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Preparedness Plus Chance Equals Success

by Daniel N Brown

When the next chance to do
or have something great presents itself, will you be ready?
Life is way to short to be missing out!

How many times has something good come into your life and
you were not prepared to embrace it? This happens to so many
people. When a special chance to do or have something great
presents itself, most people will not be ready. How disappointing!
Preparedness plus chance equals success. Believing you can
succeed and preparing to succeed go hand in hand. Both are
an extremely vital part of winning in life. In fact, a
person will not even prepare to win if he does not even
believe he can. Otherwise, why would he put in all the
necessary effort it takes to succeed if he really doesn't
believe he ever will?

Many people want to win in life, but their self-image limits
them on how far they actually can go. Your self image is how
you see yourself, and if you see yourself as a loser you
will not even prepare to win. The fact is, a person will
only prepare to succeed if he really and truly believes
he can.

Part of preparation is seeing yourself as a winner. You
cannot attract to yourself anything that is greater than the
way you see yourself. Therefore, if you become, you can
attract. Until you begin to think and act like the person
who has the things you desire you will not attract those
things.

A common misconception concerning success is that it comes
from luck. How many times have you heard people say
something like, "He was just in the right place at the right
time" to explain away someone else's success? It's a myth,
just like the idea of the overnight success. The chances of
becoming a success due to luck are about as good as
winning the lottery--50 million to 1.

When you succeed, because you prepared to succeed, others
may explain it away as luck. How irritated will you be, knowing
you have toiled, sweated, and teared in order to prepare for
the success you enjoy, and someone says you were just lucky?

One must understand that champions aren't made on the day of
the game. That's simply the day the world recognizes all of
the preparation that took place before that day arrived. In
thousands of little ways, these champions disciplined
themselves to do the things that everyone else could've
done, but didn't.

The cheering crowds, television cameras, and reporters
aren't around when champions are made because they're made
in the early morning hours when everyone else is sleeping in
just a little bit longer, and in the late evening hours when
everyone else has given up for the day.

The will to succeed is obviously important, but what's more
important is the will to prepare.

Preparing to win is not doing the big things most people
think. It usually isn't the big things that will cause you
to succeed in life anyway, but it's all of the little things
that you can do over and over. For example, the discipline
to plan each day's work the night before, no matter how
tired you are, will have more to do with your success than
any big thing you will do. Also, little things like hitting
mute on the tv during commercials so you can grab a little
reading time. Not a big thing, but a necessary thing in
preparing to win.

Prepare to succeed by first believing that you can and then
do the little necessary things required, for preparedness
plus chance equals success. When the next chance to do
or have something great presents itself, will you be ready?
Life is way to short to be missing out!

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