Success

• Alma 26: 27…Bear your afflictions with patience and then the Lord will give you success
• Alma 29: 14, 16…We should not only have joy in our own success but also in the success of our brethren
• Alma 14: 1-2…There are always those who believe in the word, but the majority won’t.
• Alma 25: 17…We should rejoice when the Lord gives us success and answers our prayers
• Alma 59:1-2…Be happy for Success of others
• Mosiah 10: 19-20…Put confidence in Lord and you’ll be successful
• Helaman 3:20-24…How unity brings Success
• Alma 17: 9…  And it came to pass that they journeyed many days in the wilderness, and they fasted much and prayed much that the Lord would grant unto them a portion of his Spirit to go with them, and abide with them, that they might be an instrument in the hands of God to bring, if it were possible, their brethren, the Lamanites, to the knowledge of the truth, to the knowledge of the baseness of the traditions of their fathers, which were not correct.  10 And it came to pass that the Lord did visit them with his Spirit, and said unto them: Be comforted. And they were comforted. 11 And the Lord said unto them also: Go forth among the Lamanites, thy brethren, and establish my word; yet ye shall be patient in long-suffering and afflictions, that ye may show forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls. 12 And it came to pass that the hearts of the sons of Mosiah, and also those who were with them, took courage to go forth unto the Lamanites to declare unto them the word of God
• 2 Nephi 9: 29…  But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God.
• “Having a strong system of support and communication is vital for success and personal well-being in all places where humans interact and coexist.”  7 Scientifically Proven Ways to Reduce Stress at Work, by Marcus Clarke.  https://www.goalcast.com/2017/08/11/7-scientifically-proven-ways-to-reduce-stress-at-work/
• “Continually ask yourself these key questions: ‘What am I really good at?  What do I enjoy the most about my work? What has been most responsible for my success in the past?  If I could do any job at all, what job would it be?’ If you won the lottery or came into an enormous amount of money and you could choose any job or any part of a job to do for the indefinite future, what work would you choose?” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 69
• “Only 20 percent of the limiting factors are external to you or to your organization.  Only 20 percent are on the outside in the form of competition, markets, governments, or other organizations.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 72 
• “Behind every constraint or choke point, once it is located and alleviated successfully, you will find another constraint or limiting factor.  Whether you’re trying to get to work on time in the morning or build a successful career, there are always limiting factors and bottlenecks that set the speed of your progress.  Your job is to find them and to focus your energies on alleviating them as quickly as possible.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 74
• Developing a Positive Mental Attitude:  “In Martin Seligman’s twenty-two-year study at the University of Pennsylvania, summarized in his book Learned Optimism, he determined that optimism is the most important quality you can develop for personal and professional success and happiness. Optimistic people seem to be more effective in almost every area of life. It turns out that optimists have four special behaviors, all learned through practice and repetition.  First, optimists look for the good in every situation. No matter what goes wrong, they always look for something good or beneficial. And not surprisingly, they always seem to find it. Second, optimists always seek the valuable lesson in every setback or difficulty. They believe that ‘difficulties come not to obstruct but to instruct.’ They believe that each setback or obstacle contains a valuable lesson they can learn and grow from, and they are determined to find it. Third, optimists always look for the solution to every problem. Instead of blaming or complaining when things go wrong, they become action oriented. They ask questions like ‘What’s the solution? What can we do now? What’s the next step?’ Fourth, optimists think and talk continually about their goals. They think about what they want and how to get it. They think and talk about the future and where they are going rather than the past and where they came from. They are always looking forward rather than backward.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 86-87
• “By focusing clearly on your most valuable task and concentrating single-mindedly until it is 100 percent complete, you actually shape and mold your own character.  You become a superior person. You feel stronger, more competent, more confident, and happier. You feel more powerful and productive. You eventually feel capable of setting and achieving any goal. You become the master of your own destiny. You place yourself on an ascending spiral of personal effectiveness on which your future is absolutely guaranteed.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 111-112
• “The fear of being fundamentally flawed brings with it a related fear. It’s the fear that if you did make a full commitment to living in your Zone of Genius, you might fail. It’s the belief that even your genius is flawed, and that if you expressed it in a big way, it wouldn’t be good enough. This belief tells you to play it safe and stay small. That way, if you fail, at least you fail small.”  The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks) Page 48
