Success Requirements, Apply Within, by Dwayne Gilbert

Winners don't wait for chances, they take them!

This article by Dwayne Gilbert is true, however, in my opinion, he oversimplifies the process. I believe that in order to obtain "success", which is everybody's right, you must be prepared....and not everyone is. Read this article and file it away until you are prepared. My series on "Are You Prepared For Success?" should be mandatory reading if you have any doubts whatever about your ability to "succeed." On the other hand, if you are truly "without doubt," then, as the article states, "Just Do It."

Following is Dwayne's:

If your like everyone else, there is more you want out of life. A sense of accomplishment and success that so few people get to realize in their lifetime. The positive side is that you can have, do, or be anything you want to be. The other side is that it really is fairly simple to have the life of your dreams. Not easy necessarily, but simple. The down side is that so few people are willing to do what it takes to discover that success for themselves.

There are only a handful of traits that you must develop within yourself to be able to discover the success you seek. With the right discipline in these areas and the constant application of the following principles, you cannot help but be success at anything you apply yourself to. Develop these concepts into habits, and the world will be at your command.

The first trait that is absolutely necessary for success is commitment. Just as getting married involves a commitment for it to be successful, everything else, including making money, involves a commitment. Most people fail at becoming wealthy or successful at anything simply because they do not have a commitment. They want something, but it is only a fancy for having it, not a deep seated desire. A desire that is so strong and so driving that they are willing to go through anything to get what they want. If we were to compare these desires to fires, successful people would have a burning desire for success
and what they want that would be equal to a forest fire taking up half the state of California. Most people are lucky to have a campfire for desire. Develop your desire to live the life of your dreams, and nothing can stop you.

The second thing that is necessary for you to be successful is to know what it is you want. Less than 5% of people out there take the time to write down what it is they want. Even fewer know exactly what it is they want and when they will have it. You must know what you want, and exactly when you want, period. You must write it down and review on a regular basis. If you don't you are on the quickest path to failure.

The third trait that so few people develop is a plan. Many people either do nothing, or just do anything. A good plan helps keep you on track with what you want to accomplish and where you want to go. It also allows you to know when corrections need to be made to keep on track and exactly where you are on the course. Just as a map lets you know what highway needs to be taken next to get from New York City to San Francisco. Without a map, one could just start traveling west, but it could takes weeks, or even months to get to California. Take the time to create a map to help you get to where you want to go, but leave it flexible enough for the inevitable bumps and detours that will happen.

The fourth trait necessary to have is a strong heart. No matter what path one takes, if it is outside the social norm of what others think is possible or acceptable, there will be criticism. There will always be nay-sayers. There will always be friends and family that think you dream to big. People who think you couldn't possibly have what you want, or that normal people could never be wealthy or happy. You must become like steel. You must take your mind away from these people and ignore everything they tell you. You must keep your eye on the prize and keep going no matter what. You must develop a desire and driving force that will blow past these sort of people.

The final trait necessary for success is action. So many people dream big, but never take a single step in the direction of accomplishment. A desire, a good plan, knowing what you want. All of that is useless and nothing more than pipe dreams if you don't take action toward accomplishing it. Taking action alone with a strong desire is all that is really necessary for success. However, a good plan and the ability to stay focused on the goal helps make the path quicker and easier. There are people who take no action, and people who do nothing but take action. Some people are really good at taking action, again and again and again. They start this, then they start something else, then they move onto another thing. Those types of people never get anything done either because they are always starting new projects. So get started, follow your plan, and stay the course. Be sure to do something every single day to move you closer to your goals.

So success is really that simple. Decide what it is you want and write it down. Review that list on a regular basis. Develop a driving force within yourself to have what you want out of this life, and refuse to settle for even 1% less than that. Develop a plan with specific dates for when you will get what you want, and work the plan. Develop the
ability to take your mind off of any negativity that could hamper your success. Become like solid steel and stand strong and firm for what you want and believe. Finally, take action on your dreams and goals. Don't hesitate, don't delay, don't even wait one second. Take action, and take it now. As Nike would say, just do it!

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #12)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction.])

Now that you have been introduced to the basic concepts behind the process and the "Empowerment Triad" (passion, pleasure and repetition), it's time to start focusing on what's involved in the process itself.

This will require dedication on your part. If given the chance to work, the process will work. However, you have to be an active participant. There will be no embarrassing moments because the process is designed to be completed in private. As you continue through the process you will realize that embarrassment and self-consciousness is a hindrance to the achievement of success. When the process has been completed, being self conscious will be one of the negative attitudes that you will have replaced.

What's gone and what's past help

Should be past grief.

