Principles of Success

Success Principles

It is true that everything in life happens for a purpose, and always for our own good. If you think about it, all our past experiences actually happened to bring us to where we are today, and it is always for the good. All the past experiences makes us a better person. So, whatever challenges that we may face today, consider it happening to bring us to the next level.

My Dog Can Walk On Water

There was a hunter who came into the possession of a special bird dog. The dog was the only one of its kind, because it can walk on water. One day he invited a friend to go hunting with him so that he could show off his prized possession. After some time, they shot a few ducks, which fell into the river. The man ordered his dog to run and fetch the birds. The
dog ran on water to fetch the birds. The man was expecting a compliment about the amazing dog, but did not receive it. Being curious, he asked his friend if the friend had noticed anything unusual about the dog. The
friend replied, �Yes, I did see something unusual about your dog. Your dog can't swim!�

Success Principles

More than 90% of the people that we face everyday are negative. They choose to look at the hole in the middle rather than the doughnut. Do not expect compliments or encouragement from them. These are the people who cannot pull you out of your present situation. They can only push you down. So be aware of them, spend less time with them and do not let them steal your dreams away from you.

Everything Happens For The Good

There was once a King who had a wise advisor. The advisor followed the King everywhere, and his favorite advice was, �Everything happens for the good�. One day the King went hunting and had a little accident. He shot an arrow at
his own foot and was injured. He asked the advisor what he thought about the accident, to which the advisor replied, �Everything happens for the good�.
This time the King was really upset and ordered for his advisor to be put in prison. The King asked his advisor, �Now, what do you think?� The advisor again replied, �Everything happens for the good�. So the advisor remained in prison.

The King later went on a hunting trip, this time without the advisor. The King was then captured by some cannibals. He was taken to the cannibals' camp where he was to be the evening meal for the cannibals. Before putting him into the cooking pot he was thoroughly inspected. The cannibals saw the wound on the King's foot and decided to throw him back into the jungle. According to the cannibals' tradition, they would not eat anything that was imperfect. As a result the King was spared. The King suddenly realized what his advisor said was true. The advisor also escaped death because had he not been in prison, he would have followed the King on the hunting trip, and would have ended up in the cooking pot.

A wonderful story for any age�..

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get
to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.

I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile
that that lit up her entire being.

She said, "Hi, handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?" I laughed and enthusiastically responded, "Of course you may!" and she gave me a giant squeeze.

"Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked.

She jokingly replied, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel."

"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

"I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, "I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know."

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began: "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success. "You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it!"

"There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change."

"Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets."

She concluded her speech by courageously singing The Rose. She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the years end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago.

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

Lessons:

You Can Make It! Hunter

  Two elk hunters from Texas are flown into a remote spot in Alaska. They
   have a good hunt, and both manage to bag an elk. Within a few days, the
  plane returns to pick them up. The pilot steps out of the cockpit, looks at the animals and says, "This little plane won't lift all of us, the equipment and both of those animals - you'll have to leave one. We'd never make it over the trees on the take off."

"That's baloney," says one of the hunters.

"Yeah," the other agrees, "You're a chicken." "We were here last year and got two moose. That pilot had guts. Yeah, he wasn't afraid to take off!"

"Yup!" said the first hunter, "and his plane wasn't any bigger than yours!"

The pilot got angry and said, " if he did it, then I can do it. I can fly as well as anybody!"

They loaded up the elk along with the guns, bags and other gear and then taxied to the far end of the frozen lake. The pilot spun the plan around and at full throttle headed across the open snowfield. The burdened plane struggled into the air but still came a few feet short of the tree tops at the end of the lake. As soon as it clipped the top branches, it flipped up side down, broke into several pieces and ended up scattering the baggage, animal carcasses and passengers all through the snow covered brush.

Bruised and dazed, the pilot sat up, shook his head and said, "Where are we?"

One of the hunters rolled out from under a pile of bush, looked around, and said, "I'd reckon about a hundred yards further than last year..."