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Free Success Ebook Classic: “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill – NEW EDITION!

Catmandu — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:09:20 +0000

"Before Success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to Quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. Faith is the only known antidote for failure!" - Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

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Free Success Ebook Classic: "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill (1937) Success Manual Strategist Edition 2010 - Free Immediate Download

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Well, it was about time.

If you are a regular reader of this site, you already know how strong I feel about the classic Success Manual, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It has been cited extensively throughout these pages. I suppose one must wonder why I have not made it our first addition to The Success Manual Free Download Library.

A spectacular early summer morning view of the Doubleheads mountain formation with rising undercast clouds in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Photo by Brad Bradstreet on July 25, 2009.

The simple answer is that the book, in both published and digital format, is so widely available. It is ubiquitous on the web, with many sites offering it as a freebie for opting-in on an email subscription. As a result, we thought it would make sense to make available first the more uncommon Success Manuals, since Think and Grow Rich may easily be found by anyone searching for it.

Yet, as is the case with many free ebooks circulated in cyber world, we found that most versions of Think and Grow Rich were poorly compiled, edited and constructed. Many versions are so heavily edited, with whole portions even deleted, that the spirit and meaning of this great work are askew. It became apparent that the world needs a Success Manual Strategist Edition of Think and Grow Rich.

That time is now.

I cannot say enough about Think and Grow Rich. Napoleon Hill studied more than 500 of the world's most Successful and Wealthiest individuals over a period of 25 years in order to produce this work. It is a true goldmine and any serious Success Student MUST read it. But, don't stop there: APPLY ITS 13 PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESS!

Ladies and gentlemen, The Success Manual now brings you Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

As always, thank you so much for visiting our site!

Until next time, my Friends, many Blessings, Peace - and Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Free Success Ebook: “Right and Wrong Thinking” by Aaron Martin Crane – Free Download!

Catmandu — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:22 +0000

The differences between ignorant and enlightened, between savage and civilized, between brute and man, are all due to mind and its action. All the multifarious customs and habits of mankind, whether simple or complex, though often attributed to other causes, are, from first to last, the direct results of thinking. Mind is the motor power and governs everything, everywhere; but man can control mind, and therefore, by that control, he may be the imperious dictator of his mind’s entire course, and, rising thence to the highest pinnacle of possibility, he may become the arbiter of destiny itself. - Aaron Martin Crane, "Right and Wrong Thinking"

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Free Success Ebook: "Right and Wrong Thinking" by Aaron Martin Crane (1905) Success Manual Strategist Edition 2010 - Free Immediate Download

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For those of you familiar with our site, you probably are already aware that the mantra of The Success Manual is "achieving Success one thought at a time."

Thinking (cause) produces results (effects). We think either positive or negative Thoughts; Thoughts are combined into Ideas; continued attention to Ideas plants them into our subconscious minds, transforming them into Ideals through emotionalization; if consistent with core values, belief systems and principles, those Ideals translate into behavior (action) which produces the results in our lives. Whether you are a firm believer in the Law of Attraction or a skeptic, the affect of thinking on our mental states, disposition, behavior and results can hardly be argued.

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We create our lives through our thinking. In order to change our lives, e.g., to attain Wealth or achieve Success, we must, necessarily, start at the origin of cause: our thought processes. Purposeful, intentional and controlled thought is THE most powerful tool to changing ANY aspect of your life - including (and starting with) yourself.

Hence, today's edition to The Success Manual Free Download Library: "Right and Wrong Thinking and Their Results" by Aaron Martin Crane. Our Success Manual Strategist Edition is a whopping 377 pages in length, so this Success Manual is no quick read. However, Right and Wrong Thinking is well written, crafted into 44 separate chapters, with titles such as Discordant Thoughts, How to Control Thinking, Persistence, All One’s Own Work, Destruction of Discordant Thoughts, Habit, The Relationship of Thinking to Health, The Worry Habit, Business Success, Thought Control is the True Self-Control, Man: The Architect of Himself . . . and more.

Control your thoughts, Control your life. It really is that simple (not that it is easy!)

As always, thank you so much for visiting our site!

Until next time, my Friends, many Blessings, Peace - and Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Success Key: S.M.A.R.T Goal Achievement Method – Part 4

Catmandu — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:00:26 +0000

It is almost impossible to plan the precise route from start to finish. Often, vital information is needed, and that information will not be obtained until you are well on the way. What is important is that you do your best to draft your definite Plan and then just START! And, your plan must be flexible. As you gather information along the path to the Goal, your plan must be able to accommodate the changes, revisions and detours that are inevitable. Don’t make your plan rigid, for if it is off the mark, you will miss your Goal.

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Success Key: S.M.A.R.T Goal Achievement Method – Part 4: ATTAINABLE (continued)

In our last post on the S.M.A.R.T Goal Achievement Method, we concluded our examination of the “M” element – MEASURABILITY. As a quick refresher, Measurability means:

Being capable of measuring your progress as you work towards your Goal (i.e., your Goal must be Specific enough – the “S” – so that at any point in time anyone may objectively determine whether or not the Goal has been achieved),
Implementing a system capable of periodically measuring your progress towards your Goal,
Effectively using your system of measuring your progress towards your Goal, thereby collecting valuable information as to your progress and, if you are not progressing towards the Goal, WHY NOT, and
In response to the information collected through your progress measuring system, taking appropriate remedial or corrective ACTION (or, as Anthony Robbins would say, “MASSIVE ACTION”) that will bring you closer to achieving your Goal, with the ACTION comprising both speed/efficiency and/or direction towards the Goal.

In other words, by implementing and using an effective progress measurement system, you obtain the necessary and crucial FEEDBACK that advises you as to whether you or on course to reaching your goal, and if not, why not. In order to reach your Goal – whatever it may be – you absolutely must be able to measure your progress and determine what remedial measures must be taken to keep you on track to attaining your objective.

