Self Made Dreams Are Reality

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." --  Albert Einstein When I first joined up in the Marine Corps I got a little card that said, “Honor, courage and commitment.” It’s funny. In my family values, two of those are still there. I’m going to have a PDF copy of this but I would recommend that you take my PDF copy and you create your own family values. You guys are watching this from all over the world. I think that the most important thing that a man can do is he’s going to have to figure out life on his own. He’s got to look out there. He can’t let his mom decide for him. He can’t let his wife decide for him. You can’t let society, especially, to decide for you. This probably goes into point number one. You've got to have the courage to make your own decisions. To create your own set of values, and not be led astray by those individuals who don't have any. Then and only then you will be a individual leader thriving to ...

We are constantly chasing success and get tired trying to achieve success. Do we ever sit down to define what success is? If we are able to define success, maybe then it sets a parameter for us to judge for ourselves if we are truly successful. Clearly, success that keeps us constantly happy should be lasting. The authors were interested in success that is sustainable – enduring success. They mentioned that “Lasting success is emotionally renewing, not anxiety provoking.” I agree with how they define success. It opened a new angle for me to look at success and how I can help some of my staff define success for themselves. This is especially important in an age where job satisfaction is falling and more and more talented executives get disgruntled with work. Maybe helping them define success would help increase their sense of achievement and happiness. It is complex to define success, but the authors broke enduring success into 4 components: Happiness: Feelings of pleasure or ...

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."-- Conrad Hilton Successful people keep moving. Having researched so many leaders across the world, I note with great interest that the successful ones were and are the ones that keep moving. They don’t allow things good or bad to stifle them. They use ‘experiences’ to enable them to move into new heights. They have a framework to follow. They know each day the actions to which they must commit. They may slow down at times, but they don’t stop. I find having someone you can be accountable to is so helpful. They can bring challenge to you to keep moving during the tough times. As a mentor myself, I will often challenge people to keep moving forward, to keep growing themselves. I don’t think we can do this alone. As a famous proverb reads – Iron sharpens Iron. Those I have researched tend to have an ‘accountability partner/mentor/coach. Don’t run alone – ...

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -- Helen Keller "Just because the houses look alike doesn't mean they have the same foundation." -- Kennedy Siaw In life if there’s something you want, you have to go and get it. No sitting around waiting for it to come to you. Sit too long and it’ll be gone. To achieve the life you want, it takes action. It’s time today to become a hustler in life. I am and you should do. In a private webinar I participated in Tuesday night (more on specifics later), they gave us homework. The homework for the week was to answer three questions. I’m suppose to answer them and share it with only the members of the group. Instead I want extraaccountablity and am going to share with you all. The reason is because I want you to know a little more of my story. I’m opening up to you. These are my hon...

"People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy."--Tony Robbins It’s hard to get that momentum started. You know how hard it is to start something and see results. A new blog, a business, a fitness plan, or losing weight. It’s like a bit steam locomotive. When it’s at a standstill even a small piece of wood will keep it from moving. It takes a lot of steam to get the wheels moving slowly. Once it starts moving it gets into a rhythm. It slowly builds speed over time. Soon it’s up to 60 mph or more. By then it’ll run right through almost anything. I didn’t know but momentum was starting to build up. Momentum is Worth the Hard Work Certainly momentum wasn't the only factor to my success. I set a goal. I knew why I was doing this. I changed my habit...

TOLERATE AMBIGUITY Breakthrough ideas are not always the result of a revolutionary Eureka moment. On the contrary, they are often the result of an evolutionary series of approximations or failed experiments. When Thomas Edison was asked how it felt to fail 800 times before coming up with tungsten as the filament for the light bulb, his answer was a revealing one. “Fail?” he said. “I didn’t fail once. I learned 800 times what didn’t work.” Edison had the ability to tolerate ambiguity — to “not know.” Like most breakthrough thinkers, he had the ability to dwell in the grey zone. Confusion was not his enemy. “Confusion,” explained Henry Miller, “is simply a word we have invented for an order that is not yet understood.” If you are attempting to birth a breakthrough idea, get comfortable with discomfort. Give up your addiction to having all your ducks in a row — at least in the beginning of your discovery process. People may think you’re a quack, but so what? Your chances...

 "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success."  -- Thomas J. Watson Big groups out-prioritize the work of single researchers when competing for resources.  Larger groups have a larger need for resources, can benefit more people, and can accomplish more with the same amount of time.  A one-man army is only a fractal unit of large groups and teams and can only put out a fraction of their work.  This increased competition only hinders your work and hinders your progress. Still not convinced?  Any advantages of the one-man army, if any, can be scooped up by collaboration in a new form: the Armada.  Smaller, previously established teams can branch off and ...

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."-- Winston Churchill  On the other hand, some masters who are neither popular nor efficient are delightful human beings who have simply mistaken their vocation; and the amazing thing is that they sometimes possess a prestige or an influence in virtue of which they achieve resounding success—judged at least by the test of promotion. In short they go from failure to failure, but always on the up-grade leaving messes for their betters to mop up. It is not energy that is wanting, but judgment. People now began to talk about the nervy, energetic young man who could go from failure to failure with a smile on his face. It is a tradition in theatrical management that successful starts almost invariably mean disastrous finishes.   Cited from: https://quoteinvestigator.com