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Taking Baby Steps to Reach Your Goals and to
Achieve Greatness Like Earnhardt and Trump
David Maillie
Ask any famous person that achieved greatness what they did
that was different - they would tell you they made their goals
realistic and took action. The rest is history. Napoleon Hill
stated "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe,
it can achieve." He used a positive mental attitude and the
use of small, realistic steps to achieve greatness. He went
from a poor beginning in a log cabin to one of the best selling
authors and an advisor to congressmen, presidents and so on.
W. Clement Stone took $100 and with this same use of creating
realistic steps and taking action he built one of the largest
multi million dollar insurance companies in America.
They may not have the current publicity or notoriaty of Donald
Trump, Dale Earnhardt or similar, but they came from much
humbler starts. Donald Trump was born into a real estate magnate
family. Dale Earnhardt was born into a established race car
family in Kannapolis North Carolina. Now thats not to say
that Donald Trump and Dale Earnhardt are not great people
(Dale Earnhardt formed one of the largest and winningest Nascar
teams and was very philanthropic and helped a lot of people
through his charitable activities). What I am getting at here
is that most of us don't have magnates or millions in our
families, but that in no wy means we cannot achieve greatness,
riches beyond our wildest dreams, etc... Napoleon Hill and
W. Clement Stone actually started with much less and in worse
times and conditions than we have ever known (the great depression
era).
What drove Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone to greatness
was two things. (1)They planned realistic steps to reach attainable
goals (baby steps). They didn't just wake up one day and say
my only goal is to be rich and retire tomorrow. They made
plans and kept slowly raising the bar every time they would
attain one of their goals. (2)They took action. You wouldn't
believe how many times I hear people state all the things
they are going to do or would like to do. I recently attended
a young Cornell Alumni meeting where the talk was mostly about
grand future plans, or what they would like to do but they
don't have time, the conditions aren't right, etc... You have
to start somewhere. If you take too big of a step you will
probably become defeated and not continue. It is better to
take small attainable steps. Each time you attain one of these
steps or your goal raise the bar a little. It will slowly
move you closer to your dream and give you a great boost in
self confidence. You have to plan out little baby steps and
then you have to take action. This will seperate you from
everyone else - the majority of people live life day to day,
pay check to paycheck with little or no action or planning.
You can always find these people complaining about how bad
the economy is, taxes are too high, etc...
The best thing you can do is find a mentor and surround yourself
with positive achievers and realize it will take a lot of
effort. Lance Armstrong didn't win the Tour de France 6 times
by accident and battle cancer at the same time. He was driven,
set goals, and took action on a daily basis. He also realized
greatness would not happen overnight. Greatness didn't come
overnight for Dale Earnhardt either. He raced hard for many
years, suffered crashes that would have kept most people off
the track and faced fear head on. With his tanacity, fierce
vigor and drive he became the greatest Nascar legend of all
time. Now his son, Dale Jr., continues his racing legacy and
awesome philanthropic and charitable activities. If you take
the effort to take action, use baby steps to attain goals
and make realistic goals you cannot and will not fail. Failure
will not be a word in your vocabulary.
Now you know how to achieve greatness. Set goals for yourself.
Make them realistic and take realistic baby steps to achieve
them. Take action - this will seperate you from 99.9% of everyone
else. They are afraid to take action and will never attain
greatness. What do you think Lance Armstrong said when critics
said he could not win the Tour de France, or that he could
not do a repeat win of it? What do you think Dale Earnhardt
said when the critics stated he could not overcome his fathers
shadow in racing? They went on to become the greatest of their
time. What will you do?
It is never to late to decide to take control of your life
and make something great of it. Look at Sam Walton. He didn't
like working with a Ben Franklin franchise and their rules.
So he started his own retailing company and became the largest
retailer in the world. If you make attainable goals, take
action, and lay out baby steps to achieve these goals there
is no way you will fail and there's no telling what you can
or will achieve. Some of our greatest achievers have come
from the most humbling positions. I wonder what greatness
you can and will achieve.
David Maillie is an alumni of Cornell University
and holds numerous patents including his recently awarded
patent for headlight repair, cleaner, and restorer. He can
be reached at M.D. Wholesale: http://www.mdwholesale.com
and http://www.bestskinpeel.com
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