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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

post: mitch w. steel
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Yes, it’s time to create a “Heroes” section on Succcess.org! With so many remarkable successes in this world, both past and present, this is a great way to inspire our collective will AND validate the “3 C” formula.

I know from personal experience that reading about and meeting truly successful people has always helped to provide motivation.
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When I last reviewed the “New IQ” concept, I was approached afterward by a nice young man and he suggested he didn’t understand how this might apply to him. His statement was basically, “I have a job where my boss doesn’t even pay much attention to anything I say. What should I do?”

First, I commended him, not a bad question. I then reiterated a series of questions Napoleon Hill provides in his “Science of Personal Achievement” (link below, highly recommended) and offered a few of these for his consideration.

Can you suggest five rules of conduct that would make anyone more popular with his or her associates?
Can you name five things that you can do that might bring you a promotion and greater pay?
Can you name five benefits that you might enjoy by going the extra mile - that is rendering more service and better service than you are paid to?
Is there a recommendation for a product or service that your company could offer which it doesn’t currently that may make the company more money?

“A problem (question) well defined is half-answered”~MWS

When you get down to it, your ability to get what you want from life and your intelligence is essentially the effective result of the quality questions you’ve asked.

This “questioning dialogue” is absolutely essential to manifest your success.

Consider Albert Einstein, certainly regarded as one of the smartest people ever to walk the face of this earth. Do you not think that his day consisted of a series of endless questions? Regarding light he asked, “Why does light seem to reflect differently?” Can light bend? “If I traveled at the speed of light would I see my reflection in a mirror?”

Questions. Endless questions.

Einstein’s questions were unique and he was a supremely creative man. He epitomized the importance of having such an inquisitive nature.  Consider the time he imagined what might happen if he were riding on a beam of light.

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And the men who hold high places
must be the ones to start,
to mold a new reality – closer to the heart.
The blacksmith and the artist –
reflect it in their art,
they forge their creativity
Closer to the heart
“Closer to the heart” ~ Rush
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If you want to create an apple pie from scratch
you first have to create the universe.
~Carl Sagan

Creativity – your essence.

The very word conjures up images of poets leisurely writing poems . . . artists with abundant talent painting masterpiece after masterpiece that future generations will come to admire.

A romantic version of creativity? You bet. Real? Not by a long shot! If creativity isn’t a word you associate with your everyday life or “SUCCESS” then it’s absolutely vital you change your mindset—now. Far too many people – before they even graduate high school have already begun to disassociate their creativity from their personality. Taught to assume a life of responsibility instead of creativity. You might have been led to believe that you will have to choose between living the creative life or living a practical life.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

To excel at any endeavor–particularly in the business world–it’s essential that you embrace your creative essence. *more* »

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post by Mitch W. Steel

here’s a quote I’m rather fond of… It rephrases the age old proverb, “necessity is the mother of invention” to “necessity isn’t the mother of invention – invention is.”

Napoleon Hill wrote the all-time classic personal development book, Think and Grow Rich. The book is based on his 20-year study of the greatest minds of his time, including Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. He discovered from this exercise that there human creativity took basically two different forms – synthetic imagination and creative vision.

Synthetic imagination joins your pre-existing ideas, your concepts and your products and transforms them into something completely different, into a completely new form or a new, unanticipated solution to a problem. Very little of what is created today is absolutely original – from scratch, if you will. In fact, many of our greatest inventions are based upon the concept of synthetic imagination. Perhaps that is what Isaac Newton said when he attributed his greatest discoveries to the ability to “stand on the shoulders of giants.”

Really when you consider it further necessity, in reality, is the GRANDMOTHER of invention.

For example, the garbage can. Yes, the lowly, smelly garbage can. The original intent of the garbage can was to have a receptacle to place the garbage collected during the course of a week in your household. A simple enough need.

Soon, the garbage bag was invented. One invention – the garbage can – spawned yet another invention, the garbage BAG. This, in a nutshell, is synthetic imagination. In other words, this is simply a creative way to combine two pre-existing ideas or inventions.

The second type of creativity is creative vision. *more* »

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post by Mitch W. Steel - excerpt from “The 3 C’s” The Success eBook

Words of wisdom all around
but no one ever seems to listen
They talk about their plans on the paper
Building up from the pavement
mm hm
there’re shadows from the scrapers on the pavement
mm hm
It’s enough to make me sigh
but that don’t seem like it would make it feel better
The words are all around
but the words are only sounds
and no one ever seems to listen
~ jack johnson “traffic in the sky”

Do you have a definition of success?
I’ve taught hundreds of students for over five years. Every time I ask this simple question: “Who wants to be successful?” every single person raises his hand. At this point, I actually have inverted the question to simply be, “who does NOT want to be successful.” Just to verify that not a single person will raise their hand. Obviously, it is unanimous, EVERYONE WANTS TO BE SUCCESSFUL. This of course is where the “fun” begins… *more* »