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You might have wondered why so many people work so hard and honestly without ever achieving anything in particular (success), and others don’t seem to work hard yet seem to get everything? They seem to have the magic touch or lucky. You’ve heard people say, “Everything he touches turns to gold.” The person who becomes successful tends to continue to become more successful—and, on the other hand, have you noticed how someone who’s a failure tends to continue to fail?
One of the biggest reasons behind this is goals. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. It’s that simple.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vince Lombardi
A Simple Analogy
Just think of a ship leaving a harbor. And think of it with the complete voyage mapped out and planned. The captain and crew know exactly where the ship is going and how long it will take—it has a definite goal. And 9,999 times out of 10,000, it will get there.
Now let’s take another ship—just like the first—only let’s not put a crew on it or a captain to control it. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go. I think you’ll agree that if it gets out of the harbor at all, it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach. It can’t go anyplace, because it has no destination and no guidance.
It’s the same with a human being. Take the salesperson, for example. There is no other person in the world today with the future of a good salesperson. Selling is the world’s highest-paid profession—if we’re good at it and if we know where we’re going. Every company needs top-notch salespeople, and they reward those people. The sky is the limit for them. But how many can you find? How many have attained success?
Someone once said that the human race is fixed, not to prevent the strong from winning but to prevent the weak from losing. In most of the countries, there are efforts to protect its weakest link, just as the convoy has to go at the speed that will permit its slowest vessel to remain in formation. That’s why it’s so easy to make a living today. It takes no particular brain or talent to make a living and support a family. So we have a plateau of so-called security if that’s what a person is looking for. We have to decide how high above this plateau we want to aim.
Key to Success and Failure
Here’s the key to success and the key to failure: we become what we think about. Yes, it’s worth repeating ‘we become what we think about.’
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement.
Consider what Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman emperor, said, “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” Benjamin Disraeli said this: “Everything comes if a man will only wait. I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson said this: “A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
William James said, “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” He also said, “If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; and if you wish to be good, you will be good.” Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. (The excerpt is from “The Strangest Secret” by Earl Nightingale.)
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