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Success Defined
"Success is a journey, not a destination."
- Ben Sweetland
Success is achieved when a stretch goal is met
overcoming problems and difficulties by conscious effort and by application
of capabilities, resources and methods. It is to be differentiated from
luck, chance and doing what comes naturally without effort.8
Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success
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Do
your best. Do your best at every job. No
sleep! Success generates more success.
So be hungry for it. Hire good people with passion for
excellence...
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NLP Solutions:
Three Guiding Principles
Success depends on both
what you do and how
you do it.
Being creatures of pattern and habit, we
unknowingly achieve success and construct our
failures.
Taken together, the three
NLP guiding principles - (i) failure is not an accident; (ii)
feedback
is the foundation of success; and (iii) success has a structure - can help
you change old habits of thinking and your success hit rate. Once you have
taken these three guiding principles on board, you will have at hand a
valuable source of information - an effective prescription for exactly the
progress you desire. "These three principles make it possible to turn what
we used to think of as setbacks into success, get the feedback we need in
order to know what to do next, and figure out the key factors we need to get
right if we are to succeed".1
The Trap of Fixation on
Success
Success is nearly a magical idea for most people. In his Book
The Active Life, Parker Palmer points out that
in the West fixation of people on success discourages them from risk
taking "because it values success over learning,
and it abhors
failure whether we learn from it or not. It always wants to win but win
or lose, it inhibits our learning. If we win, we think we know it all and
have nothing more to learn. If we lose, we feel so defeated that learning is
a hollow consolation... It traps us in a system of praise or blame, credit
or shame, a system that gives primacy to goals and external evaluations,
devalues the gift of self-knowledge, and diminishes our capacity to take
risks that may yield growth."6
The Four Most Deadly Words
By: Kevin Wilke
There are
4 words that are so deadly, that if you are using them, it almost
guarantees you will not be nearly as successful as you want to be.
If you use these 4 words it practically
prevents you from being successful. What are they?
"I already know that."...
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Buddha's Path To Liberation
From right understanding proceeds right
thought;
from right thought proceeds right
speech;
from right speech proceeds right
action...
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Positive Emotions Are the Key To Life
Positive
emotional energy is the key to
health,
happiness and
wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life
will be in every area...
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The Low of Forced Efficiency
This law says that, "There is never
enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to
do the most important thing."
The key question you should ask is
"What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?" This is
the question that dominates time management. This is the key to
overcoming procrastination and becoming a highly productive
person...
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Building Relationships
"No success in public life can compensate for failure in
the home."
– Benjamin Disraeli
Successful people have the ability to
develop relationships that last.
Theodore Roosevelt said,
"The most important single ingredient in the
formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."... More
10 Rules of Effective Listening
By: Linda Eve Diamond
Listening
broadens us, lays the groundwork for peace, elevates the quality of our
relationships, and opens the way to success. If nothing else, when you
listen, you'll find you are the most popular person in the room...
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Persuade People – Earn
the Support of Others
Persuasion power can help you get more
of the things you want faster than anything else you do. It can mean the
difference between success and
failure. It can guarantee your progress
and enable you to use all of your other skills and abilities at the very
highest level. Your persuasion power will earn you the support of others...More
How To Succeed in Business
"Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a businessman, and
a son-of-a-bitch."
- Peter McArthur
99 percent of businesses started by people lacking business experience fail
within the first two or three years.
However, 80 percent of businesses started
by experienced businesspeople succeed. Why should this be so? The reason is
because experienced businesspeople know what to do. They know how to purchase
their products and their services. They know
how to negotiate with their suppliers. They know how to raise money. They
know how to negotiate leases. They know
how to
sell and to market. They know how to manage their finances. In other words,
experience is the key. In order to start your own business and succeed, you have
to learn how.
10 Roles of an
Inspirational Leader
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Help people
connect
their personal goals to business goals.
Leadership
is essentially about helping people to achieve
a better life. An important measure of your own success as a
leader is the success of your followers. Talented and
empowered employees are the prime ingredient of organizational
success and they need to be able to
lead themselves. Provide
strategic alignment and
be a coach to your people to help each of your followers to
develop into an effective self-leader. Establish an
attitude of relentless growth to enable
your organization and
people to achieve their stretch goals...
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The Foundation of Leadership: Achieving
Extraordinary Results
By: Brian Tracy
The most important quality of leadership, the
one quality for which you want to be known, is extraordinary performance,
with the goal of achieving extraordinary results. These results then serve
as an inspiration to others to perform at equally exceptional levels. People
ascribe leadership to those men and women who they feel can most enable them
to achieve important goals or objectives...
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A Leader's Mood: The Dimmer Switch of
Performance
How
do you work on attaining the consistent, emotionally intelligent leadership
behaviors that breed success in yourself and others? Here are a few other
suggestions to consider that can improve your and your team's performance...
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Entrepreneurial Creativity
Entrepreneurial creativity is about coming up
with innovative ideas and turning them into value-creating profitable
business activities...
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Case in Point
Getting the Best out of Students
Benjamin Zander, a celebrated music teacher, a conductor of the Boston
Philharmonic, and the author of the book called The Art of Possibility,
has an effective strategy for getting best out of his students. In
NLP
terms, this strategy is called 'Creating Inevitable Success'.
On the first day of class, Zander tells his first year students that they all
get an A. There is only one condition. Their first assignment is to write a
letter to him - dated on the last day of class - explaining why they deserved
the highest grade.
Zander believes there are several beneficial aspects of this dramatic role
reversal:
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It is a great confidence builder for his
students.
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It eliminates the often counterproductive sniping that people frequently
engage in when they think only a few will win.
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Students invariably knock themselves out for that A because they do more
to earn their own personal A than they would ever do for the traditional
A given by a teacher.7
Case in Point
Coco Chanel
Coco
Chanel, a
pioneering French couturier and the Founder of Chanel Inc., was willing to
take the risks she needed to in order to reach the top. From day one, her
career had been characterized by her willingness to defy convention time
after time. “Success
is often achieved by those who don't know that
failure is inevitable,” said Chanel....
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Case in Point
Ten3 Business e-Coach
There are three amazing facts about Ten3
Business e-Coach at
1000ventures.com:
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Invented and launched in 2001 with
start-up capital of US$1,000, Ten3 Business e-Coach has created
a new market niche, became a market leader and by 2005 has
customers in more than 60 countries.
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200+ (!!!) pages of the e-Coach are
ranked #1 by
Google though the web site managers had never used any
promotional tricks to achieve this success.
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20,000+ (!!!) web sites from all
over the world provide links to the e-Coach at 1000ventures.com
though the site had never participated in any link exchange
program.
The
success secret of the Ten3 Business e-Coach and its spin-out
Success360.com
is eternal and simple: for its developers, the success of its users
comes first. The e-Coach development team enjoys creating
extraordinary value to help people achieve success. This
extraordinary care gets rewarded. "You can make more friends in two
months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two
years by trying to get other people interested in you," taught Dale
Carnegie.

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