A successful person has balanced their lives in five areas.
- Personal Growth – Continuously improving oneself
- Health – Making sure that they look after their physical and emotional being
- Appreciating What You Have – This can be interpreted many ways – one core is volunteering
- Relationships – Enjoying Moments With Friends, Children, Parents, Siblings, Relatives, Co-workers and strangers
- Finance – Ensuring there are enough funds to do keep the balance
My philosophy merges the wisdom expressed by The Talmud, Maimonides, Zelig Pliskin, Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, Phillip . C. McGraw (Dr. Phil), Henry Ford, Jeffrey Gitomer, The Secret, Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence), Andy Grove, Warren Bennis, Micheal Hepworth, Willard F. Harley, Philip Crosby, Edward de Bono, and many, many others.
To be successful, you must be committed to your own success.
My philosophy on success is separated into different components each contributing to the whole.
Understanding Success – A person must spend time understanding what success is. Who is successful? Why are they successful? Who teaches about success and what is their formula?
Choosing Your Success – This is all about setting and understanding goals. Short term, medium term and defining lifetime goals.
Creating Your Success Team – Absolutely nobody becomes successful on their own. I feel it is very important that each person understand who is on their team to become successful. The team stretches from the obvious (parents, siblings, spouse, accountant, lawyer, boss, employee etc) to the non-obvious such as the strangers who help you when you trip, to the government, the police, etc..
Working For Success – Everybody has heard the term – Work Smart – Not Hard. What does it mean to work smart? How does somebody work smart? How can a person with limited education work smart? What does it mean to work hard? This is all about creating and using a plan.
Positive Mental Attitude – A positive mental attitude is the single most important thing a successful person has. A PMA can potentially unlock every door in the world so that nothing will stop a person from being successful.
The Power Of Time – What does Bill Gates, and George Bush and me have in common? We all have 168 hours in a week.I spend a lot time trying to understand the value of time and learn how to trust in time.
Growing Emotionally – Emotions are wonderful things, they can keep you out of danger and they can lead you to success, but only if you let them.
Growing Intellectually – A successful person is always growing intellectually.
Marketing Yourself – A successful person must market themselves. By marketing, we mean making sure that the appropriate people become aware of you. There are numerous ways to make the world aware of how wonderful you are.
Turning Challenges Into Opportunities – Sometimes it seems that everyday some thing new stops us from getting what we want. This is how to use the PMA with practical thoughts.
Handling Your Success – How do we handle this success? How do we ensure the success keeps coming? What do we do to improve the rate of success? How do we help others meet the same challenge?
To help me understand create my philosophy, I packaged all this “stuff” and teach it as a course to others. The course is offered free through the YMCA Business Centre in Markham. I charge a fee for corporations who wish to use this material to help their employees. See the Speaking pages.
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