Success is something that may seem illusive to some people. To others it may require hard work and determination without submitting to failure. What defines success for you? People who can overcome obstacles in life are usually the ones who succeed in the long run. Perseverance is the key to success. The willingness to go on despite the feeling of failure is the most important step toward success.
Successful people take action and are confident about their decisions even if they don’t know what the outcome will be. They are decisive and willing to take risks.
Successful people enjoy their life no matter what circumstances they find themselves in. They accept the small things in life and give gratitude for them. They treat every day as a gift and not take it for granted. So they do all they can do for that day. They live in the present and not worry about the future.
Learning to be flexible when change comes takes precedence over trying to change the situation to adapt to you when it seems impossible to change it. Successful people take responsibility for their own actions. They don’t blame anyone else. They look at change as an opportunity for something greater and try to use it as a stepping-stone to go to the next lever.
Never give up if you want to be successful. You must have the tenacity to overcome and move on to the next thing. Keep motivating yourself and focus on what is good rather than the bad that happened to you.
Other people are important to successful people. They reach out to others and show kindness. They are not loners because they know that people are important to their success.
Don’t entertain self-pity. Live for today, don’t look back at the past and remember that tomorrow will take care of itself. This is how successful people think and live their lives.
Successful people dream big. Their goals are big goals. They challenge themselves and focus on using their vision to keep their dreams alive.
Coaches and mentors are an asset to the successful person. They realize that “no man is an island.” They are not afraid to ask for help.
People who want to be successful are open to learn new things. They don’t mind making the huge step outside of their comfort zone. They think long-term and seek knowledge through books, tapes, coaching, and from other people that they meet.
Do not procrastinate. Procrastination is the worst enemy of success. Being indecisive and not wanting to act quickly is absolutely unacceptable to the successful person.
Here are some quick tips to the path of your success:
1. Write your vision down. Know exactly what you want in life.
2. Set many long-term goals. Don’t worry if they seem too much for you to achieve.
3. Make immediate plans to take action. Create a sense of urgency.
4. Take a look at your vision board every day to remind yourself what is important and why you need to accomplish what you set forth to do.
5. Take at least three steps each day to accomplish your short-term goals. Your short-term goals usually get you closer to your long-term goals.
6. Discipline is one of the attributes of success. Don’t let negative people get in your space.
7. Respect and value time.
8. Be focused and live in the present.
9. Finish the entire task that you start. Do not leave unfinished business. It takes longer to complete.
10. Persistent and Perseverance are the two “P’s” that will get you to your successful destination.
11. Give yourself a reward each time you complete a task toward getting closer to your Success.
12. Keep dreaming and you will finally wake up to find it there.
Cheers to your success. It can happen to you too. Don’t think it belongs to the other person. It is yours depending on how bad you want it.
Sharon Capehart
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February 26th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Why do so many people in America desire failure in Iraq, when success is achievable?
For the past few months I have watched on the news of protestors marching and complaining about everything. It appears that the people does not have what it takes to win a war. The people are so weak minded to see that the media and the democrats are showing us all the bad things that are happening, instead of all the accomplishments we have been achieving. this is all part of their scheme to get control of America and weaken us. The people are becoming a problem and standing on a point of weakness, not strength. we are America, we should want nothing less than victory. what is going on with the people? If our founding fathers had anything to say, they would support victory, not retreat. they would want us to succeed not fail. why has the people forgotten the desire to win? we should stop at nothing to succeed.
February 27th, 2010 at 1:14 am
because they are miserable losers themselves,in a great country of winners.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:16 am
The left wants to see Bush fail, no matter how many soldiers are killed.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:18 am
Exactly! Why are most people against the war? It’s the media, all they report are bomb blasts suicide attacks, etc.
We should look at this war from a diffeent perspecive. What does our brave men and women, who seved in Iraq, got to say about the war? We need good news, news about progress and accomplishments.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:20 am
I am not one of them. I want total victory.
