7 Beliefs (Lies) of Successful People Flashcards
EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON AND A PURPOSE, AND IT SERVES US.
Successful people have an uncanny ability to focus on what is possible in a situation, no matter how much negative feedback they get from their environment. They believe that EVERY ADVERSITY CONTAINS THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT OR GREATER BENEFIT.
Do you generally expect things to work out well, or to work out poorly? Do you see the potential in a situation, or do you see the roadblocks? Many people tend to focus on the negative more than the positive. The first step toward changing that is to recognize it. BELIEFS IN LIMITS CREATES LIMITED PEOPLE.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FAILURE. THERE ARE ONLY RESULTS.
People always succeed in getting some sort of results. The super successes of our culture aren’t people who don’t fail, but simply people who know that if they try something and it doesn’t give them what they want, they’ve had an important learning experience. You can always learn from every human experience and can thereby succeed in anything you do.
Buckminster Fuller said: “Humans have learned only through mistakes.”
Take the word “failure” out and replace it with “outcome”.
WHATEVER HAPPENS TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.
Great leaders and achievers operate from the belief that they create their world. No matter what happens-good or bad-if they didn’t cause it by their physical actions, maybe they did by the level and tenor of their thoughts.
If you don’t believe that you are creating your world, you believe that you are at the mercy of circumstances-things just happen to you-you’re an object, not a subject.
In the area of personal communication, we say that THE MEANING OF COMMUNICATION IS THE RESPONSE YOU GET. If we try to tell someone we love them, and they get upset or hostile, the fact is, our communication may have been the trigger without our knowing it. By retaining responsibility, by changing our actions, we can change our communication-the power to change the result we produce.
ITS NOT NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO USE EVERYTHING.
Achievers tend to be time misers-they exact the essence from a situation, take out what they need, and don’t dwell on the rest. They know what’s essential and what’s not.
We are quite capable of flicking a light switch and getting the result called light even thought we can’t explain exactly how electricity works.
PEOPLE ARE YOUR GREATEST RESOURCE.
Individuals of excellence almost universally have a tremendous sense of respect and appreciation for people. They have a sense of team, a sense of common purpose and unity. Look at Japanese business and the conclusion of the book - In Search of Excellence: “There was hardly a more pervasive theme in excellent companies than respect for the individual”. One person, no matter how brilliant, will find it difficult to match the collaborative talents of an effective team.
WORK IS PLAY.
Pablo Picasso once said, “When I work, I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.” That’s what successful people do-they enrich their work by bringing to it the same curiosity and vitality they bring to play.
THERE’S NO ABIDING SUCCESS WITHOUT COMMITMENT.
If there’s a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it’s that there is no great success without great commitment. Anna Pavlova once said: “To follow, without halt, one aim: there’s the formula for success.”
It’s just another way of stating the Ultimate Success Formula-know your outcome, model whatworks, take action, develop sensory acuity to know what you are getting, and keep refining it until you get what you want.
