Add Every Success Principle You Can to Increase Your Probability of Success.

Whatever you want, there are principles (cause & effect relationships) connected to achieving it. Life is not a matter of luck, nor is it positively in your control, but you increase your probability of success with every positive principle you can apply.

 

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Your Probability of Success Game Directions

 

Write in important principles as you learn and apply them. Remember, it is not enough to learn a principle; you must apply it before you can use the power it contains. Take all the cards of one suit from a deck of playing cards. That would give you 13 cards from Ace to King. Shuffle the cards. If you are applying one principle, then look to the right of number one. It indicates ACE. Take one card at random. Your probability of it being the ACE is 1 out of 13. If you are applying 3 principles, look to the right and above. This time when you pick a card at random, you will win if it is a THREE or above. That is a 3 out of 13 probability. You have increased your probability of success. As you continue learning and applying principles, you will continue increasing your probability of success. Now, that makes life exciting!

 

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Remove the Chains That Hold You Down.

 

Just as Marley’s ghost (in A Christmas Carol) had to drag around a long, heavy chain, we need to make sure we do not carry heavy chains that make it so much harder to rise to the achievements and life we desire.

 

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Check to Make Sure You Are Not Carrying Any of These Heavy Chains

    • Programming for Mediocrity. Settling for less.
    • Lack of Vision. No place to go.
    • Feeling What You Do Makes No Difference. No reason, then, to make genuine, full efforts.
    • Lack of Self-Discipline. You feel you have no control over what you do or don’t do.
    • Fear. (False Expectations Appearing Real)
    • Thought Viruses. Any negative, self-defeating thoughts.
    • Emotional Detours and Maze Running. Being led by emotions and reacting to them rather than living life on purpose.
    • Bad Case of Can’t. Discouragement and perceived helplessness.
    • Bad Case of Should. Energy drained due to misplaced guilt that you should be doing this or that, but really not wanting to. Determine why you don’t want to.
    • Guilt and Feelings of Unworthiness. Why should good things happen to you? You don’t deserve it, so you don’t do those things that would result in success.
    • Ignorance of the Importance of Living on Purpose. You think things just happen or that just wanting something is enough, rather than directing focused energies toward an identified purpose.
    • Lack of Knowing How to Set Goals and Create Action Plans.  You would like to, but you don’t know how.
    • Not Knowing the Next Step. You don’t know what to do next.

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Copyright 2015 Brent Evans – Learning Success

Categorize How You Spend Time

The following categories might help you budget your time.

 

A. Tasks that are Important and Urgent

Some tasks are important and urgent. They need to be done right away or significant losses may occur or immediate gains may not be achieved. A locomotive heading toward you on a railroad track represents this. You must act right away. Plan ways to have fewer urgent emergencies.

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 B. Tasks that are Important but not Urgent

There are things we can do that would make a tremendous difference in our lives now or in the future, but are often left undone because they do not have clear, immediate deadlines. Make sure these are written down, scheduled, and completed.

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C. Tasks that are Unimportant but Urgent

The trap represents time lost in activities we are influenced by others to do, but do not fit our priority values and goals.

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D. Tasks that are Unimportant and Not Urgent

The drain represents the most insidious time waster of all. This time serves no real purpose for us or anyone else.

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Remove Scrap From Your Life.

As we live our lives, we need to use our time, efforts, thoughts, experiences, and reactions to bring to pass our priority purposes for living. Anything else might well be termed scrap because it diverts us away from our purpose.

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Here is an acronym to help you avoid scrap in your own life: S.C.R.A.P.: Spurious (not coming from the right source; false) Considerations (acts of thinking in order to decide) Railing (complaining bitterly) Against (in opposition to) Purpose (object or end for which a thing is made). So, scrap is spurious considerations railing against purpose.

How Much Time Scrap Needs to be Thrown Out?

If you were given an extra ten hours each week to spend in the most valuable way possible, what would you do with it?

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By throwing away 10 hours of time scrap and then using those extra ten hours in the best way possible, what value would be added to your life and those you care about?

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How Much Expense Scrap Needs to be Eliminated?

If you were given an extra 20% in income each week, what would be the most valuable way to use it?

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If you lowered your current expenses by 20% by eliminating waste and then used that 20% in the best way possible, what value would be added to your life and those you care about?

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How Many Scrappy Thoughts Work Against You?

If you throw out 50% of the  thoughts that work against you by robbing you of your confidence or leading you into worthless negative emotions, which ones would be best to throw out?

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Copyright 2015 Brent Evans – Learning Success

Open Up Your Own Goal Mine.

Would you rather have a gold mine containing metallic yellow stuff, or a Goal Mine containing your most cherished desires?

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A Goal Mine is Better Than a Gold Mine

After you dig and find gold, you still have to find what is valuable in life, and then work out ways to somehow trade the gold for those things. A Goal Mine, however, is a more sure and direct route to true riches. When you dig and discover the goals you really want, you then have the fun and rewarding opportunity to plan for and pursue them. As the great Socrates observed:

If the Almighty held in His right hand everlasting happiness and in His left the pursuit of it, I would choose the left hand.

Determine What is Valuable

Mining for gold involves going through the ore and removing lots of common dirt and rocks to get at the precious metal. Likewise, you need to know what is most precious to you in your Goal Mine, and then get the unimportant things out of the way. Think of life as a series of ors. You could do this or that. Each or is an opportunity to choose what is most important to you. You have already identified who you are and your three most important wishes in life. It is time to identify personally important goals for each of the following areas: (1) Family  (2) Social  (3) Physical (4) Spiritual  (5) Talent/Career  (6) Financial  (7) Other.

Use the Power of the Rubber Band

To experience why identifying goals is so powerful, take a rubber band and place around the thumb of each hand. Consider one thumb to represent things as they are and the other to represent your desired goals. Stretch the rubber band between the two thumbs. Feel the tension and consider it energy for growth.

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