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Here are seven essential keys to success.
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Use these ideas to find ways to stretch your beliefs about what is possible. Break free of self-imposed limits. Follow these
principles and you will realize your dream.
The first key is
self-confidence.
Choose to be self-confident. Believe in your dream, in the evidence of things not seen. Grasp the big picture and color in the details as
you go along.
The second key is
persistence.
Choose to be persistent. When things go wrong, as they inevitably will, persist.
Don’t turn back when you hit an obstacle, go over, under,
around, or through it.
Persist in the face of severe setbacks. These setbacks may
be enough to dissuade anyone. You can even back down
without losing face. But don't. Persist even when you can't
think of a single reason why you should carry on. In any
endeavor there comes a dark night, when all seems lost,
when distractions seem rampant, when your dream does not
seem significant and more. Just persist through it all, and
you will see, when you're on the other side, that it was
all a test of your mettle.
The third key is
purpose.
Choose to act with purpose. Start out with a purpose and when things get difficult, hold on
to your purpose. Let your purpose empower creative ideas
and breakthroughs. Set yourself up with a big goal,
something beyond your current reach. Your goal should
excite and scare you. It should be something that magnifies
the value of your life when you achieve it. It should be so
big that when it is accomplished your life will never be
the same again.
Before you meet this goal, set out to achieve smaller ones.
Meet one sub-goal after another—-relentlessly. Don't
display aimlessness. Don't slip into helplessness. Hold to
your purpose and creative ideas will move you from one step
to the next. Never allow yourself to feel that you are
“going nowhere.”
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