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21 Things All Successful People I have Met In My Lifetime Have In Common
By George F. Kettle
#1 Attitude - The most important word as far as the results we get out of life is concerned
#2 Have goals - You cannot play a football game without a plan, so you must have a plan for your life
#3 Successful people are proactive - They do not wait for things to happen, they make things happen
#4 Successful people do what their competitors are either incapable or unwilling to do
#5 Successful people are follow – up Kings
#6 Successful people see their customers needs through customers eyes, not their own!
#7 Winners look and act like winners
#8 In order to be great at anything you do, Bob Richards says:
i) work on your weaknesses
ii) love what you are doing
iii) concentrate
iv) put the power of God in your life
#9 Successful people are creative – looking for ways to do old things in a new way
#10 Successful people ask questions – he who asks the question is in control!
#11 Successful people sell the sizzle – not the steak
#12 Successful people point out the “you” benefits to prospective clients
#13 Successful people are enthusiastic. Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without enthusiasm
#14 Successful people help others succeed
#15 Successful people are fanatics about being on time
#16 Successful people keep their commitments
#17 Successful people think positively
#18 Successful people are willing to take a risk
#19 Successful people are persistent
#20 Successful people give others credit for their success. I never heard anyone say “I did it all by myself”
#21 Successful people are organized 6 to 6th power
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Prior
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Prevents
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To my blog readers, my dear father passed away on April 15. I share with you the words of a speech he gave many times in the course of his lifetime. I have heard it many times and was always inspired by it. So, I wanted to share it with you in his memory. May he inspire you to the greatness you desire to achieve, in whatever your calling may be!–Kimberly
Love your blog, by the way. What a great, centralized resource for all real food and local farm info.
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My condolences. From this list, he sounds like a man full of love, life and action.
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I am so sorry for your loss. He sounds like a very wise man.
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I’m sorry for your loss, but it sounds like he left you a legacy of wisdom.
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I would like to offer my condolences on your father’s passing, but I want to make sure that the strength of my emotion and attachment is clear. I am not exactly sure how to do that, except to make the following comment…
The very best men I have ever known have one thing in common: Their private selves and public selves seem to come together as time goes on. They come to represent their most private beliefs in a manner which is courageously public. They grow towards moral consistency, and their spiritual motives reach deeper and deeper into their surroundings. They start to make history because they cultivate an integral strength which can’t be unraveled by troubles. Eternity has a foothold in this kind of biography, and it is amazing what happens when strong men spiritually outpace that vanity which corrupts most strong men. Men like this are just different, and it hardly suffices to say that they are Christian. Rather they are strongly Christian, and their community makes death inconsequential. They live on, in Jesus, and they continue to act in His name from afar.
Your father was this kind of man, as was mine. I appreciate your loss, but I also understand — years after the death of my own father — that the intimacy endures and flourishes. I hope you will experience this fact, as I have, in the approaching years.
-Don