These are some of the most important ideas I have
learned in more than thirty years of studying successful people.
1. Your life only gets better when
you get better. Your outer world will always reflect your inner
world. If you want to improve the quality of your outer world, you must work on yourself. And because there
is no limit to how much better you can get, there is no
limit to how much better you can make your life.
2. It doesn't matter where you're coming from; all that matters is where you're going. Never allow yourself to
be slowed down or held back by events that have occurred in your past. Learn
from them and let them go. Resolve to keep yourself focused on the future and where you are going. Because your future is
limited only by your imagination,
there are no limits to what you can achieve in the months and years ahead.
3. Anything
worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first. Everything is hard
before
it is easy. A primary reason that people do not realize
their full potential is that they
try something new, and when it doesn't work perfectly
the first time they quit and go back to their old, lower level of performance.
Anything worth doing well is worth
doing poorly at first, and it is often worth doing poorly several times until you master
it.
4. You are only as free as your options, the well-developed alternatives you have available to you. One of
the greatest human goods is personal freedom, and your freedom
is determined largely by your choices. The more options you have, the greater freedom
and self-confidence you have.
You should be continually developing new options throughout your career. Never hang all your hopes for success on a single possibility.
5. Within every problem or difficulty you experience, there is the seed of an equal or
greater advantage or benefit. Look for the good in every problem. Look for the
valuable lesson in every adversity or setback. Look
for something you can gain from every difficulty, and you will always
find it.
6. You can learn
anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set
for yourself. You are a learning organism. Anything that anyone else has
learned, within reason, you can learn as well. You can acquire any kind
of knowledge and develop any skill you need to rise to the
top of your field.
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