Action determines destiny. Unfortunately, many people have not learned this biggest lesson, and as a result, they relegate themselves to mediocrity. Look at ordinary people, and you will find that they are all living passively. They talk much more than they act, or even just talk without acting. But almost all of them are experts at making excuses. They will find various excuses to delay until finally, they prove that the matter should not be done, they are incapable of doing it, or it is already too late.
Compared with these people, I seem to be much smarter and shrewder. Positive action is another hallmark of mine. I have never liked armchair strategizing or empty talk, ed hardy tøj. Because I know that without action, there is no result. People who lack action have a bad habit: they like maintaining the status quo and refuse change. I think this is a deceptive and self-destructive bad habit because everything is changing.
A person only relies on himself; he will not disappoint himself and can increase his chances of controlling his own destiny. Smart people only make things happen. The most frustrating thing in life is wanting to do too many things and ending up accomplishing nothing. We must admit that time is limited, and no one can finish everything. To eat an elephant, you need to take one bite at a time. Doing things is the same. Wanting to complete everything will only let opportunities slip away. My motto is: Rockefeller treats emergencies unfairly.
If you want to become the kind of person who says "I'll do it now," abercrombie belgië, you need to stop all daydreaming, always think about now, and start doing things from now. Phrases like "tomorrow," "next week," "in the future" have the same meaning as "never possible."
The leaders in business, government, and the military are all very capable and willing workers, 100% proactive people. Those standing outside watching will never become leaders.
Whether you are proactive or passive, it's all due to habit. Habits are like ropes; we weave a rope every day, and eventually, it becomes so thick that it cannot be broken. Habitual ropes either lead us to peaks or guide us to valleys, depending on whether they are good or bad habits. Bad habits can control us, affecting success and failure. They are easy to form but hard to manage. Good habits are hard to form but easy to maintain.
To have the habit of doing things now, the most important thing is to have a proactive spirit, eliminate the habit of mental dispersion, and resolve to be a proactive person. Be brave to act and don't wait for everything to be perfect before you act; there is never absolute perfection. Developing the habit of action doesn't require special intelligence or specialized skills; it only requires hard work, allowing good habits to flourish in life.
Life is a great battle. For victory, you need action, and then more action, forever action!
Heaven and Hell "Adjacent"
Work is an attitude. It determines our happiness and also determines our achievements. If you ask them what they are doing while sculpting statues, one of them might say: "Don't you see? I'm chiseling stones. Once I finish this, I can go home." Such people always view work as punishment, and the word they use most often is "tired."
Another person might say: "Don't you see? I'm making a statue. It's hard work, but the pay is high. After all, I have a wife and four children who need food and warmth." Such people always view work as a burden, and the phrase they often utter is "supporting the family."
The third person might put down the hammer, proudly point to the sculpture, and say: "Don't you see? I'm creating a piece of art." Such people always take pride in their work and enjoy it, and the phrase they often say is "this work is meaningful."
Heaven and hell are both built by oneself, franklin marshall. If you give meaning to your work, regardless of its size, you will feel happy. If you dislike doing it, any simple task will become difficult and boring. When you complain that the work is exhausting, even if you don't exert yourself, you will still feel exhausted.
If you consider work as fun, life is heaven; if you consider work as an obligation, life is hell.
Great Wisdom Appears Foolish
Scholarship itself isn't much; scholarship must be applied actively to be effective. To become someone who can apply knowledge effectively, one must first become someone with execution capability.
So where does execution capability come from? In my view, it lies hidden in hardship. My experience tells me that walking on a tough road—a road filled with difficulties, misfortunes, failures, and challenges—not only shapes our strong character but also brings forth the execution capability needed to achieve great things.
Those who climb upward through hardships know how to seek out methods, means, and ways to save themselves. Deliberately embracing hardship is one of my firm beliefs for success.
Perhaps you might mock me, thinking there’s nothing dumber than seeking hardship. No! Those without experience of misfortune are, ironically, the unfortunate ones.
Many things come and go quickly. Those who achieved overnight fame and wealth, how many didn’t fade away soon after? What hardship gives you is building your career on solid ground rather than quicksand. One needs foresight; only enduring hardship over a long period yields long-term rewards.
Doing small things well is the foundation for achieving big things. If you start off being arrogant, you won’t be able to empathize with your subordinates' feelings. You must begin by doing small tasks to understand the feelings of subordinates, and when you reach a higher position, ed hardy udsalg, you’ll know how to inspire them to contribute fully.