• “Vision guides us. It inspires. It leads, even through those tough times when our own personal maps can get jumbled. We have often heard successful people say that when they went through their toughest times, out of money, out of ideas and out of luck, it was their vision for the future that pulled them through. They stayed true to their vision, and the vision sustained them.” Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page
• “Most affluent people earned their money the old-fashioned way: through hard work and personal sacrifice.  Studies show that seventy-five percent of all affluent people (defined as having a net worth over three million) made it themselves.  No handouts, no winning lottery tickets, and no magic lamp with a genie inside.” Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 157
• “Dad used to say that hard work spotlights the character of people:  some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t run up at all.” Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 161
• 1 Corinthians 3:6 -7 …6  I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.  7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
• “And remember this one last thing. There’s only one guy here in this room who knows whether you’re going to make it, or fail. And that’s you. Go to it, gentlemen. And always give it everything.” Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Luttrell, Marcus) page 123
• “I think it is our natural birthright to go from success to success all our life. If we are not doing that, either we are not in tune with our innate capabilities, or we do not believe it can be true for us, or we do not recognize our successes.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 109 
• “Divine Intelligence gives me all the ideas I can use. Everything I touch is a success. There is plenty for everyone, including me. There are plenty of customers for my services. I establish a new awareness of success. I move into the Winning Circle. I am a magnet for Divine Prosperity. I am blessed beyond my fondest dreams. Riches of every sort are drawn to me. Golden Opportunities are everywhere for me.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 110
•  “I deserve the best, and I accept the best, now.” If you want the above affirmation to be true for you, then you do not want to believe any of the following statements: Money doesn’t grow on trees. Money is filthy and dirty. Money is evil. I am poor, but clean (or good). Rich people are crooks. I don’t want to have money and be stuck up. I will never get a good job. I will never make any money. Money goes out faster than it comes in. I am always in debt. Poor people can never get out from under. My parents were poor, and I will be poor. Artists have to struggle. Only people who cheat have money. Everyone else comes first. Oh, I couldn’t charge that much. I don’t deserve. I’m not good enough to make money. Never tell anyone what I have in the bank. Never lend money. A penny saved is a penny earned. Save for a rainy day. A Depression could come at any moment. I resent others having money. Money only comes from hard work. How many of these beliefs belong to you? Do you really think that believing any of them will bring you prosperity? It is old, limited thinking. Perhaps it was what your family believed about money, because family beliefs stay with us unless we consciously release them. Wherever it came from, it must leave your consciousness if you want to prosper.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 113
• “My worry-thoughts about money were simply a sign. The sign said it’s time for me to expand my capacity to revel in the joy of having created abundance and love. To my knowledge, that combination is something new in my family lineage. It’s new territory, and I’m learning to live in it. To do that, I need to overcome thousands of years of programming that adversity is a constant requirement of existence. We need to savor our success, first for seconds at a time, then for minutes that grow into months.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks) Page 75
• “These specific actions will keep you on track and on the fast track to living in your Zone of Genius. Make a commitment to keeping an attitude of wonder and play while learning about your Upper Limit behaviors. Say this sentence in your mind as often as you like. It expresses the attitude I’d like you to embody: I commit to discovering my Upper Limit behaviors, and to having a good time while I’m learning about them. You can learn a lot more with a spirit of wonder and enjoyment than you can with an attitude of criticism. Make a list of your Upper Limit behaviors. Here are some of the most common ones: Worrying Blame and criticism Getting sick or hurt Squabbling Hiding significant feelings Not keeping agreements Not speaking significant truths to the relevant people. (If you’re mad at John, he’s the relevant person to talk to. It doesn’t help to tell Fred that you’re mad at John.) Deflecting. (Brushing off compliments is a good example of deflecting) When you notice yourself doing one of the things on your Upper Limit list, such as worrying, or failing to communicate some truth, shift your attention to the real issue: expanding your capacity for abundance, love, and success. Consciously let yourself make more room in your awareness for abundance, love, and success. Use the resources of your whole being, not just your mind. For example, feel more love in your chest and heart area. Savor the body feeling, as well as the mental satisfaction, of success and abundance. Embrace a new story that tells about your adventures in your Zone of Genius. Find a new mythology, or make up one of your own, that shows you enjoying your life in the full radiance of your expressed potential.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks) Page 111
