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Make a habit of success and open your life to success! Find out what it feels like to be successful and make it a success habit! Here’s some copy I hope you’ll enjoy from our up-coming “Make A Habit Of Success” series of articles, ebooks, ezines and print-on-demand offerings. Please bookmark this site and check back over the next several weeks for more success habits and to learn more about making a habit of success. "How to discover your capacity." I believe in man's unlimited potential, so I will use this opportunity to confront a long-established myth. In a past conference, it was expected of the speaker to produce a formula which would enable each of the attendees to rate their capacities as though they were so many different-sized motors to be rated on horsepower. His opening remarks were, "I will not talk on the topic of any man's capacity. This word 'capacity’ indicates there is just so much a man can do.” "Capacity is a word that can't be applied to any man of ambition. We can say a truck is loaded to capacity, that a motor is running at capacity, or that a theater is filled to capacity because we know their limits. Our scientists and engineers rate everything from the atom to the world's largest power plant in terms of capacity, but who is to say when our scientists and engineers have reached capacity and can *hold' no more? Yet because this is a scientific age, with 'scientific* psychological tests—intelligence, personality and aptitude tests—we think we can measure men as we can measure a machine or a chemical reaction. We can't." He paused to let that sink in, and then continued: "No inanimate object can be suddenly inspired to double capacity. Man does it all the time. Call it inspiration or determination, the fact remains that when a man concentrates on doing his best, he is constantly improving himself, his performance, and his over-all effectiveness. And as long as he is improving, how can he reach capacity? The whole idea is absurd." "What I believe you really want to know is, how to determine the pattern of improvement of a man's best capacities." That evening, those successful executives learned how men are motivated—self-motivated; how men can be helped to know themselves—their best selves; how men can gain the self-appreciation which stimulates them to be and do their best more often. They learned what this book will help you to learn. You need to know yourself, to be your constantly-improving best. And you also need to decide if you want to be your "best," or if you want to improve only your "average performance." There's a lot of difference between the two. If you want to improve "average performance," all you need do is cut down on mistakes—the safe and traditional way; but it must be obvious that the reduction of mistakes has nothing to do with the improvement of your best work. The reduction-of-mistakes approach merely raises slightly the level of mediocrity. Besides, if all you want to be is upper-crust mediocre, this book is not for you. This book is for men and women who are willing to accept the responsibility of individual excellence, for people who really want to be their best more of the time. You need to understand what your "best" is; so you need to explore and appreciate those experiences which applied your "best" capabilities. You need to appreciate them. The speaker’s and my understanding of what we think is your "best," will surely be different from how you feel about your own experiences. Only you know how you feel about your experiences. You may have done something that brought you praise and an increase in salary, but if in your own considered opinion it was a stroke of luck, that's all it was. Or maybe you worked to all hours completing a project that was greeted with apathy or even antipathy; it still is a big achievement if that is the way you feel about it. One afternoon the same speaker was sitting next to the president of a professional organization at its monthly luncheon. As was his habit he prompted him into telling him of his achievements, achievements being my abiding interest. He listed a touchdown he had made at college, his election as senior class president, the first big contract he had landed by himself and his election to his present post. At that point his friend and close business associate seated with them leaned over to suggest, "Tell Mr. Smith about the boat you built in your basement. That certainly was an achievement." "No," replied the president immediately, "that was just a little boat, a hobby." Obviously the president considered as achievements only the successes that contained public recognition as an important factor. Another man building the same kind of boat might regard it as a masterpiece, a magnificent achievement in craftsmanship, project planning, and perseverance. This is an important point. To create your own success and make a habit of it, consider only those achievements of yours that are important to you, regardless of what tradition, or your boss, or your friends might have to say about them…. <<<TO BE CONTINUED>>> Make A Habit Of Success!
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