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An Acronym For Success

by mentoredlife
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What's Your Favorite Acronym For Success?





I've had a digital copy of Psycho Cybernetics on my hard drive for a few years now. Many of my mentors over the years have listed this book as a must read.
Recently I found an audio version of the New Psycho Cybernetics, and that's what I've been listening to almost daily the past couple of weeks. I wish I would have found the audio version sooner, as I seem to have more time to listen to audios lately while I'm driving or working in the yard, and less time to sit down an actually read.
About a third of the way through the book Dr. Maltz introduces an acronym for success that you may want to write down for yourself.
The Acronym For Success

  • Sense of Direction
  • Understanding
  • Courage
  • Charity or Compassion
  • Esteem
  • Self Confidence
  • Self Acceptance
Sense Of Direction
Give yourself a goal worth working for.
One of the keys to achieving success is having goals to strive for. Wandering aimlessly doesn't produce results. Having a clear direction that you want to go will give you something to strive for, even if you get off course now and then. At least with a desired destination, you'll be able to course correct and keep going.
Understanding
Understanding depends on good communication.
An invaluable skill on your journey to success is having the ability to see a situation from the perspective of others. Being understanding and open to other perspectives will go a long way in building relationships and avoiding conflicts.
Be willing to see the truth and accept it - good or bad. Learn to be honest with yourself. Look for and seek out true information concerning yourself, your problems, other people or the situation whether it is good news or bad news. Adopt the motto "it doesn't matter who's right, but what's right"
Courage
Having a goal, and understanding the situation are not enough. You must have the courage to act.
Once you understand that you are not your mistakes, you'll find it infinitely easier to take risks without undo worry over what others will think or temporarily appearing foolish if you stumble.
Be willing to make a few mistakes. Success comes from decisiveness and course corrections. Develop the courage to take action and accept the consequences.
Charity or Compassion
Successful personalities have interest in and regard for other people.
When a person begins to feel more charitable about others he will invariably begin to feel more charitably towards himself. People who feel that people are not very important can not have very much deep down regard and respect for themselves.
Here's a prescription for developing a charitable outlook.
  1. Develop a genuine appreciation for people and see them as unique personalities and creative beings.
  2. Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, viewpoints, desires and needs. Think more of what the other person wants, and how he must feel.
  3. Act as if other people are important, and treat them accordingly.
Esteem
Holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
People with adequate self esteem don't feel hostile towards others. Stop carrying around a mental picture of yourself as a person less capable than others by making unfair apples to oranges comparisons. Celebrate your victories small or large.
The word Esteem literally means "to appreciate the worth of". Begin to appreciate other people more, and surprisingly your own self esteem will go up.
Self Confidence
Confidence is built on an experience of success.
Form the habit of remembering past successes and forgetting failures. Unfortunately far too often we do the exact opposite, and we reinforce the failures by adding emotions to the experience.
Use errors and mistakes as a way to learn, and then dismiss them from your mind. Deliberately remember and picture to yourself past successes. Everyone has succeeded sometime at something. Call up the feelings you experienced in some past success, however small it might have been.
Self Acceptance
Many live out their lives in quiet desperation.
No real success or genuine happiness is possible until a person gains some degree of self acceptance. Success often eludes you when you strive and strain to be somebody else, and often comes almost of it's own accord when you learn to relax and be yourself.
There is no use straining to be somebody - YOU ARE SOMEBODY - RIGHT NOW!
Accept yourself as you are. Learn to emotionally tolerate your imperfections. You are not ruined or worthless because you made a mistake, or got off course. No one else is perfect, and those who try to pretend they are become imprisoned in misery.
What's Your Favorite Acronym For Success?

Leave me a comment below. I'd love to hear if you have a favorite acronym for success.
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