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Never To Late To be Great

I think you will like this; my friend TomButler-Bowdon’s latest book is a sensible and encouraging treatise on how frequently people find success late in life. Patience!

In fact forty and above seems to be best age. This brand new book contains many surprising revelations about the rocky road to greatness. Click Never To Late To be Great to read more.

I’d noticed more and more people seemed to be jogging but it had never attracted me I just it thought dull. Then I read that people suffering from trauma turned to running. Running is such a demanding activity that your mind is diverted from useless self-chatter and you can interrupt depressive thought patterns. You get a further boost to your mental well being when your physical condition improves, when your clothes fit properly again, when you get less tired at work and finally you sleep better.

This is called a virtuous circle I blog my running progress here “Run for Your Life”

Your favorite sports star at the top of his game suddenly announces that he no longer wishes to play football because he wants to concentrate on painting. The paintings are OK but you know he was put on earth to kick ball. You will know of other examples. However it also happens to ordinary Joes as well, the Salesman who having been number one suddenly quits his job to start breeding chickens.

Many quit the race with the winning posts in sight. I know because it happenned to me, although I didn’t realize it for a long time.

Be therefore aware of the pyxchological difficulty of getting over the finishing line, be prepared for the final effort and be aware of all the distractions internal and external that will try to impede.

So to summarize grab your best opportunity and never it go!

I hope anyway

A training course organizer was astonished to see some of his best former students reappear on his course. When asked why they said they had so enjoyed the course and wanted to learn even more. Well the trainer was flattered but in his mind he was screaming “You already know enough go out there and do it”.

So do you already know enough to start your dream project? Doctor Johnson the English dictionary writer and wit said “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome”. The same could be said if you wait until you have every single skill.

I recently realized that I too already have sufficient knowledge but was hovering on the edge of the pool unwilling to enter. Worse than that I was waiting for success to come and meet me half-way! No I have to bolder than that, so this is my mantra “I know what I have to do; namely post more articles more frequently to the web so that is what I must do, never looking back or up to see how well it is working, and I do this persistently success will come, that I know”

We read so often that we must never give up, never abandon our goal, must try and try again. While that’s true in many situations what happens if are forced to recognize that opening a surf board store in Death Valley or an Ice Making Plant in Anchorage is never going to work out. If we forget the fact we should have researched our business better in the first place we have to admit that there are times we have to change direction or abandon ship. Have you ever taken a wrong turn on the road and been to stubborn to turn around again and just hoped for the best? If our scheme is bound to fail for reasons outside our control then it is best that we take immediate action. An example of successfully changing direction is dreaming of opening a flower shop but you ended up selling baskets to flower shops.

So what is the difference well you will know in your heart whether you giving up because you are fatigued or discouraged or whether you have recognized that there is a fundamental flaw in your plan.

If you do recognize that your scheme is doomed then it is important to quickly take action and not like the stubborn driver keep driving down the same road hoping for the best or that there’ll be another turning.

Hey have you already forgotten how difficult it seemed to control pedals, the shift stick, look in mirrors all at the same time? Do you remember a family member (Dad?) or instructor shouting at you? And then there was reversing, learning all the signs and rules it just seemed impossible. And now you drive totally automatically your feet, hands, eyes coordinating apparently without your conscious intervention. But do you give yourself any credit for this? unlikely, once we are good at something we tend to discount it!

So next time you are about to decide that you’ll never master some task or skill, remember how you learned to drive and battle on. It really is true that we are all capable of so much more that we have undiscovered abilities, but what was the key to your driving success — YOU COULDN’T GIVE UP — you needed it for your job and social life.

So next time you want to scream and shout and give up remember but I learned to drive I’m a Genius!!

Tom has dedicated his career to raising the status of the Self Help, Self Improvement and Motivational Fields. He has for the first time cataloged, reviewed and summarized the top fifty books on each of these sectors and made these available in his famous 50 Classic book series. These allow to select which of the well known works from Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
to Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward
by Horatio Alger which dates from 1867 are pertinent to your success requirements.

Could Self Improvement one day be taught in Colleges and Universities with respected Professors and proven research, measures of effectiveness, peer reviewed papers Tom certainly hopes so and if so could it help more of us fulfill our potential? You can see a selection of Tom’s books here Tom Butler-Bowdon’s 50 Classic Series .

The movie “The Social Network” which is about the birth of Facebook starts off by showing how Mark Zuckerberg built a simple site allowing students to compare and rate the photos of fellow students on a basis of hot or not. He got into all sorts of trouble over this. This idea however was the kernel of Facebook. Now it will probably forever be argued about how much the Winkelvoss twins were involved or contributed but that is not the intention of this Post.

What impressed me was once that Mark Zuckerberg got his idea he went into hibernation, programming day and night until he launched the prototype Facebook, he didn’t go out partying, he wasn’t training for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race like the Winklevoss’s he probably didn’t attend lectures or help out cleaning the communal areas. No he just caught the wave at its peak and rode it and history was made. When you get your big chance will you be as single-minded, as ruthless, as indifferent to what people think about you; big question eh?

Achieving success can be like climbing a hill where every time you think you’ve reached the top you find there is yet another ridge ahead. It is very discouraging because it’s hard to tell how far you’ve got to go and worse how far you’ve come. That’s not much different from trying to estimate how much you’ve improved , you may seem to have made no progress at all. The trick is to keep a Success Diary and record your Notches , first time you spoke in public, You competed first chapter of your book, you went to the gym every night for a week, you made your first sale, you made that difficult phone call. Read your Success Diary now and again to see how far you’ve come.