• “Most people have a carefully crafted, well-justified story about why they can’t take their Big Leap. For one person it was about the family: “I can’t possibly take the time to write [“make a video,” etc.] because my family needs me.” For another person it was about stress: “I tried getting up at 5 a.m. for a while to work on my book, but I couldn’t do that and do a good job with my 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. therapy clients.” For others it was purely about the money: “I can’t do what I really want to do because I might not make as much money doing it.” As I listened to these stories, I would sometimes hear the real fears emerge. There is a huge fear underneath every complaint: If I took the Big Leap into my Zone of Genius, I might fail. What if I really opened up to my true genius and found that my genius wasn’t good enough? Better to keep the genie in the bottle and coast along in the Zone of Excellence. That way I don’t have to risk taking a Big Leap and finding it isn’t good enough. That way I don’t have to risk discovering the ugly possibility that I don’t have a Zone of Genius.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks) Page 119
• “In your Zone of Genius, you don’t feel like you’re working. Even though the time you spend there produces great financial abundance, you do not feel that you are expending effort to produce it. In your Zone of Genius, work doesn’t feel like work. In your Zone of Genius, time feels completely different. Time seems to expand to support your activities. You have plenty of time to do what you most want to do.”  The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks) Page 120
• “I’ve found that it’s essential to begin with a commitment to living in your Zone of Genius. Your commitment must come before you know how to make good on it. The image that comes to mind is from the third Indiana Jones movie, in which Indy must step out into thin air, in a gesture of commitment, before a bridge magically appears beneath his feet. The power of your commitment brings forth the means necessary for you to live in your Zone of Genius. If you will make a powerful, sincere commitment—a vow that you really want to live your life in the Zone of Genius—your journey will be blessed with uncommon good fortune at all the twists and turns of the road. Commitment has that power.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks) Page 121
• “I spent a lot of time wondering how to distinguish my genius from my excellence. I finally realized a big key to it: my genius is connected to what I most love to do. That’s why I want you to wonder about what you most love to do.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks) Page 122
• “So, enter the outskirts of your Zone of Genius by asking yourself what you most love to do. Wonder about this until you have a clearly forming sense of it in your body. You don’t have to know it clearly or specifically yet. You just need to feel the glimmer of it in your inner world.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks) Page 124
• “If you’re like most of us, you feel sad or irritated about the amount of your precious time that gets eaten up in the necessary trivia of your day. As you get more successful, it’s common to feel a mounting pressure about this issue, an unnatural hurry-up that feels unhealthy to your well-being. I believe that the sense of mounting pressure is the call to live in your Zone of Genius. I’ve seen it disappear with miraculous speed when people opened up to wondering about what their true genius might be.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks) Page 126
• “Her reply was the key to resolving the whole issue. She said, “But I can’t sit down to write unless I’ve got a clean house and things taken care of.” “Sure, you can,” I said. “You just think you have to get that other stuff done first. Where did you get an idea like that?” She said, “But what if my husband came back from work and found a dirty house and me sitting up there writing?” “He’d find a wife who put a higher priority on her creative expression than she did on keeping the house clean. Do you think he’d be upset about that?” “Not really,” she said. “I think he’d actually like it.” As our conversation developed, it became clear that she was holding herself hostage to housework for Upper Limit reasons. Nancy’s unconscious mind had constructed a doom scenario of what would occur if she went all the way into her Zone of Genius. In her imagination, if she put her full attention into her writing, she’d neglect her family, and they would languish in the absence of her attention. Nancy began to see the absurdity of that way of thinking. She also discovered the real fear that was underneath it all: that if she made a big commitment to her creativity, she might fail on a bigger scale. If she stayed small, she could avoid the possibility of big rejection.”  The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks) Page 129