Today, we will take up discussion of the “A” element of S.M.A.R.T: ATTAINABILITY.

Actually, in my opinion, the “A” element of the SMART acronym is a bit of a misnomer. As we explained in our first SMART post, SMART stands for:

Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely

At first blush, it would seem that “Attainable” and “Realistic” would mean the same thing (or at least I thought so). That is, according to the acronym, the Goal must be Attainable and it must be Realistic. What’s the difference?

The difference is this: Attainable, in this sense, means that you have (or will develop) the attitudes, abilities and definite plans for attaining your Goal. The emphasis here, however, is on the “definite plan” portion. You cannot attain a Goal or achieve Success without Definiteness of Purpose and Definiteness of Plan.

Attainability: Plan, Execute, Evaluate, Adjust, Achieve.

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In Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, the element of Definiteness of Plan is emphasized consistently throughout the book. In fact, a whole chapter is devoted to it: Organized Planning. In that chapter, Hill states the following as to the planning process (yes, it is a continuous PROCESS throughout the entire Goal pursuit period. Plans are not rigid; they must be flexible, malleable and adjustable based on the feedback received from your Goal progress measurement system):

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan, if this new plan fails to work, replace it, in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of Persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The most intelligent man living cannot succeed in accumulating money – nor in any other under-taking without plans that are practical and workable. Just keep this fact in mind, and remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure. It may only mean that your plans have not been sound. Build other plans. Start all over again.

Thomas A. Edison “failed” ten thousand times before he perfected the incandescent electric light bulb. That is – he met with temporary defeat ten thousand times, before his efforts were crowned with Success.

Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune.

And, then, Hill offers this advice:

Your achievement can be no greater than your Plans are sound. That may seem to be an axiomatic statement, but it is true. And, no man is ever whipped, until he Quits – in his own mind.

But, how do we form our Plan? Answer: In the Creative Imagination.

Returning once again to Think and Grow Rich, Hill states the following in the chapter titled Imagination:

Read the entire book through, then come back to this chapter, and begin at once to put your imagination to work on the building of a plan, or plans, for the transformation of your Desire into money. Detailed instructions for the building of plans have been given in almost every chapter. Carry out the instructions best suited to your needs, reduce your plan to writing, if you have not already done so. The moment you complete this, you will have Definitely given concrete form to the intangible Desire. Read the preceding sentence once more. Read it aloud, very slowly, and as you do so, remember that the moment you reduce the statement of your desire, and a plan for its realization, to writing, you have actually taken the first of a series of steps, which will enable you to convert the thought into its physical counterpart.

What is highly critical to the planning process is to keep in mind the following:

It is almost impossible to plan the precise route from start to finish. Often, vital information is needed, and that information will not be obtained until you are well on the way. What is important is that you do your best to draft your definite Plan and then just START!
Your plan must be flexible. As you gather information along the path to the Goal, your plan must be able to accommodate the changes, revisions and detours that are inevitable. Don’t make your plan rigid, for if it is off the mark, you will miss your Goal.

Many times, we just need to start without the precise plan. What? Did I just contradict myself? No. Sometimes it takes IMMEDIATE MASSIVE ACTION to get matters in motion so that we can acquire the knowledge, awareness and understanding to seed our Creative Intelligence with starting points to develop.

Whatever the case may be, NEVER let the “HOW” stop you. In the parlance of mentoring under Bob Proctor, this was known as surrendering your “Y” for the “HOW.” In other words, we live in an “X” world, but we come up with a new, out-of-the-box “Y” idea – an ambitious Goal beyond what we have ever achieved before. Yet, we have no idea “how” to achieve the “Y.” We lack the requisite knowledge, awareness and understanding to achieve “Y.”

This is where the vast majority of people stop. They want “Y” (for example, to earn a million dollars in one year), but they don’t know HOW to do it, so they stop before they even try. Well, guess what? If they KNEW how to do “Y,” they would have already achieved it!

In these cases, the most important thing is to just start. You don’t have to know HOW you are going to earn that million dollars this year. The main point is to make the “Y” your passionate Desire and get going. Use your God-give abilities to start thinking. Take in all that you learn, develop that specialized knowledge, open the Creative juices, connect with God – the all powerful, Infinite Creative Intelligence. Ideas will begin t formulate. Study them. Present them to your Master Mind Group. Revise. Adjust. Keep going.

And, don’t dictate to God; let God bring forth to and through you.

And, don’t Quit.

Until next time, Peace my Friend, and - Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Free Success Ebook: “Joy Philosophy” by Elizabeth Towne – Free Download!

Catmandu — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:40:16 +0000

When you are disturbed, unhappy, unsuccessful, agitated, you are breaking the connection between God and yourself by not taking him into your thoughts and desires. You are counting him OUT. So I say, stop and pump yourself full of I AM God. Power and Wisdom and Love are only names of God. Whenever you reckon yourself Power or Wisdom or Love, you take in God. When you say, I am weak, or ignorant, or unloving and unloved, you deny God and force him out of your thought. Or at least you try to. Then let him in. In all thy ways acknowledge him. In all thy desires acknowledge him. - Elizabeth Towne, "Joy Philosophy"

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Free Success Ebook: "Joy Philosophy" by Elizabeth Towne (1903) Success Manual Strategist Edition 2010 - Free Immediate Download

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Well, I suppose it was about time that we added some Elizabeth Towne to The Success Manual FREE Download Library - and, so here you are with today's Free Success Manual, "Joy Philosophy" by Elizabeth Towne, an icon of the New Thought movement and master of self improvement, personal development and attaining Success through Successful Living.

Much can be said of Ms. Towne. She truly was a pioneer in the field and her writings had significant influence on many other well-known writers from that era.

Both Elizabeth Towne and her second husband William E. Towne were for many years associated with the International New Thought Alliance (INTA), and served on its board in various capacities. She served as the president of INTA in 1924.

