There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should no do.
Success in not limited to any area of your life. It encompasses all of the facts of your relationships: as parent, as wife or husband, as citizen, neighbour, worker and all of the others.
Success is not confined to any one part of your personality but is related to the development of the parts; body, mind ,heart and spirit. It is making the most of your total self.
Success is discovering your talents, skills and abilities and applying them whether they will make the most effective contribution to your fellow men.
Success is harnessing your heart to a task you love to do. It is falling in love with your work. It demands intense concentration on your chief aim in life. It is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have burning a desire to achieve.
Success is 99% mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience and enthusiasm.
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.
Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal.
Success is accepting the challenge of the difficult. Success is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years add up to a great life.
Written by (Wilfred Peterson) in 1960.
