Wednesday, December 07, 2005

What is The Secret of Success?

What is The Secret of Success that icons such as Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Carnegie, Roosevelt, Ford, Rockerfeller, Einstein and others know and practiced?

The Secret can be found in Napoleon Hill's classic best seller, “Think and Grow Rich”. I consider this to be the book that changed my life. Read on to discover how this book inspired me to go Beyond Possibilities and co-create the success I now enjoy.

“Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it” - Winston Churchill

Life is full of adversities, setbacks and disappointments. This is part of growing up. It is only by conquering these adversities, enduring these setbacks and persisting despite these disappoints that we develop strength in our character and competence to back our confidence.

My adversity came when I was on the verge dropping out of an Engineering course in the National Technological University of Singapore. That was a major turning point in my life. Both positive and negative self-talk rampaged between my ears. The potential loss seemed insurmountable while my future looked vague. After accepting and talking about my emotions with close friends and family members, I was better able to manage the stress and begin to explore my options. I focused on the process of charting a new course for myself. I took stock of my life and decided to pursue my interest in business management.

For the first time in my life, I assumed personal responsibility for my thinking choices and made an active effort to plan my own journey in life. I embarked on an active process of setting clear goals and constantly engaged in positive self-talk to rebuild my confidence. Self-help books such as Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” and Anthony Robbins’ “Notes From a Friend”, offered motivating ideas that have since became personal values.

In the words of Napoleon Hill, “Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.” Temporary defeat is not failure. In fact, there is no such thing as failure until you have accepted it as such.

I urge you to make it a habit to look for that seed of an equivalent or greater benefit, in every adversity that comes into your life. It’s not what happens to you in life that counts, its what you do about it!

Just this single habit has helped me in so many ways since I downloaded it from Napoleon Hill's “Think and Grow Rich”. I have since graduated with distinction from RMIT University and have a Bachelor of Business (Business Administration, Marketing Major). I have also been recognized for scholastic achievement and excellence by The Golden Key International Honour Society in and was awarded The RMIT Business Dean's Award in 2002.

As for work experiences, I worked for a public listed company for 3 years, where I spearheaded the Export Development and secured the company's first major export market in Australia where annual sales are approaching 1 million (2005).

In pursuit of my life purpose, I am now in the mist of writing a book on self mastery. I am also a Success Coach offering a range of programmes to help people access their inner genius, increase their possibilities and achieve the success they desire.

This single habit that I mentioned a moment ago is not The Secret. In “Think and Grow Rich” Napoleon Hill says of The Secret, “The secret to which I refer has been mentioned no fewer than a hundred times, throughout this book. It has not been directly named, for it seems to work more successfully when it is merely uncovered and left in sight, where THOSE WHO ARE READY, and SEARCHING FOR IT, may pick it up.”

This secret is often called the Greatest Secret because unlike others it requires that you actively participate before you can “get it”. Because of the dual spirit-nature of things it is and has as Napoleon Hill says, “two parts”. In this light I have not written the secret outwrite, yet it is here on this website and the first part in Napoleon Hill's words is “DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE”.

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