Thomas Edison, the biggest loser

Brad Stanton —  May 24, 2013 — Leave a comment

“A failure establishes only this: that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”

Thomas Edison and his early phonograph. Croppe...

Thomas Edison and his early phonograph.  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

– Bovee
“Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.”
– Donald Trump
“More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.” – Bill Sunday

Thomas Edison probably failed more times than any other scientist/inventor of the last two centuries. However, he also succeeded more times than any other inventors. He received patents for well over a thousand useful inventions.

Babe Ruth struck out more times in a year than any other person in his baseball league. However, he also hit more home runs than anyone else.

This means that we don’t need to fear failure. In fact, if we learn from our failures, they can be very good things. Edison tried over 10,000 ways to design a long lasting light bulb. When asked if all those failures discouraged him he said “I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

“How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.” – Zig Ziglar

Sometimes failure makes us stronger. Michael Jordan was cut from the varsity basketball team when he was a freshman, and the agony he experienced from that pushed him to work much harder than he already was. The player that beat him for the top spot must have been outstanding. If that player was not very good, Jordan would have made the team without learning to put extra effort into his goals and dreams. He might not have been such an outstanding player in college.

Abraham Lincoln failed many times, he went bankrupt, failed in political races many different times and married a woman who was apparently mentally ill. She was known for throwing coffee in his face in public, going on bizarre spending sprees and being especially difficult to get along with. But during one of the worst times in his marriage he wrote the Gettysburg Address which stands even today as a masterpiece. His years of being president of the US were extremely difficult, a man not as accustomed to trouble might have buckled under the pressure and let the US split into two countries.

Don’t let your failures get you down, they can raise you up.

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Achieve your goals and dreams

Brad Stanton —  May 22, 2013 — 1 Comment

cole_thomas_the_voyage_of_life_childhood_1842The subconscious mind is many times more powerful than the conscious mind. To achieve big success in life, it is very important to use your subconscious mind.

Napoleon Hill devoted his life to learning what it was that made people successful. He said this:

“Every person who has accumulated great success has recognized the existence of a stream of life. It consists of one’s thinking process. The positive emotions of thought form the side of the stream which carries one to success. The negative emotions form the side which carries one down to failure.

This carries a thought of stupendous importance to the person who is reading this with the object of acquiring success.”

When you feel happy, motivated, enthusiastic or excited you know you are on the right track.

Faith

Success often seems elusive. The first step to be wildly successful is faith. You have to firmly believe you can achieve your goals and dreams, because if you don’t, you won’t be willing to do what it takes to achieve them. The more you visualize yourself already achieving your goals, the stronger your faith and willpower will become. Visualization has been used by Olympic athletes and others to achieve success. It makes a world of difference.

Desire

Secondly, desire is critical. Without strong desire a person will not be willing to work hard and enjoy his work. It is important to enjoy the work, because if you don’t, the labor will be too wearisome and you will tire out and give up.

Persistence

There will be times when you want to give up. Sometimes after you have worked very hard you might feel that your goal is just too hard to get, that you can’t succeed. That is when persistence carries you on.

Action

Few people have the faith to bring a dream into existence without taking action. Daydreaming helps achieve a goal, but if all you do is daydream, chances are it won’t come to be.

Daily Motivation

It is very important to get motivated every day. Without motivation, it is easy to run out of fuel. Say affirmations (http://bradstanton.com/category/affirmations-2/), visualize your dreams, make plans, ask for help, get advice and work hard. Your dreams really will come to pass.

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Love brings excellence

Brad Stanton —  May 20, 2013 — 10 Comments

Have you ever stopped to think that the more you enjoy something the better you will do at it? For example Michael Jordan loves basketball. He would have to love the game to be willing to put in the incredible number of practice hours that he did. And Einstein loved physics. He would have to really enjoy it to work as a patent clerk in the daytime and work on his Theory of Relativity in the evening and during his free hours at work.

A husband who really enjoys his wife and children will be a better husband and father. He will not only be more loved by them, but he will love them more and be happier with the results of their lives.

We can take a look at two hypothetical employees, Bill and Tom. Bill has learned to love his job and continues to learn to love his wife more and more. Tom hates his job and does not get along well with his wife. His boss would tell you he has a bad attitude and doesn’t get along well with others.

Bill comes in to work about fifteen or twenty minutes early almost every day. He has plenty of time to go to the coffee machine and buy a steaming cup of black coffee, just the way he likes it. He goes to his desk and organizes his day so that he can control events instead of events controlling him. He is relaxed and ready for a brand new day.

