Because Ideas Change Lives
One of the most valuable success lessons that I’ve learned is that success the a result of the things that you do, and that your actions are determined by your thoughts. After all, before you can build a successful business or career, you have to think about building them first. In line with that, let me share with you a poem so valuable that I had to write about it here.
Check out Walter D. Wintle’s poem titled “Thinking” below!
[Read more…]It’s said that those who fail to plan, plan to fail. Most of us just run on an automatic schedule, just drifting along through life, forgetting to seriously plan our futures. We wake up, eat breakfast, commute to work, spend our day working, commute home, and watch TV or browse the internet before bed. That process repeating until the weekend, and we almost always waste those rest days on some mindless entertainment or leisure activity.
How often do we set aside some time for the things that give long-term benefits? The things that will grant us more happiness in the long run? Almost never. Most of us are content with mindlessly repeating our daily schedule until we grow too old to work (and die).
Very few people, if any, drift along through life and find themselves successful. Most of life’s greatest achievements are first planned, and THEN earned through years of effort. This year, let’s think a little further into the future and plan for our own success and improvement.
[Read more…]Great successes are created from the little acts and habits we do every day. Small mistakes like wasting time or eating just one more piece of junk food, if repeated over time, can eventually turn into great failures and disasters.
If you try to fly a plane from North America to Japan but your aim is just a few degrees off to the wrong direction, if you never corrected your course you’ll likely land in another country entirely. Small mistakes snowball into something worse over time, and small good habits snowball into great things.
Here’s why.
[Read more…]Orison Swett Marden asked what you would think of a prince, the heir to a wealthy kingdom and the child of a generous king, who runs away from the castle to live in suffering and poverty because he wrongly thinks that his father won’t leave him with anything. When you meet that prince, you see that no matter how much his father tries to give him some wealth, food, and a good home, the prince refuses all of it then turns around to complain about all his “bad luck”.
You’d probably think that the prince was insane or something.
Unfortunately, a lot of us live like that prince. Life gives us all sorts of opportunities and ideas, but we wrongly think that we can’t or we don’t deserve to use them. Some of us also think that it’s “noble” to suffer in poverty for some reason.
It’s time to get rid of that way of thinking. Here are three reasons why we actually deserve to be wealthy and prosperous.
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One major lesson I’ve learned from so many self-improvement books is that it’ll be very difficult for us to earn financial and personal success unless we are able to think about and expect to succeed at what we want to do. It’s quite unfortunate that, for most of us, our negative mentality can hold us back. In Catherine Ponder’s Dynamic Laws of Prosperity book, there is a section called “Your Ten Lucky Steps”, and those steps are designed to help you achieve a mind destined for abundance.
We’ll discuss our version of the ten steps here, so you can try them out yourself. Also, if you want to read the original version as well as the whole chapter, you can buy Catherine’s book here.
