Find the Key to Success
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When I was writing Success Made Easy a friend commented, “Hey Ron, if success was easy, everyone would be successful.” “Success” is just a word. It has a different meaning to everyone who says it. Yes everyone can be successful; in fact most people are successful at something. The differences lie in what you want and what you get. Those who get what they want are successful regardless of what that is.
Could this be Success?
Some homeless people are the most successful of all. They have decided that all they want is a place to sleep (anywhere) and something to eat (anything). They manage to find both and thus succeed. They overcome obstacles that are far more difficult than people in the workplace do.
It’s Your Choice
There are basically two kinds of people; those who take what they get, and those who get what they want. To get less than you want is to fail. Many people fail by simply not defining what it is that they want. Start there, and then set out to make its accomplishment EASY.
Over and Over
Repetition will make anything easy. Anything you do over gets easier and easier to do; good or bad. Some people get very good at some very bad things. The first time that you rob a bank it will be very difficult, but rob enough of them and it will become so easy that you won’t bother taking the precautions you did back when it was hard, and then find yourself in jail.
Define the behavior that will lead to the success that you want (anything) and then just repeat that behavior until it becomes a habit. You form the habits and the habits then form you. It’s Easy!
October 10th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I don’t understand how Ron can call sleeping on the sidewalk a success. These lazy bums quite clearly don’t want to work and are living off of those that do in one way or another. I say, “Hose em down.”
October 10th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Reality Check needs hosed down.
October 11th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Hello everybody,
I read once that it was Cicero who said (roughly translated) “THE SKILL TO DO COMES FROM DOING” which is what we all know whether or not we articulate the thoughts, and its what Ron is saying here anyway. There are two comments I want to make. The first is that repetition does help of course for with it, it (success or failure) does become easier; but there is also the COMPLACENCY factor to consider too. You know, I have done this so often, I do it now by rote, as a matter of course, because it is the rule, because it works, because I have done it now for so long that I can just do it without thinking …. and its this without thinking that catches us. CHANGE is good, seeking a better mousetrap, re-inventing yourself, keeping up with the times, doing what’s right for now and not continuing to do what what right then.
The other caution about habitual action is that the CONCENTRATION often goes and accidents happen, you know, on a production line for instance, where machinery requires an operator. Stop concentrating at the wrong time and you could lose a finger! I think all of us have to be aware of both complacency and loss of concentration, no matter what our work entails, so matter where we are, no matter where we sleep.
Homeless people are desperate people. Each will have a story that may shock Reality Check. Many may have been rendered homeless by people like Reality Check. Spend a couple of nights on the street why don’t you? Ah, of course not! Why should you? You are an upstanding citizen, hardworking and tax paying, a role model for millions. I forgot. Sorry.
Cheers
Lestie