Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Successful people everywhere have at least one thing common

"My experience with thousands of people across the globe has proven to me that successful people everywhere have at least one thing common: They never make excuses to explain why things are the way they are or complain about the way things should be. Successful people just take charge and make things happen. Of course, they don't always succeed the first time around, but winners never give up. If they stumble, they get right back in the game.

I've found that although most of us aspire to greatness, too often we settle for second place. We want to live our lives to the fullest, but so many of us end up just surviving. Most people find a comfort zone, get used to it, and before long discover that all the great things life has to offer have simply passed them by. One of the lessons I've learned is that the very first step toward achieving spectacular results in life is eliminating all of these excuses that keep us from achieving our true potential."

Mark Victor Hansen, Foreword from "Once Upon a Cow: Eliminating Excuses and Settling for Nothing but Success"