Category Archives: success principles

Success Principle 5: Believe in Yourself

Most entrepreneurs have heard it before:

That won’t work
You can’t do that
Dumb idea
Who would use that
Those are the naysayers. Unfortunately, those types of comments often come from family or friends you have shared your ideas with. It’s reasonable to assume that most great entrepreneurs also heard the words of naysayers: Michael Dell

Finalize Your Vision and Find a Way to Capture It

he past week I focused intently on clarifying MY vision for the 7 categories defined in The Success Principles. I finished four (1, 2, 3 and 4) of the seven categories which hopefully gave you (the reader) an example of how to complete this task. There are three categories that remain to be clarified: relationships, personal goals and contributions to the larger community.

Clarifying Your Vision: Free Time and Health

Work to live or live to work? I’ll take the former. And what good is free time without good health? The following are steps 3 and 4 of the 7 steps to clarifying your vision.
Free Time:

* What are you doing with your family and friends in the free time you’ve created for yourself? We spend a lot of our time…

Clarifying Your Vision: Finances

Everyone wants financial abundance. It’s only natural to want to have enough wealth to support your family and afford a decent lifestyle. I like to think that my vision for our financial situation isn’t drastically different from others. It includes both active and passive income. A “job free” lifestyle, supported by our investments, indefinitely. The amount made in annual income is arbitrary as long as it covers the appropriate expenses. Suppose for example…

Clarifying Your Vision: Work and Career

Work and Career is one of the 7 categories to help clarify your vision. The following is my response to these thought provoking questions:

* Visualize your ideal job or career
* Where are you working?
* What are you doing?
* With whom are you working?
* What kind of clients or customers do you have?
* What is your compensation like?
* Is it your own business?

This is my vision for my work and career: