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We all recognize that which we call success as a do-it-yourself project. It is easy to identify the self-made millionaire, start-up entrepreneur, or others who started with nothing and achieved their own goals. While none of us succeed without the constant support, encouragement, and cooperation of others, we can all identify the self-directed nature of success.Failure is much harder to account for. As normal human beings, we have the tendency to take credit for our successes and assign blame for our failures. To avoid failure:1. Learn from every mistake.2. Learn from other peoples mistakes.3. Create opportunities by helping other people avoid the mistakes you have made.4. Turn the guilt and remorse of making a mistake into motivation and creativity.5. Put planning processes in place that will allow you to creatively avoid mistakes in the futureIn the world where we live, move, and have our being today, it is easier than ever to achieve whatever your idea of success might be. There are more millionaires and, indeed, billionaires created every day than at any point in recorded history. More people are creating lives and lifestyles so that they can successfully live life on their own terms, according to their own definition of success.With the potential opportunity scale slanted in our favor, one of the most important elements of becoming successful is to simply avoid failure. Most ventures that fail do so because they simply did not have the staying power. The proverbial plant died before it had an opportunity to bear fruit. In many cases, these mortal wounds are self-inflicted. We must avoid, at all cost, the things that will take us out of the game before we have an opportunity to win.If you want to succeed in business or in your personal finances, here are a few failure pitfalls to avoid:1. Have a personal and business financial plan that involves a significant cash reserve for all contingencies.2. Insurance premiums are cheap compared to the catastrophic losses you may face. If you cant afford the insurance, you certainly wont survive that which you are failing to insure against.3. Consistently withhold and promptly pay your taxes. We all have an Uncle Sam who is not going to wait for his money, regardless of your current financial crisis.4. Accelerate income and defer expenses as long as possible. Time is, indeed, money. You need all the time you can get, and cash will provide it for you.5. Keep your eye on the ball and make sure its your own ball. Its too easy to get distracted and run down a rabbit trail that offers you a clear path directly to somewhere you dont want to be.As you go through your day today, remember that both success and failure are do-it-yourself propositions. Avoid failure and keep working, and success will be yours.Todays the day!Having a strong foundation enables you to build a thriving, profitable life and business. A simple method to create this foundation is with Discovery, Vision, Planning and Benchmarking, the four cornerstones of your life as well as your business.Discovery is defined as examining where are you now and where are you going. It helps to look at everything as if you were a beginner. Always know why you are in the business of your choice. If your strategy is not clear, you wont recognize the destination when you get there. This is the time to bring in your outside Vision Team.Vision is who you are about and what your life is about. This is where you determine values you need to experience on a continuing basis. Vision is also where you become the expert in your field and decide the purpose of your business. Remember, the smaller the niche, the larger the reward. Abandon any preconceived beliefs you have about this or any other business. They can restrict your thinking. Live out of this new vision, not your past comfort.Planning creates the strategies that help you arrive at your destination. A simple system is to - Show Up, Be on Time, Keep Your Word and Tell The Truth. Its like riding on that train, sometimes there are hills to climb; sometimes there are curves and other times youre flying rapidly down the mountain to your destination. In any instance, you must remain focused on what you want and where you are going.Benchmarking helps you stay on track. Once focused, you set up a system for accountability, self-management and self-renewal. You can create outcomes or optimum wants that may be on the outer edge of possibilities or a result that is far bigger than you think is attainable. Going into new territory can unlock your potential and increase your development. When outcomes or optimum results are achieved, you can acknowledge success and learn to be satisfied. Again, put it in writing; the outcomes, the results and the acknowledgement.Rules require exceptions, so even if you follow the above and create a strong foundation, you must be prepared for chaos. Chaos can aid in your personal and business development if you have eliminated all toxic people or commitments from your life.Chaos can then become the opportunity to progress rapidly into new territory. You can be the architect of your own life.With a strong foundation, you can build anything.Joanne Victoria works with small business owners who want to achieve more and still be true to who they really are. Sign up now for her FREE monthly e-zine Create the Business of your Dreams at: mailto:CreateYourBJoanne Victoria Tel: 415-491-1344 mailto: Author of : Lighting Your Path! How To Create the Life You Want - Order Here! .Article Title: Create A Blueprint For Your Success Author Name: Joanne Victoria Contact E-mail Address: mailto: Word Count: 487, wrapped at 60 characters Category: Business Development Copyright Date: 2003-All Rights ReservedThank you for publishing this article in its entirety