Success, Wealth and Failure is Not an Accident

If you want to real­ize your full poten­tial for per­sonal and pro­fes­sional growth and devel­op­ment, you need to begin it with your val­ues, which means apply to your own abil­i­ties — your val­ues are expressed in your words and actions.

Look­ing at what you do and how you respond to the world around you can help you find what your val­ues are, they are the root causes of your moti­va­tions and your behaviors.

As far as my life goes, I learned that every­thing hap­pens for a rea­son, there has the law of cause and effect, the great law of the uni­verse and human des­tiny. I dis­cov­ered that suc­cess is not an acci­dent, and I also find that peo­ple who are suc­cess­ful in any area usu­ally are those who have learned the cause-and-effect rela­tion­ship between what they want and how to get it.

In today’s post, I want to share with you this great arti­cle, “Suc­cess, Wealth and Fail­ure is Not an Acci­dent” that writ­ten by Dan Kennedy, an inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized as the ‘Mil­lion­aire Maker” who is help­ing peo­ple in just about every group of busi­ness turn their ideas into fortunes.

Quite a few years ago, I got to know the author of that book, Suc­cess Is Not An Acci­dent, Dr. John Kap­pas. John is now deceased. He was mar­ried to actress Flo­rence Hen­der­son, who I’ve worked with on four dif­fer­ent infomercials.

Any­way, I com­pli­mented him on the title, because it is one of those great ones you can profit by see­ing on your book­shelf even if you never crack the cover.

Like: The Magic Of Think­ing Big. Most peo­ple think way too small.

Like: Pos­si­bil­ity Think­ing. Most peo­ple think of ways things can’t be done.

Well, a whole lot of peo­ple per­sist in think­ing suc­cess is an acci­dent. An acci­dent of birth or genet­ics or freak encounter or luck.

Most who think this must, in order to live with their own lack of achieve­ment. To admit that suc­cess and wealth is both a method­i­cal process and the out­come of a process vir­tu­ally any­one can use would be to admit they failed them­selves. It is more palat­able to say life failed me than to say I failed me, or to say I’m unlucky rather than to say I’m lazy or weak or stu­pid. More com­fort­ing but obvi­ously not helpful.

Every suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neur I know shares sev­eral chief frus­tra­tions. One is time; not enough time to do what he needs or wants to do, Time Vam­pires, waste, and so on. Another is a pack of fam­ily mem­bers who think he’s so much more suc­cess­ful than they are by unfair acci­dent, who resent him, who have no appre­ci­a­tion for his vic­to­ries, who mooch off of him, who guilt him. Every suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neur has this in the family.

Suc­cess and wealth is very, very, very, very, very, very rarely acci­dent. Even the incred­i­bly annoy­ing, appar­ently vac­u­ous Paris Hilton is not a suc­cess by accident.

Through her own efforts and those of hired skilled pub­li­cists, she lever­aged being rich and strik­ing in appear­ance to being famous for being rich and strik­ing in appear­ance and famous into actual gigs and entre­pre­neur­ial activ­i­ties that actu­ally make actual profits.

That didn’t hap­pen by ran­dom light­ning bolt. It hap­pened by plan and work.

Peo­ple often com­plain about her fame and finan­cial gains, not­ing she has no tal­ent. But there’s a ter­rific object les­son there…you don’t need talent.

Per­son­ally, I think I have very lit­tle if any tal­ent. But I do have some very finely honed skills.

These days I mostly see, work with, and hang out with very suc­cess­ful peo­ple. But still, occa­sion­ally, in the Kennedy ranks, there are those who struggle.

As an observer, it’s not hard to see why they strug­gle. Suc­cess and Wealth is attracted by being deserved, by prac­tic­ing cer­tain behaviors.

These peo­ple do not prac­tice those behav­iors. So suc­cess shuns them. You see, failure’s no acci­dent either.