What Makes A Person Successful
27 April 2011
Success Principles There are many different success principles that are used by people who are really successful everyday, in all aspects of a person’s life. People don’t just magically become successful. It takes years of ones life to learn all the success principles that there are. Then even longer to master and apply the principles to your life. This is when one will start seeing the results that they want. Jack Canfield said, “You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.” This means that people have to be self-reliant and get the work done themselves before they begin to see the value in the principles. The first major success principle is Perseverance. Perseverance means to keep working at something, and to never give up no matter what the circumstances may be. When ones happiness is satisfied by the work they put in is when can they can move on to another task. So many successful people have the ability to persevere, and I believe that the most inspirational is Josh Hamilton. Hamilton is a professional baseball player for the Texas Rangers, and he has a very inspirational story. When he was young and just into the minor leagues Hamilton got into the wrong crowds and tried drugs for the first time. His drug use got increasingly bad and eventually Hamilton got kicked out of Major League Baseball for good. At this
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point many people said that Josh had hit “rock bottom.” Hamilton was devastated because he knew that he was not only hurting himself, but also his family. Hamilton was trying to fight his addiction by going to rehab, but was in and out all the time. Finally he realized that the life-style he was living was terrible and vowed to never do drugs or drink alcohol again. Not long after Hamilton was allowed back into Major League Baseball, and