16 Steps To Success

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• 1 Steve_UK // Sep 29, 2008 at 1:51 pm

  Great video Sam,

  Regarding luck think of Google. They launched PLC on Friday 13th. !!!

  Therefore the gurus at Google know their is no such thing as luck!

  That is why Google use the “I’m Feeling Lucky button”. Just to return the #1 page!!!

• 2 Kim Parlsey // Sep 29, 2008 at 1:53 pm

  Sam,
  Thanks for sharing your thoughts from Ch.2 of The Magic of Thinking Big…
  Success does come to those who stop making excuses and take action (not just talking about it or thinking about it, but doing it)… and learning what works and what doesn’t and adjusting along the way.

  Look forward to coming back and getting your thoughts on the other Chapters of this powerful book. Thanks.

  To You And Your Readers Success In All That You
  Do…Have A FANTASTIC Day.

  Kim Parsley

• 3 Mara Brodowsky // Sep 29, 2008 at 5:28 pm

  Hi Sam,

  it’s a good and reassuring experience to find you talking relaxed and stresslessly on a topic you seem to really enjoy.
  When listening to your reading results these problems seem to disappear :).
  I’ve been thinking a lot about that human tendency to find excuses when my boys began to take up that attitude as they were kindergarden kids: partly their behaviour seemed to come from the desire to be accepted and loved by their parents as a person without guilt (when they had broken a toy or ’spilt the milk’).

  In some way we never seem to lose that tendency although we ought to change from that childhood paradigm when we begin to develop a responsibility for ourselves , our lives, our decisions when growing up.

  What you said about the sabotage of our own success (D.J.Schwartz) appears to point to the same direction.

  May be it’s the fear to fail what unconsciuosly makes us fall back to that childhood attitude to avoid responsibility which belongs more or less to our ‘comfort zone’ and keeps us from taking up the (mental) fight for an adult behaviour, for a responsible life and striving to successs.

  But then watching you out there in the sun I’m just looking forward to chapter three of the Magic of Thinking …
  and to the pleasure of following your steps next Tues - hopefully to success !

  Mara

• 4 Ayn Elise // Sep 29, 2008 at 5:35 pm

  Sam,

  Hi. First, I’d like to say that I really like your style and that you make a great instructor. You have a good way of presenting the information in great depth, yet, as very easy to understand; while adding your own insights into it, as well. And staying personable and fairly easy-going all the while. That’s a unique mixture not seen everyday.

  I was surprised to see that the author is targeting more of the emotional things that people use and not the logical statements that are most often talked about. As in, many people say they don’t have the time to do x ( thing ) . Which is what they might want the ” world ” to think, but they think to themselves things like ” I am too old or not smart enough ” to do x. Ergo a person tells them figure out how to make time. Here’s time managment tips. And the person with the issue doesn’t do anything differently because they didn’t ever discuss what the real deal was for them.

  Very cool that you did your chapter re-cap by explaining the excuse and also presenting the cures. That’s a great benefit to watching the videos.

  Thanks.

• 5 Angie // Sep 30, 2008 at 8:29 am

  The lips, the lips are a moving! Yes!

  Congrats on another well done video, I see you are experimenting with formats here… great to be able to learn through different avenues…

  Will you post about which video platform works best for traffic generation (YouTube verses your own hosting)?

• 6 Toni // Sep 30, 2008 at 9:22 am

  There’s a saying: 1 excuse is as good as another

  Something to ponder………

  If we could shrink the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, we would have something like the following:-

  57 Asians
  21 Europeans
  8 Africians
  52 would be female
  48 would be males
  70 would be non white
  30 would be white
  70 would be non christian
  30 would be christian
  80 would be heterosexual
  11 would be homosexual
  6 people would possess 59% of the entire worlds wealth and all 6 would be from the US
  80 would live in sub-standard housing
  70 would be unable to read
  50 would suffer from malnutrician
  1 would be near death
  1 would be near birth
  1 (yes only 1) would have a university education
  1 would own a computer

  Live as if its Heaven on Earth.

  Something else to ponder………

  If you woke this morning with more health than illness - you are more blessed than the million who would not survive this week

  If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pange of starvation - you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

  If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harrassment, arrest, torture or death - you are blessed than three billion in the world.

  If you have food in your fridge, clothes on your back a roof over your head and a place to sleep - you are richer than 75% of the world.

  If you have money in the bank, in your wallet and spare change in a dish somewhere - you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

  If your parents are still alive and married - you are rare even in Australia.

  If you can read this message you are blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

  Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work as if you don’t need the money. Love as if you’ve never been hurt. Dance as if no one is watching. Sing as if no-one is listening.

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