Towne was the founder and publisher of Nautilus Magazine, a journal of the New Thought Movement that ran from 1898 through 1953, when she brought it to a close due to her advancing age (she was 88 years old at the time). She also operated the Elizabeth Towne Company, which published an extensive list of New Thought, metaphysical, self-help, and self-improvement books by herself and writers such as William Walker Atkinson, Kate Atkinson Boehme, Paul Ellsworth, Orison Swett Marden, Edwin Markham, Clara Chamberlain McLean, Helen Rhodes-Wallace, William Towne, and Wallace Wattles.

We are working on a post exclusively dedicated to Ms. Towne, as a Success Master in her own right, which we hope to finish soon - among the 10,000 other projects we are working on! :-D

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Here are a few select passages from Joy Philosophy to provide you a taste of what awaits within - truly good material for the mind, Soul and spirit.

When I say, I AM power, I lean to God, the only power. When I say, I AM wisdom, I call God. When I say, I AM love, I reckon myself nothing and God ALL, for God is love. When I say, I AM what I desire to be, I count myself as God’s manifestation, with his desires written on my heart. The desires of my heart are God’s desires. He worketh in me both to desire and to think, as well as to will and to do his good pleasure.

The fate of the unprincipled jellyfish is ever the same. His own power of initiative is so primitive that he is propelled by every current of wind or wave. Everything stands aside for even the sucker, who knows where he is going. But the jellyfish has no destination. His one object in life is to keep from being hurt, and to this end he floats with any current. He effaces himself as much as possible to keep from being seen and eaten. And I suspect he is often indignant and tries to sting because he has succeeded in his attempt not to be noticed. But when he happens to be noticed by too large a fish he is gobbled up in a jiffy. If he escapes being eaten, he is cast on the beach to lament away his feeble life in a too-ardent day.

Quit looking at things and being afraid. Never admit a fear. Bid it get behind you. Never admit a “can’t.” Pull yourself together and declare “I can – I WILL.” Fear makes you feel paralyzed. Ignore it. Rise up and ACT, and you will see how little power the fear really had. Fear is but a paltry stage-trick hypnotist. You cannot be hypnotized if you refuse to look at fear. ACT and fear flees into the bottomless pit whence it came – into nothingness. Keep on acting as if you felt no fear. In due time the feeling of fear, the hypnotized sense, will disappear for good. You will smile, and your solar center will expand and let in more God-feeling, more power and wisdom, than you have ever had before.

So I tell you to do your best to get enthused and exalted over your Ideal. Keep telling yourself that your Ideal is you, and that in due time you will prove it in terms of matter. If it is not you what is it? Your Ideal exists within you, does it not? And therefore it must be you. And your poverty, or your work, your “conditions,” exist outside of you, do they not? Then they are not you. What exists within is you.

As to other people, keep mum. Many a man’s Ideal is stillborn because he wastes his energy in talk; and because he draws to himself the opposition or contempt of others. Be still; make no noise, except when there is something to be gained by it. Noises of all sorts use up your mental energy. In stillness power is generated. Be still.

Somebody says, “Life is real, life is earnest.” But I say unto you that “Life is really what you think it.” It is a great game, a tragedy, or a sentence at hard labor, just as you will; if you don’t like what it has been, use your ingenuity to make it different.

We trust that you will enjoy Joy Philosophy by Elizabeth Towne as much as we did.

As always, thank you so much for visiting our site!

Until next time, my Friends, many Blessings, Peace - and Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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A Special Note regarding our friends atop Mt. Washington

2010 Seek the Peak Kick-Off Concert
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Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Mount Washington Observatory's Seek the Peak Hike-a-Thon fundraiser, Subaru presents Assembly of Dust and special guests The Brew, live in concert at Cranmore Mountain Resort! All proceeds benefit the nonprofit Mount Washington Observatory.

Tickets are $19 in advance, $25 at the door and may be purchased online or by phone at (800) 706-0432, ext. 230. All purchases are non-refundable. Advance ticket pricing is available through July 22, 2010. All Seek the Peak participants to raise the $100 fundraising minimum will receive a FREE ticket to the show!

Tickets are general admission, lawn seating only, so bring your chairs and picnic blankets! Cranmore Mountain Resort is a fully licensed facility and both food and beverages will be available for purchase. Please no BYOB, no coolers and no dogs. Positive ID required for alcohol purchase.

There are no physical "paper tickets" for this concert. At the event, proceed directly to the Will Call desk at the Cranmore Mountain Resort ticket office, where all advance ticket reservations will be held.

Doors open at 5:00 PM for this outdoor, rain or shine concert event.

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Free Success Ebook: “The Science of Success” by Julia Seton, MD – Free Download

Catmandu — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:04:40 +0000

There is little hope for a final winning in the game if with every move the player breaks their own law of power. Faith is an all-abiding necessity according to the universal rule: Faith in God, faith in man, and faith in our own power: To think the thoughts which will give ourselves the environment, people, everything just as we would have them – this is the great command, and “there is not a thing in all the world but that thinking makes it so.” What folly it is to spend our hours thinking of everything in the world that we do not want, when with another thought move we can change the whole game for ourselves and for others. - Julia Seton, MD, "The Science of Success"

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Today's edition to the Success Manual FREE Download Library is an excellent Success Manual by Julia Seton, MD, titled "The Science of Success." Written in 1914, long before Napoleon Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich, this well-written, to-the-point book by Seton establishes many of the points later taught by Hill in TGR. I am speculating, as many books from the New Thought era bear remarkable resemblence to each other, but I have a hunch that Mr. Hill may have resorted to The Science of Success in his research phase.

Rare sunshine and a cloud pond on Mount Crawford in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Because the summit of the mountain is often shrouded in thick clouds, water from the clouds gathers on rocks and plants forming small ponds on the mountain top. Photo by Jeb Bradley on July 5, 2009.

