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The Honest-to-God, Unvarnished Truth About Success

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August 7, 2008

Scene from the movie Facing the Giants.  The Honest-to-God, Unvarnished Truth About SuccessIf you're reading this blog, you probably fall into one of a few groups... (1) you want to have a profitable Internet Business, (2) you're searching for information on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or some other topic I touch on and landed here for that reason. I can tell you that most visitors probably fall in the first category. I can also tell you that around 95% will fail.

That actually goes for most anything, not just Internet Businesses.

What do the 5% know, do, or have that makes them winners? It's simple: they believe.

As human beings, we tend to make things way too complicated. Complexity gives us a false sense of security and gives our egos a boost. It makes us feel like we belong to a secretive, exclusive club if we understand the complexities of life, even if we royally screw up reality in the process.

Can success really be as simple as believing?
Everyone wants to believe in something. Jews, Protestants, Muslims, Christians, Agnostics, drunks, drug addicts, couch potatoes, democrats, and yes, even Atheists... they all believe in something. They may not admit it, but they do. The weak follow the strong. It's been happening since the dawn of time and it hasn't slowed down one bit.

The problem is that most people think they believe, but they don't. Or, like some religions, or denominations of some religions, they make their beliefs so complex it's a death sentence instead of a saving experience.

Jesus didn't hand out a complex list of rules and regulations that sounded like tax code. How many times in the Bible did he heal or help someone simply because they believed? When a blind person ask Jesus to make them see again, he didn't have them fill out a 36 page form and make an appointment for sometime next month. No, he healed them right then and there.

Belief = Action
Did you catch the important key in the last paragraph? The blind person believed. He or she took action by asking to be healed. They were healed. Simple. Plain and simple. If you truly believe you will take action to achieve.

Facing your Giants:
In the movie "Facing the Giants", Coach Grant Taylor thinks he believes. He's a good guy, a Christian, but like most people, he's struggling and just getting by in life. He's never had a winning football season, in fact he's had six loosing seasons, he can't father a child, and his car is a pile of junk that he can't afford to replace or repair. The parents at the school want a new coach. His best athletes transfer to other schools. As he comes face to face with his shortcomings he turns to his faith. He changes his focus from just trying to win football games to something much larger. The most moving scene in the movie comes as Coach Taylor is trying to get Brook Kelly, the captain of the team, to believe in himself and his abilities. Brook is the player the other players follow. Coach Taylor knows that if he can get Brook to believe that they can win, the other players will believe too. He gets Brook to promise to give everything he has, to not leave anything on the field, to go until he has absolutely nothing left and then to reach deep down inside and find one more last bit of strength. As Coach Taylor is working on Brook, and the other players, he's also working on himself. The strength of his belief is contagious and spreads to those around him. As he turns the team around, he turns his life around.

Coach Taylor didn't focus on winning games. He didn't focus on being a father. He didn't focus on winning the state championship, and he didn't focus on getting a new vehicle. However, in the end he achieved all of those things. He focused on beliefs, both in God, and in his player's abilities. It was not some complex system he followed, just simple belief.

You have to believe.
You can't just half-way believe. If you're a Christian, then you're either a Christian or you're not. Don't go to church on Sunday and leave everything the Bible says about how to live life at the door as you shake hands with the preacher on the way out. You either believe or you don't. If you truly believe you will take action based on those beliefs.

You have to believe. You can't just half-way believe. If you want your son or daughter to grow up to be a great person and a successful, productive adult, you have to believe in them and believe in being the best parent you can. Don't expect the school system, teachers, or anyone else to raise your child. You have to put your child ahead of some other things in your life. You have to give until you have nothing left to give and not leave anything on the field as a parent.

You have to believe. You can't just half-way believe. If you want a successful and fulfilling marriage, then you have to believe in it and your spouse. You either do or you don't. Even the best relationships can be trying at times, especially with a house full of kids. You dig in, you believe in each other, you put each other before other things, you give until you don't have anything left to give and then you reach deep inside and find the strength to give some more.

You either believe or you don't.
If you believe then there's no doubt, no question, no room for failure. You can't achieve success by just trying something half-heartedly. You will never succeed. Most people who try to change their life fail. It doesn't matter if it's loosing weight, getting in shape, building up a physique, paying off debt, stopping smoking, getting a better job, quitting drugs, starting a business, finding someone to love, etc., etc., etc., failure is probably going to be the outcome.

