10 COMMANDMENTS OF SUCCESS

Collins Imoudu Andrew

1. Control Your Thoughts
Never harbour a Premonition, or a Superstition, nor allow yourself to be afraid of what is mysterious or unknown. By such bugaboos are the weak and ignorant driven.
2. Be Courageous
There has never been any tribe discovered that did not look up to a brave man.
3. Make a Program and Follow It.
Arrange your day. Get the twenty-four hours that are yours into companies and classes. It is amazing what you can accomplish in a day if you order your time; it is three hundred and sixty-five times as amazing as what you can get done in a year.



4. Find Out What You Want
Take a day off, a few hours at least, examine yourself, look carefully over all the objects which you think would make you happy if you gained them, and select the thing most worthwhile.
5. Settle the Sex Problem Intelligently
The sex drive is not wicked. It is natural. Sex feeling has its place and is a very wholesome and beautiful place. It means family life, the dear relationships of wife and husband and children, and without it all the charming field of romantic affection would disappear.
6. Pay Attention to Your Money
The very first duty of every human being is to find some part of the world’s work to do for which the world is willing to pay him money. For that means that mankind believes he has an acceptable excuse for being alive, and a right to claim his share of food and clothes.
7. Adjust Yourself
The secret of efficiency is adjustment. Those who do things are those that know how to adjust. The horse is stronger than the man, but the man rides the horse and makes him go or stop at his pleasure, because the man knows enough to put a bit in the horse’s mouth, and the horse does not know enough – or at least is not able – to spit it out.
8. Be a Good Sport
To be a good sport means to be a good loser. The art of art is the art of losing. The secret of success is how to manage failure. Walking they say is a succession of falls, and life is a succession of mistakes. Don’t complain, and whine, and be sorry for yourself; your time is too short; get busy.
9. Go On
The nearest one can come to defining genius is that it is some force within a man that makes him Go On. Successful writers are those who cannot help writing, and no discouragement can prevent them from writing. Of course, one may persist and yet never be anything but mediocre, yet it is certain that nobody can write unless he will write, in spite of all the critics and cynics.
10. Obey Your Conscience
A man who does what he thinks is right may be despised by the world, but he will never despise himself. You can imprison, torture, and kill him, but you cannot take away his inner sense of triumph. All history moves behind him. The stars in their courses fight for him. The man who does not obey his Conscience may seem to succeed. Everybody may think so. Everybody but one may be fooled. But he cannot fool himself. At last, he will know he has failed.
Source: Adapted from artofmanliness.com

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