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success is the ongoing process of striving to become more. It is the opportunity to continually grow emotionally, socially, spiritually, physiologically, intellectually, and financially while contributing in some positive way to others. The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.
You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you.
The One Minute Manager, In Search of Excellence, Megatrends, What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School, Bridge Across Forever
What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication. What we picture and say to ourselves, how we move and use the muscles of our bodies and our facial expressions will determine how much of what we know we will use.
Successful people’s lives have shown us over and over again that the quality of our lives is determined not by what happens to us, but rather by what we do about what happens.
You must know what you’re getting from your actions, whether it be in a conversation or from your daily habits in life.
If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we’ve suddenly made those limits real.
He figured out what he wanted to learn, whom he needed to know, and what he needed to do.
Trait Number Four: Clarity of Values!
As you’ve probably noticed, all these traits feed on and interact with one another.
connect passion with beliefs and values. Map them all out clearly and see how the connect to get the most power out of them.
think are most important simply because it was explained to me that several studies have shown that less than 10 percent of the people who buy a book read past the first chapter. At first, I couldn’t believe that statistic. Then I remembered that less than 3 percent of the nation is financially independent, less than 10 percent have written goals, only 35 percent of American women—and even fewer men—feel they are in good physical shape, and in many states one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce.
NLP is the study of how language, both verbal and nonverbal, affects our nervous system.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In it, Mr. Drucker outlines the specific actions one must take to be an effective entrepreneur and innovator.
Building from the successes of others is one of the fundamental aspects of most learning.
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In the world of technology, every advance in engineering or computer design follows naturally from earlier discoveries and breakthroughs. In the business world, companies that don’t learn from the past, that don’t operate with state-of-the-art information, are doomed.
“Whether you believe you can do something or you believe you can’t, you’re right.”
To a certain extent it’s true, for when you don’t believe you can do something, you’re sending your nervous system consistent messages that limit or eliminate your ability to produce that very result. If, on the other hand, you are consistently delivering to your nervous system congruent messages that say you can do something, then they signal your brain to produce the result you desire, and that opens up the possibility for it.
So if you can model a person’s belief system, you’ve taken the first step toward acting as he does, thus producing a similar type of result. We’ll ...
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mental syntax. Mental syntax is the way people organize their thoughts. Syntax is like a code. There are seven digits in a phone number, but you have to dial them in the right order to reach the person you want. The same is true in reaching the part of your brain and nervous system that could most effectively help you get the outcome you desire. The same is true in communication. Many times people don’t communicate well to each other because different people use different codes, different mental syntaxes...
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All many people do to succeed in business is find something that works in one city and do the same thing somewhere else before the lag time is up. All you have to do is take a proven system and duplicate it—and maybe even better, improve upon it. People who do this are virtually guaranteed success.
But the trouble is that most of us model on an utterly haphazard, unfocused level. We pick up random bits and pieces from this person or that and then totally miss something much more important from someone else. We model something good here and something bad there.
We attempt to model someone we respect but find we don’t really know how to do what he/ she does.
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“How does he create that result?”
habit
The difference between those who fail to achieve their goals in life and those who succeed is the difference between those who cannot put themselves in a supportive state and those who can consistently put themselves in a state that supports them in their achievements.
There are two main components of state. The first is our internal representations, and the second is the condition and use of our physiology.
we form a representation that things will work, then we create the internal resources we need to produce the state that will support us in producing positive results.
By making these kinds of generalizations about yourself, you create a belief that will govern and direct your actions in the future. Remember, your behavior is the result of your state, and your state is the result of your internal representations and your physiology, both of which you can change in a matter of moments.
So again, what are beliefs? They are preformed, preorganized approaches to perception that filter our communication to ourselves in a consistent manner.
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
Environment may be the single most potent generator of belief, but it’s not the only one.
If you dont read books, your knowledge becomes more deeply rooted from the conversarionss nd expeerinces with your peer group
No matter how grim your world is, if you can read about the accomplishments
The surest way to create a belief that you can do something is to do it once, just once. If you succeed once, it’s far easier to form the belief that you’ll succeed again.
confidence of one goal leads to another
The fifth way to establish beliefs is through the creating in your mind of the experience you desire in the future as if it were here now.
experiences forge beliefs. Visualize an experiennce. What would need to happen for me to believe this?
Whatever your goal may be, if you create in your mind a clear image of the result you want and represent it to yourself as if you’ve already achieved it, then you will go into the kind of states that will support you in creating the results you desire.
What are some of the beliefs you have about who you are and what you’re capable of?
Abraham Lincoln lost some important elections, but he continued to believe in his ability to succeed in the long term. He allowed himself to be empowered by success, and he refused to be cowed by his failures. His belief system was geared toward excellence, and he finally achieved
Belief #1: Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves us.
No matter how much negative feedback they get from their environment, they think in terms of possibilities.
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Belief #2: There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
mediocre existence.
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“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
Belief #3: Whatever happens, take responsibility.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship, In Search of Excellence, or The One Minute Manager,
The companies that succeeded were the ones that treated people with respect and with dignity, the companies that viewed their employees as partners, not as tools.
Belief #6: Work is play.
“The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.”
It’s the quality of commitment that separates good from great.
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The more you relive an experience, the more likely you are to use it again.
constant visualization to immediately be able to trigger a cue to that state
