During a recent teleconference, a participant couldn't help but point out I say that when we're on track to success and if we're really going for it, we will experience several temporary defeats. She didn't like hearing that. On the other hand, it's absolutely guaranteed We're all human. And the difference between those who succeed and those who don't is not that they don't have the same kind of problems. Those who succeed usually have bigger problems, because they're in a bigger arena, other than the fact, of course, of the death of a loved one and all that comes with it-that's uniform and...

Conventional wisdom tells you to work harder if you want to make more money. But there's only so many hours in the day, and you can only work so hard. Ultimately, the secret is to make a qualitative change. Doing something different may be the key to your success There was an ambitious man who he wanted to earn more money. So he did what everybody told him to do. At that time he thought his income had to come from a job. So he doubled his workload to double his income. Of course, even at 24 nobody can do, for very long, the grueling schedule of 16 hours a day - not counting commuting time,...

You become wealthy by seeking out problems people are willing to pay you to solve. So ask yourself, "What solutions can I provide, and leverage into a genuine business?" You want to know how to become wealthy? Seek out problems. Yep, that's exactly what it is. Ask yourself, if you're in the mode right now where you're wondering what you want to do, or even what you want to do next, "What do people want bad enough they're willing to pay for it?" By the way, you'll always be asking a form of this, and remember that you shouldn't do anything that isn't integrally connected with and furthering...

The story of Roger Bannister, the first person to break the four minute mile - or as they say it in the track and field arena, to run the sub-four minute mile, is fairly well-known in motivational circles. What a lot of people don't know is what went on to make that happen. They don't know after he placed fifth in the Olympics in 1952 he was crushed. They don't know he hurt on that, and they don't know it was at that moment he put his intention out to do the impossible, to run the sub-four minute mile. They don't know he trained for it in 30 minutes of his daily lunch hour as a busy pre-med...

At a certain enterprise management showed up early Friday morning and told 200 employees their services were no longer needed. "Oh, sorry that your retirement plan will be screwed up. Oh, you didn't get vested, and I'm sorry about a few other things. And, you know, your pay stops immediately. Sorry I didn't get to notify you in advance and give you six months to plan it out." Not that most people would have prepared, because historically even in situations in which people have been notified, they didn't. That's just one example; if you want to get big numbers, then you've got the...

As an achiever, wouldn't you agree with me you've got to go the extra mile to achieve the success you want? There isn't any real choice about that. But the good thing is you will distance yourself from your competitors when you're in that extra mile zone, because so few people are there.. Yet, it's only a mile We're talking about the extra mile here, not the extra "100 miles." Then we invoke Roger Bannister, because he's such an example to us about the extra mile. He is the athlete who, 6 May 1954, broke the four-minute-mile barrier. How did he do it? Well of course, you can imagine that a...

There's a blur between what is possible and what is impossible... And what is impossible to a lot of people is very possible to others. I'm often reminded of one of the seemingly humorous statements John Lennon made. As you know, John Lennon became a multi-millionaire in the music business. He delivered tremendous value to this Earth, so he certainly deserved every single bit of that fame and fortune. Then there's others... I happen to live part of my life in Nashville, Tennessee, so I know the story about the struggling artist. And I know the guys and gals who play music and sing so...

Napoleon Hill led prayer more than one time... At different times, naturally, the words flowed differently - but he never varied from his life's theme. These are the prayers Napoleon Hill prayed.... This one has been my favorite for years. I have it written in my heartfelt book, I have it memorized, and find myself saying it and marveling in it regularly. I've structured it into my life, it's such a good guide: "I ask not for mere riches, but for the wisdom with which to recognize, embrace, and properly use the great abundance of riches I now have at my command." "I ask not for mere...

It was the change of the millennium, 31 December 1999 combined with and reaching over to 1 January 2000. I was about 100 miles east of Bogota, Colombia, in the Andes Mountains, on the side of a mountain. I've often wondered how many careers were destroyed-or should've been. If you remember back then we were involved in the Y2K mania/pandemonium. We were frightened ablazes to death that security systems weren't going to work, that airplanes would lose their navigation systems mid-flight, and that Star Wars was going to KABOOM And that even our personal laptops wouldn't work. Like all good...

One way to acquire an instant boost and focus during your walk down the pathway to success is to establish environmental empowerment signals to remind you of your goals and intentions. Empowerment signals can give you that boost, give you that focus, and actually are a contributing part of you winning this game of life. And it all happens with getting conscious, being sensitive, designing things. As I was recording the audio I transcribed this article from, I was listening to a distant airplane. Now, I couldn't see it. However, airplanes are an empowerment symbol in my life, and I certainly...