SUPERMAN
CRACKERJACK & SUCCESS
By: Gene Levine - www.genelevine.com
In order to get to get to the promised land you first have to walk through the wilderness. All too many people, without working for it, want to be given the recognition and rewards associated with success. In other words, they want the glory, without having earned it. Since true success can never be given, what is success? Is the meaning of success the same to everyone? Is there a trait common to successful people that made them successful? Can you become successful, or more successful? And finally, what does success have to do with Superman and Crackerjacks?
In order to answer questions about success, it is important to qualify it. For purposes of this paper, I will define success as "continually accomplishing one’s own specific worthwhile goals." Without goals, there is no cause to accomplish anything. Without accomplishment, there can be no success. It is impossible to become truly successful unless we first know where we are going, or what it is we hope to accomplish.
Therefore, I believe the first rule to success is to establish your own specific worthwhile goals. All successful people achieved goals they had set out to achieve. Although the going got rough for them at times, and their goal seemed a long way off, they apparently never lost heart or gave up. They did not fall back to old habits that lead nowhere. Instead, they completed what they had set out to do, which was to accomplish their own worthwhile goal. This trait of "stick-to-itiveness" toward goal achievement is used and advocated by today’s most successful industrial leaders.
Should the captain of a ship get orders to take his ship to a far port, it is unlikely he could climb up to the bridge and see his final destination before the ship sets sail. So, how does he reach this place he cannot see? Well, after looking at a map, he knows it is there. Once he knows the goal, and has it firmly planted in his mind, he then begins to prepare his ship and crew for the voyage. He carefully plots his course on the charts. He will attempt to use the various ocean currents and tides that will work for him. He will decide on the best and most expedient routes. He will obtain applicable weather forecasts, anticipated shipping lane traffic, and go over these time and time again. Then, he will set timetables—mile by mile, checkpoint by checkpoint, day by day. He will make allowances for the ship’s and crew’s capabilities. Then, after these things are done, he is finally ready to set sail. He may never see his final destination before he embarks. Yet he does know where it is, how to get there, and approximately when he will arrive. When he finally does set sail, he reaches his goal the way he expected to—mile by mile, checkpoint by checkpoint, day by day.
Compare that goal achievement analogy of knowing our goal and how to reach it, to the number of people going through life without goals. A person, or in fact, even a company will stagnate without goals. Imagine a person setting out from a port on a raft hoping to reach the same destination our successful captain did, but without a plan, map, compass or Bible (the latter may be needed most of all). Perhaps by fate, the raft will reach the distant port. More likely however, we would eventually find the raft smashed on the rocks, lost at sea, or gone no further than the inland waterway. Many people in this world are like that raft. They have no goals, much less a plan to accomplish them. They can drift through life never knowing where they are, or where they are going. It is a wonder if they. accomplish anything at all. I find it always amazes successful people why so many people never try to make it. It is so easy to be successful. Yet, 95% of all the people in the whole world go nowhere in their lifetimes. 95 people out of every 100 accomplish nothing during their life on earth. They leave this earth no better for their ever being here. Will humanity say that about you?
Successful people always use one of nature’s simplest laws to their advantage. I have found, without exception, that when this law is understood and applied properly, it has always brought its user whatever it was he wanted out of life. The law is simply that everything, everything in our entire infinite universe operates on the simple law of cause and effect. Nothing happens by accident. You will find no exceptions to this. For every result there is a cause. Provide good causes, and you will produce good effects. It is as reliable as the rising of the sun. Using this known law of nature, anyone, without exception, can become successful any time he wants to. Rewards will always be in direct proportion to the contribution.
You have to ask yourself, are you providing the cause to produce the effect you want? Are you expending the attention necessary to achieve what you want out of life? Or, are you drifting through life like someone on a raft waiting for fate to bring your ship in. You have a control, if you want it, over the balance of your life. You will never have a control over fate. Since you only have so much time allotted to you in life, why waste it drifting. Use your time to plan on how you hope to get where you want to go, and firmly establish when you want to get there. Then get going! Do not underestimate your potential. And since success is "continually accomplishing specific worthwhile goals," it is never too late to . . .
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