The liberals are doing a great job with mainstream media.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Its simple, if we succeed in Iraq, then they were all wrong. They whined and complained for nothing. They can no longer demonize Bush as they have been for what seems like forever now. They dont want us to win because it would make them wrong, its as simple as that. I think its really sad that our own people cant support our country and whats worse is they cant even support the people fighting for their freedom to b*tch and moan about the war.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:24 am
Unfortunately, I feel that the libs hate George Bush so bad that they hope and pray for defeat in Iraq so that it makes their point on how bad a president he is, or so that they can win the presidential election in 2008.
The libs and the media are using the same tools they used during Vietnam to force the government to make changes that would not allow a victory.
Also, I like the one Lib response so far is basically name calling! Typical liberal defense to any question where they have no good answer, call the other guy a name and put them on the defensive.
I did actually fight in the first gulf war so before you go calling people names and saying they are afraid to go fight, understand who you are talking to.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:26 am
Nobody wants failure. But neither does anyone want an unwinnable war. That’s what they are protesting. And as fot showing all the bad things, it’s because the bad things are the story, not a new school or a rebuilt post office. We didn’t go there to build schools, we were supposed to have been tripping over WMDs. But now the the purpose of our presence there has been changed and the justifications altered so many times it’s no wonder people are fed up since it just goes on and on with only hollow words like "victory" to sustain it. People are getting slaughtered over there, guys are coming back without limbs, horribly maimed and disfigured. And it’s just going to keep lasting as long as peasants with RPGs shoot at each other to please Allah and out guys are caught in the crossfire. It’s a useless struggle, democracy simply may not belong in all parts of the world. We need to get the hell out of there. Then, like Vietnam, we can say we won.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:28 am
Our founding fathers were isolationists, Slappy, and are rolling in their graves at Bush’s "democracy from bomb bays" agenda. Noone wanted "failure" in Iraq, but we got it.
Your rambling jingoism shows that to you, war is like a football game. I hate to tell you that is a glaring misconception on your part and anyone who shares your shallow viewpoint needs to go and spend a day in the streets of Baghdad with no armor and having a pretty good chance of being sent home in a bodybag or to one of our wonderful VA hospitals.
Americans and innocent civilians are dying every single day in Iraq, for no real reason other than arrogance. We have no business being there, and because of the quagmire in Iraq, the Bush administration has lost sight of the real issues at hand and completely dropped the ball in terms of catching Osama bin Laden, destroying Al Qeada and making sure the Taliban is ruined and out of business forever.
you would make a great cheerleader – just like your president.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:30 am
This war should not be ongoing and we should have no desire to win.What exactly are we trying to win?It is a joke sending our people to risk their lives and die.For what???? This story does not warrant a place on the news it should be in the trash.Let Iraq care for itself now that we removed Saddam.We are NOT protecting america we are killing off american citizens.Obviously I am not happy seeing the names added to the new wall they will have to build so we have a new place to cry.A good use of tax dollars.Right????This is solely my feelings sorry if others do not agree.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:32 am
People want one thing more than anything else. They want to be right. People believe the war is unwinable and wrong therefor we should get out. If we lose, they are right. So they want us to lose. The funny thing is, is that the goal of the opposition is not to win by defeating us but to win by holding out until the protesters make us leave. We proved that it work in Vietnam. Once we had a strategy that was working, we pulled out of Vietnam because people were tired. If we pull out again I would say that America will not be able to win at any other occupation in the 50 or 100 years. Think about that, if we pull out now, we will not be able to occupy another country successfully for 50 or 100 years.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:34 am
While I agree that the news outlets primarily only discuss the negative aspects of the war while allowing the positive(if there can really be positive in war) to go unreported bringing in the forefathers of the country to back up a claim is not realistic. When America first became a country it was through a war for independence, taxation without representation and the such.
I seriously do not know which side the founding fathers of this country would take, they were not known to go to war for reasons that did not concern the country. America as a whole has not been know up until the last 50 years as a country to go to war lightly, it started with Korea. The wars before then I believe the founding fathers would have supported even fought in if around from WW2 all the way down to the war of 1812, even the Spanish American War.
