"THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IS DETERMINED BY YOUR DAILY AGENDA" | Powerful Speech by John Maxwell The amazing John Maxwell shares some incredible words on success. How it represents a journey and what success means in our lives. Credits: Check John Maxwell Out Here: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnmaxwellteam Speaker: John Maxwell Music Licensed by Agus Gonzalez-Lancharro Music by Really Slow Motion Buy their music: Amazon: http://amzn.to/1lTltY5 iTunes: http://bit.ly/1ee3l8K Spotify: http://bit.ly/1r3lPvN Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/1DqtZSo Visit us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReallySlowMo… Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSMmusicSound Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/reallyslo… Transcript: I’ll bet that you want to be successful. In fact, I will also wager that you have spent a lot of times asking yourself the question, “how can I be successful?” “What is success?” “How can I achieve the dreams that I have within myself?” And I just want to begin this talk by congratulating you because if those are questions you’ve asked, if those are thoughts that you have gone through your mind, I want you to know that you have probably within you a restlessness and a potential that says to me that you have not yet achieved your maximum success, you have not yet probably arrived to your greatest potential. And that’s why we’re spending time together, because I have a passion, a great passion in my life to help people be successful. There’s no greater joy that I have than to walk along beside somebody just like you and find out where you are and then say, “ok, this is where you are, but this is where you could be”. And you look at me and say, “John, that’s exactly what I want, I want to go there, I want to be there, I want to arrive to that destination”, and together we kind of we kind of work it out and we make it. You see, the first mistake that people make about success is that they somehow think that it’s a destination. So they’ll come up to me and they’ll say, “John, how do I become a success?” “How do I arrive to my dream?” And I can tell that they look at success as something out there, they’re here and success is out there and so somehow they think that over time I suppose that if they do the right things they can get there and the first thing I want you to know that success is not a destination, it’s a journey. Think of success as a process. Let me illustrate and explain it this way. If you go to college, you work hard and in four or five years depending on what kind of degree you’re working on and in today’s society sometimes six or seven years, but eventually comes the day of graduation and you’re all excited and your family is there and your friends are there and you’re there with your classmates and you got your cap and your gown and you know that there’s going to be a time in that ceremony where you’re going to walk across stage and the president, provost, somebody’s going to shake your hand, hand your diploma, congratulate you and you’re going to get off the other side they are going to have presents waiting for you, and they’ll be taking pictures, and everybody will be shaking your hands saying, “congratulations today, you became a success, you’re a college graduate”. Now, now, my friend, you did not become a success the day that you got your diploma. Now, what you did have happen to you in that ceremony is you got recognized for success. The diploma is recognition of what you have done the previous four or five years. You see, you were a success in your freshman year when you decided to not drop out of school like some of your other classmates and decided to stick to it and you were a success every time you studied for a test and you were a success every time you did a project or did a writing assignment. You see, you’re a success all through school, you’re a success every day, success is a daily thing, not a destination thing. The day you got the diploma you just got recognized for the success that you already were. Now, that’s very essential. Because so many times people have a tendency to devalue the moment, today. |