ALWAYS BE PREPARED FOR SUCCESS
There is no shortage of opportunity. Everyday you’re presented with countless opportunities to be, or do whatever you desire.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Don’t miss out on an opportunity because you’re not prepared.
Your preparation is absolutely essential. To achieve success, you must have self discipline. You must increase your knowledge and develop your skills.
You’re always at the right place at the right time when you’re prepared.
Sooner or later you’ll encounter a crisis in your life, and how you meet it will determine your future happiness and success.
Since the beginning of time, everyone has been called upon to meet such a crisis. Close scrutiny will show you that most “crisis situations” are opportunities to either advance or stay where you are.
Indeed, most changes in your life will be due to either “inspiration” or “desperation.”
Personal growth is the process of responding positively to change. Whatever comes your way, give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
A precious stone cannot be polished without friction, nor humanity perfected without trials.
YOU ARE YOUR ENVIRONMENT
Always be mindful that you’re a product of your environment.
So choose an environment that will best develop you toward your objective.
Analyze your life in terms of your environment.
Are the things around you helping you toward your success, or are they holding you back?
The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you’re not going to stay where you are. You’re not a captive of your environment.
If you don’t like where you are, you can make some changes. You’re not planted permanently in the ground like a tree. Don’t say, “You would, if you could,” start saying, “You will, because you can.”
When you become a part of anything it becomes a part of you.
YOUR ASPIRATIONS ARE YOUR POSSIBILITIES
The first ingredient of your success is to dream a great dream.
You must dream big and think big to be big. High expectation always precedes high achievement.
You’re as small as your controlling desires, or as great as your dominant aspirations.
Once your mind stretches to a new idea it will never go back to its original dimensions. If you dream of little goals you can expect little achievement.
Dream of big goals and you’ll win big success.
PEOPLE WITH GOALS SUCCEED
Without goals there is no is no achievement.
A set definitive objective must be established if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this. Decide what you want. The world will turn aside and let you pass if you know where you are going.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination. Determine what you want. Decide on your major objections, targets, and destination.
You can plant your own dream, with a goal.
MOUNTAINS ARE CLIMBED ONE STEP AT A TIME
Everyone who got where they are had to begin where they were. Your opportunity for success is right in front of you.
To attain success or to reach your goal, don’t worry about having all the answers in advance. You just need to have a clear idea of your goal and move toward it.
Don’t procrastinate when faced with a difficult problem. Break your problems into parts and handle one part at a time.
Develop a tendency toward action. You can make something happen today. Break your big plan for success into small steps and take the first step right away.
Success starts with a first step.
DON’T BELIEVE IN MIRACLES, DEPEND ON THEM
You don’t need an explanation for everything.
Recognize that there are such things as miracles, events for which there are no explanations. Later, knowledge may explain those events away.
The fact that you plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return are common miracles.
Your duty to yourself is to believe that for which you have sufficient evidence, and to suspend your judgement when you have not.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Vision is the art of seeing invisible things.
SUCCESS IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. But you have to act on them if you’re going to be successful.
Distant pastures always look greener than those close at hand, but real opportunities are right where you are.
You must simply take advantage of them when they appear. You can start where you are at any time.
Success is all around you. It’s not in your environment, it’s not in luck or chance, or in the help of others. Success is in yourself alone.
You don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What you need is to use what you have. Learn to seize good fortune, for it is always around you.
You must go to success, it doesn’t come to you.
Open your own doors to opportunity.
YOU WILL FIND TRUE JOY USING YOUR POTENTIAL
Your greatest success and happiness in life will be found when you use your natural abilities to their fullest extent. Happiness is not
having or being. It’s in the doing.
The essence of true wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is activity, laughter, and love.
You were created to conquer your environment, to solve problems, and to achieve goals. You’ll find no real satisfaction or
happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Yes, there is true happiness. It’s found in doing a job well done, in achieving a worthy goal, in putting your child to sleep, and in
writing the last line of your poem.
Your personal growth itself contains the seed of happiness.