Was Iraq a threat to America at the time that we invaded? Probably not, although they were in violation of the UN and makes the war justified. The founding fathers went to war when the nations future was at stake as well as our way of life. Now we go to war to police the world, and the founding fathers wouldnt have supported that.
Sure media outlets need to have fair and balanced reporting, but it isnt going to happen.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:36 am
i don’t think the people desire failure in Iraq. they think, they have achieve what they suppose to do that is to rule out Saddam and free the Iraqi people from Saddam’s clutch. It has already been done and it was a victorious. For my part, i think the troops already won the war. I think it’s time for them to leave and get back home after long hard’s day work.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:38 am
I support the troops. I just don’t want them getting killed in a country whose people don’t want us there; a country who had nothing to do with 9/11 (while your boy Bush was holding hands with the Saudi prince, Saudi Arabia, where 17 of the 19 hijackers came from); by a moron who has no original plans other than what dick ‘deferment’ cheney and rove tell him…..the Nitwit in the White House and his cronies have lied and lied at every turn during this war, and until recently anybody that questioned this nitwit and his "plan" was labeled unpatriotic and a non-supporter of the troops. All of you rah rah chicken hawks better go read the constitution and remember dissent is encouraged and expected in this country….it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to know that this country got screwed on 9/11 by the terrorists, and by the Bush bunch since then…..go wave OUR flag about that….
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:40 am
Here is an answer to your rhetorical question…but first mister fact finder where are the facts? I am one of those liberals when first asked to sign a petition to pull out of the war I refused to sign it straight away until I had more facts about our occupation there. We are not winning in Iraq with our efforts to stabilize their "democracy" first we have deployed troops without proper equipment (and that has been the case since 2003) and secondly we have destabilized the Iraq government and have surmounted a civil-war, I am not even going to go into the oil interests because that is where we are winning…get it?
The left does not want to see the U.S fall what we want is for the U.S to be all that it promised as a beacon of democracy. The "weak" you accuse are the educated people who can connect the dots of the past and don’t just fall to the mindless dictatorship of this administration…In the future your blind faith in your political party and your thoughtlessness about past events and the present will be written in history as a contribution to the fall of this democracy not the people that try to hold it up to its word…"stop at nothing to succeed" sounds like a dictatorship to me…try reading a history book or two.
peace
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:42 am
Remember back in the day when you went to the bar and got really drunk and all of a sudden that ugly fat girl sitting next to you started to look real good? You would say to your friends, man she’s hot and they would say, no she isn’t man, you’re drunk and you’d have a nother drink and say no man, she’s cute.
You’re still that kid, sitting on the bar stool, drunk and thinking the fat girl named Iraq is hot!
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:44 am
Because they are Lieberal traitors.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:46 am
These pathetic souls are being spurred on by the liberal left in the media, in Hollywood, in Congress, and wherever democrats wander. How sad it is that the security of our country can be put into jeapordy by these politically ambitious politicians, or actors, or journalists who have forgotten the Clinton years when our security was so badly beached.
Is it even possible that the silent majority of Americans could let this happen, again? Is it even minutely possible that the American voter could get sucked in by the evil lies of the Clintons, or the shameless cowardice they displayed while in office? I think not !
You’re so right about achieveing victory at all costs. To back down now would put this country into a losers mentality and that we can never accept. Well, maybe the lemmings and the liberals can, but that makes them the most expendable in the war against jihad !
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:48 am
Everyone is against this war not cause they are cowards or they are showing signs of weakness, this is an unjust war. It has been proven that the only reason why soldiers are there is not because of terrorism, but because of oil. Why support a war for the wrong reasons? Bush has brainwashed the americans just like how the muslims were brainwashed into thinking the west is evil.
I am totally against this stupid war, but im 100 percent for the soldiers who are there fighting, regardless of what country they are from. I was in the army as well. and if I could, i would fight in this war today, not cause for the country, but because of the men and women who serve there. A lot wont understand that part, but those who were and are military will as well as those who are passionate about all this. For example, if you were to see a family member, brother sister, get beat up..or hurt. you feel it, you want to rush to them, to help them. Thats the feeling im sure a lot of people including myself feel when they hear and see of the casualties which happen everyday and for what?
