It Is a Challenge to Succeed by Jim Rohn

It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I'm sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex and elusive secret that must be found if ever success is to be enjoyed. While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily engaged in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them. While the much larger group sits in awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated and unjust. "I am a nice person," the man says to himself. "How come this other guy is happy and prosperous and I'm always struggling?" He asks himself, "I am a good husband, a good father and a good worker. How come nothing seems to work out for me? Life just isn't fair. I'm even smarter and willing to work harder than some of these other people who just seem to have everything going their way," he says as he slumps into the sofa to watch another evening of television. But you see you've got to be more than a good person and a good worker. You've got to become a good planner, and a good dreamer. You've got to see the future finished in advance.
You've got to put in the long hours and put up with the setbacks and the disappointments. You've got to learn to enjoy the process of disciplines and of putting yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. You've got to be prepared and willing to attack the challenges if you want the success because challenges are part of success. Now that may sound like a full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune isn't really all that difficult. Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes and the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can promise you that the challenges you'll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.
I've often said that to have more, we must first become more, and to become more, we must begin the process of working harder on ourselves than we do on anything else. But in addition to gathering new knowledge, new skills and new experiences, it is also important to discover new emotions. It is how we feel about what we know that makes the biggest difference in how our lives turn out. How we feel about the chances we have and the choices we have determines the intensity of our effort. Whether we try or don't try. Join or don't join. Believe or don't believe.I'd like for you to discover some strong feelings about your life and about what you want to do with that life. You probably have much of the knowledge and a lot of the experience and perhaps most of the skills that it takes to become successful. What you may be lacking in are the strong feelings about what you want and what you want to do. You may be one of those who have become so involved in the process of earning a living that you've forgotten about the choices and the chances you have for designing your own life.
Let these strong feelings help you take a second look at your life and where you're headed. After all, you've only got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make it an adventure in achievement? Why not discover what all you can do and what all you can have? Why not discover how many others you can help and in the process how that can help you?  Why not now take the Challenge to Succeed!
—Jim Rohn

Success Is Everything by Jim Rohn

Someone  once said to me that success isn't everything and I think I know what they  really meant. I believe they really meant that money isn't everything, and I  certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything.

First, you need to succeed to survive.  We must take the seasons and learn how to use them with the seed, the soil and  the rain of opportunity to learn how to sustain ourselves and our family. But  then second is to then succeed to flourish in every part of your life. Good  question to ask mature people: "If you could do better, should you?"  And I think almost everybody would answer the question in the affirmative. If  you could improve your health, shouldn't you do that? If you can learn more,  shouldn't you do that? If you could earn more and share more, shouldn't you do  that? If you can improve your relationships and spirituality, shouldn't you do  that? And I think that is what success is really all about. It is not just a  destination that is set for everybody to try and go for. It is like Zig  Ziglar said, "improving in every area of your life to see if you can't  say with satisfaction at the end of the day, week, month and year, 'I have made  excellent progress this year, for myself, for my family, for my business, my  career and my health.'" I think that kind of success everybody recognizes  is legitimate and something we should all strive for.
Interesting  phrase in the Bible that says strive for perfection—not that we can ever reach  it. But it is in the striving, to be a little bit better today than yesterday,  in our speech, our language, our health, everything we can possibility think  of.

So  yes, in my opinion, Success Is Everything!~ Jim Rohn

Every Living Soul on Planet Earth Has Potential ~ by Paul Meyer

Collectively, potential is the richest source of wealth in the entire world. Nothing ever invented, nothing ever dreamed of, produced or multiplied a thousand times over could ever match the wealth that lies in the untapped potential of our minds and our beings!
The libraries are filled, and news articles abound, with story after story of awkward kids, young people who couldn't pass exams in school, athletes who didn't make the team early on. Yet someway, somehow, they went on to great success!
So how did all of these people separate themselves from the "average," the ordinary? They made a conscious choice and a conscious decision to do whatever they had to do to wake up the sleeping giant within. They set a goal to tap their unused potential. And with practice, dedication, commitment and hard work, SO CAN YOU!
Here are four steps you can take to wake up the sleeping giant within you. I have never seen them fail to produce!
First, BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!
 Believe that you do have a sleeping giant within and an untapped potential that you are unique and different and that you can develop and grow and achieve.
Second, EXPECT TO SUCCEED!
 Living life with positive expectancy produces great rewards. Remember, the only limitations you will ever have are those you place on yourself.
Third, VISUALIZE YOURSELF SUCCEEDING!
 Never see yourself as you are now, but only how you would be if you wake up the giant within and develop your hidden potential, knowing that each success draws you closer to the mental picture that you have of your new future, and the satisfaction that comes from accomplishing the step-by-step goals you have set.
Fourth, PURSUE THESE NEW GOALS OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WITH EMOTION!
 Get emotionally involved! Become passionate! Get excited! Become enthusiastic! Feel your adrenaline pump! And feel the sleeping giant awaken.
And know that you will never be the same person again!