Here is a great article that I found written by Napoleon Hill, author of the great book "Think and Grow Rich. In the article Mr. Hill disscusses one of the most vital keys to success in life and that is to have a "definite purpose" or a clearly defined goal in which your activly pursuing.
"You don’t have to be a futurist or a fortune-teller to be
able to predict someone’s future. You can do so by asking him or her one simple
question: “what is your one definite
purpose in life – and what plans have you made to attain it?”
If you ask a hundred people that question ninety-eight of
them will answer with something like, “I’d like to make a good living and
become as successful as I can.” While the answer sounds good on the surface, if
you dig a little deeper, you find a drifter who will never get anything out of
life except the leftovers of the truly successful people—those who have a
definite purpose and a plan for attaining it. To be successful, you must at
this moment decide exactly what your goal is and lay out steps by which you
intend to reach it.
Years ago I worked with a fellow named Stuart Austin Wier of
Dallas. He was a contributor to a magazine I edited and was just getting by
financially. He would probably have remained a starving writer if a story he
was writing about an inventor hadn’t suddenly inspired him to change his life.
Much to the surprise of those who knew him, he announced
that he was giving up journalism and going back to school to become a patent attorney.
He wasn’t going to be just any patent attorney, he was going to become “the top
patent attorney in the United States.” He put his plan into action with such
fervor that he completed law school in record time.
When he began his practice, he deliberately sought out the
toughest cases. Soon his reputation spread throughout the country and his
services were in such high demand that even though his fees reached
astronomical levels, he was turning away more clients then he accepted.
The person who acts with a purpose and a plan attracts
opportunities. How can life give you anything if you don’t know what you want
yourself? How can others help you to succeed if you haven’t decided how to get
there yourself? Only with definiteness of purpose will you be able to overcome
the defeats and adversities that will stand in your way.
One of America’s earliest and most successful franchisers
was Lee Maranz, a man who knew what he wanted and how to get it. A mechanical
engineer, Maranz invented an automatic ice cream freezer that made soft ice
cream. He envisioned a chain of ice cream stores from coast to coast and worked
out a plan to make his dream become reality.
He, like many others since, built his own success by helping
others achieve theirs. He helped people set up ice cream shops by furnishing
construction and design plans, a revolutionary idea at the time. He sold the
ice cream machines at coat and made his profit from the sale of the ice cream
mix. The result? That chain of stores Maranz was determined to create across
the country.
“If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are
doing, and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome, he
said.
“If you want to achieve success, make today the day you stop
drifting. Decide upon a definite goal. Write it down. Commit it to memory.
Decide exactly how you plan to achieve it. Then begin by putting the plan into
action. Immediately!
Your future is what you make of it. Decide now what it shall
be. "
So, if I were to ask you what is your difinate major purpose and how are you going to achieve that purpose what would your answer be?
This is mine. To earn $20,000 per month in passive (residual) cashflow permonth generated from Real Estate Investment Portfolio and from my USANA home business by December of 2019. http://www.usana.com/webhosting/johnnylwilson.
If you are activly looking to buy Real Estate check out the links below from Realty Trac and Realtor.com. These are great place to start if you are looking to start investing in real estate or just looking to buy your next home.
Also if you want to list your vaction property and earn some extra income click on the "Vaction Home Rental" link below or if you just want to go on a vaction you can do that to. When we went to Rome last month this is how we found the apartment that we stayed.
Hope that you enloyed the article and that it helps you establish your definate major purpose and to start down your road to success.
More to follow. . .
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