• “When we’re able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists. So, a revision to the “You-can-be-anything-you-want-to-be” maxim might be more accurate: You cannot be anything you want to be—but you can be a lot more of who you already are.”  StrengthsFinder 2.0 (Tom Rath)  Kindle Location 213-17
• “God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future—to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.”  Broken Things to Mend (Jeffrey R. Holland) Kindle Loc. 791-93
• “We have been placed upon earth not to fail or fall victim to temptation’s snare but rather to succeed.” Meeting Your Goliath (Thomas S. Monson) Kindle Loc. 56-57
• “I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 60
• “…Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. (Booker T. Washington)
• “Few players in my era prepared and practiced with my intensity. I was so driven to be the best player that I actually deprived myself of enjoying my success. I was obsessed with preparation. I was convinced that if I dedicated more time, focus, and sheer hard work to the game than my opponents did, I would eventually end up on top. And I did.” Clearing the Bases (Schmidt, Mike;Waggoner, Glen) Kindle Location  1206-1209
• “Then married with two children and three more to come I had no choice but to succeed.” Remarks to The 2008 Annual Membership Meeting Society of Financial Service Professionals, Bethesda Country Club. Bill Walace, CLU®, ChFC® JUNE 13, 2008
• “…There are those golden moments of success that make all of the hardships worthwhile.” (Richard G. Scott, Ensign, Nov. 2003, 41)
• “December 12th, 1994 – Monday. Puyo Ecuador…Dad wrote me some good advice today. He told me “feeling discouraged or unsuccessful comes from within you – you determine your attitude and no one or nothing can unless you allow it to. So, trust in the Lord – I dare you to try Him.” These words are so true. I should always be happy and – BE MYSELF!!!  I’ve just got to press forward, and work my tail off.  The blessings will come.  Maybe I’m just looking for baptisms as the only blessings. I need to notice the little blessings!  I’ve got a ton!” Clinton Brown Missionary Journal
• “What’s more, obsessing about winning is a loser’s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc.358-60
• “This was a team—despite all the turmoil—that knew it was destined for greatness, if only it could get out of its own way.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 244
• “The soul of success is surrendering to what is.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty)  Page 334
• Book of Mormon, Mosiah 2:22 …If you keep the Lord’s commandments, he promises that you will prosper in the land, and bless you. He has said it, so it won’t change.
• Alma 26: 27….Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success.
• “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that is counted counts” Anonymous
• “Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work. I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn’t make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.” Warren Bennis
• “Elder Jeffrey R. Holland told of a young man who was the brunt of his peers teasing during his school years. Some years later he moved away, joined the military, received an education, and became active in the Church. This period of his life was marked with wonderfully successful experiences. After several years he returned to his hometown. However, the people refused to acknowledge his growth and improvement. To them, he was still just old ;so-and-so; and they treated him that way. Eventually, this good man faded away to a shadow of his former successful self without being able to use his marvelously developed talents to bless those who derided and rejected him once again. What a loss, both for him and the community!” Ensign, 2016, General Women’s Session, I Will Bring the Light of the Gospel Into My Home
• “He is the most happy and successful in life whose interests are coupled with giving assistance to others and helping them find the way. The sign at the railroad crossing that warns us to stop, look, and listen could be a guide for us. Stop as we rush through life. Look for all the friendly, thoughtful, courteous things we can do, and all the little human needs we can fill. Listen to others and learn of their hopes and problems so that we will be able to contribute in little ways to their success and happiness.” Manual, Teachings of the President of the Church: Howard W. Hunter,  Chapter 23 No Less Serviceable
• December 20, 1995 – Wednesday – Quito Ecuador… “Wow.  Great day.  We taught 8 second charlas today and we committed 4 to be baptized.  We’re going to commit the other 4 ya mismo.  I’m really seeing the positive side of things.  When Satan does something, or something fails, I can recognize it, think, and do the best of the situation.  Many times the citas are stood up, so we think of another option – nada, and then another – nada – but we always find someone in the road, or by their house so that we make contact, or take out the referral.  The Lord really does guide us to do the things that he wants us to do.  I know this is His work, and no one elses.  I love being here.  It’s so important to be worthy of the Spirit.  If not – no success.” – Clinton Brown Missionary Journal