Saturday, August 15, 2009

Today I've just finished reading the first chapter of Success is not an Accident by Tommy Newbury. I'm already in love with this book haha. If you haven't heard of it or have never read it I suggest picking it up if you are serious about changing your life.

In the first opening pages, this was Tommy Newbury's promise to me:

If I implement the entire system laid out in this book that it will change my life forever.

So this is my test. I've decided to blog my experience. The successes and the struggles I experience as I follow the steps in the book and become the person I want to be. I guess it's more for myself, maybe this will give me a sense of accountability.

So what does success mean to me?

With some thought, I've decided that success is the pursuit of excellence in all areas of life. It is the accomplishment and/or pursuit of prayerfully chosen goals I have set to experience excellence in all areas of my life.

Over the past few months, I have realized that not knowing what you want is something I can't have in my life. I think most people just live, not really concerned about where they're going but trusting in "fate" or some sort of external power to just carry them through life and then eventually one day they'll arrive at the place they've always wanted to be.

I was always afraid to make plans or make decisions, because I thought I might choose something wrong and then I wouldn't fulfill my purpose in life. But without a plan, there is no direction. You are just floating through, never really accomplishing anything in life. Successful people know what they want. Successful people go after what they way. Successful people achieve what they want.

If you don't know what you want, you'll never have it.

I know one of the keys to finding your purpose in life is to search within you, considering your desires and your talents, and wisely allowing these things to help direct you as you map out at least a rough draft for your future. But achieving great things in life is usually associated with dreamers. Visionaries. People who knew what they wanted from childhood.

So what do you do when you're not a dreamer?? Because that is the case with me. I've never had big dreams, maybe I wasn't encouraged by my parents. But it doesn't matter about that. I can choose to start dreaming. And I will. I'll force myself to start thinking about the future, start thinking about who I want to become and what I want to do.

That's the first step to success. Deciding what you want. There's so much I want to write. Haha. Maybe I'll save that for later.

So, above all things, pursue excellence and despise mediocrity.

Goodnight.