Success.....It's About YOU!

If you take your success personal and feel strongly about succeeding in your abilities. Then I have some ideas to share with you.

I believe in order to advance from one level of income or achievement to the next level of income or achievement, it takes advancing yourself.

You see, there are millions of opportunities out there to advance up the corporate ladder, make money and find the person you want to marry. There are literally “unlimited” avenues and opportunities you can pursue to advance your own success.

Do you need to find the most stellar and lucrative opportunity in order to advance to the next level? Or, do you need to advance yourself first?

I believe you must advance yourself first.

In fact, I am completely sold on the belief that you must advance yourself in order to advance your income & success.

I see it all the time. People chase opportunities. Something comes along and gets them all hot and excited about some potentially lucrative opportunity.

Then, after that excitement wears off a bit, so goes the opportunity. The stellar and lucrative opportunity falls off the desk and gets stuffed away in the “drawer of forgotten dreams”.

However, there will be another exciting opportunity yet to come. It will arrive via email, word of mouth, video, commercial or direct mail. Something else will come along and get these people excited again and again.

We get bombarded by something like 2000 advertising messages per day – or something crazy like that. It is no wonder people are running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

It does not matter how much these people ignore and delete offers that pound their inbox. Eventually, they will succumb to a flashy and shiny new opportunity offer.

Do you know why?

Well, they will succumb to an offer sometime or another because deep down inside, they still have “The Dream”. Even if that dream gets put on the shelf for a while, it always creeps back in and the excitement is back.

Then, the entire cycle starts over again. …and again …and again …and again

Time and time again, these people get excited about another opportunity and dive in! This cycle can go on for many years. 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 40 years, these cycles repeat themselves over and over. Here is a breakdown of the cycle.

Excitement over Opportunity...Effort and Enthusiasm...Disappointment & Adversity... Excitement dwindles...lack of Effort & Enthusiasm...Give up & quit...Stuff the dream away in the drawer...Refrain & ignore new opportunities...Desire creeps Back Up... Notice and Review New Opportunities. Then the cycle repeats itself.

What it takes is breaking that cycle and making changes. It is growth and it has to be a decision you make on your own. You have to make that decision consciously, spiritually, physically, emotionally and with everything you have – deep down in your guts.

Because nothing happens until you make a solid decision to change.

Why should I change you ask?

John Maxwell says: “Crisis is change trying to take place”.

It's not the opportunities, strategies, methods, avenues, or anything else that is preventing you from achieving your dreams........It is YOU.

As soon as that clicks and the realization kicks in that it is not the opportunities or methods that are keeping you from achieving your dreams, the sooner you can “change” and “grow”.

Many people desire financial freedom. It is the dream. Some achieve it and the very large majority does not. Most look for some shiny new opportunity that they can ride on their way to becoming a millionaire. It just does not work that way.

It is not the opportunity, it is the person.

In the Internet Marketing arena, I see many people who strive to achieve the dream. That dream is to work from home, make a ton of money and live a free life. It is the lifestyle these people are after.

However, most of them fail to achieve that dream. I have noticed that most of the dilemma is not the methods, strategies or opportunities.

It is the person.

So many Internet Marketers, opportunists and business people devote their time to opportunities, methods, strategies and other stuff. Of course, those are all parts of the puzzle. However, the most important part of that puzzle is you.

It would be much better, in my belief, if you focused more on yourself and developing, growing and learning. Unfortunately, most people will skip right past the development and scan for strategies and opportunities.

Others may say to themselves, I know all of this already. I know everything there is to know about personal development. Well, maybe a little more open mindedness will help you advance and make you more money.

To me, it is a solid fact. To advance and grow, you must advance and grow yourself. To make more money, be happier, healthier, more successful, etc. it is not up to the strategy or opportunity to do that… it is UP TO YOU.

Doesn’t that make sense?

You will see that this life is yours and you are in control of it.

The opportunities are abundant. There are millions of strategies, and methods. There are millions of ideas and avenues you can take. However, there is just one you. And, what you do with “YOU” will determine if you achieve your dreams or not.

"YOU are the shining star of YOUR world....may YOU shine long & brightly" Randy Ritter

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(Portions courtesy of Sean Burton and Tom Verzunno)

Success Quotes

Today I have decided to post some success quotes for you to ponder.

