Six Secrets to Success in Life, Love and Leisure

You should have escaped while you had the chance.

The following are 6 things that I gleaned from various self help, ultimate personal and professional success guru’s and just simple ideas that I’ve learned over the years. I can pretty much guarantee that if you read them, agree with them and then forget about them, they won’t help you one little bit. I’ve already tried that method. But if you pay attention, incorporate them into your daily thoughts and actions, you will most certainly be more successful at the things you want to be successful at (isn’t that a dangling particle or electron….i was never good at grammar….or science)

The only thing you really have control over is your attitude

Try as you might, you cannot control events or circumstance with any degree of consistency. You can however choose how you will react when anything happens. It matters not how horrible your present circumstance, you have the ability to wake every morning and decide to be happy, to be positive. When something makes you sad, dammit you are sad, but at some point, usually fairly quickly, you are able to maintain rational thought, and at that point you are choosing to continue to be sad. Why not choose a different attitude.

“But TP, it’s not that easy!”

Well, how easy is it to be sad?, or mad, or petty or spiteful? Do any of those things really help? (if you answered yes,this article won’t help you.)

Choose to be happy. Choose to be aggressive. Choose to be excited. Choose to be enthusiastic. It is within your power.

Take responsibility for your life

Where ever you find yourself, in whatever situation good or bad it is the result of decisions you have made or failed to make (”if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice” you get bonus points if you can tell me what song or band that came from). If your situation sucks. It’s your fault. So what. At least now you know, and now you also know that you can decide to get yourself out.

This doesn’t mean everything is going to be wonderful right away. You still have to make good decisions. But think of the empowerment this gives to you. You can be successful simply because of the things you do. You can find love because of the decisions you make… not just picking someone, but where you hang out, the attitude you project, the activities you are involved in.