Three Genuine Traits That Guarantee Success
PERSPECTIVE
Tom McFie
Poverty is not something you’d put on your bucket list. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find anybody who plans to be poor. Yet today, nearly “one out of four Americans has a negative net worth,”i and doctors just leaving school with $250,000 to $450,000 of student loan debt comprise a significant percentage of these “poor” Americans.
Does having a negative net worth mean your doom is sealed and that you’ll never become successful? Well, only if you believe in fate because success is a measure of value not money. That value is what others place on what you have and are willing to give or exchange for something they want or need.
So becoming successful means you have to build value. To build something of value, you have to begin with yourself.
1. Refuse to compromise.
a. Never say or do something you believe is dishonest. Leam to tolerate others, but never compromise, and don’t hang with people who are not truthful and forthright. In
doing so, you’ll build the value of being reliable—a trait that everybody desires.
2. Money matters.
a. Pay your bills on time and be extremely careful to be honest with other people, especially in regards to their money, and you’ll create the value of being trustworthy. Trust is also a trait that everybody desires.
3. Always keep your commitments.
a. This might mean that you need to leam to say “no” in order to afford to say “yes.” No matter the circumstances, keep your promises and you will create the value of being honest. Honesty is not as common as it should be. People recognize when you ai e honest and tell others about you.
b. It is easy to make promises, but much harder to keep them. Just look around at the many broken promises in your life. From politics to business, from relationships to even yourself, broken promises have all too often prevented you from accomplishing what you could have done had you kept the promise.
Building success in your life is similar to building muscle. You have to endure in order to develop. As you develop more reliability, trustworthiness, and honesty, then others will be attracted to you because constancy, candidness, and credibility are desirable qualities everybody is looking for in life. That attraction is the key to building the success you crave. Amazingly, money often comes along with such success because money is simply a certificate of appreciation shared with you because of what you have provided to others.
The preparatory point and guaranteed perpetuation of
success is:
1. Pinpoint specific men and women you identify with because of their values. Read their stories, listen to their presentations, and think about how you can adopt their lessons learned.
2. Review your relationships regularly. Spend less time with people who don’t share your underlying values and more time with those who do.
3. Guard your words. Keep your promises and don’t waste your words or time with those who don’t value them.
You only have one life to live and nobody desires for it to be a life of poverty. Live your life with the passion to be all that you can be with all that you have, so that you can help all that you can, and you will have all that you need and want. That is what success is all about.
References:
1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/12/14/six-waltonshave-more-wealth-than-the-bottom-30-of-americans/
Dr. Tom McFie is a chiropractor of 29 years. Fie is the author of two books Prescription For Wealth and Winning Your Financial GAME, the founder of The Perpetual Wealth Code™. And he has become known as The Man That Beat The Bankers.
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