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The document outlines six techniques for personal success, emphasizing the importance of being goal-directed, believing in oneself, and maintaining an aggressive mindset. It also highlights the value of giving more than one receives, cultivating enthusiasm, and radiating confidence through actions such as dressing well and making eye contact. Overall, these principles are designed to help individuals achieve their desired goals and improve their overall effectiveness in life.

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Personal Success

The document outlines six techniques for personal success, emphasizing the importance of being goal-directed, believing in oneself, and maintaining an aggressive mindset. It also highlights the value of giving more than one receives, cultivating enthusiasm, and radiating confidence through actions such as dressing well and making eye contact. Overall, these principles are designed to help individuals achieve their desired goals and improve their overall effectiveness in life.

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SIX TECHNIQUES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS

1.0 SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ARE GOAL DIRECTED

To establish our goals, we must first begin by visualising and getting a clear picture in our mind
of the end result. Your success is only limited by your imagination and perseverance to get a
clear picture of your desired vision. The purpose of a goal is to focus our attention. The mind will
not reach towards an achievement until it has clear objectives.

We need not only capture the vision in our mind, but also write it down. It is futile to carry long
term visions or goals around in our head because that is where they will stay. We need to set
goals down on paper. The act of writing something down initiates action and draws us towards
its achievement.

Nothing happens, no forward steps are taken until a goal is established. Without goals,
individuals merely wander through life. They stumble along, never knowing where they are
going, and consequently they never get anywhere. Goals are an essential to success as air is to
life. No one stumbles into success without a goal.

Planning your life helps you from becoming confused, prevents conflicts and helps you look at
the whole picture. Demand of yourself clear, precise answers to these questions?

1. What do I want to accomplish with my life?


2. What do I want to be? And
3. What does it take to satisfy me?

Success is not achieved over night. It is reached one step at a time. And so it is necessary to
break the long term plan down into short term goals. An excellent strategy is to set yourself
monthly targets for achievement. Examine yourself monthly and decide what specific things you
should do to make yourself more effective. Be sure to refer to it regularly. When the month
expires, check your progress and review your plan.

2.0 SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES

The surest way to gaining success is to believe you can succeed. When you believe, and have
an “I can do it” attitude, the “how to do it” develops more easily. Whatever your mind can
conceive and believe, your mind can achieve, we can reinforce the process by committing to
paper precisely what we want to achieve. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly we plant that
thought more firmly in our mind and we will begin to manifest that which we are imagining.

When the mind disbelieves or doubts, it attaches reasons to support that disbelief. Doubt,
disbelief and not really wanting to success, is responsible for most failures. Think doubts and
you will fail. Think victory and you will succeed. We grow up believing in so many limitations that
after a while our lives actually manifest those limitations. We hear ourselves saying things that
we accept as truth, when they are incorrect beliefs that we have turned into truths.
3.0 SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ARE AGGRESSIVE THINKERS

We really do become what we think about, our thoughts are the ancestors of our actions. We
create our intentions, and our intentions create our reality. We are the masters of our own
destiny.

If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you can’t. Henry Ford

We always gravitate towards what we think about most. Even if we are thinking about
something we don’t want, we move towards it. So always think about what we want, not what
you don’t want.

What our subconscious mind believes is what we get. All of our conscious thoughts contribute
to the building of our subconscious mind. Just as the conscious mind is the source of thought,
so the subconscious is the source of power. If we consistently think success, we will inevitably
develop a subconscious expectancy of success. We must acknowledge that, daily we create
programmes in our subconscious by what we think. So watch what you think.

4.0 SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE GIVE MORE THAN THEY GET

We should behave to the world, as we wish the world to behave towards us. Aristotle

Our physical health, our personal relationships, our business success are all governed by the
same equation which requires us to pay up front. The fascinating feature about the principle is
that we never know when we will be rewarded. But the rewards always come and the
uncertainty of their time of arrival only serves to make life more interesting.

If we currently enjoy warm friendships and loving relationships, it is because we have prepared
the ground and planted the seed. If our business is currently flowering, it is because we’ve
expended the effort to get results.

5.0 SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ARE ENTHUSIASTIC

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Emerson

If you have enthusiasm, those around you will have it too.

No one is born enthusiastic; it is an acquired trait. First convince yourself of the value of your
idea, your project, your service – or yourself. Cultivate the habit of thinking positively, forcefully
and energetically. Enthusiasm generates energy, as you will never meet a lazy indifferent
apathetic, negative thinking enthusiast.

To get enthusiastic about anything – people, places, things – did deeper and you will did up
interest.

Enthusiasm without action is of little value. Combined with correct action, enthusiasm alone can
double your success.

When your enthusiasm is waning and running low, take a few days off and step back from what
you have been doing so you can see the bigger picture.
6.0 SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE RADIATE CONFIDENCE

The opposite of confidence is fear. Most fear is psychological. Worry, tension, embarrassment,
panic – all these stem from mismanaged negative imaginations. Fear is your number one
enemy. Fear stops people from making the most of opportunities; fear wears down physical
vitality; fear actually makes people sick and shortens their life.

No one is born with confidence. Those people who radiate confidence, who seem to have
conquered fear, who are at ease everywhere, acquired their confidence by training themselves
to it. Action cures fear.

• Dress Up

We have 90 seconds to create a favourable impression on people. 90% of that impression is


made in the first 10 seconds. So it is vitally important to look good.

• Speak Up

Every time the shy person fails to speak, they feel more inadequate, more inferior. Each time
they fail to speak, they take another dose of confidence poison. They become less and less
confident of themselves. The more you speak up, the more you add to your confidence, and the
easier it is to speak up the next time.

• Smile

It takes 72 muscles to frown and 14 to smile. A big smile gives you confidence, beats fear, rolls
away worry, and defeats despondency.

• Walk Faster

Throw your shoulders back, lift your head, move ahead just a little faster and feel self
confidence grow. You are telling the world I’ve got something important to do and I will succeed.

• Practice Making Eye Contact

You say nothing positive about yourself when you avoid making eye contact. All you say is I’m
Afraid, I lack confidence. Conquer this fear by making yourself look the other person in the eye.

Coman, T. 1994, Secrets of Success – How to achieve success in your work and private lives.
Paramount Learning Academy

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