including the resource box. Please notify me of publication by sending either a website link or a copy of your ezine upon publication to: mailto: . Joanne Victoria, CEO of New Directions in Sausalito, CA, works with small business owners who want to achieve more focus, more balance, more fun and more abundance and still be true to who they really are. Check her website at: http:/www.JoanneV for more articles and programs. Tel: 415-491-1344.Today I am very glad to be here to share with you my ideas of success. What is success? It is what everyone is longing for.Sometimes success would be rather simple. Winning a game is success; getting a high grade in the exam is success; making a new friend is success; even now I am standing here giving my speech is somehow also success. However, as a persons whole life is concerned, success becomes very complicated. Is fortune success? Is fame success? Is high social status success? No, I dont think so. I believe success is the realization of people s hopes and ideals.Nowadays, in the modern society there are many people who are regarded as the successful. And the most obvious characteristics of hem are money, high position and luxurious life. So most people believe that s success and all that they do is for this purpose. But the problem is wether it is real success. We all know there are always more money, higher position and better condition in front of us. If we keep chasing them, where is the end? What will satisfy us at last? Therefore, we can see, to get the real Success we must need something inside, which is the realization of people hopes and ideals. Different people have different ideas about success; cause peoples hopes and ideas vary from one another. But I am sure every success is dear to everybody, cause it is not easy to come by, cause in the process of our striving for success, we got both our body and soul tempted, meanwhile we are enlightened by the most valuable qualities of human beings: love, patient, courage and sense of responsibility. These are the best treasures. So now I am very proud that I have this opportunity to stand here speaking to all of you. It is my success, cause I raise up to challenge my hope. What is success? Everyone has his own interpretation as I do. But I am sure every success leads to an ever-brighter future. So ladies and gentlemen, believe in our hopes, believe in ourselves, we, every one of us, can make a successful life! As the saying goes,victory does not come for free. undeniably hard work contributes greatly to succeess. Without persistence and constant efforts, it is hardly possible for one to accomplish anything.From the stories of many self-made man such as the former US president Roosevelt, we witness what hard work can bring us. However, in my opinion, dream, rather than hard work, contributes most to success.If one works hard, he can definitely have his job secured and prosperity guarantueed. However, he may not acquire passion for what he is doing. Dream can supply enthusiasm to ones endeavor, which is essential for any great contribution to the human civilization. Without a dream, would Franklin risk his life to try out the kate in the stormy night? Will the Wright brothers dare to ride the first plane? Dreams empower people and give them the desire and courage to endure pains and sufferings to realize their wishes.What makes Tiger Woods great? What made Berkshire Hathaway (Charts) Chairman Warren Buffett the worlds premier investor? We think we know: Each was a natural who came into the world with a gift for doing exactly what he ended up doing. As Buffett told Fortune not long ago, he was wired at birth to allocate capital. Its a one-in-a-million thing. Youve got it - or you dont. Well, folks, its not so simple. For one thing, you do not possess a natural gift for a certain job, because targeted natural gifts dont exist. (Sorry, Warren.) You are not a born CEO or investor or chess grandmaster. You will achieve greatness only through an enormous amount of hard work over many years. And not just any hard work, but work of a particular type thats demanding and painful. Buffett, for instance, is famed for his discipline and the hours he spends studying financial statements of potential investment targets. The good news is that your lack of a natural gift is irrelevant - talent has little or nothing to do with greatness. You can make yourself into any number of things, and you can even make yourself great. Scientific experts are producing remarkably consistent findings across a wide array of fields. Understand that talent doesnt mean intelligence, motivation or personality traits. Its an innate ability to do some specific activity especially well. British-based researchers Michael J. Howe, Jane W. Davidson and John A. Sluboda conclude in an extensive study, The evidence we have surveyed . does not support the notion that excelling is a consequence of possessing innate gifts. To see how the researchers could reach such a conclusion, consider the problem they were trying to solve. In virtually every field of endeavor, most people learn quickly at first, then more slowly and then stop developing completely. Yet a few do improve for years and even decades, and go on to greatness. The irresistible question - the fundamental challenge for researchers in this field, says the most prominent of them, professor K. Anders Ericsson of Florida State University - is, Why? How are certain people able to go on improving? The answers begin with consistent observations about great performers in many fields. Scientists worldwide have conducted scores of studies since the 1993 publication of a landmark paper by Ericsson and two colleagues, many focusing on sports, music and chess, in which performance is relatively easy to measure and plot over time. But plenty of additional