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That, by no means, is meant to discredit Hill or Think and Grow Rich - perhaps the most powerful Success Manual of our time. Hill's research was monumental, of epic proportions, interviewing hundreds of the most successful individuals at that time over a period of many, many years, at the urging of Andrew Carnegie. Hill accomplished that goal and Think and Grow Rich is the outgrowth of that research. At the time, there had neve been anything like it; I still believe that to be true.

Yet, The Science of Success almost seems like a precursor to TGR. Regardless, this is yet another great Success Manual to download, add to your Success Library, and read - again and again and again. The key to overcoming faulty, negative conditioning that keeps you from attaining the Success that you Desire and deserve is repetition through study, words, thought and action. Only then will bad, faulty habits be replaced by Success Habits that will help create the Drive, Passion and Will Power to propel you to the next Success level and beyond.

Enjoy the book - and have a GREAT weekend.

PS - Special thanks to the many thoughtful, considerate people who have been sending me such wonderful notes by way of email and Twitter DMs. I appreciate hearing from EVERYONE and will make a well-heartened attempt to respond to all over the weekend. Thank you all and my God bless you with Abundance, Happiness and Prosperity.

Until next time, my Friends, many Blessings, Peace - and Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Success Key 28: Bob Proctor’s First Speaking Engagement – Don’t QUIT!

Catmandu — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:40:23 +0000

Sometimes no matter how bleak it may look, the best alternative is to stay the course. One must evaluate the alternatives and make the best decision based on the facts. Yet, one must also keep in mind that the greatest successes, the biggest wins, do NOT come easy. There must be sacrifice, and the more ambitious the goal, the greater the sacrifice. That is why most people quit along the way. That is why not everyone is incredibly wealthy – it simply takes too much commitment and sacrifice to achieve that level of Success.

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Success Key 28: Bob Proctor's First Speaking Engagement - Don't QUIT! (Even when you have EVERY right and reason to give up)

quit: verb: 1) give up or retire from a position; (2) turn away from; give up; (3) go away or leave; (4) put an end to a state or an activity (“Quit teasing your little brother”); (5) give up in the face of defeat or lacking hope; admit defeat.

Any way you slice it, the definition of the word “quit” conveys misery. Especially the fifth part in the above definition: “give up in the face of defeat or lacking hope; admit defeat.” Ouch. That one actually inflicts physical pain.

But, does it not sometimes make sense to quit? Isn’t quitting sometimes the reasonable, right thing to do?

Er . . . . no.

Sometimes we need to stop, reflect and change game plans. And, perhaps in certain instances, the game plan may so dramatically change – based on a thorough, logical evaluation of the facts and circumstances – that it may appear to the uninformed as though the one has “quit.” For example, if your business was burning a million a day in cash, with no decent revenue in site in the foreseeable future, perhaps it might make sense to close operations to stop the hemorrhaging and refocus efforts. I don’t see that as “quitting;” it would be absurd to continue under those circumstances IF there was no turnaround in site.

God gave us a brain. Let’s use it to the best of our abilities.

The old adage is true: A Winner never quits, and a quitter never Wins.

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But, sometimes no matter how bleak it may look, the best alternative is to stay the course. In those situations, closing operations doesn’t make sense, and to follow that course would be to abandon the cause, to quit. One must evaluate the alternatives and make the best business decision. Yet, one must also keep in mind that the greatest successes, the biggest wins, do NOT come easy. There must be sacrifice, and the more ambitious the goal, the greater the sacrifice. That is why most people quit along the way. That is why not everyone is incredibly wealthy – it simply takes too much commitment and sacrifice to achieve that level of success.

When I am in doubt, I refer back to a great story that Paul Martinelli tells about Bob Proctor’s first speaking engagement. Sometimes it takes a story – a parable, if you will – to help us comprehend the distinction. Parables are so effective, that is why the Great Master told them so often to his followers.

Just in case you have never heard of Bob Proctor, he is perhaps one of the greatest success speakers of our time. These days, he commands audiences in the tens of thousands around the world (albeit, he has been recovering from heart surgery earlier this year). And, he commands just as much for his speaking fees.

It wasn’t always that way. Like everyone, Bob, too, had to start at the bottom. And, his first speaking engagement could not have been more of a disaster.

When Bob was ready to make the giant leap from studying Success materials to speaking on the subject, he rented an auditorium in Toronto, Canada for his first gig. He used his own personal funds and did his own marketing.

On the night of the event, a grand total of FIVE people showed up to hear him speak. FIVE. The auditorium held about 2,000 seats and only FIVE of those seats had a warm body sitting in it.

To make matters worse, those five people did not come together – they didn’t even know each other. Obviously, then, they did not sit all together. One sat up in this section, another back there in that section, one over on the side in that section . . . . I am sure you can picture it.

What did Bob do? He gave his speech as though the theater was filled. That was his goal and he was not about to quit before he started.

But here is where it gets really interesting. As Paul relates the story, in light of the outcome of that first speaking engagement, Bob had every right and every reason to quit. Friends and family urged it: “You gave it your best, Bob. You tried, you really did. It’s okay, it just wasn’t meant to be. It’s all right, it’s okay to walk away.”

Bob would have none of that. He continued working towards his goal, despite circumstances that probably would have stopped about 99% of the population. He had nothing to lose – nothing, that is, unless he quit. Bob refused to let the circumstances of that first speaking engagement dictate his passion and goal to be a Successful Success Speaker.

I think we can all agree that Bob DID have every right and reason to quit after that first speaking engagement. He really did. But, successful people don’t quit – they simply find another way. And, that is exactly what Bob Proctor did.

Bob went back to the drawing board, worked on his material, changed his approach, did a million other things. But the one thing that Bob didn’t do was QUIT: “give up in the face of defeat or lacking hope; admit defeat.”

Next time you feel like quitting, especially when you think that you have every right and every reason to do so, stop and think about Bob’s first speech.

