Act with Success in Mind

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles F. Kettering

You must be sold out to your plan of action. You have given it enough thought and deliberation. Your gut agrees with the direction that you are taking. It is now time for aggressive action. When you take aggressive action make sure that your whole mind, emotions and body are focused on executing your plan. Every part of your being must be shouting success! There is no room for thoughts of failure.

Do not waste time thinking that you might fail. If your thoughts dwell on Murphy’s Law, you will fulfill Murphy’s Law, which states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. There are many modern versions of it such as: if there is a chance that there will be a screw up then there will be a screw up, it won’t happen as we wish it, the chances of winning are out of reach, might as well not hope for the best than be disappointed, and more.

The human faculties are controlled by the mind. The more you think failure the more your whole being will agree with you. Simply put, you are most likely what you think about. If it is failure that permeates your mind, then you have established your fate. You may change it by thinking success. And the more you do, the more chances that your whole being will gear towards success.

But isn’t it a reality that people do fail and that what we expect do not usually happen? I must say that yes, people do fail and what we expect do not usually happen. Though we may observe these around us and in ourselves at times, our minds must still be focused on success. WHY? Because true failure only happens when we stop learning from it and stop attempting for success.

Every attempt to succeed is part of a process, both the attempts that do well and those that don’t contribute to the process of success. You learn what to do and how to do it and you also learn what not to do and how not to do it. Either way, you have progressed. That is how inventions are made: a creative idea inspires the inventor, then he formulates a theory, then he tries to build a prototype.

But the whole process is not as simple as it sounds. It may take hundreds, if not thousands of attempts to have a working model. The inspiring story of inventor Thomas Edison shows us that success may take time. It said that it took him more than two years and over 6000 experiments before he succeeded. But his mind was bent on having that working light bulb.

Like Edison, those who understand success never stop attempting with determination. Failure is none existent. They can learn from it but it can never stop them from their overall attempt to succeed.

If we are to succeed we must execute our plans with full assurance of victory. Forget about Murphy’s Law. Take aggressive action with success in mind!

Are you working with success in mind?

Ed Pilapil Jr. ©