People without knowledge are ultimately useless, but knowledgeable people may become slaves to knowledge. Everyone needs to realize that all knowledge can turn into preconceived notions, leading to a conservative mindset: “I know,” “I understand,” “Society is inherently this way.” Having a sense of “knowing” diminishes the desire to learn, and without desire, progress halts. This is why ignorance leads to success.
A great saying—every opportunity to admit ignorance becomes a turning point in life. Pretending to be foolish has many benefits. Pretending foolishness means lowering one’s stance and becoming humble. The smarter one is, the more necessary it is to pretend to be foolish, as the saying goes—“The more mature the rice, the more it bows its head.” Now, let’s start loving to pretend to be foolish!!
Reject Excuses
In my view, excuses are a mental illness, and those severely afflicted by it are all failures, though common people may have mild symptoms. However, the more successful one is, the less likely they are to make excuses.
I despise those skilled at finding excuses because it's a sign of weakness, and I pity those skilled at finding excuses because excuses are the root cause of failure.
Once a failure finds a "good" excuse, they cling to it tightly, using it repeatedly to explain to themselves and others why they couldn’t continue, why they couldn’t succeed. Initially, they might be aware that their excuse is partly a lie, but after constant repetition, they increasingly believe it is entirely true, seeing it as the real reason for their inability to succeed. Consequently, their minds become lazy and rigid, yet they never admit to being excuse-makers.
The most common excuses, phrases like “My health is poor” or “I have various ailments,” become reasons for not acting or failing. In fact, no one is perfectly healthy; everyone has some physical issues.
An old saying goes well: “I kept lamenting my worn-out shoes until I met a man without feet.” Being grateful for one’s health is far better than complaining about discomforts. Gratitude for one’s health can effectively prevent various illnesses and diseases.
The excuse “I’m not smart enough” is also quite common, affecting nearly 95% of people to varying degrees. This excuse differs from others in that it usually remains silent.
I’ve found that most people have two fundamental misconceptions about intelligence: underestimating their own brainpower and overestimating others'. I believe what truly matters is not how intelligent you are but how you use the intelligence you possess.
Outcomes often correlate with the intensity of passion. Passion can improve things a hundredfold or a thousandfold. Many people don’t know what passion is; passion is what moves someone deeply.
I believe that people of average intelligence, with optimistic, positive, and cooperative attitudes, will earn more money, gain more respect, and achieve greater success than highly intelligent individuals who are pessimistic, negative, and uncooperative.
Excuses block the vast majority of people from entering the gates of success. Ninety-nine percent of failures are due to people's habitual excuse-making. Therefore, one of the most crucial steps in pursuing career success is preventing oneself from making excuses.
Truly Believe There Are Many Methods
I believe that doing anything is impossible to find only one best method; the best methods are as numerous as creative minds. Traditional thinking is the number one enemy of creative planning.
No plan can ever reach absolute perfection, which means improvements to everything can be endless. I am well aware of this, so I frequently look for better methods. I often ask myself: Can I do better? I know I certainly can, so I ask: How can I do better?
The best way to find perfect ideas is to have many ideas. I constantly set higher standards for myself and others, always seeking ways to enhance efficiency. I know that the greatest successes belong to those with the attitude to do things better.
Developing the attitude to do things better requires cultivation. Every day, I think: How can I do my job better today? How can I motivate employees today? What special services can I offer the company? This exercise is simple but very effective. You can try it, and I believe you will discover countless creative ways to achieve greater success.
Our mindset determines our capabilities. We can do as much as we believe we can. If we truly believe we can do more, we can creatively think of various methods.
Refusing new challenges is extremely foolish. We should focus on how to do more. In doing so, many creative answers will unexpectedly arise. For example, plans to improve current work, shortcuts for routine tasks, or eliminating trivialities. In other words, methods that allow us to do more mostly appear at such moments.
Not Impossible—Challenging Limits
People in the past must have thought, "Water cannot flow uphill," until water pumps were invented. From Columbus discovering the New World to Copernicus's heliocentric theory, these were all results of challenging the status quo and finding methods.
Nowadays, people must think, "The sun cannot rise in the west," but people in the future might say, "That's because we haven't found another planet with human inhabitants where the 'sun rises in the west.'"