These are some of my favorites and I suggest that you do some research, reading and maybe create some of your own quotes to guide you on your daily journey on the "Avenues of Success".

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure. - Jim Rohn

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose." - Margaret Thatcher

"If you would be successful, first you must walk hand-in-hand and side-by-side with successful people." - Nido Qubein

"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles." - Zig Ziglar

"Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result" - Mark Victor Hansen

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." - Bobby Unser

"Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many you brought with you." - Wil Rose

"Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one ever sees or appreciates." - Brian Tracy

"Don't look to become a person of success, look instead to become a person of value." - Albert Einstein

"Anytime you see someone more successful that you are, they are doing something that you aren't." - Malcolm X

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton

"You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems." - Mark Victor Hansen

"Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built." - Jim Rohn

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals." - Jim Rohn

"Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of success." - Denis Waitley

"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work." - Harry S. Truman

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad." - Denis Waitley

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody up." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action." - Anthony Robbins

"Success is easy after you believe. But first, you must believe." - Zig Ziglar

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." Norman Vincent Peale

"The key to success is to determine your goal and then act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothea Brande

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau

"Always remember that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln

Success - "knowing the right people, being in the right place at the right time, and using the right tools" - Anthony Robbins

"Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands." - Zig Ziglar

"Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It's all available." - Jim Rohn.

"Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success." - Brian Tracy

"The combination of hard work and smart work is the formula for success." - Harvey Mackay

"Those that want to be successful will always find a way...the rest will find an excuse." Leo Aguilar

Guiding YOU on the Avenues to Success, Randy Ritter

Attitudes & Behaviors of Successful People

Today I want to talk a little about the attitudes and behaviors of successful people.

All successful people have a vision defined for their life and a clear understanding of how their work will help them create the life they want.

These individuals exhibit seven behavioral traits.

Time Management: Successful people are great time managers.

It is a behavior that allows them to protect their time, energy and yes, even their money. Since they know where they are going and what they must do, they know the people they need to meet and the actions that will take them where they want to go. They know that time is a precious commodity and there are only so many hours in a day. They use this time wisely.

Focus: Successful people are focused.

Being focused is like being a marathon runner. They continually put one foot in front of the other and know they have specific actions they must do to finish the job at hand (finish the race). They stay focused on those actions.

Discipline: Successful people are disciplined.

They do not lose sight of where they are going or how they are going to get there. They walk away from or delay activities that do not take them where they want to go. They develop routines that become habits and they are disciplined in those routines.

Persistent: Successful people are persistent.

They know where they are going and they do not quit. They may find bumps, curves and delays on the "Avenues to Success", but they find away around each obstacle. They learn from their mistakes, try again and approach obstacles from different directions until they find what works, but they do not quit.

Responsibility: Successful people are responsible.

They know their actions determine the results they get. They know they control the outcome through their behavior. If things are not working they know that they can change their behavior and move towards the desired outcome. They also know that they need others to be successful and they are quick to give credit to others as they achieve success.

Results Oriented: Successful people are results oriented.

They understand that the only thing that counts are results. They make no excuses. They know there is no such thing as trying, only doing. You get the job done or you do not.

People Oriented: Successful people are people oriented.

A common trait of successful people is that they understand their success is dependent upon how well they motivate, inspire, lead, manage, sell and communicate to others their ideas, vision, thoughts, and action.

How many of these attitudes and behaviors are you using? Honestly ask yourself if you are using all seven and, if you are not happy with the answer, put a plan in place to begin using these new behaviors.

Contact me at http://successavenues.com and let's work on YOUR plan together!

Together on the Avenues to Success,

Randy Ritter

Henry Ford Was a Failure!

He is also a shining example of his own assertion that "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

In 1928, Henry Ford set out to increase his bottom line by exerting more control over his supply chain - now called vertical integration - and began the process of creating his own rubber plantation in Brazil. There is some debate over whether his motive was strictly to achieve better pricing for the raw materials needed to make tires for the automobiles he was manufacturing; there was, at the time, a virtual monopoly on rubber coming from a limited number of producers.