You’ll know what to do.

Until next time, my Friends, many Blessings, Peace - and Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Free Success Ebook: “The Human Machine” by Arnold Bennett (6th Ed. 1913) – Free Download

Catmandu — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:10:26 +0000

It has never struck you that you possess a machine? That machine is yourself – you are the most fascinating bit of machinery that ever was. Considering that we have to spend the whole of our lives in this human machine, considering that it is our sole means of contact and compromise with the rest of the world, we really do devote to it very little attention. When I say ‘we,’ I mean our inmost spirits, the instinctive part, the mystery within that exists. And when I say ‘the human machine’ I mean the brain and the body – and chiefly the brain. - Arnold Bennett, "The Human Machine"

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If you read yesterday's post - a personal story of my est training back in 1980 - then you would know that today's addition to the Success Manual Free Download Library is "The Human Machine" by Arnold Bennett.

What does this 6th Edition of "The Human Machine," published in 1913 have to do with somebody's participation in The est Seminar Training Program 30 years ago in 1980? Well, my greatest experience of the training program occured during a profound portion of the seminar's final day when the trainer was barking at us "Don't you get it? You are ALL machines! You are a 'human machine!'" And, that was going to be my segway into Arnold Bennett's classic book.

However, the training program - and all that it was about - was such great fodder that I couldn't resist making it a separate post. And that I did - yesterday.

Which now brings us back to today and "The Human Machine" by Arnold Bennett.

The Human Machine. Conditioned, Automated and Reactive.

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If you haven't read this book, I strongly urge you to download it now, before you forget, and start reading it immediately. The title is just as it suggests, and throughout this masterpiece, Bennett demonstrates (with wit and humor, I may add) that we are, quite ridiculously, machines - human machines. So much of what we do is automated and automatic and we exercise far less free will than we tend to realize. We really do. By eliminating the "machine" aspects of our human character, we are liberated and therefore able to more freely and effectively live our lives.

We don't have to automatically respond in anger when somebody says something nasty to us, cuts us off while driving, or when we lose money when the stock market tanks. We don't have to automatically experience doubt and anxiety when we don't have the anwers to our "problems" (challenges, really) or know how we will be able to afford something necessary that is seemingly out of reach. We don't have to automatically fear that which we do. We can CHOOSE otherwise.

"A man will wake up in the middle of the night (usually owing to some form of delightful excess), and his brain will be very active indeed. He will see all his wife’s faults and the hopelessness of trying to cure them. He will admit all the shortcomings of existence, will face them like a man, grimly, sourly, in a sturdy despair. He will mutter: ‘Of course I’m angry! Who wouldn’t be? Of course I’m disappointed! Did I expect this twenty years ago? . . . Now, if things were different . . .’" - Arnold Bennett, "The Human Machine"

The problem is that so much of how we live our lives has been automated for so long that we don't even see it. Think about when you drive a car to a place frequently traveled and the trip highly familiar, such as a commute to work that you have been doing for years. How many times have you done that trip and then don't even remember the drive there or home? You were on auto pilot while piloting a 4,000 pound vehicle at 60 mph and you don't even remember it! Now extrapolate that same type of experience to other instances, such as responding to a question by your spouse when, in fact, you don't even know what she has asked. Or the same with your children. Now, apply it to other instances, such as when your husband or other loved one says or does something insensitive to you, which you have asked him (time and time again, of course) NOT to do or say, and you feel disappointed or that he doesn't respect you. What is your response? Or, is it even a response? Is it more of a reaction?

There are major differences between a "response" and a "reaction." A response is generally considered at length before given, is well-reasoned and non-emotional. A reaction, on the other hand, is almost always immediate, is based on little - if any - reason and is almost always very emotional (and usually meant, at some level, to "get back at" or cause the other harm at some level).

A reaction is an second action that occurs automatically upon the occurence of a first action (hence, the name RE-Action). Think of it: Action-Reaction. Look at Newton's third law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The reaction is an automatic result of the initial action, and it is equal and opposite. You cannot have one without the other.

Machines react. Human machines react.

Life doesn't have to be that way. We don't have to be machines; we can choose to live life anyway we want. And, we can choose to experience Life's experiences anyway we want - nothing has to be automatic unless we let it be.

We don't have to live a life in which we merely REACT to the circumstances, events, conditions and people around us. Our experiences don't have to be in the form of a REACTION. Rather, we can choose to live a life in which we RESPOND to the circumstances, events, conditions and people around us. Our experiences can be RESPONSIVE and not REACTIVE.

So, roll up your sleeves, people, and wake up and take control. Let's use the God-given abilities to THINK and exercise FREE WILL in which we have been blessed and actually do something meaninful for ourselves, our family, our planet and our God. It's the least we can do.

Until next time, my Friends, many Blessings, Peace - and Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Success Key: “Transformation” – A Look Back

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Our lives are a compilation of our experiences of events, circumstances, conditions and the people around us. We have been endowed by our Creator with the ability to choose HOW we experience each of those experiences. Therefore, at every moment, we have the ability and freedom - known as “free will” - to CHOOSE how we experience this grand thing called LIFE. Nobody decides our experience for us, unless, of course, we choose to voluntarily give them control (victim consciousness). That, my friends, is the Real Power of TRANSFORMATION.

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Success Key: "Transformation" - A Look Back at The est Seminar Training of 1980

[Note: The following post initially started as the introduction to the download post for “The Human Machine” by Arnold Bennett. However, in due course, it took on a life of its own and I decided that it had real worth as a separate piece. The download post for “The Human Machine” will appear tomorrow in The Success Manual.]

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Once upon a time – long, long ago – in a not so far away place, I, along with a group of close buddies from high school decided to enroll in a seminar program called “est.” It was in the spring of 1980, and by then, we had all moved on to college.

