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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Success With Ease

Introduction to Success With Ease:
"I’m lazy. I admit it. For years, it was one of the things that kept me from succeeding in life — after all, you’ve got to work really hard to succeed, right? That’s certainly what I was told, and certainly what I believed.

We call it a work ethic: It’s good to work, right? It’s good for the soul. It builds character. And hard work creates success. But I had a problem with that, if I was really honest with myself, because I didn’t want to work all that hard.


Given the choice between a day when I have to set the alarm clock and get up early and shower and shave and go to work and a day when I can laze in bed for as long as I want and then do whatever I feel like, I’ll take that second option every time.

I’ve never been a “morning person.” It takes me three or four hours to get going, and some days, to be really honest, I never get going at all. Some days I do very little. I’ve always been that way, since childhood.

“But look at the books you’ve written,” people have said to me. “And the music you’ve recorded. And you run a publishing company. You can’t be lazy and do all that.”

Oh yes you can, I say. All it takes to write a book (or record music, or run a publishing company) is persistence.

You can be lazy and still be persistent — and once you learn how to do that, you can accomplish a great deal.

...maybe it’s my one unique contribution to the world — but I have to add this:

You can succeed in an easy and relaxed manner.

You don’t have to be a Type A workaholic to succeed.


Success With Ease

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If I can go from poverty to gratifying success, so can you. I don’t have any special tools that you don’t have.

We all have all the tools we need to succeed in life. It’s just a matter of focusing our creative minds in the right direction.

I knew how important it was to do what I loved.

I knew that in some way, if I went for my dreams, it would all work out somehow.

I asked myself a question I had rarely asked before. A simple and important question: What do I want to do with the rest of my life?

A single simple phrase can turn your thinking around, and change the course of your thoughts and the course of your life.

This is the visionary phrase that changed my thinking and my life: Within every adversity are equal or greater benefits. Within every problem is an opportunity.
Even in the knocks of life we can find great gifts. Opportunities are everywhere.
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