Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #11)

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EMPOWERMENT TRIAD:

· PASSION

· PLEASURE

· REPETITION

This brings us to the third leg of the "Empowerment Triad," "Repetition." You can probably recall many examples, especially in school, in addition to the multiplication tables, where repetition helped you learn something that was important.

It is a well known fact that one comes, finally, to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false.

-Napoleon Hill

Unfortunately, repetition alone will rarely enable you to replace old attitudes...unless you use repetition in conjunction with passion. Using repetition alone, it would be unlikely that the emotions would be touched and the true meaning of the information would be absorbed. Long term memory can more readily be activated when emotion is linked to the new knowledge. You can more readily remember information or an experience when the information or experience was initially introduced accompanied by deep emotion.

The repetition...which will be easier because of the passion and the pleasure...will work to create the desired change in mind-set, replacing the negative "I can't" messages with the positive "I can" messages.

EMPOWERMENT TRIAD:

· PASSION

· PLEASURE

· REPETITION

Each leg of the "Empowerment Triad" feeds the other in a never-ending power-building, upwardly spiraling process that will give you confidence, and the ability to believe in yourself. This is the power you will need to build a Strong Powerful Foundation; a foundation from which you can build your success and achieve your inner-most desires; a foundation upon which you can put your "castles in the sky."

If you have built castles in the sky, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

-Henry David Thoreau

By Mel Kaye
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Motivational Quotes (4)

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Walter Cronkite

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.
Timothy McMahon

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Throughout the ages, man has persisted largely on thoughts and promises. But to prosper in the future, one cannot ignore, but must in fact embrace, the inner sanctions of freedom, self-worth and tolerance for others.
James R. Bates, philosopher

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest of thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
Albert Schweitzer

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in your hours.
Sam Ewing

Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do.
Booker T. Washington

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
Warren Buffett

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rogers

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James, author

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor

There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford

When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.
Thomas Dreier

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

The common denominator of success --- the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful --- lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.
Albert Gray

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton, Olympian

It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill

Even if you are on the right rack, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Arthur Godfrey

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you
Walt Disney

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe

Take calculated risks. That’s quite different from being rash.
Gen. George S. Patton

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Every oak tree started out as a nut that stood its ground.
Anonymous

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
Sir Edmund Hillary

God gives you a job.
Get out and do it.
Sir Denis Thatcher

If you look for the worst in people and expect to find it, you surely will.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing you can’t spell will ever work.
Will Rogers

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
Donald Trump

See Motivational Quote Index for more quotes.