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Get Rid of Excuses... and Fail
Often!
Fail Often!
realize that without the
capacity to fail and get back
up, the ability to succeed
does not exist!
Then
when you DO fail, when
you do have that set back, when
you hit that pothole... Don't
Make Excuses!
Don't Blame... LEARN!
In the last training email we discussed,
the many excuses for non
achievement that I could have
used
(see Success is a Choice) and
that fact that no matter where you came
from, no matter where
you are, right now, today
you can start
making choices and decisions
that can
dramatically improve
your life and your future. But it
requires not just reading and “knowing”
these truths, it requires internalizing
them so that they are a part of you to
the point you naturally react in a way
that comports with them.
Success
requires ACTION and we must each get
rid of hundreds of EXCUSES we
can all use that lead to NON
action.
No Excuses!
Everyone has reasons for non
achievement. Get rid of them!
Take
Responsibility for Everything.
Take responsibility for your
circumstances—Are you not where you
should be because everyone let you down?
Stop depending on them. Choose new
partners or rely more on yourself. The
bottom line, is you can never control
your destiny until you acknowledge that
you are truly in control. Blaming
outside circumstances for your situation
is simply laying the groundwork for
lifelong excuses for failure.
When you truly take responsibility, you
begin to understand that you are in
control and it’s easier to see and
begin taking advantage of the
opportunities that abound.
Realize, this
doesn't mean that things won't go wrong.
They will. They WILL
go wrong... OFTEN!!!
What it means is DEAL with
it! Unfortunately, life happens.
I don't know where it came from,
but ever since I was about
I had a saying
that was always with me...
"Life is not as it should be... It
simply is as it is". Once we understand
that, it becomes much easier to
make
rational
decisions based on reality rather than
making "rationalizations" based on
excuses.
Make sure that you are making
decisions based on what reality,
IS... not based on
what you wish it was.
That is a sure fire recipe for
failure.
ACKNOWLEDGE REALITY AND DEAL WITH IT
From this day forward, take
responsibility for who you are and the
choices you make. It doesn’t matter
where you were
born, that you were a battered child or
came from a broken home, or dropped out
of high school, etc… even if you can
honestly say, “but look at my childhood,
it’s all I ever knew…”, guess what? By
simply acknowledging an excuse for less
than optimum choices, it is also an
admission that
there are better
choices that you can make.
JUST MAKE THEM!
No matter what happened in the past,
it's up to you to choose your own destiny.
Get rid of the excuses and start making
better choices and decisions. Do
this and you will absolutely
start getting better results!
NOT SMART ENOUGH??? DON'T BELIEVE IT FOR
A SECOND!!!
A focused hard working average intellect
will beat a lazy genius
EVERY TIME.
Success is not dependent on
Intelligence-- Now, don’t get
me wrong, if you have an IQ of 80 you
will not become a world renowned
cardiovascular surgeon. But there are
few excuses that are used so often, but
are of so little consequence as
“I’m just not smart enough”.
If you
are smart enough to read and
understand this page, you
are smart enough to become
successful!
Get rid of that
excuse!
Intelligence is
profoundly overrated.
WHAT YOU DO is infinitely more important
that
WHAT YOU KNOW. Your
willingness to learn what you need to do
AND THEN DOING IT is incomparably more
vital than the
ability to learn all
of those things that most people won’t
do anyway!
Success IS NOT about intellect.
It's about Action.
In this society, great success can be
accomplished with very AVERAGE
intellect. What is required, however, is
an
above average work ethic and willingness
to act. One of my favorite sayings it...
"GREAT IDEAS ARE USELESS... UNLESS
COMBINED WITH POSITIVE ACTION".
Think about it... in your lifetime, how
many great ideas have you come up with
and even told your friends about?
But you thought of it over a beer and did not
act upon it. Then later you see
someone on Oprah making their fortune
off "your" idea?
This scenario plays out all the
time, over and over.
It's
not the idea... It's the action
that matters! ACTION! ASN, is a GREAT
IDEA. It's a GREAT Company.
But what
would it have been without action?
The light bulb was a pretty good idea.
But where would it, and Edison be if the
idea wasn't combined with about 10,000
experiments THAT FAILED? We'd still be
in the dark! At least, until someone
else with a propensity to ACT got
off the couch undertook
the project. And remember the ideas
don't have to be brilliant.
Ever heard
of the pet rock?!
It was a stone
that was placed in a box and
then sold as a "pet".
Sort of a
stupid idea that was acted
upon. It made him rich!
If you always do what you've always
done, you'll always get what you always
got.
Want to make a change? Want more out of
life? There is no question, it will
require new choices and new ACTIONS!
FAILURE
WITH ACTION COMES FAILURE.
Don't be afraid to fail!
Another essential key to success?
FAIL OFTEN!
If you Act, You will occasionally fail.
You might even fail a lot. Edison
literally "failed" over 10,000 times in
the creation
of the light bulb. But he had the right
attitude. When he was asked about his
incredible number of failures, he said,
"I have not failed 10,000 times. I've
successfully found 10,000 ways that it
won't work!"
If you never fail.
you’re not trying hard
enough…
Success often comes from
pushing yourself to your limits, failing,
learning, getting better and
then going beyond what was
previously possible. As I used to admonish my sales
force on an almost daily basis...
"If you are not putting yourself in a
position to fail... you are not putting
yourself in a position to succeed".
Success
and failure are flip sides of the same
coin. If you work too hard to avoid
failure, you will not experience great
success. Do Not Fear Failure. It's more that an
aphorism when I say that
every time you
fail brings you one step closer to
success.
Want to
succeed?? Fail and fail often.
HOW DO YOU REACT?
Reacting the Right Way is even more
important than doing the right thing.
No matter what you do, and no matter how
well you do it... occasionally, things will go wrong.
A deal will fall apart. The sale
won’t be made. The race will be lost.
You’ll forget your lines. Something will
occasionally go bad.
How you react will
be infinitely more important than the
fact that you did everything right.
Many people, after having done everything
right but still experienced a failure,
fold. They get out of the business.
They quit.
They stop trying. They don't
realize that
failure is simply a part of the natural order
of things.
Failure is an unavoidable
part of the success process.
There's an old truism, the
only thing in life that is
certain is death and taxes.
I'm here to tell you that if you
have a desire to succeed, to
make something better of you
life and of those you love... if
you strive for success, the
truism evolves to "the
only things in life that are
certain are, death, taxes and
temporary failure".
If you want to succeed in anything, you
must be willing to fail. You must
realize, that you WILL fail. Failure is
nothing to be afraid of. Embrace it.
Learn from it.
The last thing that I want say is that
you can do this. You can succeed.
Whether ASN, GDI, AMWAY, etc... there are
many good
companies with good potential. The
determining factor is not simply the
company or the business you choose.
The
determining factor, will always,
be you. It's
that attitude you carry. The
willingness to carry on, to try
again in spite of the failures
you will endure.
Where you are today is irrelevant. The
only thing relevant and important is
where you want to go, and what you are
willing to do
to get there.
Successfully Yours
Bruce Castro
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