studies have also examined other fields, including business. No substitute for hard workThe first major conclusion is that nobody is great without work. Its nice to believe that if you find the field where youre naturally gifted, youll be great from day one, but it doesnt happen. Theres no evidence of high-level performance without experience or practice. Reinforcing that no-free-lunch finding is vast evidence that even the most accomplished people need around ten years of hard work before becoming world-class, a pattern so well established researchers call it the ten-year rule. What about Bobby Fischer, who became a chess grandmaster at 16? Turns out the rule holds: Hed had nine years of intensive study. And as John Horn of the University of Southern California and Hiromi Masunaga of California State University observe, The ten-year rule represents a very rough estimate, and most researchers regard it as a minimum, not an average. In many fields (music, literature) elite performers need 20 or 30 years experience before hitting their zenith. So greatness isnt handed to anyone; it requires a lot of hard work. Yet that isnt enough, since many people work hard for decades without approaching greatness or even getting significantly better. Whats missing? Practice makes perfectThe best people in any field are those who devote the most hours to what the researchers call deliberate practice. Its activity thats explicitly intended to improve performance, that reaches for objectives just beyond ones level of competence, provides feedback on results and involves high levels of repetition. For example: Simply hitting a bucket of balls is not deliberate practice, which is why most golfers dont get better. Hitting an eight-iron 300 times with a goal of leaving the ball within 20 feet of the pin 80 percent of the time, continually observing results and making appropriate adjustments, and doing that for hours every day - thats deliberate practice. Consistency is crucial. As Ericsson notes, Elite performers in many diverse domains have been found to practice, on the average, roughly the same amount every day, including weekends. Evidence crosses a remarkable range of fields. In a study of 20-year-old violinists by Ericsson and colleagues, the best group (judged by conservatory teachers) averaged 10,000 hours of deliberate practice over their lives; the next-best averaged 7,500 hours; and the next, 5,000. Its the same story in surgery, insurance sales, and virtually every sport. More deliberate practice equals better performance. Tons of it equals great performance. The skepticsNot all researchers are totally onboard with the myth-of-talent hypothesis, though their objections go to its edges rather than its center. For one thing, there are the intangibles. Two athletes might work equally hard, but what explains the ability of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to perform at a higher level in the last two minutes of a game? Researchers also note, for example, child prodigies who could speak, read or play music at an unusually early age. But on investigation those cases generally include highly involved parents. And many prodigies do not go on to greatness in their early field, while great performers include many who showed no special early aptitude. Certainly some important traits are partly inherited, such as physical size and particular measures of intelligence, but those influence what a person doesnt do more than what he does; a five-footer will never be an NFL lineman, and a seven-footer will never be an Olympic gymnast. Even those restrictions are less severe than youd expect: Ericsson notes, Some international chess masters have IQs in the 90s. The more research thats done, the more solid the deliberate-practice model becomes. Real-world examplesAll this scholarly research is simply evidence for what great performers have been showing us for years. To take a handful of examples: Winston Churchill, one of the 20th centurys greatest orators, practiced his speeches compulsively. Vladimir Horowitz supposedly said, If I dont practice for a day, I know it. If I dont practice for two days, my wife knows it. If I dont practice for three days, the world knows it. He was certainly a demon practicer, but the same quote has been attributed to world-class musicians like Ignace Paderewski and Luciano Pavarotti. Many great athletes are legendary for the brutal discipline of their practice routines. In basketball, Michael Jordan practiced intensely beyond the already punishing team practices. (Had Jordan possessed some mammoth natural gift specifically for basketball, it seems unlikely hed have been cut from his high school team.) In football, all-time-great receiver Jerry Rice - passed up by 15 teams because they considered him too slow - practiced so hard that other players would get sick trying to keep up. Tiger Woods is a textbook example of what the research shows. Because his father introduced him to golf at an extremely early age - 18 months - and encouraged him to practice intensively, Woods had racked up at least 15 years of practice by the time he became the youngest-ever winner of the U.S. Amateur Championship, at age 18. Also in line with the findings, he has never stopped trying to improve, devoting many hours a day to conditioning and practice, even remaking his swing twice because thats what it took to get even better. The business sideThe evidence, scientific as well as anecdotal, seems overwhelmingly in favor of deliberate practice as the source of great performance. Just one problem: How do you practice business? Many elements of business, in fact, are directly practicable. Presenting, negotiating, delivering evaluations, deciphering financial statements - you can practice them all. Still, they arent the essence of great managerial perfor