-William Shakespeare "The Winter's Tale"

You will need to maintain an open mind while participating in this process, and try as hard as possible to avoid having any of the new attitudes filtered through the old negative ones. By the end of the process, after successful completion, the old negative attitudes should be relegated to the past, not to encroach on the present or the future.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

-L. P. Hartley

Let the past drift away with the water.

-Japanese saying

The process, by necessity, needs to be in two versions:

1. The "female" version
2. The "male" version

It is VERY IMPORTANT that you use the correct version. Each version is set up the same way, but with subtle differences that are critical to the successful completion of the process. In order for the process to work, you will have to take ownership of the new attitudes. This means that the messages must be gender specific or it would be very difficult for, as an example, a woman to accept and own messages within versus that refer to "him," "his" or "man." For a woman, the references need to be "she," "her" or "woman."

It is also important to understand that the process is divided into three sections:

• "Section (I)", which you are nearing the end of, is the "Explanation and Preparation" section.
• "Section (II)", the "You" section, or the "Understanding and Acceptance" Section.
• "Section (III)", the "I" section, or the "Ownership and Becoming" section.

By Mel Kaye

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You Might Be A Redneck If..............(276-300 of 299+1)

Redneck Ocean Liner

First 25

276	The best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.
277	The neighbors started a petition over your Christmas lights.
278	You prominently display a gift you bought at Graceland.
279	The diploma hanging in your den contains the words "Trucking Institute".
280	Your favorite Christmas present, was a painting on black velvet.
281	You had to remove a toothpick for wedding pictures.
282	You've ever used a weed eater indoors.
283	You look upon a family reunion as a chance to meet `Ms. Right'
284	You have to go outside to get something out of the 'fridge.
285	You have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions.
286	You consider pork and beans to be a gourmet food.
287	You have to go down to the creek to take a bath.
288	You participate in the "who can spit tobacco the farthest contest".
289	You roll you hair with soup cans and wash it once a year.
290	You have a picture of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, or Elvis over your fireplace.
291	You just bought an 8-track player to put in your car.
292	The theme song at your high school prom was `Friends in Low Places'
293	It's Easier to spray weed killer on your lawn than mow it.
294	You think that John Deere Green, Ford Blue, and Primer Gray are the three of the primary colors.
295	Your idea of talking during sex is "Ain't no cars coming, baby!"
296	Your vehicle has a two-tone paint job--primer red and primer gray.
297	Foreplay consists of slipping off her saddle
298	Ya can't get married to yer sweetheart cause there is a law against it.
299	Ya celebrate groundhog day (cause ya believe in it!!)
300	You fish in your above-ground pool, especially if you catch something!
	Thank you Jeff Foxworth

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #11)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction.])

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.

You Might Be A Redneck If.............(251 - 275 of 299)

First 25

251	Your child's first words are "Attention K-Mart shoppers!".
252	Your wife's best pair of shoes are steel-toed Red Wings.
253	You have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.
254	You bring your dog to work with you.
255	You replace a flat tire on your truck with a tire from your house.
256	You've ever put a six-pack in a casket right before they closed it
257	Your family's No. 1 enemy is revenuers.
258	Your belt buckle doubles as a serving platter.
259	You use lava soap more than three times a day.
260	You wear cowboy boots with Bermuda shorts.
261	You have a hook in your shower to hang your hat on.
262	You buy your wife tube socks at the flea market.
263	You consider orange peels left on the coffee table as potpourri.
264	You grow flowers in an old commode in your front yard.
265	You can't take a bath because beer is iced down in your tub.
266	Your kitchen doubles as a bait store.
267	You've ever picked up a woman in a convenience store.
268	You throw a beer can out the truck window and your wife shoots it.
269	You've ever fed your date French fries in a Denny's.
270	Going to the Laundromat means cleaning out the back of the truck.
271	Your family reunion features a chewing tobacco spit-off.
272	Your front porch collapses and more than six dogs are killed.
273	You think that potted meat on a saltine is an hors d'ouerve.
274	You stand under the mistletoe at Christmas and wait for Granny and cousin Sue-Ellen to walk by.
275	You've ever barbecued Spam on the grill.
	Thank you Jeff Foxworth Last 25

Achieving Success By Expecting Success by Zig Zigler

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. When you recognize and develop the winning qualities that you were born with, the winner you were born to be emerges. When you plan and prepare to make a sale, for example, you can legitimately expect to make a sale. Although not all your expectations are going to come to pass, you give yourself an infinitely better chance of succeeding by taking the proper steps.

Regardless of your goal--losing weight, making more sales, furthering your
education, earning a promotion, saving money for a new home or an exotic vacation--you can expect to achieve your goal if you plan and prepare for it.

