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SUCCESS
-- By Keith Phillips
Enemies of
Know your nemeses
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until we identify and understand the attit
and conditions that threaten our success
ay's armies of life coaches and business gur
n seem to build their strategies on a fundameadvice from the 6th-century BC Chinese ge
Sun Tzu in his treatise, The Art of War
"Know your enemy."
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Lack of a clear goal:
hat often leads to failure," says entrepreneu
and consultant Joseph Ansanelli,
"is [the absence of] a well understood,small set of very important goals."
"If you don't know
where you're going,you'll wind up
somewhere else."
Yogi Berra
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Lack of a plan:
t's okay to dream of building castles in the air
t they won't become realities without a realist
step-by-step plan for putting them there.
"He who fails
to plan,
plans to fail."
Author unknown
we have space stations, but they didn't just h
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Lack of focus:
arious things can contribute to lack of focus,
luding low motivation, a poor work environme
r being distracted by matters of lesser priorit
ne reason so few of us achieve
what we truly want is that we
never direct our focus;
e never concentrate our power.
eo le dabble their wa throu h life."Anthony Robbins
Identify interferences and determine howto best deal with each.
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Laziness:
e a great idea and even a great plan for achi
e necessary dedication or aren't willing to pu
the idea and plan are doomed.
"Some people dream of success,
while others wake up and work hard at it."
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Rigidity:
hings undermine initiative and progress wors
ng on to the way things have been done in th
ut if you can open the doors,
maybe just a crack at first,
the ideas that have been
"A closed mind is not onlylosed to outside thoughts,
often closed to itself as well.
s closed to new thoughts andanything that threatens
the status quo.
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Lack of enthusiasm:
If an idea is like a spark,
enthusiasm is the wind
that whips it into a bonfirestrong enough to withstand
the rain of adversity.
"Success consists ofgoing from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill
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Accepting defeat:
Very often, the battle is lost in the
before the real action even begi
Expect defeat, and you are already dhope to win, and you give yourself a
"Success seems to be
argely a matter of hanging on
after others have let go."
expect to win, and you increase yourexponentially.
Even the most seemingly impossible situ
overcome if approached positively, as a
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Complacency:
eatest danger often comes when things are r
othly and the pressure is off, because the na
tendency then is to not try as hard.
ere is a very fine line between
onfidence and complacency.
Dave McGinnis
possible to coast for a while, but valuable mbe lost; if left unchecked, things will grind to
in the first game against a team,
st thing you can do is fool yourself
thinking that the second game"
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Overconfidence:
The hare and the tortoise,
iant Goliath and the boy David,e Titanic you get the picture.
"Before you attempt
to beat the odds,
be sure you could survive
the odds you're beating."Larry Kersten
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Procrastination:
The most capable people in the world,
with the best ideas in the world
and all the financial backing in the world,will get nowhere until they take action.
"There are a million waysto lose a work day,
but not even a single way
to get one back."DeMarco and Timothy Lister
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Disunity:
efforts rarely come to full fruition without reas
consensus and compatibility, so work at buil
Honest differences of viewshonest debate are not disunity.
They are the vital process
of policy making."Herbert Hoover
en opposing ideas and interests emerge, ratstumbling blocks, they can be used as stepp
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Moral compromise:
redo of some seems to be "All is fair in love,
s, and life," but what works is not always wha
ries won immorally are shallow, usually short-
uccess is more permanent
hen you achieve it without
estroying your principles."
Walter Cronkite
ften have consequences that cancel any suer a man sows, that he will also reap" (Galat
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Failure to learn from mistakes:
ictory is very often decided according to wh
has learned the most from past mistakes.
e real test is not whether you
id failure, because you won't.
t's whether you let it hardenor shame you into inaction,
r whether you learn from it;
ther you choose to persevere "
Barack Obama
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