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10 CRITICAL CLUES FOR SUCCESS
I don't need to be a gypsy fortune teller to tell your fortune. I can tell with a 95% certainty whether
or not a person is (or is going to be) successful.
All I need is 20 minutes of conversation or a few email interactions and I know. It is easy to do.
You can do it too. Yes! You can actually predict whether or not someone will have the success
they say they want. Better yet, you can tell if you are going to be a success OR not.
The best part about checking to see if you will be a success is that you don't have to 'beat around
the bush' in a conversation to discover the clues, as you would normally have to do with another
person. The worst part about checking in with yourself is that you will run up against an outright
liar. Yes, you will attempt to deceive yourself. Now that you are forewarned about that, you can
watch out for your attempts to obscure (or divert yourself from) the truth about yourself.
So, if you want to predict the future of anyone, including yourself, here are the ten most critical
clues that you will need to uncover and clarify:
1- Attitude
2- Intention
3- Purpose
4- Passion
5- Plan
6- Resolve
7- Responsibility
8- Words
9- Actions
10-Peers.
Let's take a closer look at each.
Attitude:
There is a winner's attitude and there is a loser's attitude. Most people have a mix of the two.
A winner's attitude is characterized by high self-esteem, a positive outlook on life, a general
feeling of gratitude, a sense of great personal destiny, a willingness to learn and the will to do what
is necessary.
Losers have poor self-esteem, a negative (they say realistic) outlook on life, a general feeling of
resentment about the trials and tribulations of life, a sense of impending negative fate, a
stubbornness about what they 'know', and lousy will-power or self-discipline.
Intention:
As a general rule, things done with intent, produce intended results and things done without
specific intent produce unintended results.
It is my experience that most people think, say and do most things in life without any conscious
and specific intent. I like to ask people (and especially myself) the following clarifying questions:
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