You say success is achievable? its not. This is a war america will not win. Its a war america doesnt want to win, the longer they are there the more profitable it is for
them.
Just once, I would love to see a government figure fight in any war. If bush were to suit up in full battle gear, then my whole outlook to all this would be altered.
and another thing about the media. dont kid yourself, we are told what we need to hear.
This entire 9/11 has been a scam to begin with! those towers were brought down by the government of american again this was proven! so with all due respect, screw bush, screw this war. pull out, and get everyone out now. but that wont happen, we need the oil.
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:50 am
Win against whom in Iraq? Against Saddam? He is already killed. Now against whom? The supporters of Saddam? Do you want to kill them all and win? Then why we are not doing that and get the ‘complete’ victory?
How long the people of USA would feel great to support the US Governments to attack other countries and kill thousands of innocent people there?
Please, remember, all human being has some sense of reasoning. Your founder forefathers were also invaders in the American land and founded your country by killing millions of natives. World has changed a lot and still now, you want to continue that trend of your forefathers? Did the civilization not changed anything in your sense except developing the weapons?
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:52 am
ok buddy, have u been over here, probably not, then dont talk about somethin you know nothing about, this is not achievable, i know, its sad to say, but face it, we cannot stay over here for ever, the people who have power here are corrupt, and anything they do to help us is just to help their agenda as well, if we were to actually accomplish the goal of "eliminating terrorism", and we finally left, the shit would just start right back up again, thats a fact dude, also, did u know that this country has been at war for over a thousand years, probably not, dont get me wrong man, i would love to actually help these people and all, but its not possible, and for anybody whos gonna ask, "well whyd you join if u didnt support the cause" and all that shit, its because i come from a poor family and i have to actually earn my way through life to pay for college and shit, so i dont wanna here any of that stupid crap either
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:54 am
Dude…this is just like Deal or No Deal….it’s time to walk away…Victory isn’t in the case you holding….and real men and women are losing life and limb needlessly.
Are you ok with that?? I’m not…
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:56 am
What and the Hell would American success look like?
Some of us in states did nto want to see an unecessary war in first place but hose of you who sit on butts getting rocks off by watcvhing FOX boobs for bombs, having already killed over 1 million Iraquis in 16 yeasrs will not be satisfied until you take over country even ifit takes 3 million more and completley destroys the country. What will victory look like?
Pretty yellow ribbons on highway overpasses, a cold beer at the tavern as we tell how mighty we fought the unarmed infidels. What will Victory look like?.
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HELL YES WE HAVE TO WIN NOW BECAUSE SO MANY OF YOU FRIGGIN FLAG WAVERS AND BLOOD SUCKERS WANTED A NICE WAR TO SHOW HOW PATRIOTIC YOU WERE BUT WERE SO DAMN INCOMPETENT INSTEAD OF LIBERTING A PEOPLE YOU BLEW THE HELL OUT OF A WHOLE COUNTRY AND NOW NOT SATISFIED WE HAVE TO FIND SOME MORE IN AFRICA AND IRAN TO BLOW THE HELLOUT OF.
You gave away 5 of our constituional rights to show how macho you are aso we may as well be serfs to the corproartions who sell the land and jobs overseas while you fight overseas because . YOU BEGAN THIS HELL AND NOW OVER FOUR YEARS OF FIGHTING AND KILLING MAINLY CIVILIANS WE HAVE TO CONTINUE THIS HELL IN ORDER TO SURVIVE,NO MATTER HOW MANY MORE WE HAVE TO KILL BEFORE VICTORY COMES.
WITH MORE PEOPLE LIKE THE ONES OF YELLOW RIBBONS AND FLAGS ON SUVS THERE CAN BE NO VICTORY
"BECAUSE EVERYONE IN WORLD IS NOW OUR ENEMY".