The est Seminar Training (est being an acronym for “Erhard Seminar Training,” named after founder Werner Erhard) was one of, if not the very, first of its kind: an ambitious, high-cost, personal growth seminar program – something quite ubiquitous in 2010, but a freakish anomaly in 1980.

I don’t recall much as to how I was introduced to est, other than the fact that two of my fellow buds had already taken the seminar and urged that it would be a great thing for us all to do. (Later, I would learn that the est organization aggressively pushed its training program graduates to recruit more participants).

I remember reading, over and over again, a well-appointed, peaceful-conveying est promotional brochure, in pastel colors featuring pretty flowers and other decorative elements, and extolling the benefits of the training, including, its coveted centerpiece feature: “transformation” – or in the parlance of the time, “getting it.”

I also remember the incessant phone calls from est sales staff doing their best to enroll me in the training program. Being 20 years of age and living at home with my parents while attending college, the “rents” did not appreciate the aggressive marketing calls (if either parent answered an est call, they would advise that I was not home, request not to call again, and hang up. Of course, the calls kept coming).

The Lake of the Clouds and the Appalachain Trail atop the ridgeline of the Presidential Range as viewed from the summit of Mount Washington. Photo by Richard A. Catalina, Jr., August 1984.

The cost of the est seminar training, which included two consecutive weekends and the three consecutive Wednesday evenings immediately before, during and after the main weekend trainings, was somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000 or so, if my memory serves me right. Given that it was near the end of the college spring semester, I was flat broke and didn’t have the required “tuition” funds to enroll in the training program. Asking Mom and Pop was out of the question, as they were totally convinced that est was a “cult” and that “those people” merely wanted my money (and possibly my mind). However, one of my friends who had already taken the training was so sure of the value of my would-be “transformation,” that he voluntarily dished out the entire tuition without me even asking for it – what a guy! (Thanks, Bebs!) The fact that he was willing to put a grand of his own hard-earned money on the line told me that there must be something to this training. Why, in the world, would someone do that? (I paid him back when working over the summer, but looking back, what a gesture on his part).

And take the seminar training we all did – the twelve of us all enrolled in the very same training program. We also all went in on a single double-bed room at the nearby hotel for the two Saturday night sleep over portions – that is, if the est trainers would let us out of the training to actually get sleep on those Saturday nights. That’s right – one room for 12 college guys.

As the first Saturday morning of day one of the training approached, our anticipation and excitement grew to a feverish pitch. You see, we were going to be “TRANSFORMED!” We had no idea what that really meant, other than some vague notion that after the est training we would somehow be different than before the training program – enlightened, changed – transformed.

My parents, on the other hand, were concerned, and now being a parent myself, I can hardly blame them. At worst, I would be brainwashed into joining a “cult.” At the least, I was throwing away a thousand dollars which could be used to pay for my continued college education. After all, this was 1980, and a thousand dollars was a ton of money at that time to a kid paying his way through college. But, let me go they did, putting their trust in my instincts that I would not run away with some “cult.” I have to hand it to them – given my propensity for getting into trouble in my youth, that was a bold move for them. I don’t think I realized that until now.

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Well, let me say this (and I said it back then): the est training program was an absolute blast. I had the time of my life and believe that my friends all did as well. And, yes . . . I was TRANSFORMED! We were all TRANSFORMED! Everyone who attended the training was TRANSFORMED!

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Transformed into what? What did “transform” and “transformation” mean? What happened to us? How were we changed? Were the bolts of lightning and did we hear God’s voice call down from heaven?

Well, . . . not exactly. But, there was a transformation nonetheless.

We were all “transformed” in the sense of having now “experienced” the “experience of the training.” That was “it.” That was the “getting it.” So, if you participate in the training and make it to the end, it is impossible not to “get it.” Everyone who attends the training therefore “gets it.” “It” is the experience of having participated in the training, and the “transformation” may be summarized thusly: before the training, an individual has not experienced the training – and all that it brings – while after taking the training, that same individual has now experienced the training. The training, or more appropriately, an individual’s experience of the training (not just the training, but what one experiences inside), is the transforming event.

I can hear the skeptics already. I am not done.

Now, since it is highly unlikely that I will spoil anyone’s intended enrollment to take the 1980s version of the est Seminar Training program, I can tell you that learning this fact was the climax of the program near the end of the final day. Three hundred of us sat through this grueling, and at times quite difficult, program, with its strict rules such as limited bathroom breaks, no medication allowed, not being able to sit next to anyone you know, no watches allowed, etc. etc. etc. (cell phones didn’t exist) waiting and waiting and waiting for that “moment” when we would all “get it” and be “transformed.” That moment came late Sunday night of the second weekend – around 10:00 pm – with a trainer screaming “Don’t you get it! This is ‘IT!’ It’s the end of the training and the training was ‘IT!’”

Now, prior to that, as the appointed moment draws near, various individuals began to grasp what was happening. These people “got it.” One by one, they started to laugh, some with tears of joy. The trainer would stop and turn to each such person and ask “Did you get it?” and they would respond something like, “Yes, I got it! I got it!” And others nearby would ask in whispered tones, “What’s it like? How does it feel?”

I was one of the fortunate few who “got it” earlier than most. In fact, other than my two friends who had already taken the training and knew what to expect, I was the first of my other friends to “get it.” I was an early Transformee!

To this day, I can recall with clarity the trainer spouting about how we are all “machines” – “human machines” – when it dawned on me that she was absolutely right. We really are “human machines,” programmable, with buttons for people and/or events to push, etc. We think we exercise free will most of the time, but in reality, we are mainly creatures of habit – including emotionally and intellectually. We are conditioned machines.

And, then I realized that the experience of the training program itself was what the training program was all about. There was no “right” or “wrong” way to experience the program, other than your experience is your experience. Your life is your life. And, your experience of your life IS your life. That, in all its glory, is it – and how you choose to experience your life, your est seminar training, your transformation, is your life, training and transformation.

