Synopsis of the Success Principles

Title : The Success Pricnciples
Writer : Jack Canfield
Pages : 94
Synopsis

One of the most pervasive myths in the American culture today is that we

are entitled to a great life that somehow, somewhere, someone (certainly

not us) is responsible for filling our lives with continual happiness, exciting

career options, nurturing family time, and blissful personal relationships

simply because we exist. But the real truth and the one lesson this whole book is based on is that there is only one person responsible for the quality of the life you live.

That person is you. If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for

everything that you experience in your life. This includes the level of your

achievements, the results you produce, the quality of your relationships,

the state of your health and physical fitness, your income, your debts, your

feelings everything!

If you want to create the life of your dreams, then you are going to have to

take 100% responsibility for your life as well. That means giving up all your

excuses, all your victim stories, all the reasons why you can’t and why you

haven’t up until now, and all your blaming of outside circumstances. You

have to give them all up forever.You have to take the position that you have always had the power to

make it different, to get it right, to produce the desired result. For whatever

reason ignorance, lack of awareness, fear, needing to be right, the need to

feel safe you chose not to exercise that power. Who knows why? It doesn’t

matter.  The past is the past all that matters now is that from this point

forward you choose that’s right, it’s a choice to act as if you are 100%

responsible for everything that does or doesn’t happen to you.

If something doesn’t turn out as planned, you will ask yourself, How did

I create that? What was I thinking? What were my beliefs? What did I say or not say?

What did I do or not do to create that result? How did I get the other person to act that

way? What do I need to do differently next time to get the result I want?

 In order to complain about something or someone, you have to believe that something better

exists. You have to have a reference point of something you prefer that you

are not willing to take responsibility for creating. Let’s look at that more

closely. If you didn’t believe there was something better possible more money,

a bigger house, a more fulfilling job, more fun, a more loving partner you

couldn’t complain. So you have this image of something better and you

know you would prefer it, but you are unwilling to take the risks required

to create it. Complaining is an ineffective response to an event that does not

produce a better outcome.

change but you have chosen not to. You can get a better job, find a more

As I stated before, complaining means you have a reference point for

something better that you would prefer but that you are unwilling to take

the risk of creating. Either accept that you are making the choice to stay

where you are, take responsibility for your choice, and stop complaining . . .

or  take the risk of doing something new and different to create your life

exactly the way you want it.

To be powerful, you need to take the position that you create or allow

everything that happens to you. By create, I mean that you directly cause

something to happen by your actions or inactions. If you walk up to a man

in a bar who is bigger than you and has obviously been drinking for a long time, and say to him, “You are really ugly and stupid,” and he jumps off the

bar stool, hits you in the jaw, and you end up in the hospital you created

that.

sincerely