Six Secrets to Success in Life, Love and Leisure

Even when something out of your control happens knocking you off your feet. You can choose to wallow in your self pity or you can choose to react in a positive manner. Often, a positive attitude in the face of adversity does more to advance our cause than any single thing. Is this easy. Hell no. See number 3.

Life is Hard

Life, in general, is a bitch. Are you surprised? Here’s the hard part. Life is hard most of the time. The funny part is, once you realize this, accept it and quit thinking everything should be easier… everything gets easier. It’s just human nature. You quit banging your head against the brick wall because it’s not supposed to be there… and you go around it. The next brick wall you come to perhaps you’ll go around it before banging your head at all.

Work is Play

This is one way of saying, if you don’t love the work you are doing then everything else in your life is going to be more difficult. Do something else, and don’t tell me you can’t make the same kind of money. First of all, so what. Secondly, why not. Lastly, what is more important. Besides, if you hate what you are doing, there is a pretty darn good chance you are NOT going to be successful at it in the long haul anyway.

There is no such thing as a failure

There are only results. Failure is an attitude nothing more. Failure is a crappy result that helps you learn how to achieve a better result. Really, this is just another way to say… don’t ever give up. Don’t Ever give up.

To Get What you Want, Help as Many People as you can get What They Want

To me this is the most important thing. Helping people somehow comes back to you tenfold. If your focus is on the needs of others, your decisions are usually more pure and productive… after all we are much better at knowing how to help someone else than we are at choosing how to help ourselves.

No magic in this list. But the combination of these things I’ve found to be extremely powerful. I don’t believe this list applies to just your job or career. I think it works as well and sometimes even better when applied toward relationships, goals, stamp collecting, computer games or any other damn thing you choose. Will these things work for anyone? I have absolutely no doubt that they will. Like anything though, it takes commitment and focus. If you wish to make changes in your life, this is an excellent place to start,and possibly finish.