But, oh – the power and ability to CHANGE your experience at any moment! Therein lies the real transformation. That each one of us has the power and ability to transform our lives, the experiences of our lives, each and every moment. We don’t have to be human machines after all!

Our lives are a compilation of our experiences. We have been endowed by our Creator with the God-given ability (and free will) to choose how we experience each of those experiences. Therefore, we can choose how we experience our life.

I started laughing uncontrollably. “Oh, boy, is this great!” I thought (taking a line from the movie Animal House, released only a few years prior). The trainer looked directly at me and said, “It looks like somebody else just got!” and I shook my ahead affirmatively. She smiled back.

Eventually, the training program came to end. It was over. Fin. Time to go home. There was nothing more to say, the trainers had done their job and now it was time for us to all hug each other, say good-bye, wish each other well and go out into life a TRANSFORMED est graduate!

There was one minor problem, however. Perhaps 1 out of 5 students in the training program apparently didn’t “get it.” According to them, they had not been transformed.

Jaws hung in disbelief. Some cried. A few grew angry and started yelling, demanding that they too receive their “transformation.” After all, they had paid for it. Others bellowed about wasting “all that money.” One or two threatened a lawsuit. I even recall one grown woman standing, sobbing uncontrollably, and demanding like a young girl “I didn’t get my ‘it!’ Give it to me! I want my ‘it!’ I want my ‘it!’” These people could not accept that the seminar training was the seminar training and their experience of “it” was “it” – just like in life.

After some time, however, they all came to accept – begrudgingly – that the seminar training program had come to an end and that there was nothing more to it. However, most eventually came to positively realize “it” – perhaps a day or two later – as they excitedly claimed at the final post-training Wednesday evening re-cap meeting. The remainder who still didn’t “get it,” which perhaps numbered less than five individuals, were at least no longer seething in anger, but they still felt that they had been “ripped off.” In life, there will always be that percentage who feels that they have been “ripped off.”

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Doing the est Seminar Training was one of the best things I have done in my life and my experience of attending that program – with 12 great friends – remains a life highlight. There was immense value in that program, more than I can actually remember, but it left its mark: the way we choose to think about and experience the people, circumstances and events of our life is what defines our life. Think about it. It’s true. And, this really is “it.” This is Life, the real show . . . “it ain’t no dress rehearsal.”

And, what’s more important is this: at every moment, we have the ability and freedom (known as “free will”) to CHOOSE how we experience life. Nobody decides our experience, unless, of course, we choose to voluntarily give them that control (victim consciousness). That, my friends, is the Real Power of TRANSFORMATION.

Little did I know at that time, or even in the years immediately following, that the est Seminar Training is what opened the door to my current passion with personal development, self improvement, personal growth and Success. I became a student of Life and continue to attend class. Am I a Master? Not even close! But, at least I know enough to know that I don’t know enough and that I need to attend class the rest of my life and work at it if I want to continue to progress forward. I have much to learn. Much.

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A bit about Werner Erhard

Werner Erhard introduced the breakthrough notion of “transformation” to the American public. His thinking gave rise to the idea that people could transform their lives in a short time, yielding powerful and long-lasting results. In 1971, he created The est Training and formed the company Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. Attended by approximately a million people, est was an extremely popular personal^, growth seminar.

Erhard co-founded independent, non-profit charitable enterprises, including the Breakthrough Foundation, the Hunger Project, the Holiday Project, the Werner Erhard Foundation, and the Education Network. He lectured for a wide variety of prestigious institutions and professional associations around the world, including Stanford University and the American Psychiatric Association.

Erhard Quotes

Create your future from your future, not your past.
You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference—to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work.
Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn’t, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn’t, is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self Expression is a function of responsibility.
You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.

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Well, this is certainly not our usual type of Success Key post; this one is a true personal story. Thank you for allowing me to share it with you (no pun intended; for those of you who did take the est seminar training, you may well remember the oft-repeated statement used throughout the training: "thank you for sharing that with us.").

Until next time, my Friends, many Blessings, Peace - and Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Everyone loves Ben. How can you not? With humor and cleverness, he has a quip for almost every circumstance - so many, in fact, that most probably are not even aware that Ben is the source of many of his proverbs that are still in common use today. Moreover, Benjamin Franklin is the person that the U.S. government selected long ago to grace its most notable currency: the coveted $100 dollar bill.

I would love to hang out with Ben Franklin and pick his brain for pearls of wisdom (and, of course, humor). I think it would be a blast to sit with him in a colonial pub and quaff down a few Sams.

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Success Key: S.M.A.R.T Goal Achievement Method – Part 3

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Thomas Edison tested more than 6,000 materials in his quest to find a workable filament for an incandescent light bulb before “succeeding” with one that worked! After Edison had “failed” more than 1,000 times, when he was asked about it, he purportedly said, “I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb.” Whether or not Edison actually made this statement is irrelevant. What is relevant is the point that failure occurs not with unsuccessful attempts no matter how many; failure occurs when one abandons the cause and quits.

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Success Key: S.M.A.R.T Goal Achievement Method – Part 3: MEASURABILITY (continued)

In our last post, we examined the “M” element – MEASURABILITY – of the SMART Goal Achievement Method. Today, we are going to continue the discussion of Measurability, as this step in the process is highly critical in being able to take responsive and decisive Action towards achieving the desired Goal.

As a quick refresher, Measurability means:

Being capable of measuring your progress as you work towards your Goal (i.e., your Goal must be Specific enough – the “S” – so that at any point in time anyone may objectively determine whether or not the Goal has been achieved),
Implementing a system capable of periodically measuring your progress towards your Goal,
Effectively using your system of measuring your progress towards your Goal, thereby collecting valuable information as to your progress and, if you are not progressing towards the Goal, WHY NOT, and
In response to the information collected through your progress measuring system, taking appropriate remedial or corrective ACTION (or, as Anthony Robbins would say, “MASSIVE ACTION”) that will bring you closer to achieving your Goal, with the ACTION comprising both speed/efficiency and/or direction towards the Goal.

