The Power of Success People

SEVEN TRAITS OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

Within you have many memories of successful experiences in your life. You also have many memories of seeing and hearing about the success of others.

Positive Remembering has power because your body cannot tell the difference between what is your real memory and an imaginary memory made of bits and pieces of other people’s success.

In other words you can learn of other people’s success, adopt their techniques as your own and your body will behave as if these were real experiences.

Your senses respond by looking and listening for things in the outside world which match the dream you have given them.

The mind through the senses will also ignore things which do not agree with the dream you’ve given it.

In this appendix I want you to learn SEVEN things all successful people have done or thought to make their dreams come true. As you learn these secrets they will become part of your memories. You can blend in your dreams with the techniques of these successful people and automatically order your mind to look for your own success.

1. They recognize their dreams whenever and wherever they found it.

Some people have known what they wanted all their lives. However, this knowing is the exception, not the rule. For most of us, we seem to drift because we don’t know what we want to do.

All successful people have recognized their dream whenever and wherever they found it.

How?

As they went about their daily lives, they came across some subject, some object, some certain something which lit the fires of wonders and imagination in them. Put simply- they fell in love with this thing or idea as soon as they encountered it.

He went running after the car

A person whose dream found him was Soichiro Honda, the founder of Honda Motor Company.

One day when he was very young he saw his first automobile. At this time cars were rare in Japan and the sight of this one was enough to light the fires of young Honda’s imagination for the rest of his life.

He wrote about that day many years later with the same emotion he had felt then: “Forgetting about everything else, I went running after the car…I was deeply stirred…I think it was at that moment though I was a mere child, that the idea originated I would one day build a car myself.”

2. They clearly defined what they wanted.

Dennis Waitley who writes about how to be successful said. “Most people fail to achieve their goals because they never really set them in the first place.”

Wayne Gretzkey, the Hockey star said. “It’s not as important to know where the puck is now, as to know where it will be.”

S. B. Fuller said. “If you know what you want, you are more apt to recognize it when you see it.”

Mary Kay Ash, who grew Mary Kay Cosmetics from a storefront,”You have to have a road map if you expect to get to your destination. The same thing is true with your life. Without a plan, a road map, you will never get to where you want to go. To accomplish anything, you must sit down and decide what you want from life- your long-term goals.”

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The best example of this is a man named John Goddard who at age 15 heard an older man talking about how he regretted not doing something when he was young. Hearing this made John think about how he never wanted to be old and know he had not done the things in life he wanted.

So young John Goddard wrote a list of 127 things he wanted to do in life. By the time he was 60’s he had done 115 of them, including rafting down the Nile River, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, and learning how to fly. Each time he would go on one of his trips he would come home and lecture about it in order to make money for the next adventure in his list.

The last item on John’s list was to live until the year 2000. For the last few years, John Goddard has been successfully battling cancer and I believe his long-term goal of completing his list has been one of the factors in his continued survival.

3. They constant keep their dreams in front of them.

All successful people write their dreams down, or draw a picture of them, or take record them, or get a photograph of the things they want. All successful people keep this reminder constantly in front of their face.

· Conrad Hilton kept the picture of the Waldroff.

· Victor Frankl kept writing his lost manuscript on tiny pieces of paper.

· Jim Carrey always kept his $10 million check in his wallet.

Remember what Emil Coue said, “Every thought solely occupying our mind becomes true for us and tends to transform itself in action.”

4. They eagerly educated themselves about their dream

While a child Thomas Edison wanted to learn so badly that he started at the first bookcase, first row of the public library and started reading. He did not stop until he had read every single book in the library.

Abraham Lincoln worked hard all day and studied a law book by the light of the fireplace at night.

Steven Spielberg used every extra minute he had as a child making 8mm movies, learning how to make special effects and learning how to edit different scenes in order to tell a story on film.

Once you know what your passion is- learn everything you can about it, even if you have to start from nothing.

5. They didn’t listen to no sayers.

The modern world we live is the best evidence I can of not to listen to those who say, “You can’t do it or it can’t be done.” We are literally surrounded by inventions and ideas that were once thought of as impossible science fiction.

· The Wright Brothers didn’t listen when people said man was not meant to fly.

· John Kennedy didn’t listen when people said Catholic can never become president.

· Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t listen when people said segregation will never change.

· Young Thomas Edison didn’t listen when his grammar school teacher told her mother to take him out of school because he was a dunce who would never amount to anything.

· Franklin Roosevelt didn’t listen when people said he was finished in politics because he had polio.

As Mary Kay Ash says, “All the experts say the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, its body is to heavy for its wings. But the bumblebee doesn’t know this and it flies very well.”

If you want to succeed don’t listen to No Sayers, listen to your Heart.

6. They understood each failure as another step closer to success

Dr. Jean-Loius Entienne wrote about his famous one man walk to the North Pole. “There are two great times of happiness- when you are haunted by a dream, and when you realize it. Between the two there’s a strong urge to let it drop. But you have to follow your dreams to the end.”

Soichiro Honda wrote. “Many people dream of success. To me success can be achieved only through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents 1 percent of your work that results from the 99 percent that is called failure.”

· Cy Young holds the record for the most wins 512 and the record for the most losses 313

· Henry Ford went bankrupt twice before he hit it big with the Model T.

· Lincoln lost every political race he entered until he finally won the big one, when he was 60 years old he became the President of the United States.

· Thomas Edison had over 1000 failures before he perfected the light bulb.

Ted Turner says, “Never get discouraged and never quit. Because if you never quit, You’re never beaten.”

7. They gave their dream a higher purpose

People who succeed must find a way to make their dream help more than just themselves. Just as in all successful marriages, each partner must surrender to the other in order to become united.

In life, your dream must offer the world something greater than your own happiness.

· Jim Carrey wanted to make people laugh.

· Henry Ford wanted to make cars cheap enough so the average person could afford one.

· Alexander Bell invented the telephone while trying to find a way to help the deaf.

· Martin Luther King wanted to see all children of America grow up together and equal under the law.

Did they do this to help others and not themselves? No, they helped themselves by helping others. The point is not to be a saint, but let other people get what they want. If you help other people get what they dream about, they will help you succeed.