Thursday, March 01, 2007

30 Ways To Fail

From a book i am currently reading:

1.Unfavourable hereditary background: - There is but little, if anything which can be done for people who are born with a deficiency in brain power. This is the only one of the 30 causes of failure which may be not be easily corrected by any individual.

2. Lack of a well-defined purpose in life: - There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a definite goal at which to aim. 98% of ppl had no such aim.

3. Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity : - We offer no hope for the person who is so indifferent as not to want to get ahead in life, and who is not willing to pay the price.

4. Insufficient education: - This is a handicap which may be overcome with comparative ease. Experience has proven that the best-educated ppl are often those who are known as "self-made" or self-educated. It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated in one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others. Education consists not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied. Men are paid not merely for what they know, but more particularly for wat they do with that which they know.

5. Lack of self-discipline: - Discipline comes through self-control. Self-mastery is the hardest job one will ever tackle.

6. Ill health:- No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.

7. Unfavourable environmental influences during childhood

8. Procrastination

9. Lack of persistence

10. Negative personality: - There is no hope of success for the person who repels people through a negative personality. Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.

11. Lack of controlled sexual urges: - Sexual energy is the most powerful of all stimuli which move people into action. Bcos it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled thru transmutation and converted into other channels. (tis part i seriously dun get it sia.)

12. Uncontrolled desire for something for nothing

13. Lack of a well defined power of decision: - the twin of procrastination. Kill off this pair before they completely hog-tie you to the treadmill of failure.

14. One or more of the 6 basic fears: - poverty, criticism, ill health,lost love, old age and death.

15. Wrong selection of a mate in marriage: - This is the most common cause of failure. The rlsp of marriage brings ppl intimately into contact. Unless this rlsp is harmonious, failure is likely to follow. It will be a form of failure marked by misery and unhappiness, destroying all signs of ambition.

16. Overcaution: - the person who takes no changes generally has to take watever is left when others are through choosing.

17. Wrong selection of associates in business

18. Supersitition and prejudice

19. Wrong selection of vocation

20. Lack of concentration of effort: - The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

21. The habit of indiscriminate spending

22. Lack of enthusiasm

23. Intolerance

24. Intemperance

25. Inability to cooperate with others

26. Possession of power that was not acquired through self-effort

27. Intentional dishonesty

28. Egotism and vanity

29. Guessing instead of thinking

30. Lack of capital

The list is non-exhaustive. Are you destined for success or failure then... u decide.

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