THE HOPE OF SUCCESS

by Stephan Bourget

Some people have no hope of success in themselves. Their mindset from the start is self-defeated before they can even get going. They live in a world of cost, but no investment, of payment, but no pay-off.

Typically, this kind of person will sit and count their losses before even getting in the game. In fact, they won't get in the game, because they've already calculated how much they'll lose. In other words, they have no hope of success in themselves.

They would love to be rich, but they will not take risks. They would love to hit it big, but they will not take the gamble. They would love to have burgeoning residual income to retire early on, but they will not stake their reputation on anything. In other words, they have no hope of success within themselves.

Would you pay $15, $30, or $100 or more, if you knew you were going to get back twice as much? Seems reasonable and sensible to do so. Yet, what is it in a person's mind that makes them think they can't double their money? What is it that makes a person have the expectation of failure, but not the hope of success?

Logically, one could sit down and say, "Well, I see there is a very reasonable minimum production that I will have to perform, in order to double my money. After that, all else will be pure mounting income." But, without the hope of success in themselves, they can't think logically.

It is fear that de-motivates them. They fear both failure and success. If they should fail, then they have suffered what fear told them about losing their money. If they should succeed, then who would they become, in the fear of the unknown?

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt," said Shakespeare and I believe that with all my heart. Without the hope of success we're forever stuck on first base, because we'll take no chance to get to second.

Do you want to succeed? Do you really?

Take risks! Stick to a thing! Work it through! Be willing to change your methods until they work! Stop taking the quitters way out! Do more than nothing! Go faster than slow!

How many times can you try a thing before you succeed? Doesn't success seem inevitable to you, if you will only change your behavior to conform to what works? Don't you have the hope of success in you?

Stephan Bourget
http://www.mynewsuccess.com