The Importance Of Success

I want to tell you the most interesting story in the world; Why a person becomes the person he becomes. Why a little boy or little girl grows up to be the kind of person he or she becomes. Now the estimates, by the experts in this field, are that most of us are using somewhere around 5% of our real potential. Some experts say as little as 1%. It means we are only giving about 5% of ourselves to what we are doing, to our days, our work, our families, everyone we know, our entire environment. But it also means we are only experiencing about 5% of the fun. 5% of the joy. 5% of the rewards we could be knowing, or less.

All the experts are agreed that in each of us there are deep reservoirs of ability, even genius, that we habitually fail to use. Why? We know that most people desire by nature, to succeed. But what is Success? What is this word that has become so famous in the world? What does it mean? Most people do not know what success is all about, and since they do not know what it is about they really do not know where to look for it.

Success is really nothing more than the progressive realization of a worthy Ideal. This means that this person who knows what he is doing and knows where he is going is a success. Any person with a goal, toward which he is working, is a successful person. This means that the boy in high school that is working towards a diploma, or the boy in college towards a degree, is just as successful as any human being on earth. Because he knows what he is doing, why he is getting up in the morning, and where he is going.

But conversely, if a person doesnt know what he is working towards, what it is he wants, does not have a goal towards which he is working, then he must at least by this definition, be calle...

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... life we have got.

And remember to think. Imagination is everything, and we can become what we can imagine. If you find yourself getting depressed and down at the mouth as we all get once in a while you might want to remember this quotation by Dean Briggs, he said, Do Your Work. Not just your work and no more but a little more for the lavishings sake. That little more thats worth all the rest, and if you suffer if you must and you doubt is you must, do your work. Put your heart into it and the sky will clear. And then out of your doubt and suffering will be born the supreme joy of life..

Believe it or not in an age where we have come to nearly deify leisure time we have almost lost sight of the fact that virtually all our satisfactions, rewards will come not from our leisure, but from our work, and dont forget The Strangest Secret; We become, what we think about.