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Digging For Your Gold

August 9, 2010 in Leadership, Quotes with 3 Comments

Digging For Your Gold 300x197 Digging For Your GoldAlright, so last week I refreshed on one of my favorite authors, Norman Vincent Peale. Dr. Peale is definitely the champion when it comes to positive thinking. He built an industry on his powerful philosophy, including dozens of books, thousands or lectures, over fifty years of radio programs, and the widely read magazine, Guideposts. But positive thinking alone did not make him such a success…underlying all was hard work.

“Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.” – Norman Vincent Peale

Dr. Peale’s hard work involved mining deep into believing in yourself in order to attain your dreams. Like miners who dig deep for gold, you also have to dig deep to find your own gold and diamonds…the priceless personal values that make you who you are.

Hard work to attain business goals require a lot of effort that few will ever notice. It often involves confronting you fears. For example, it’s hard work to remain positive when presenting a new business idea if it generates nothing more that an initial lukewarm response. Taking action and not giving up produces solutions.

Mine your inner values of perseverance and dedication to achieve your goals. If you think you can do it, you will do it. It may often be rough-going at times, but no one ever said success comes easy.

What methods do you use to keep positive when digging for your success?

The Power of Positive Thinking

August 2, 2010 in Education, Family, Featured, Fitness, Health and Wellness, Leadership with 11 Comments

Postive Thinking 225x300 The Power of Positive Thinking“How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself – so always think positively” – Norman Vincent Peale

One of the first “motivational” books I ever read was one by Norman Vincent Peale. His book titled Power of Positive Thinking was an instant bestseller when it was published in 1952 and sold over twenty million copies to date. Dr. Peale formulated a three-step process for positive thinking: the first step involves prescribed exercises, the second attaining divine power, and the last urges to eliminate negativity in your life. Continue Reading…

Failures That Fuel Our Future Success

July 19, 2010 in Leadership with 7 Comments

Future Success 300x218 Failures That Fuel Our Future SuccessNapoleon Hill was a pioneer in the genre of books on business success and leadership. His most famous book, Think and Grow Rich, is still on of the bestsellers of all time.

Hill believed that having a purpose or a plan is essential to attaining success. He advised readers to think their way through a failure, to view failure as a small part of a plan that will ultimately benefit them. If you analyze failure…see it as a plan with a purpose…it will prepare you for bigger challenges. In this way failure can only make you better because it prepares you for greater responsibilities.

Identify your life’s purpose and proceed with passion. Only you know what to do with it.

Hill’s official biography says he was born in a two-room cabin into wretched poverty. He began working at the age of thirteen as a reporter for small-town newspapers in rural Virgina. He later put himself through college. Meeting the powerful industrialist Andrew Carnegie and hearing his ideas led to Hill’s lifelong project, interviewing the most famous and wealthy men of all time (I will be touching base on this on a later post I have planned, using Tim Ferriss‘ approach discussed in The 4-Hour Workweek). What Hill learned from these men became the basis of his successful books.

An amazing fact is that Hill never mentioned the word “achievement” in Think and Grow Rich…he felt that readers would benefit most by discovering the keys to achieving their goals themselves as the result of his winning philosophy.

How do YOU transform your failures into success?

Potholes and Construction

June 8, 2010 in Business, Health and Wellness, Leadership with 7 Comments

success construction 300x299 Potholes and ConstructionOnce you’ve set your goals, don’t make the mistake of assuming that the road to realizing your carefully crafter planned for success is going to be smoothly paved. Life doesn’t work that way. Instead, you will probably be faced with a street filled with potholes. This is why you have to anticipate those potholes and construction signs. Learning from and adapting to change is part of the journey.

Most of us have heard of Tony Robbins, the powerful motivational speaker and best selling author. Tony Robbins knows full well about a journey that involves changing and adapting. First, his family name isn’t even Robbins, it’s Mahavorick. And he was not always the buff presence he is today. Believe it or not, there was a time when he was overweight and depressed. But he got motivated (by another motivational speaker) and developed a unique neurolinguistic program that is the basis of his philosophy and teachings. His famous fire-walking seminars teach participants the strategies of control: mind over body and logic rules over pain.

His message is to always keep your wits about you. When unexpected obstacles block your path, use your head. Don’t let a little thing like a hot coal burn your feet. Keep walking, with your goal of completing the path uppermost in your mind. Later, you can look back and say, “Ouch! Boy did that hurt! But it’s over, and I won!”