Tom often comes in ten minutes late. He is in a rush every day and it stresses him out. When he arrives at his desk a coworker is already waiting for him with a question about a project he is working on. Tom doesn’t have time to relax with a cup of coffee and his day is already set – stress and frustration.

Bill likes his job. He is grateful for it. That does not mean he never faces problems or difficulties. But he has a good attitude and that helps him cope with anything that goes wrong.

A couple of years ago I did some studying on what American companies are looking for when they hire employees. I found that attitude is considered very important by most companies. In fact many large companies say they prefer a person with a good attitude over a person with more experience and skill.

The Apostle Paul told us to be overflowing with thankfulness. A person who is really thankful for what he has will enjoy life more and be more excellent in his relationships and his job. When Bill drives home from work he begins to look forward to seeing his wife and children. He enjoys them. He takes time every now and then to think about the benefits of being married to his wife and the joy of each of his children.

When Tom is driving home from work he is thinking critical thoughts about his wife and children. Probably the dinner will be late and he is very hungry. The kids will be naughty and noisy and he won’t be able to rest. He will probably lose his temper with either his wife or one of his children and then everyone in the family will be unhappy for awhile. They will sit down and eat together, but it will be very quiet and rather tense.

If dinner is late for Bill he eats a snack or lies down for awhile until he is rested and refreshed enough to face this new challenge. He enjoys the noise the children make because he knows they are having fun, and he enjoys seeing (or hearing) them have fun. If the dinner is late, it doesn’t matter, he knows his wife has been busy with many different tasks around the house all day and she won’t finish work until all the kids are in bed.

Psychologists and business experts tell us that positive reinforcement is more effective than negative. That means if we want to change other people’s behavior it is better to tell them what they are doing right instead of what they are doing wrong. Getting angry and shouting at people may change them for awhile, but it usually brings about more harm than good in the long run.

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Secrets of success

Brad Stanton —  May 18, 2013 — 7 Comments

dont-give-upNapoleon Hill interviewed 500 of the most successful people in the world to find out what made them successful. If you are looking for success in losing weight, career, relationships, etc. these help. Here are some of his findings. People who are successful have these traits:

  1. They have a well thought out purpose in life. They know what they want and they believe they can get it. People who aim at nothing hit it every time. Statistics show that from one Harvard class, the 4% who had well thought out goals accomplished more than the 96% who didn’t.
  2. They have ambition to aim above mediocrity. Hill found that people with low ambition don’t get very far in life.
  3. Education. We all know that many of the most successful people had very limited education. Thomas Edison had less than a year of formal education. Bill Gates did not finish college. Ashton Kutcher dropped out of college, as did many, many others. But a college degree can open doors for you, no doubt about it. People are not paid so much for what they know as what they do with what they know.
  4. Self-discipline. Discipline comes through self-control. Hill says that a person must control all negative qualities. That is hard to do, not many really do that well. But the great thing is, if you are willing to do it, you are way ahead of most others. We are both our best friend and worst enemy.
  5. Persistence. Most people are good starters but not good finishers. A person who is willing to keep working at something and not let discouragement deter him will do great things in life. Most people quit when things get difficult, and often quit just before they would have accomplished something big. Persistence overpowers failure.
  6. They don’t try to get something for nothing. They know that in order to get what they want, they have to be willing to pay the price. Or as Zig Ziglar says, “You can get anything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want in life.”
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A recipe for disaster

mgetubig —  May 16, 2013 — 8 Comments

544248_407678335995789_1569938268_nOne of my coworkers always had a very negative, angry attitude. When he trained new people he was harsh with them and got angry if they asked the same question twice. He was an expert at the software we used.

He often spoke angrily of his son who didn’t achieve all he wanted his son to achieve. It made him so angry that when he spoke it was unpleasant to listen to.

Later, we changed the software that we use in our office. Now Bob (not his real name) has a hard time learning the new software. His negative attitude makes it difficult for him to learn new things because he doesn’t have the confidence to keep trying even when it seems he will never learn the new software.

Bob ended up having a nervous breakdown. He had such a negative attitude that he would refuse to do the work assigned to him. Months went by, he didn’t seem to want to change. A couple of weeks ago he was fired after almost 25 years with the company.

If only he had not been so angry, he wouldn’t have let anger eat him up and take away his energy. If only he had been more optimistic and believed that he really could learn the new software he would still be at the company. I know he could learn it, if he learned the old software it should have been very possible to learn the new.

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