"Not impossible, just haven't found the method yet." Don't give yourself too many limitations, don't always "limit yourself." If "impossible" becomes someone's or a company's catchphrase, that person or company is destined to be eliminated. Let's delete the word "impossible" from our personal or corporate dictionaries forever. Even if we encounter so-called "impossible" problems, we should understand: not impossible, just haven't found the method yet.
Case: Samsung Electronics, headquartered in Suzhou, has achieved remarkable success in China and globally. The performance of the white goods division (2000-2001) grew more than tenfold in two years!
In 2000, the company's revenue was already three times that of the previous year. When the management envisioned increasing the 2001 target threefold compared to 2000, despite the team's spirit of challenge, they still considered it "impossible." After nearly 50 days of deliberation and problem-solving, the belief that "it's not impossible" led the team to decide to grow threefold again in 2001! This is a team accustomed to breaking records because they are accustomed to challenging the "impossible."
Let's always focus on finding solutions instead of excuses. Firmly believe: success must have a method; never say it's impossible.
Luck Depends on Planning
Just as people cannot live without money, they cannot live without luck. However, to accomplish something, one cannot wait for luck to come. My creed is: I don't rely on fate-given luck to survive, but I depend on planned luck to thrive. I believe good planning influences luck and can successfully affect it in any situation.
To become a good hunter in the hunting field, you need to think diligently, act cautiously, and be able to see all possible dangers and opportunities.
Occasionally grabbing an opportunity by luck but failing because you can't seize the next one is common. Far-sighted businessmen always excel at finding opportunities in every disaster.
We look down on those who drift with the tide and stick to old rules. Their minds are occupied by wrong thoughts, believing that retreating safely is worth celebrating. To ensure continuous good luck, we must carefully plan for luck. Planning for luck has two prerequisites: first, knowing your goal, such as what you want to do or what kind of person you want to become; second, knowing what resources you possess, such as status, money, interpersonal relationships, and even abilities.
The order of these two conditions can be changed. You can have a goal first and then start looking for the resources needed to achieve that goal. Or you can have some resources first and then look for goals suitable for those resources. You can also mix them to form the third and fourth methods.
You can adjust your goal according to resources or adjust resources according to your goal. Everyone is the designer and architect of their own destiny. While waiting for luck, you need to know how to guide it. Designing luck is designing life.
Actively Resolve Setbacks
The legendary experiences of Levi Strauss, the "King of Jeans," teach us how to overcome setbacks.
Back then, like many young people, he went west to prospect for gold with dreams. On the way, a big river blocked his path. After waiting for several days, more and more people were held up. Some detoured upstream or downstream, while others turned back. Most complained loudly. At this moment, Levi remembered a treasure passed down by a wise man: "Fantastic! Such a thing happens to me, giving me another chance to grow. Everything happens for a reason, and it must benefit me."
Thus, he came to the riverbank and excitedly repeated loudly: "Fantastic! The river blocks my way, giving me another chance to grow. Everything happens for a reason, and it must benefit me." Indeed, an excellent entrepreneurial idea popped into his mind—ferrying. Therefore, his first fortune was gained precisely because the river blocked his way.
After a while, the ferrying business started to slow down. He decided to abandon it and continue his journey westward to prospect for gold. Upon arriving in the west, everywhere was crowded with people. He found an open space and began panning for gold. Not long after, some thugs surrounded him, ordering him to leave and not infringe on their territory. Reluctantly, he had to leave quietly. With difficulty, he found another place, but soon the same tragedy occurred again, and he was driven out once more. He thought of his "winning secret" again: Fantastic! Such a thing happens to me, giving me another chance to grow. Everything happens for a reason, and it must benefit me.
He shouted loudly, and eventually, another brilliant entrepreneurial idea came to him—selling water.
The west wasn't short of gold, but it lacked water, and seemingly no one had thought of it. Soon, his water-selling business thrived. Gradually, others joined his new industry, and later, more competitors emerged. Finally, one day, a muscular man selling water beside him issued an ultimatum: "Little guy, stop selling water from tomorrow morning. This water-selling territory belongs to me."
He thought the man was joking, so he came again the next day. Unexpectedly, the man immediately approached him without further ado, beat him up, and destroyed his water cart.
In the "lawless west," Levi had to accept the setback again. However, when the man left triumphantly, he immediately adjusted his mood, forcing himself to get excited again, repeatedly telling himself loudly: "Fantastic! Such a thing happens to me, giving me another chance to grow. Everything happens for a reason, and it must benefit me."
