The Success Principles ~ Jack Canfield (6 of 26)

Time to reread "The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be." by Jack Canfield. 

Why reread this now? You may ask. I do not know. It just fell into my hands. May be because these I are affirmations I am doing now. 

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want ~ Brian Tracy. 

As motivational philosopher Jim Rohn has so aptly put it, “You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.” You must do them yourself if you are to get any value out of them. Whether it is exercising, stretching, meditating, reading, studying, learning a new language, creating a mastermind group, setting measurable goals, visualizing success, repeating affirmations, or practicing a new skill, you are going to have to do it. No one else can do these things for you. 

We can have the road map, but we will have to drive the car. We can learn the principles, but will have to apply them. If we choose to put in the effort, rewards will be well worth it. 

 This book is organised into six sections with 64 principles. 

 Section I, “The Fundamentals of Success”

 It contains 25 chapters that are the absolute basics you must do to get from where you are to where you want to be. You’ll start by exploring the absolute necessity of 

1. Taking 100% responsibility for your life and your results. 
2. From there, you’ll learn how to clarify your life purpose, your vision, and 
3. what you truly want. 
4. Next we’ll look at how to create an unshakable belief in yourself and 
5. your dreams. 
6. Become an Inverse Paranoid
7. Then it is turning vision into a set of concrete goals and 
8. an action plan for achieving them. 
9. How to harness the incredible power of affirmations and visualization—one of the success secrets of all Olympic athletes, top entrepreneurs, world leaders, and others. 
10. The next few chapters have to do with taking those necessary but sometimes scary action steps that are required to make your dreams come true. Release the break
11. See what you want, get What you see
12. Act As if
13. Take Action
14. Just lean into it
15. Feel the fear and do it anyway
16. Be Willing to pay the price
17. You’ll learn to ask for what you want, Ask! Ask! Ask!
18. reject rejection, 
19. solicit and respond to feedback, and 
20. Commit to constant and Never ending improvement
21. Keep score for success
22. persevere in the face of what can sometimes seem like insurmountable obstacles. 
23. Practice the Rule of 5
24. Exceed Expectation

 Section II: "Transform Yourself for Success" covers principle 25 to 38.

 This addresses the important inner work you’ll need to do —work that will help you remove any mental and emotional blocks you may have to success. It’s not enough to know what to do. There are many books that will tell you that. You also need to understand the importance of and the methodology for removing self-defeating beliefs, fears, and habits that are holding you back. Like driving your car with the emergency brake on, these blocks can significantly slow your progress. You must learn how to release the brakes, or you will always experience life as a struggle and fall short of your intended goals. 

1. Drop out of the 'Ain't it awful' club...and surround yourself with successful people
2. Acknowledge your positive past
3. Keep your eye on the prize
4. Clean up your mess and your incompletes
5. Complete the past to embrace the future
6. Face what isn't working
7. Embrace change
8. Transform your inner critic into an inner coach
9. Transcend your limiting beliefs
10. Develop four new success habits a year. 
11. 99% is Bitch; 100% is breeze
12. Learn more to earn more
13. Stay motivated with the masters
14. Fuel your success with Passion and Enthusiasm

You’ll learn how to surround yourself with successful people and how to acknowledge the positive past and release the negative past, face what isn’t working in your life, embrace change, and make a commitment to lifelong learning. We’ll look at how to clean up any physical and emotional messes you have created and complete all the “incompletes” in your life robbing you of valuable energy that could be better used in the achievement of your goals. How to transform your inner critic into an inner coach and develop valuable success habits that will change your life forever. 

 Section III, “Build Your Success Team,” covers principle 39 to 47:  reveals how and why to build different kinds of support teams so you can spend your time focusing exclusively on your core genius. We’ll learn how to redefine time, find a personal coach, and access your own inner wisdom—an untapped but ultrarich resource for most people. 

1. Stay Focused on Your Core Genius
2. Redefine Time
3. Build a Powerful support Team and Delegate to them
4. Just say No!
5. Say No to the Good so that you can say yes to the great
6. Find a wing to climb under
7. Hire a Personal Coach
8. Mastermind your way to success
9. Inquire within

 Section IV, “Create Successful Relationships,”  covers principle 48 to 55: Number of principles, as well as some very practical techniques, for building and maintaining successful relationships. In this day ofstrategic alliances and power networks, it’s literally impossible to build large-scale, long-lasting success without world-class relationship skills.

1. Be Hear now
2. Have a heart talk
3. Tell the truth faster
4. Speak with Impeccability
5. When in Doubt, Check it out
6. Practice Uncommon Appreciation
7. Keep your Agreements
8. Be a Class Act

Section V is entitled “Success and Money.” Covers Principles 56 to 62. Finally, because so many people equate success with money, and because money is vital to our survival and the quality of our life, this will help develop a more positive money consciousness, how to ensure that you have plenty of money to live the lifestyle you want, both now and after you retire, and the importance of tithing and service in guaranteeing your financial success. 

1. Develop a positive Money consciousness
2. You get what you focus on
3. Pay yourself first
4. Master the spending game
5. To spend more, first make more
6. Give more to get more (tithing - financial or time)
7. Find a way to serve 

There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty. ~ Wallace D. Wattles

 Section VI, “Success Starts Now,” consists of two short chapters on : 

The importance of getting started now and empowering others in the process. 

Reading these chapters will jump-start you in creating the life you’ve always dreamed of but up until now may not have fully known how to create.

But, but, "No amount of reading or memorizing will make your successful in life. It is understanding and application of wise thoughts which counts." ~ Bob Proctor, Author of You were born rich. 

Put into action what you have learned. A journey of 1000 miles must begin with one step. Keep adding little progress everyday. 

The principles only work, if you work the principles. 

 "Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - BUDDHA 

 Everyone learns differently, and you probably know how you learn best. And though there are many ways that you can read this book, I’d like to make a few suggestions that may be helpful. You may want to read this book through once just to get a feel for the total process before you start the work of creating the life you truly want.

The principles are presented in an order that builds one upon the other. They are like the numbers in a combination lock—you need all the numbers, and you need them in the right order. It doesn’t matter what color, race, gender, or age you are. If you know the combination, the lock has to open for you. ask yourself, Am I currently practicing them? If not, make a commitment to put them into action—now! Remember, the principles only work if you work the principles. The second time you read through this book, you’ll want to read one chapter at a time, then take whatever time necessary to put it into practice. If you’re already doing some of these things, keep doing them. If not, start now. Good to do it together with others, it will help to have an accountability partner. Success takes time, effort, perseverance, and patience. If you apply all of the principles and techniques covered in this book you will achieve your goals. You will realize your dreams. But it won’t happen overnight.