He persisted in his venture through numerous difficulties, including a riot by the workers on his plantation who were not enthusiastic about being forced to adhere to the American lifestyle imposed by the management of the facility. He finally gave up in 1945 when the advent of synthetic rubber made organic rubber obsolete for manufacturing purposes. He sold the entire operation to the Brazilian government for a loss of $20 million -, which equates to $200 million in today's economy.

But Henry Ford didn't just give up and walk away. He continued to build his automotive empire into what we know today as one of the premier automobile manufacturers with a global market. He persisted, and continued to work toward his ultimate vision. His achievements are legendary, and his insight into the human condition is profound. Other quotes from his writings and interviews are:

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."

I have no doubt that Henry Ford learned some of these concepts the hard way - through experience and occasional failure - but I am equally certain that the lessons he learned and have passed on will prove to be as valuable in the present and future as they were to him in the past.

Failure is a learning tool...not an indication of worthlessness.

Success will come to those who are devoted to the idea of service, and can work together with others with the same mindset.

Developing a mindset for accomplishment and staying focused on the goal will be the greatest challenge, and the sweetest victory.

Whatever your challenges are, and despite the obstacles that life places in your path, your dreams and goals can be achieved by applying the same principles that have resulted in one of the greatest success stories of the 20th century. Use these principles on a daily basis, and your achievements will astound you!

(Portions courtesy of Bill Cox)

Together on the Avenues to Success,

Randy Ritter

Is This The Secret To Success?

I want to discuss a key that is vital in your quest to achieve your goals. Ask any successful person what was it that enabled them to reach goals and they will tell you they took action. If you do not take action on a goal or a dream it will eventually die.

Fortunately, being decisive and taking action is a skill that can be learned. Successful people do the opposite of unsuccessful people in as much as they make decisions quickly and change them slowly, if at all. Unsuccessful people make decisions slowly and change them quickly.

Unsuccessful people want everything in place BEFORE beginning on a goal achieving journey. They continually ask 'What If Something Happens?' Successful people ask 'What if it doesn't happen?

Top achievers do not wait until every 'I' is dotted and every 't' is crossed before they decide to take a course of action. Once they feel they have enough information to make a decision that is just what they do. They then use the time on their journey to modify plans, take different directions, even stop and re-consider. But they took the initial action to get going. Non-achievers procrastinate and are subject to inertia.

It was Dr. Martin Luther King who said, 'Take the first step; You do not need to see the whole staircase before you, just take the first step in faith.

You see there is no shame in failure. To successful people failure is only finding out that what they were doing needed modifying..... they learn from the experience.

I have experienced both situations, although I have always been known as a person who makes decisions quickly, charging headlong on some activities that were doomed to failure. But each time I did not succeed another lesson was learned. What I was doing was not the correct way to reach the goal I wanted. Time for analysis and modification - so what... at least I was going toward my goal not sitting hoping something would happen.

There were times in the past when I used to blame anything around me. People, events or situations for my lack of success. I always had an excuse. You know what is the wonderful thing about our minds? We cannot tell ourselves lies. Think about it. When you are looking to blame someone else for your lack of success isn't that an outside thing? Don't you just know deep inside yourself that the responsibility really lies with you?

Remember... when you point a finger there are always three fingers pointing back. There are three types of people in the world as far as I am concerned.

Those that make things happen; Those that sit back and watch what is happening and finally those that say 'What happened?'

Which group are you in?

Fortunately for me, I've learned to take responsibility for my own actions and everything that is in my life NOW is a direct result of ME bringing it into my life. Nobody else - ME!

It is amazing how little effort you need to exert to start off making things happen in your life. As you start toward your goal you attract more and more energy that drives you toward success. Getting into action helps you maintain action; it's the simple law of physics, once a body is moving it is easier and easier to keep it moving.

It's like driving a car. At first, as you press the accelerator, you move slowly. The law of physics takes over and the car moves easier and easier with less pressure on the accelerator.

Look at your goals you have written down. You have done that, right? Just take one of them and decide to take action on it NOW! Ignore the fact that you haven't planned out the finest detail, ignore the number of times your negative self tells you it cannot happen... Just DO IT! Choose a reward you will give yourself when the goal is achieved. Take action and you will quickly learn that the only way to achieve a goal is to take action in the first place.

"Successful people will always find a way....everyone else will find an excuse." Leo Aguilar

Together in Success,

Randy Ritter