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Chapter Two THE LAWS OF SUCCESS
Chapter Two THE LAWS OF SUCCESS
Law of Control
Law of Accident
Law of Responsibility
Law of Direction
Law of Compensation
Law of Service
Applied Effort
Overcompensation
Preparation
Forced Efficiency
Decision
Creativity
Flexibility
Persistence
THE LAWS OF SUCCESS
What is success? Success can be defined as “being happy with what you’ve got.” Success is not necessarily determined by material things or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.
Achievement is different from success. Achievement refers to “getting what you want.” Achievement requires the ability to set goals and objectives, to make plans of action, and then to implement those plans. Achievement requires that you overcome obstacles and difficulties in reaching the goals that you have set for yourself.
In both cases, success and achievement, the starting point of great accomplishment is for you to decide exactly what you want in every part of your personal and business life. Motivation requires “motive” and the clearer you are about your true motives, the more you will achieve and the faster you will achieve it.
The basic principle of human action is that everything you do is aimed at improving your life in some way. Every action of yours is guided by a purpose of some kind, whether clear or unclear. As Aristotle wrote, all behavior is “teleological” or purposeful- aimed at a goal. And the one factor that governs each of your actions is your
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desire to be better off than you would have been in the absence of your action.
The remarkable truth is that you always seem to achieve the goals that you set for yourself. If your goal is a small one, for example, to get home at night and watch television, you will certainly achieve it. If your goal is a large one—to achieve financial success, prosperity and prestige among the people you live and work with—you will achieve that as well.
Your mind contains a cybernetic, goal-seeking mechanism. Once you have programmed a target or a desire into your subconscious mind, your subconscious and your superconscious minds take on a power of their own which seems to both drive and steer you inevitably toward the attainment of your goal, whatever it is.
In this sense, goal achieving seems to happen almost automatically. This goal seeking capacity is as natural to you as breathing in and breathing out. The difficulty always lies in your ability to set clear goals in the first place. When you learn and practice this critical skill, you begin to achieve at a higher level almost immediately. You begin to achieve your goals faster and with greater predictability.
The key to activating the Laws of Success is for you to become perfectly clear about what it is you want and exactly what it will look like when you have achieved it. Just as you wouldn’t attempt to build a house without a plan, you wouldn’t think of building a great
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life without a clear list of the goals you wish to attain and a written plan of action for the attainment of each of those goals.
Unfortunately, according to virtually every study, less than three percent of adults have clear, written goals and detailed plans to achieve them. According to Mac McCormick in his book, What They Still Don’t Teach You at the Harvard Business School, this top three percent of goal setters are earning, on average, ten times as much in the same period of time as those people with no written goals at all.
You can move yourself into the top rank of people living today by the simple act of sitting down with a pad of paper and a pen and making a list of the things you want. Most people have never done this. The very act of writing out a description of what you want to accomplish and what you intend to do to accomplish it over the next three to five years will change your life.
When you write down your goals, you immediately become a different person. Your attitude toward yourself and your future changes in a very positive way. You feel more confident and optimistic. You feel more in control and in command of your life. Best of all, when your goals and plans are in writing, the probabilities of your accomplishing them increases ten times, or by about one thousand percent.