Monitoring and evaluating progress feedback is absolutely necessary if you are to reach your Goal, no matter how simple or how sophisticated (or grand) your Goal may be. Whether your realize it or not, you likely engage in such a process – called “cybernetics” by Maxwell Maltz all of the time in common daily life. It is one of the processes that separates human life from lower animal life, as it involves the use of our higher intellectual faculties; yet, it often works on a subconscious level. (This is a subject for a whole separate post, perhaps several posts!)

Let’s look at a few examples of a Progress Monitoring System in action.

Consider a commercial airline flying non-stop from New York to San Francisco (an example used extensively by Anthony Robbins, so I cannot take credit). I don’t know the precise figures, but for about 99% of the flight, the aircraft is technically, but actually, “off course.” Flying around thunderstorms, avoiding turbulence, being buffeted by a strong head jet stream, heavy air traffic, etc. all influence the flight path. Even with no obstacles, such as storms, traffic, etc., the craft constantly veers off course. As a result, the craft’s onboard computers are continuously monitoring its path and redirecting it back in the proper direction. This process continues throughout the entire flight; in fact, the only time that we know for sure that the craft is precisely on target is when its landing gear make contact with the landing strip.

Also consider a water craft, such as a 21-foot boat, in a 3 foot chop heading towards a landmark tower 3 miles distance. If you have piloted a boat in such conditions, you know exactly to what I am referring. The medium in which the craft travels is water: fluid and highly dynamic. Moreover, there are the strong influences of wind, wave, current and tidal forces. It is nearly impossible to keep the boat pointed directly at the landmark; the landmark is an ever moving target. In response to your internal progress measurement system, one must take the appropriate remedial action by turning the wheel – in almost constant fashion – back and forth to keep the boat moving in an overall proper general direction.

These are simple examples, but they do make the point.

Thomas Edison's First Incandescent Light Bulb - More than 6,000 attempts until he made a filament that worked.

Let’s look at an example that is perhaps a little more meaningful: Thomas Edison’s quest to find a workable filament for his incandescent light bulb idea. Edison tested more than 6,000 materials for his filament before “succeeding” with one that worked! Which raises THREE significant points:

First, how many people would have “quit” after 100 attempts? Or, perhaps 500 attempts? Or, 1,000? 2,000? How many would have continued testing materials until they reached their Goal of a working filament capable of lasting over time and providing maximum luminosity? I would guess that out of the entire world at that time, there was only one and his name was Thomas Alva Edison.

Second, do you think Edison would have stopped at 6,500 if he had not found the right filament? Or, that he would have stopped at 7,000 test materials? 10,000? We know the answer: he would have NEVER stopped until he reached his Goal! He was 100% committed and abandoned all avenues of escape! He HAD to Succeed – and, he KNEW he would!

Third, consider the nature and extent of Edison’s Goal Progress Measurement System. Now, I haven’t read his lab notebooks, but I have a pretty good feeling that this genius was highly methodical in his approach to attaining Success and inventing the world’s first workable incandescent light bulb. I think everyone would agree that he didn’t engage in this process in a willy-nilly fashion by haphazardly testing materials without regard to results from past tests. Edison MUST have utilized a sound progress system to zero in what would eventually prove to be the right material for his filament. Had he not measured his progress and analyzed his results is to suggest that Edison employed some random lottery system. Had that been his system, it is doubtful as to whether Edison ever would have attained Success in his quest to invent the light bulb.

As an aside, the following quote is attributable to Edison with regard to his quest to invent the world’s first working incandescent light bulb. The story goes that after Edison had “failed” more than 1,000 times in attempting to find a working filament for his light bulb idea, when he was asked about it, he purportedly said, “I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb.” [For more on Edison and his amazing quest to invent the light bulb, Click Here for the Franklin Institute].

Whether or not Edison actually made this statement is irrelevant. What is relevant is the point that failure occurs not with unsuccessful attempts no matter how many; failure occurs when one abandons the cause and quits. That is true definition of “failure.”

What can be gained from this discussion on Measurability is this: The ability to measure your progress towards a Goal is what leads to Success. If you cannot – or do not – monitor, measure and evaluate your progress AND take corrective, remedial ACTION as required, you will not Succeed and achieve your Goal. Measurability is that important.

One final, important note worth mentioning. There is a difference between proper Goal progress measurement and obsessive pulse-taking that provides so much information as to render it meaningless. This can be a TRAP, as the means become the ends – the monitoring becomes your Action.

Consider that you have just been diagnosed with high blood pressure and it is your doctor’s professional opinion that medication is not warranted, and thus, she places you on a strict regimen of diet and exercise. You vow to start that very day on your quest to lower your blood pressure (good). But, you also implement a Goal Progress Measurement System of monitoring your blood pressure by taking it every ½ hour (not good).

While monitoring your BP is absolutely necessary for many reasons – including as your Goal Progress Measurement System – the sheer volume of data accumulated by taking your BP every ½ hour will render that information meaningless. You need to implement your doctor’s orders and see what happens over time in order to properly evaluate the effectiveness of the plan. Perhaps it will work, perhaps more is required. But, time is required to properly evaluate the plan’s effectiveness. Indeed, such obsessive monitoring may actually work against you!

The importance of the Measurability factor in Goal Achievement cannot be overstated. While all of the SMART elements are important and interdependent on each other, Measurability is that element that provides the critical information to make the right decisions as you work towards your Goal. Without it, you would simply proceed on an inflexible, rigid path – and if that path leads in the wrong direction, you will never reach the Goal. If you’re like the aircraft or the boat discussed in the examples, you will be off-course 99% of the time, so the ability to make decisions to correct your path is 100% mission critical to Success.

In our next part of this series, we will examine the “A” – ACHEIVABLE.

Until next time, Peace my Friend, and - Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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