Success is the ability to achieve and accomplish planned ideas

Dec 18, 2010 Letters

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Dear Editor,
I am writing this letter to teach you about creating success. I wish to share with you my personal definition of success and some specific success strategies that I have learned in my New Student Seminar class over the course of the semester.
I also want to let you know before hand that these strategies worked for me and has been helping me to create the success I have always dreamt of. I hope by the end of this letter you will consider this as a gift of my wisdom. Success to me is the ability to achieve and accomplish planned purposes which in turn facilitates many positive outcomes.
My first success strategy to you is about adopting the creator role. These are people who change their old negative beliefs and behaviours to create the best positive results they can. These are people like you and I, who have struggled to accept personal responsibility, but with a chance to grow has been able to make a change, the change they want to see. I have learned from this strategy that if you choose to accept personal responsibility, you can create the desired outcomes and experiences despite obstacles and you can clearly see that these people have multiple life changing success stories.
Let me make it simple for you, I have been a victim too, there were times when I just would not want to do my homework and then I have all these excuses at the end of the day. I always blamed my sister for being too noisy or the dog for being too much of an attention seeker or I would simply blame the teacher for giving me all that work.
But it was always about me and my excuses until one day I saw reality. If I did not start doing my homework, I would fail and as a person who personally enjoys being a top student that was going to crush my world. I then read chapter 2 in the On Course Skip Downing Text and my life changed dramatically. I became an instant creator, I would sit just after class to do my homework and I would always make sure that all my homework is done before I go to bed.
I started seeing a gradual increase in my grade. I think being a creator makes life so much more interesting. But to be a creator you must master the creator language and the language of responsibility.
My second success strategy to you is committing to your goals and dreams. This is because many of us doubt we can achieve what we truly want until we promise ourselves that we will do whatever it takes to accomplish the goal and dream and then we discover the method for achieving them in the most unexpected ways.
First, we have to commit to the creator method, that we will overcome whatever obstacle to make our dreams successful and then we will visualize what we want that dream to look like once we are successful. When I say visualize I mean you must relax, use present tense, use all five senses and then you must feel the feelings. You will be able to create the picture perfect success once you are able to visualize you success.
I wanted to share this one with you because I thought this one helped me tremendously in ending my first successful semester at Century College. When I started this semester and I became this positive creator, I knew I wanted all A’s for this semester but achieving it was an obstacle, then I started to visualize what it would feel like to have all A’s. Today, I will tell you that it worked, my first semester and four A’s. You must try this and then feel the excitement that your success brings.
My final success strategy to you is developing self-discipline. I know that the two success strategies I shared with you above will not be as effective and complete without some self-discipline. Self-discipline has three essential ingredients: commitment, focus and persistence. Commitment is the willingness to do whatever has to be done, whether you feel like it of not until you reach you goals and dreams. You have to make it a part of you.
Focus comes from commitment. It is the time when you ask yourself: What are my goals and dreams? I am sure you have heard the quote, “discipline is nothing more than the process of focusing on any chosen activity without interruption until that activity is complete.” by Charles J. Givens. This quote explains it all. If focus is self-discipline in thought, then persistence is self-discipline in action.
Did you ever think, that whenever you wanted the coat, that you loved, you worked and saved and watched it until it went on sale then you would finally purchased it. In the same way persistence work with goals and success. You had self-discipline when you worked and saved for that coat in the same way I encourage you to be persistent about those life long dreams you always wanted.
I have been self-discipline in getting all A’s this semester. I mixed the essential ingredients together to create a self-discipline semester.
In conclusion, I want to remind you that success is the ability to achieve and accomplish planned purposes which in turn facilitates many positive outcomes. I want to also remind you to always be a creator, make those decisions that a creator will make, be sure to try the personal affirmation and visualizations and also to mix the ingredients of self-discipline together so that the success you have always dreamt of will finally be your greatest accomplishment.
Finally, I want you to make every success project yours, I want you to make it apart of you and then it will naturally come from within. I must leave with you one of the most interesting piece of script I have ever read. The act of keeping your success may be as important, if not even more important, than achieving a particular goal or dream.
In this way, you raise you expectations for the success of the future successes, knowing that when you make a promise to yourself, you will keep it. So, therefore my personal wish for you is to create lofty goals and dreams and from deep within you, commit to your success and achievement. I truly hope I have inspired you to be the person you have always wanted to be or at least I have given you some sort of motivation and encouragement to be the best you can be at whatever you do.
Valinie Dayaljee

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