Entrepreneurship Your Dream? Part Two

Reprinted From Afrique Newsmagazine. Copyright 1993-2006 By Pierre A. Clark.

The Success Manifesto. Seven Concepts To Contemplate.

Our seven-part "Success Manifesto" sums up the attitude and course of action we believe you must take if you want to achieve the success you've always fantasized you wanted.

1. "You can be no more than what you choose to be...and no less than what you believe you are." A famous novelist once wrote, "We are the authors of our own lives." Only YOU can determine what you are and where you go. You make that determination with every act of your life, even if you don't act, because not to decide is, in fact, to decide...to do nothing.

2. "Each step on the road to success is a process of self-understanding...and a realization of self-worth." Successful people will tell you that achieving goals begins when you understand your fears...and confront them. Once they recognized that they were ususally better than they thought they were, and could accomplish more than they thought they could, they began to move ahead. So can you.

3. "Success is a habit...just like failure. Success is the habit of doing the right thing. Failure is the habit of doing the easy thing." Success is not easy to achieve. That's why so few people achieve it. Hard work, discipline, sacrifice...these traits are the habits of people who succeed.

4. "To be it and achieve it, you've got to believe it," James Allen said."Thoughts are things. As a man thinketh, so he is." If you can't visualize yourself as being successful, you will undoubtedly become what you visualize...a failure. So changing your thinking is key to changing your life.

5. "A dream without a plan is just a fantasy." Wally Famous Amos, the cookie millionaire, said, "Where do you start (in becoming successful)? Start right where you are." That's the first step. The second step is to create a plan to move beyond that point.

6. If you want to change your life, the place to start is with yourself. The saying goes, "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been." You need to reprogram your life, replace old patterns with new expectations.

7. "Association creates assimilation - if you want to learn to fly like an eagle, you've got to stay away from crows!" Negative thinking grows like weeds in an untended field. Banish those people in your life that starve your self-confidence and feed your self-doubt.

Starting a business takes more than wishing, hoping, dreaming and praying. The Bible teaches us that God helps those who help themselves. You can wish and hope for your life to be what you want it to be, or you can commit to a plan to make your dreams happen.