Sunday, 15 October 2017

The 25 principles for success

How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be:
                 This is the name of the book written by Jack Canfield. This book has 25 principles for success.He has related his own life and many personalities life as examples and gave us this book which makes us to achieve our goal success.

Here i am going to list the 25 principles in brief;

Principle 1:Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life

  • Take 100% responsibility for everything.
  • You have to give up all your excuses.
  • Simple formula : E + R =O (Event + Response = Outcome).
  • If you don't like your Outcomes, Change your Responses.
  • You have to give up Blaming, Complaining.
  • Pay Attention.......Your Results don't lie.


Principle 2:Be Clear Why You're Here

  • Each of us born with a life purpose.
  • Your inner guidance system is your joy.
  • The life purpose Exercise:"My purpose is to use my Creativity and Enthusiasm to support and Inspire others to freely Express their Talents in a Humorous and Loving way. 
  • Staying on Purpose.


Principle 3:Decide What You Want

  • Don't live someone else's dreams.
  • Stop settling for less than you want. 
  • Make an "I want" list.
  • Clarify your vision of your ideal life.
  • Set your Inner GPS.
  • High achievers will have bigger visions.
  • Share your vision for maximum impact.
  • The vision Exercise: 7 steps that helps you clarify your vision : "1.Focus on Financial area of your life. 2.Visualize your ideal job or career. 3.Focus on your free time. 4.Focus on your vision of your body and your physical health. 5.Move on the vision of your relationship with your family and friends. 6.Decide your Arena of your life. 7.Focus on the community you live in."


Principle 4:Believe It's Possible

  • You get what you expect when you believe it.
  • Believe in yourself and go for it.


Principle 5:Believe in Yourself

  • Believe in yourself is an Attitude.
  • You have to give up the phrase "I can't".
  • Don't waste your life in Believing you can;t.
  • What other think about is none of your business.


Principle 6:Become an Inverse Paranoid

  • Every negative event contains a seed of an equal or greater benefit.
  • Use your experience to your advantage.
  • Look for the opportunity in everything.
  • Always believe that "God must have something better in store for me". 


Principle 7:Unleash the Power of Goal-Setting

  • Don;t keep your goal as wage,
  • Make it specific by having the questions how much and by when you have to achieve it.For example:"I will weigh 185lb by 5pm on January 1 2018".
  • Write it out in detail.
  • Create a goals book and Read your goals three times a day.
  • Carry your most important goal in your wallet.
  • Three obstacles for success are Considerations, Fears, and Roadblocks.


Principle 8:Chunk it Down

  • Use Mind Mapping.
  • Make a daily To-Do list.
  • Plan your day the night before.


Principle 9:Success Leaves Clues

  • Seek out the clues for success from the already successive peoples.
  • Check with the people who have already achieved.


Principle 10:Release the Brakes

  • Get out of your comfort zone.
  • Change your behavior.
  • change your Self-Talk with Affirmations.
  • Use printed pictures to help you.
  • Learn the way to use Affirmations and Visualization. 


Principle 11:See What You Want, Get What You Want 

  • Be,Do, and Have everything you want.
  • Start the process of visualizing your future.
  • Visualization always works well.
  • Vision boards and goal books make your dreams come true.


Principle 12:Act As If

  • Start acting as if you have achieved it.
  • Example: Your Goal-To Become an Manager.
  • "Now you are a normal employee, but you act  as if you are a manager by wearing a formal dress and tie and behave as a big person.In future your act will be real."


Principle 13:Take Action

  • Nothing happens until you tale action.
  • Success is 10% inspiration and 905 perspiration.
  • Successful people have a bias for action.


Ready,Fire,Aim!.

  • Quit waiting.
  • Satisfaction comes from enough action.


Principle 14:Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

  • You have to be willing to feel the fear.
  • Fear comes from our inner thoughts.
  • Get rid of fear.
  • Scale down the risk.
  • Taking a leap can transform your life.


Principle 15:Ask! Ask! Ask!

  • Don't be afraid to ask.
  • How to ask for want you want: "Ask as if you expect to get it, Assume you can, Ask someone who can give it to you, Be clear and specific, Ask repeatedly". 
  • You have nothing to lose and gain everything by asking.


 Principle 16:Reject Rejection

  • Rejection is a Myth!
  • Remember this(SWSWSWSW) whenever you ask for anything-"some will,Some won't,So what,Something waiting".
  • Every successful people have undergone many rejections.


Principle 17:Use Feedback to Your Advantage

  • Two kinds of feedback we get-Positive and negative.
  • Negative feedbacks refers to "Improvement opportunities".
  • Be willing to ask feedback.
  • Listen to the feedbacks.
  • Have a habit of asking this question that will help you to learn more. The question is  " On a scale of 1 to 10,how would you rate then quality of our relationship (service/product) during the last week (2 weeks/month/quarter/semester.season)".
  • Ways to respond to feedback that don't work :1. caving it and Quitting 2.Getting mad at the source of the feedback, 3. Ignoring the feedback.


Principle 18:Commit to Constant and Never-Ending Improvement

  • Improve in small increments.
  • Decide what to improve on.
  • You can.t skip steps.


Principle 19:Practice Persistence

  • It's not always going to be easy, so be persistent.
  • Never give up on your hopes and dreams.
  • Never, Never, Never Give Up.
  • Learn to deal with obstacles.


Principle 20:Practice the Rule of Five

  • Success is the sum of small efforts,repeated day in and day out.
  • Learn the things that move you towards your goal.
  • Do a sustained effort, and see the results.


Principle 21:Surround yourself With Successful People

  • You become like the people you spend the most time with.
  • Be selective.
  • Avoid toxic people.


Principle 22:Clean Up Your Messes and Your Incompletes

  • Get into complete consciousness.
  • Make space for something new.
  • The four D's of completion: "Do it, Delegate it, Delay it or Dump it".


Principle 23:Develop Four New Success Habits a Year

  • Good or bad, Habits always deliver results.
  • Take action to develop better habits.
  • From now, take a new 4 habits a year.The result will bet you soon.


Principle 24:Stay Focus on Your Core Genius

  • Delegate completely.
  • Become a Con artist, Do what you love to do.
  • Do what you love - The money will follow.


Principle 25:Start Now ! .... Just DO It!   

  • Learn the 25 principles and start working on it.The future will be yours.



I have given a brief about the principles.Get the book, Read it, Learn it, Put in Action, Achieve your Goals.
All the Best!!! 

Get the book at https://www.amazon.in/How-Get-Where-You-Want/dp/0007245750?tag=googinhydr18418-21&tag=googinkenshoo-21&ascsubtag=a58c12ce-6efd-481c-bd4f-166add062701

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