You need to look past your goal to something bigger in life.
You need to believe. If you want to make a lot of money because you can't pay your bills, I understand that. There are a lot of people in that same boat. But in reality, that's a pretty small and petty problem. Sure it can practically drive you nuts and cripple your ability to do anything with your life. However, you need to look past that situation to something larger and more important. Think about what you could do once you pay your bills off... think about how you could help others by having the means to do so. Look beyond yourself and believe. Once you have that goal in mind, give all you have to get there. Give 100 percent. Don't leave anything on the field. Give until you can't give anything else, until you don't have anything left to give, and then find the strength to take a few more steps, to give a little more.

Success lies in those last steps.
Anyone can get half-way there; it takes belief to go all the way. Like Brook Kelly doing the "death crawl" down the football field blindfolded with a 160 pound player on his back, you can go much, much farther than you ever thought you could. Brook would have stopped at the 30 yard line (from the starting end zone) without the blindfold. But when Coach Taylor blindfolded him and kept telling him to give his all, to keep going until he had nothing left, to work past the pain and find more strength, Brook make it all 100 yards. 70 more yards than he believed he could. That was the turning point in the football team's season and in Coach Taylor's life.

Unless you have unshakable belief in yourself and in something bigger than yourself, you will fail. If you believe, and never stop believing, and never stop trying, you will succeed. And that my friends, is the cold, hard, honest to God, unvarnished truth.

Until next time,
Fred

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Fred Black is an experienced online business operator, programmer, web site developer, father, husband, musician, and songwriter. Visit his Internet Business Blog at: http://www.pqInternet.com.


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  1. From: Bruno Auger

    Yes if you truely believe you make the success you want you can achieve it no problem. Just set you plan in motion and take it headon

    Posted by Bruno Auger on August 9, 2008 5:09 PM

  2. From: meanderingwithmarilyn.com

    Thanks for the words of encouragement and the info on no no follow.

    Glenda

    Posted by meanderingwithmarilyn.com on August 11, 2008 9:58 PM

  3. From: Sid Savara

    Fred you're right on. Nobody ever made it being half-a**ed and not believing in their own abilities.

    Off topic, your RSS feed is not formatting well in my Google Reader. I don't mind, as I intend to click through to your blog and join the conversation anyway, but I thought I would mention it to you in case you weren't aware. It looks like one large block of text, and is very hard to read in Google Reader.

    Posted by Sid Savara on August 14, 2008 6:28 PM

  4. From Fred...

    Hey Sid....
    Try the feed that's labeled XML in the right column... each of the 3 (or so) feeds is formatted a little differently...

    Let me know.
    Fred

    Posted by Fred Black on August 14, 2008 9:19 PM

  5. From: Michael Clutton

    Excellent view and description. Spot on. I've been reading several of your entries (yes I'm new here) and I have to admit that I'm impressed with what I've seen.

    If you don't mind, I'll poke around a bit more before getting too involved. But, suffice it to say that I like what I see so far.

    Is it okay to post links to some of your posts on one of my personal sites for the benefit of my personal associates? Kind of a "required reading" section with recommended topics. It's not a blog, just an info page for people who work with me. Is that okay?

    If not, I'll link to them once I get my own blog off the ground. I'll be stopping by again. Thanks for your insight.

    Posted by Michael Clutton on August 22, 2008 4:40 PM

  6. From Fred...

    Thanks Michael... yes, feel free to link back to me from any site as long it's an ethical site. If you want to use my suggestions for linking see this page: www.pqInternet.com/HowToLinkToMe.asp

    Posted by Fred Black on August 22, 2008 5:02 PM

  7. From: Michael Clutton

    Hey Fred,

    Me again, had forgotten about this post. Wanted to update you. Have added your link to my blog - now that I have one. Took me a while to get off the ground, too many irons in the fire.

    Thanks again, keep up the good work.

    -- Michael

    Posted by Michael Clutton on November 6, 2008 8:33 PM

  8. From: Abdul

    I do agree that believing is an important aspect, but one should never be scared of trying out something new!

    Posted by Abdul on December 12, 2008 11:29 PM

 


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