He began adjusting his focus again. He noticed that people in the west wore clothes that easily wore out. Meanwhile, he discovered tents abandoned everywhere in the west. Thus, he came up with another brilliant idea—collecting the abandoned tents, washing them, and sewing them into the world's first pair of pants made from tents—jeans! From then on, he became unstoppable and eventually became the world-renowned "King of Jeans."
Levi's spirit might sound somewhat like the "Ah Q Spirit" of China. After being beaten by Mr. Zhao, Ah Q secretly rejoiced, saying, "The son hits the father." In the face of setbacks, perhaps they both used the same method—the "spiritual victory method." However, while Ah Q's "spiritual victory" merely served as an excuse for passively avoiding reality, Levi's "spiritual victory" led him to immediately focus on actively seeking ways to change the situation.
Levi could become the "King of Jeans" not because he lacked setbacks or low points. The perpetually "positive-minded" Levi might offer us a bit of insight: successful people aren't without low points; rather, they don't stay in them for long. Successful people always find ways.
Friendship Affects Success and Failure
Friendship can influence success and failure, and one might even say that your destiny is not determined by yourself but by your friends because your friends affect you. To succeed, you must avoid associating with two types of people.
First type: Negative complainers who don't know gratitude.
Frequent interactions with negative complainers will make you negative and complaint-prone; frequent exposure to great figures will elevate your thinking; regular contact with ambitious successful individuals will surely cultivate the ambition and actions needed for success.
Unfortunately, negative complainers are everywhere, trapping many people within walls of negativity and complaints. The people around you are not all the same; some are negative complainers, while others are positive and ambitious. Among those I've worked with, some just wanted to scrape by, while others had lofty aspirations and aimed for excellence. Before becoming a great figure, one must first be a good follower.
We cannot stop others from becoming boring negative complainers, but we can avoid being influenced by them, thus lowering our own thinking levels. Always follow those with positive forward-thinking, growing and progressing with them.
Second type: People without goals who cannot persevere through challenges.
I like befriending those who never yield. I challenge unpleasant adversities, which is the wisest path to success. Such people are rare. They never let pessimism dictate everything, never succumb to various resistances, and don't believe they are destined to waste their lives aimlessly. Their purpose in living is to achieve accomplishments. These people easily become top performers in various fields.
People who say you can't do it are those who cannot succeed themselves; their personal achievements are at best mediocre. Therefore, their opinions are harmful to you.
When you encounter any difficulties, the wise course of action is to seek help from top-notch individuals. Asking advice from a failure is as ridiculous as asking a quack doctor to treat a terminal illness.
You should value your environment. The way to let your environment help you succeed is: spend more time with positive and successful people, and less time with negative complainers.
Enrich Your Spirit
Our bodies need material sustenance daily, as well as spiritual nourishment. However, many people often use the excuse of having no time, letting their spirits starve. They occasionally enrich themselves but always forget to satisfy their spiritual needs, focusing instead on their bodily desires.
We live in an era that satisfies bodily desires but neglects spiritual needs. Spiritually hungry people are everywhere. Those living in negativity, failure, and depression desperately need spiritual nourishment, yet almost all of them reject enriching their spirits. The spirit is our true home; whether we are good or bad depends on its nurturing.
For instance, positivity. Every person reaching or nearing the peak is positive. They are positive because they regularly replenish their spirits with positive thoughts. Just as food nourishes the body, they remember their daily spiritual sustenance. They know that if they can enrich their minds, they will never worry about their bodies or even financial issues throughout their lives.
What we put into our spirits is crucial for our future. In fact, spiritual nourishment is readily available, such as books. Great books are great wisdom trees and great spirit trees, where we can reshape ourselves. Let's learn to be both smart and humble. Of course, we shouldn't read the books of mere wordsmiths, whose writings are like plagues. We need books that bring us confidence and strength, push our lives to new heights, and guide us to success.
For example, "Go All Out." Whoever misses the chance to read it may miss a great life. It opens the door to happiness and joy for everyone. The spirit, like the body, needs daily nourishment. Both physical and spiritual nutrition must be balanced for success.
Opportunities come from action. Even the best plans have flaws. An ordinary plan, if executed thoroughly and continuously improved, will surpass even the best-planned efforts that are abandoned halfway because the former persists, while the latter fails completely. Therefore, I say, success has no secrets. As long as you take proactive action, you will get closer and closer to success.
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