Passport to Success

Written by Dr. P.C. Simon


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Resource Box: The Purpose of Creation by Dr. P.C. Simon, Copyright 2003. Also by Dr. P.C. Simon, The Missing Piece to Paradise, an inspiring, informative, and life-changing book. More articles by Dr. Simon can be seen at http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/psimon/book2.htm

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Passport to Success

by

Dr. P.C. Simon

copyright 2003, word count: 1900

Success isrepparttar 123225 prosperous termination of any enterprise. Therefore, success can only be appraised atrepparttar 123226 end, not atrepparttar 123227 beginning. However, to reachrepparttar 123228 end, one has to start. Many people are unable to start an enterprise because of fear, fear that they will fail, fear that they do not haverepparttar 123229 stamina, fear that they do not haverepparttar 123230 resources,repparttar 123231 education,repparttar 123232 finance,repparttar 123233 right age, etc. Therefore,repparttar 123234 first thing they have to do is to overcomerepparttar 123235 fear.

How do we overcome fear?

When I was training to take a private pilot license,repparttar 123236 first time my trainer stalledrepparttar 123237 engine,repparttar 123238 plane dropped a few hundred feet and I was horror stricken. I wanted to quit. But my trainer encouraged me and convinced me that after a few more times I would overcomerepparttar 123239 fear of stalling and I did. I had to haverepparttar 123240 confidence and with that confidence I had to go throughrepparttar 123241 experience. This is what we all have to do. Have confidence in your potential and go throughrepparttar 123242 experience.

Establish a precise goal. It should remain unchanging until it is reached. The goal should be written down and looked at frequently to reinforce it in our minds.

What do you have to do to reach your goal? Plan out in detail fromrepparttar 123243 very beginning. Set goals for each day, each week, each month. Atrepparttar 123244 end of each period, check to see thatrepparttar 123245 goal set for that period has been reached. Ifrepparttar 123246 goal has not been reached, don't give up. Resetrepparttar 123247 goal and try to complete it duringrepparttar 123248 next interval.

Your plan must be followed passionately. You must have a burning desire to followrepparttar 123249 plan and to reach your goal.

Napoleon Hill, in his book Think and Grow Rich, writes "to achieve success, one should have:

a. Faith. A persistent faith isrepparttar 123250 head chemist ofrepparttar 123251 mind. Faith, love and sex arerepparttar 123252 most powerful of all major positive emotions. when faith is blended with emotional thought and word, it will materialize. Faith is a state of mind which may be created by affirmations. Repetition of affirmation is one ofrepparttar 123253 ways to orderrepparttar 123254 subconscious to act. The subconscious is that part ofrepparttar 123255 universal mind which is responsible for materialization of thought.

"Life's battle don't always go torepparttar 123256 stronger or faster man,

But soon or late,repparttar 123257 man who wins isrepparttar 123258 man who thinks he can."

b. Persistence. There is no better example than Thomas Edison. During his life, he patented 1093 inventions. Edison is said to have tested 4000 fibers before he found that white cotton thread rolled in lampblack (soot) could be used as a filament forrepparttar 123259 electric light.

Once, Edison told a co-worker who was disappointed in a series of experimental failures, "Schultz, we haven't failed. We know 1000 things that won't work so we are much closer of finding what will."

Atrepparttar 123260 age of 80, he decided to find a native source of rubber. He met with failure after failure. After testing and classifying 17,000 varieties of plants, he succeeded in devising a method to extract latex. His persistence paid off. Success is incumbent on one's motivational ability.

No man can succeed in any enterprise all by himself. All successful people were able to gather others around them and motivate them. To succeed in motivating others, we can take a few words of advice from Dale Carnegie. In his book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, he gives some important points such as: -

1. Get interested in other people rather than trying to get other people interested in you.

2. Learn to remember names.

3. Listen without saying a word.

4. Ask questions or talk aboutrepparttar 123261 topics he/she is interested in.

5. Make him/her feel important.

6. Don't criticize.

7. Frame your questions in such a way as to get "yes" as an answer.

8. Let him think thatrepparttar 123262 idea is his.

9. Talk about your own mistake before correctingrepparttar 123263 other person.

10. Ask Questions instead of giving orders.

Charles, son of Thomas Edison, said of his father, "Father could and often did give orders, but he preferred to inspire people so that they may suggest to him what he wanted them to do inrepparttar 123264 first place. This was one ofrepparttar 123265 secrets of his success."

11. Letrepparttar 123266 other man save his face.

12. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

Successful people can be divided into two groups.

1. Those who underestimated their successful career and thought they had done very little worthwhile in life.

2. Those who recognized they had achieved a lot.

Leonardo da Vinci, a man two centuries ahead of his time,repparttar 123267 great architect of many inventions,repparttar 123268 creator ofrepparttar 123269 Mona Lisa, just before his death atrepparttar 123270 age of 67 went about scribbling on pieces of paper, "Tell me if anything ever was done."

Tycho Brahe,repparttar 123271 great Danish Astronomer who measured so accuratelyrepparttar 123272 motions ofrepparttar 123273 planets as no one ever had done before, said at his death bed, "Tell me what have I achieved."

Why did they lament their lack of accomplishment? Not because ofrepparttar 123274 lack of awareness of their own achievement but because ofrepparttar 123275 awareness ofrepparttar 123276 immensity of projects yet to be carried out.

The Mystery Of A Dream

Written by Susan Rutter


Dream Appreciation The minute parsing of dream meaning can be revelatory. Asrepparttar same time, if we are not careful, it can become another way of distortingrepparttar 123222 image, like a lepidopterist mounting a butterfly on a trophy board rather than marveling at its living presence. It is a convention in psychology to talk of "dream mechanisms," butrepparttar 123223 psyche is not a steam engine or a computer. We are investigating an ecosystem, notrepparttar 123224 innards of a device. What I am referring to asrepparttar 123225 appreciative mode of dreamwork involves a vivifying encounter withrepparttar 123226 imaginal realm. Hererepparttar 123227 images not only stand for something, they exist in their own right. Instead of labeling and sorting them, extracting their meaning and discarding them, one enters open-handed into their world. Jung used a technique he called active imagination to particpate in a dream's livng presence. He describes his discovery of this method in his autobiography. While sitting at his desk one day, trying to come to grips with his own intractable fears he abruptly hadrepparttar 123228 sensation of letting himself inwardly "drop" to a deeper level of imagination. He felt himself plunge down, "as ifrepparttar 123229 ground literally gave way beneath my feet," eventually landing in a dark cave where he encountered various mythological creatures, personages, and symbols -- dwarves, glowing red crystals, enormous black scarabs. Dreams can have such an authoritative feel -- their presentation as deliberate, exacting, and inalienable asrepparttar 123230 director's cut of a film -- thatrepparttar 123231 dreamer's first challenge is simply accepting them as they are.

Psychologist Mary Watkins counsels against imposing a burdensome conscious structure upon a spontaneous creation: "Try to takerepparttar 123232 image as a given and as completed," she writes, "rather than a play which you, as ego, must rework and finish." This, she ads, counters "ego's attempts to consumerepparttar 123233 image asrepparttar 123234 bird wouldrepparttar 123235 spider." The act of appreciating is inrepparttar 123236 spirit of whatrepparttar 123237 poet Keats once characterized as "being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable grasping after fact and reason." We takerepparttar 123238 position of opening ourselves torepparttar 123239 dream without unsheathingrepparttar 123240 sword of interpretation. I have often found myself returning to certain images I have allowed to live, gratified that they still retainrepparttar 123241 power to inwardly move me, and have not been "analyzed to death".

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