How To Create Your Wealth Empire From Scratch

Decide to be Rich and Successful!

Many great minds that would have been successful in life have sadly ended up dying with their gifts. They never become successful. They never had it big. They were never recognized, honored and celebrated. No, not before they died. This is because people value and honor you for what you do or did with your gifts, talents and not for how many talents you've got but never used.

This means a talented man can die a wretched man if he fails to put those talents and gifts to work and translate them into personal success.

One key enemy of success in life is procrastination. Procastinators never achieve much in life. It's not that they don't have the talents, the gifts, the abilities. It's not that they don't desire to be successful in life. But that they never come to a definite decision to be really successful in life. They just keep postponing making important decisions in their lives. And as the old saying goes "time waits for no man" they eventually run out of time. It is so difficult to redeem back lost time. That is why it is very important to make the right decision at the right time. Once a definite decision has been reached the others begin to fall into place as well. We become more sensitive and committed to the responsibilities that lie ahead of us.

It is one thing to desire success yet another thing to actually and definitely decide to be successful. Reaching that definite decision is as important as in initially desiring to be successful.

A definite decision to succeed goes hand in hand with the desire to succeed in life. A definite decision convinces you it is no-retreat-no- surrender. You've made the decision and it stays that way. And you are going to keep doing all it takes to reach that end.

Yes, this is true because a decision is a choice or judgment that you make after thinking and /or talking about what is the best thing to do with regards to a definite, specific situation.

Everybody desires success but not everybody goes that extra mile of making a definite decision they can live up to and benefit from immensely. Until you really, sincerely decide to be successful in life, in your discipline, you would only remain like a log floating atop a river driven anywhere the current leads.

A definite decision is like an honest vow. You cannot afford to turn your back against it. The consequences of your turning away from it will be gruesome. And you don't what that to happen to you. No, you only want the best things of life and not the worst things, so you hold on to your vow, you remain bound by it from the moment you made that vow - that definite decision to be successful in life.

And because you are bound by it, it becomes a life-lasting and life-changing decision. And the reward for making a decision like this - to be successful, is becoming successful indeed, eventually.

A popular anonymous saying go - "Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent" How true is this saying. When you properly examine many unsuccessful people, you get to discover there are wells of 'success-creating-talents' buried deep within them.

The problem could only be their inability of making a definite decision - one as strong as a vow, a covenant, that could spur them on to harnessing all other secrets of success, such as exposed in this book in other for them to eventually become successful. Without such definite decision made in your life, before it is too late, I am afraid procrastination and fear will only end up swallowing up your talents and make a mockery out of your life.

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5 Hard Truths That Are Actually Quite Liberating

We humans believe in self-improvement. God bless us, we do. We believe in better, faster, thinner. We believe in six-pack abs. We believe in firm and tight. We believe in younger. We believe in living life to the fullest. We believe the sky’s the limit. We believe there’s nothing we can’t do if we put our minds to it.

We believe in second and third chances. We believe in as many chances as the world will give us. We believe in picking ourselves up and dusting ourselves off. We believe in getting right back on that horse. We don’t give up. We read books and blog posts (like this one) and attend retreats and seminars that teach us how to succeed, how to live longer, how to find our true selves, how to meditate, how to put down our phones and be more mindful.

God bless us, we try. And we try.

As a writer, I fail way more than I succeed. And as a human, failure is a given. We fail ourselves and those we love in ways large and small. Our bodies, in the end, fail us.

But we keep trying. There’s something admirable about that. And, to be honest, a little heartbreaking. We poor humans are never quite enough for ourselves.

I know whereof I speak. I’m a born striver. I’ve spent most of my life trying to do better. Which means that I’ve spent most of my life not feeling quite good enough. Over the years I’ve amassed an impressive collection of self-help books. Because I’m a fiction writer whose shelves are filled with books by the likes of Virginia Woolf and Alice Munro, I’ve always been a little bashful about letting others know that I own so many self-help books and that I’ve found some of them, well, helpful. I’ve always kept them in boxes in my basement where no one could see them.

A few weeks ago, when my family moved, I had the opportunity to go through these boxes. All those self-help books told the story of a man who has spent years trying to improve himself, a man who is perhaps wiser and more peaceful in some ways, but still struggles with the same challenges and demons that led him to self-help books in the first place.

As I write this, I am sitting in my new house. My bookshelves are filled with hundreds of books, but way up high in a corner one shelf is reserved for the self-help books I decided to keep—a total of 12 (I just counted). I must have thrown away three times as many.

Lately, I’ve been trying hard not to try so hard. Which, of course, is an oxymoron. So perhaps a better way to put it is this: I’ve been trying my best to accept what is. I’ve discovered that when I’m able to accept reality, when what is is enough, an enormous weight lifts from my shoulders and I’m as close to free as I ever feel.

I know, I know, I’m still preaching self-improvement, but I see it as a different kind—a radical and mindful acceptance of reality.

The following five doses of reality may sound negative, but the catch is, they’re not; they’re actually liberating.

1. You may not be as talented as you think you are or would like to be.

Some days it seems that everyone in the world is writing a book or making a film or recording an album or trying to make it as an actor. And that’s fine. The practice of being creative is incredibly meaningful and rewarding. But not everyone has the talent to be successful to the same degree. And that’s okay.

2. You will fail more often than you succeed.

It’s important to set goals and to try our best. But success is not given. The process is really what matters. There is honor and even beauty in failure.

You may try and try and still never achieve the goals you set out to achieve. And that’s okay.

3. You are special, but not in the way you would like to think you are.

So many of us need to feel special. We want to feel important. We want to be admired and loved. It’s part of the reason why so many people want to be famous.

Every human life is singular and important, but no human life is more special than any other. Not even yours. And that’s okay.

4. Most of what happens in life is beyond your control.

You can try to plan your life, but your life has its own plans. We tend to fight against life’s detours even though they often end up being precisely what we need. Anything can happen to you at any time. And that’s okay.

5. Everything changes.

This is something we know on many levels, but perhaps not on the most important level. Nothing is permanent; everything passes; everything lives and dies. Even those you love most. Even you. It can be freeing to accept this difficult but unavoidable truth.

Only by imagining the alternative—a life in which nothing changes and everyone lives forever—are we able to see that change is what makes life precious. And that despite even this truth, it will be okay.

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