's band when I was young. But mostly, the idea of being paid to play loud music in the stadium and get drunk and have a girl chasing me is what I want. Is not that the dream of every man's 18-year-old?
Anyway, I started trying to figure out what I needed to do. After several years of playing a song with the band on a group of biker bar, I left the idea that some men with big cigars that will come and find me. So, I decided to record his own music and send to record labels. I've put together a small recording studio with extra money from playing in bars and I started to really learn the songs from the artists I like. I took apart chord progressions, lyrics, and melody. I experimented with different recording techniques to get different sounds that I heard on the record I liked. I taught myself to play bass guitar, mandolin, harmonica, banjo, and violin to fill the songs I write. I did not play any of them are very good, but I can imitate the sound that I heard on the record to achieve the same sound on my recordings.
To make a long story (8 years) a little shorter, I recorded two cassette albums and received over 30 rave reviews for my music and writing songs from local and national music publications. I also discovered I love the process of writing and recording music. At that time I play for many people. I even walked out on stage in front of 1500 people with only a guitar and played 45 minutes of music I own. Yes, it's scary and yes, I love it!
After all this, I'm finally getting some small offering of two small record label. But in a span of 8 years, I also quit drinking, moved out on my own, and found that although I love to write and record songs, I do not like playing live too, and I hate to travel. I really enjoyed staying at home. A dream away from me in 18 years.
Being a successful recording artist requires a lot of travel, tour and not very 'normal' life. In fact, it's hard to really ever have a home life. I found that in 26, I have grown to really love music (art) but hate the lifestyle (dream). I have to let go. I have no doubt in my mind that I continue to work, I'll become a successful recording artist now. Perhaps no other Bruce Springsteen, but I'll make a living. But that's life I no longer want. So basically I failed to achieve my goals, but only because my motivation changed.
All together though, I hope to be successful. And when I started my business I also mail order. Again, not an arrogant way, but in feeling tenaciousness. I feel that if I try hard enough, and keep my eyes wide open, willing to learn everything I could, that I will be successful. In fact, I felt there was no way I could not if I follow up.
I've said all this about me because it is the same for you. YOU CAN SUCCEED IN ANYTHING YOU SET OUT TO DO IF YOU WANT IT BAD ENOUGH! It's really simple. Of course be realistic play a part as well. At 32, if I decided that tomorrow I want to be a world class tennis player, I think I have to look at it realistically. I never played tennis in my life, my past year's most major big players', and I do not look good in white shorts. I have Andre Agassi's hair though. The point is, it's not very realistic that I will be successful in tennis.
So I hope that this tidbit selfish has inspired you and motivate you. If you start doing anything and you think it will not work, will not be! But if you expect success, if you feel lucky, and you put in the effort, you can not help but succeed!
