Success According to Earl Nightingale

Earl Nightingale was one of the first self-improvement guys from the mid-1900s. Watched a video of him today. I like his definition of success…

Here’s some of Earl Nightingale’s wise advice:

What is success?

The progressive realization of a worthy ideal.  Any person who knows who he is and where he’s going is a success.   He knows why he’s getting up in the morning.

Why isn’t everyone successful?

Rule of thumb

Whatever the great majority is doing under any circumstance… if you do the OPPOSITE you’ll probably never make another mistake as long as you live.

Most people are playing the most unrewarding game.  The game is called “Following the follower”.

Ask yourself the question:

Are the people I’m following going where I wanna go?

We talk, look and act like the people in my environment.  The people I spend the most time with.

Use a story to explain someone doing this.  Walk people through a real-life example.

ESCAPE BOX

Talk about the TV as the “Escape Box”.

What’s the Problem?

The tragedy is when people live this way, not by decision.  When they live this way because they’re just humming along like everyone else.

GOAL

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.  Otherwise, we live life like a starfish or an ameba.

A man needs his life in the deep roots of his own decision

ATTITUDE

Some animals were given the ability to change themselves to blend into the environment.

Man has even greater power.  Man can change the environment

THINK

The only thing that makes a man a man.  Is his ability to think.  This is what separates us from animals.

TRUTH

If we’re not living by truth… we’re building on sand.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

How much money and time do you invest in developing yourself, your family, your team, your products, and services.

STRANGEST SECRET

You become what you think about most of the time.

You only get one life.  Be picky about who you choose to follow.

Do your work.  Put your heart into it.  Rewards will come not from our leisure, but from our WORK.

If you don’t know who you are and why you do what you do… you’re like a rudderless ship drifting at sea.