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The great end of like is not knowledge but action. They said he was young, wealthy, healthy, happy and successful. I saw him debate dieticians, train executives and work with athletes and learning disabled kids. He seemed incredibly happy and deeply in lice with his wife as they traced together across the country and around the world. And when they were though, it was time to jet back to San Diego to spend a few days at home with their family in their castle overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
How was it that this twenty five year old kind with only high school education, could have accomplished so much in such a short period of time. After all, this was a guy who only three years ago had been living in a 400 square foot bachelor apartment and washing his dishes in his bathroom. How did he go from an extremely unhappy person, thirty pounds overweight with foundering relationships and limited prospect to a centered, healthily, respected individual with great relationships and the opportunity of unlimited success?
Obviously, we all have different dreams and ideas of what we want to create for our lives. In addition, I am very clear that what you know, where you go and what you own are not the true measure of personal success. To me, success is the ongoing process o shriving to become more. It is the opportunity to continually grow emotionally, socially, spiritually, physiologically, intellectually and finically while contributing in some positive way to others. The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.
The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. If all we needed were idea and positive think then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our dream life now. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge in only potential power unit it comes into the hands of someone how know how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word power ns the ability to act.
What we do in life is demined but how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication, what we picture and say to ourselves, how we more and use the muscles of our bodies and our facial expressions will determine how much of what we know we will use.
A clear look shoes that the grater gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person in their ability to get themselves to take action. It is gift that anyone of us can develop within ourselves. After all, other people had the same knowledge Steve Jobs did. People other than Ted turner could have figured out that cable had enormous economic potential. But Turner and Jobs were able to take action and by doing so, they change the way many of us experience the world.
Your level of communication master in the external would will determine your level of success with others, personally, emotionally, socially and financially. More important, the level of success you experience internally, the happiness, joy, love or anything else you desire, is the desire result of how you communicate to yourself. How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life, it is your interoperation of what is happening. Successful people’s lives have shown us over and over again that the quality of our lives is determined not by what happens to us, but rather by what we do about what happens.
People who have attended excellence follow a consistent path to success. The first step to this formula is to know your outcome, that is, to define precisely what you want. The second step is to take action, otherwise your desires will always be dreams. You must take the types of actions you believe will create the greatest ability of producing the result you desire. The actions we take do not always produce the results we desire, so that is to develop the sensory acuity to recognize the kind of propones and results you are getting from your actions and to note as until quickly as possible if they are taking you closer or your goals or farther away. You must know that you are getting from you actions, where it be in conversation or from your daily habits in life. If what you are getting is not what you want, you need to note what results your actions have produces so that you learn from every human experience, which is to develop the flexibility to change your behavior until you get what you want. If you look at successful people, you will find they followed these steps. They started with a target, because just knowing is not enough. They had the ability to read others, to know what response they were getting. And they kept adopting, kept adjusting, and kept changing their behavior until they fond what worked.
