SUCCESS

What is success ? Success is not only about :

Prestige

Power Prosperity

Position

Pleasure

What is success ?

Success is the progressive realization

of all that you were meant to be and

able to make a positive difference with your life for others

We need to become successful by:

•Significantly helping to change the world

•Making a difference through helping people around you to live more productive and meaningful lives

•Changing our paradigm towards work because of the values that under gird your life

In Time Honored View of Work

Work becomes part of calling/vocation NOT just an occupation

It focuses more on giving INSTEAD of getting ( money, time off ,perks )

Vital and exciting place to be RATHER than a place to get the salary needed for life

An ennobling occupation, NOT a means to an end.

Some specific ways to reprogram our view of work as an act of significance and substance

1. Admit where you are in regard to your view toward work

2. Commit your self to be your best in every area both personally and professionally

3. Focus on using things and caring for people versus using people and caring for things

4. Keep learning and don’t stand still

5. Look for opportunities to serve others

To be successful : Be a MAXIMIZERS of life

M - make things happen A - achieve personal significance

X - x –out the negatives I - internalize right principles M - march to a mission

I - integrate all of life Z - zero in on caring for people E - Energize internally R - re-align rigorously S - Stay with the course

Success is maximizing your impact on yourself and those around you. It depends on What you DO with YOU

Success built in commitment beliefs and attitudes is

excellence

Excellence is not an ACT but a HABIT Basically, habits are a combination of three things :

•Desire

•Knowledge

•Skills

Two major skills needed to be developed and cultivated in order to succeed

•Work hard

Without work, all life becomes rotten but with work and hard effort, life becomes meaningful and exciting

•Develop right habits

a. ask why you want to build a particular habit

b. practice

c. develop a feedback mechanism, monitor your growth through a chart

As year 2008 is about to end and as we face 2009, let us build

U - uplift one another

N - need one another

I - intimately relate to one another

T - trust one another

Y - yield to one another

Be a person of substance for others

Be a MAXIMIZERS