Why is it that the vast majority of people believe success, achievement, prosperity and happiness are things that just occur for some and not for others?
Statistics have shown that a large percentage of people believe, but perhaps don’t outwardly admit, that it is simply destiny or an outside force that we have no control over that deems us to be successful or average.
Try applying this way of thinking to a more defined matter. Picture this hypothetical situation. While on a walk through the park you run into an old friend, Joe. While you rehash on times past, Joe mentions that he is planning to become a lawyer. You ask Joe what law school he plans on attending, or if he is attending one now. Joe’s response: “I don’t attend a law school and I don’t plan on attending one. I feel I am simply destined to become a lawyer”.
What would your reaction be to this statement? How do you feel about Joe’s odds of becoming a lawyer? Wouldn’t it be extremely difficult if not impossible for Joe to become a lawyer without proper training when one considers the body of regulations that govern the legal world? A series of prerequisites must be met before one can become a lawyer—requisites that only law schools provide.
Most of us know that success within any profession, such as medicine, law, or automotive repair, demands thorough studying and diligent practice. To become a doctor, you must study medicine. To master Kung-Fu you must train with a Kung-Fu Master. Great chefs attend world-class culinary schools.
Professional accomplishment in a certain field demands vigorous action and intense study in that discipline, regardless of the vocation. A hypothetical conversation such as the one just presented is likely to never occur, because every regular Joe knows that a career as an attorney begins with studying law. Becoming a lawyer has everything to do with taking action to such an end, and very little to do with magical forces or destiny.
Common knowledge has bestowed upon us this level of understanding, but there is much that common knowledge doesn’t seem to cover: the way to a successful life.
To master the profession of achievement begins just like any other profession; it requires certain study. Just as anything else, the requisite body of knowledge must be learnt.
"We studied hundreds of high achievers who realize lasting success, make a positive difference, and enjoy the process," explained Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson in "Success That Lasts", from the February 2004 issue of Harvard Business Review. "And we learned that some of the most successful people have gotten where they are precisely because they have a greater understanding of what success is really about and the versatility to make good on their ideals."
The Mind Accelerator is your manual for the profession of achievement—your procedural guidebook to success. Leading a winning life is a matter of imbibing and applying the right habits; the habits and principles of success that are invariant to time, career, age, gender, geographic location or economic condition. The circumstances, era, economic, societal and cultural environment may change but the universal laws that govern success consistently apply.
Take advantage of the opportunity The Mind Accelerator represents, and make succeeding your new lifelong career.