Also understand that the path from where you are to where you want to be is not always smooth and straight. The reason for the twists and bumps is simple, and it has nothing to do with you. It has more to do with the fact that not everyone is as interested in your success as you are. Some people may accidentally hinder your efforts; others who are in competition with you and have little or no integrity may try to sabotage your efforts.

Keep in mind, though, that when you hit those roadblocks your character,
commitment, and attitude are the determining factors in your success... Carefully review your plan of action, seek wise counsel, and be particularly careful to feed your mind good information. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties.

Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #10)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction.])

EMPOWERMENT TRIAD:

• PASSION

• PLEASURE

• REPETITION
  

"Pleasure", the second leg of the "Empowerment Triad," is the fuel that feeds the engine of passion. If the process was not pleasurable, the chances of obtaining the desired results would be significantly diminished.

Though sages may pour out their Wisdom's treasure,

There is no stronger moralist than Pleasure.

-Lord Byron

This fuel that feeds the passion is a powerful assortment of positive messages contained in rhyming poems; fed by passionate self-talk.

You may ask, "Why rhyming poems?"

It was a motivational, rhyming, poem from an anonymous author that I read years ago which actually gave birth to the idea for this process. The poem is called "It's All In The State Of Mind." The message was very powerful and the poem was fun to read and easy to remember so the rhymes stayed with me (i.e. the positive, uplifting, success oriented, self-affirming messages within these rhymes stayed with me.) I found myself repeating them aloud with increasing passion. They got into my soul and began to change the way I thought about things, the way I felt about myself and the way I viewed the world. I understood its message immediately. However, the more I read it aloud and with passion, the more it stirred an emotional cord deep within me. I knew from the very first time that I read this poem, that there was something wrong with how I viewed life and that I had the power to change that view.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

-T.S. Elliot

Poetry...is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal--which the reader recognizes as his own.

-Salvatore Quasimodo

You have the power to change your view of life, by changing your attitudes.

He is most powerful who has power over himself.

-Philip Massinger

For most people, the reading of rhyming poetry is pleasurable, especially when it is read with passion. It is easy to be passionate about something that is pleasurable. The same is true in reverse; when you do something with passion, the experience is more pleasurable and makes a deeper, lasting impression. Reading these poems aloud with passion will have a dramatic effect on your attitudes.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

-John Keats

Rhyming Poetry has a way of transmitting a message better than most other ways of expression. It seems to stay with you longer and penetrates deeper. It is said that "poetry is for the soul." As was indicated earlier, that's how the idea for this program was born. A poem expressing a truth I had not realized before, worked its way inside of me and started a process of change. The way this poem's positive message made me feel brought me to the realization that I previously had the wrong mind-set to achieve success. No matter how hard I tried success was very illusive and seemed just out of my reach.

Poetry is the first style of literature we experience as children - Pattern books, then rhymes! (Dr. Suess is still wildly successful!) Maybe that is why poetry is comfortable and comforting to read.

The messages contained within the rhymes that follow in the process can counteract and replace the negative messages that you may have been programmed with, if the process is repeated regularly.

You will need to stay with the program for the changes to become permanent. The more these rhymes are repeated the better the probability of your achieving and maintaining your desired success. Think of current knowledge that you have and are able to apply at will. (The multiplication table would be an example of this.) Now think back to when you first learned it. It would be safe to say that you had to repeat it to yourself many times before it became knowledge. You would have to continuously review it to maintain it as knowledge.

By Mel Kaye

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Failing To Succeed by Zig Zigler

Failure Is A Step To Success

"You've got to learn to lose in order to win" sounds like strange advice, but the man who says it has earned over three hundred million dollars. Even in today's economy, that's a considerable sum of money. Here's the story.

In 1958, brothers Frank and Dan Carney started a pizza parlor across from their family's grocery store. Their goal was to pay for their college educations. Nineteen years later, Frank Carney sold the 3,100-outlet chain called "Pizza Hut" for three hundred million dollars.

Carney's advice to those starting out in business sounds strange, but he explains the concept this way: "I've been involved in about fifty different business ventures and about fifteen of them were successful. That means I have about a thirty percent success average."

The point Frank makes is this: You need to be "at bat" if you ever expect to get a hit, and it's even more important to step back up to the plate after you strike out.

Carney says Pizza Hut was successful because he learned from his mistakes. For example, when an Oklahoma City expansion effort failed, he realized the importance of location and decor. He learned from his mistake so that the future would be brighter. When sales declined in New York, he came up with the innovative idea of introducing thick crust pizza with substantial success. When regional pizza houses began to take part of the market share, Frank responded by introducing "Chicago-style pizza," and again success came his way. Factually, Carney failed many times, but in each case he made those failures work for him.

Failure is an experience common to all of us. Question: Will you let those failures work for you or against you? If you do as Frank Carney did, you will use your failures as learning experiences and I really will SEE YOU AT THE TOP!

Create Yourself

Motivational Quotes (3)

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
-Henry Ford

To know just what has to be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
-Sir William Osler, physician

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
-Omar Bradley

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like.
But we cannot wait until tomorrow.
Tomorrow is now.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
-John Ciardi

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.
-Kim Woo-Choong

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
-Og Mandino

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity.
I was forced to come up the hard way.
-J.C. Penney

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-Thomas Edison

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
-Dale Carnegie

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
-Napoleon Hill

No wind favors he who has no destined port.
-Montaigne

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths
rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
-John D. Rockefeller

The biggest mistake people make in life
is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
-Malcomb Forbes

Fortune sides with s/he who dares.
-Virgil

Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble.
-Frank Tyge

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-Henry Ford

Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt

You must have long term goals
to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
-Charles C. Noble

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
-English Proverb

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
-Elbert Hubbard

To finish first, you must first finish.
-Rick Mears, Indy Car Driver

Build a dream and the dream will build you.
-Robert Schuller

Winners have simply formed the habit
of doing things losers don't like to do.
-Albert Gray

Inches make champions.
-Vince Lombardi

I could use a hundred people
who don't know there is such a word as impossible.
Henry Ford

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley, author

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dr. Dorothy Height

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard, American writer

Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare

See Motivational Quote Index for more quotes.

You Might Be A Redneck If.............(226 - 250 of 299)

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First 25

226	Getting a package from your post office requires a full tank of gas in the truck.
227	"Buck Naked Line Dancing" isn't a videotape, it's "Ladies Night" at the local bar.
228	Your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new Darrell Waltrip Budweiser wall clock.
229	You dated your daddy's current wife in high school.
230	You're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing "I Will Always Love You".
231	You've ever parked a Camero in a tree.
232	Exxon and Conoco have offered you royalties for your hair.
233	Your dad is also your favorite uncle.
234	The most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection (your insurance man is one too if he pays you for it).
235	You actually made a pyramid of cans in the pale moonlight with Alan Jackson.
236	You have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
237	You've ever hit a deer with your car..on purpose! "
238	You can tell your age by the number of rings in the bathtub.
239	Your mom gives you tips on how to sneak booze into sporting events.
240	The blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
241	Your classes at school were cancelled because the path to the restroom was flooded.
242	On your job application under "SEX" you put "As often as possible".
243	During your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.
244	You're a lite beer drinker, because you start drinking when it gets light.
245	On your first date you had to ask your Dad to borrow the keys to the tractor.
246	Your parakeet knows the phrase "Open up, Police!".
247	You saved lots of money on your honeymoon by going deer hunting.
248	In tough situations you ask yourself, "What would Curly do?".
249	Taking your wife on a cruise means circling the Dairy Queen.
250	You think the last words to the Star Spangled Banner are "Gentlemen, start your engines." or "Play Ball..."
	Thank you Jeff Foxworth Next 25

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #9)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction.])

"Passion", the first leg of the "Empowerment Triad," is an integral part of the whole process. It is the engine that drives the positive messages into your subconscious. Do not underestimate the power of passion in changing your attitudes. Without passion in the process, the emotions would not be touched and the desired results would be far more difficult to attain.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

-W. Eugene Smith

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

-Hegel, 1832

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion is defined as:

1. A powerful, deep, overwhelming emotion
2. Boundless enthusiasm
3. Zeal
4. Ardor

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion is the force behind the creation and the reinforcement of a positive mind-set (positive attitudes ruling your life). As the process progresses - the use of passion in driving the positive messages into your very being...will speed up the process dramatically, and could even be the difference between success and failure.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

-Henri-frédéric Amiel

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

-Struthers Burt

Passion will ignite the emotions, and awaken a very powerful force that lies within you.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

-Benjamin Disraeli

Be careful, passion can also have its negative, dark side. Remember, passion is a powerful emotion. There are negative passions such as envy, jealousy, rage, wrath, revenge, and many more. All the messages that you get and create through this process need to be positive, self-affirming and empowering.

Living well is the best revenge.

-George Herbert

The passion that you will summon up should be a combination of your own burning desire for success, the knowledge that a change in attitude will bring you so much closer to it, and the pleasure derived from reading rhyming poetry. Following is the "Pleasure" leg of the "Empowerment Triad."

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

By Mel Kaye

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