The Success Principles

Description from the publisher

This book offers the proven self-empowerment tools and time-tested performance strategies that are the basis for personal and professional success. / Jack Canfield has become the author of over 50 best-selling books by following these principles -- here he reveals how they can help you to take on greater challenges, produce break-through results and achieve undreamed of success. / With the Ten-Step Action Plan you will learn how to: -- Take responsibility for your life -- Set goals and manage time -- Invest in developing knowledge and core skills -- Face up to what isn't working and stay motivated -- Focus on your unique abilities -- Transcend other people's limiting opinions and much more. / Decide what you want, believe you deserve it and practise the principles, and with these powerful new habits you can experience astonishing opportunities and extraordinary results in all aspects of your life, from your career to your relationships.

About the Author

Jack Canfield has sold more than 80 million books worldwide under the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand. He holds the Guinness Book World Record for having seven books simultaneously on the New York Times bestseller list. Janet Switzer is a marketing expert and one of America's top speakers and coaches. She's counseled more than 50,000 companies and entrepreneurs worldwide and is founder and editor of Leading Experts e-news magazine. She has a particularly loyal following of women entrepreneurs.

The Principles Always Work

If You Work the Principles

Get ready to transform yourself for success. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the phenomenal bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, turns to the principles he's studied, taught, and lived for more than 30 years in this practical and inspiring guide that will help any aspiring person get from where they are to where they want to be.

The Success Principles™ will teach you how to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose, and realize all your ambitions. Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 64 timeless principles used by successful men and women throughout history. And the fundamentals are the same for all people and all professions -- even if you're currently unemployed. It doesn't matter if your goals are to be the top salesperson in your company, become a leading architect, score straight A's in school, lose weight, buy your dream home, or make millions of dollars–the principles and strategies are the same.

From learning these basics, you can then tackle the important inner work needed to transform yourself. After this inner work, you can turn to building a "success team" and the important ways of transforming your relationships for lasting success. Finally, because success always includes a financial dimension, you can learn to develop a positive money consciousness along with the habits that will ensure that you have enough to live the lifestyle you want, while keeping the importance of tithing and service central to your financial practice. Taken together and practiced every day, these principles will transform your life beyond your wildest dreams!

Filled with memorable and inspiring stories of CEO's, world-class athletes, celebrities, and everyday people, The Success Principles™ will give you the courage and the heart to start living the principles of success today. Go for it!

Author Essay

Jack Canfield on The Success Principles

The Successful Life Starts With Proven Principles

After selling 80 million copies of his Chicken Soup for the Soul books, Jack Canfield knows what it takes to be successful. Now he's sharing the strategies he assembled over the past 30 years in his latest book, The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, co-authored with Janet Switzer. This New York Times bestseller is the definitive guide to 64 universal principles of success top achievers use to succeed in their careers, finances, relationships, businesses, leisure pursuits and more.

What actionable strategies does The Success Principles offer readers?

1. Take 100% responsibility for your life. Canfield teaches that Event + Response = Outcome and says successful people respond differently to events in order to get the ideal outcomes they want. 

2. Decide what you want. Define the exact goals you want to achieve in specific terms—i.e., invest $20,000 a year, finish my doctorate by June 30, 2006, etc. 

3. Develop a mastermind group. Follow Carnegie, Edison, Ford and others in forming a group of five to six people who meet regularly to brainstorm and motivate each other. 

4. Focus on your core genius. Determine what you love to do and do well — then delegate everything else. If you don't have your own staff, try outsourcing, trading for services or hiring occasional part-timers in order to free your time and enjoy life more. 

5. Create a breakthrough goal. Determine one accomplishment that would uplevel everything you do—then pursue that goal with passion. 

6. Surround yourself with successful people. Canfield says, "You become like the people you spend the most time with." Seek out the top people in your field. Attend industry conferences. Find mentors who've succeeded at the goals you want to achieve. 

7. Clean up your incompletes and messes. Clutter, projects left undone and unresolved relationships take up attention units and decrease your ability to focus on goals. Dedicate one weekend a month to organizing, resolving and finishing. 

8. Redefine time. Restructure your calendar to add more days when you spend 80% of the time focusing on your core genius. Schedule preparation days where you delegate or get ready to be productive. Then schedule rest and recreation days. The goal? Super high productivity with more free time. If you control your own work schedule, stop working weekends, take two 14-day vacations, then add seven long holiday weekends. That's 146 days off each year. 

9. Ask for feedback. Ask your boss, spouse, co-workers and others to rate your relationship on a scale of one to 10. What are you doing right? What can you improve on? Where you rate less than a 10, ask what would it take to get to 10. 

10. Develop a positive money focus. Decide what "wealth" means to you, then make a conscious decision to build a thriving, wealth-producing career. Find out the cost to finance your dream life, then focus on achieving it using principles in the book. 

Each chapter of The Success Principles is a quick-read filled with illuminating stories from some of the world's most famous achievers—all noting in detail how they created their lifestyle, business and personal successes. 

The co-authors also include a free private mentorship program plus valuable life planning tools at www.thesuccessprinciples.com. Plus, 40+ free resources from other experts are a special bonus when you purchase the book at www.jackcanfieldtrainings.com/book.

Table of Contents

I. The Fundamentals of Success

1. Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life

2. Be Clear Why You're Here

3. Decide What You Want

4. Believe It's Possible

5. Believe in Yourself

6. Become an Inverse Paranoid

7. Unleash the Power of Goal-Setting

8. Chunk It Down

9. Success Leaves Clues

10. Release the Brakes

11. See What You Want, Get What You See

12. Act as If

13. Take Action

14. Just Lean into It

15. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

16. Be Willing to Pay the Price

17. Ask! Ask! Ask!

18. Reject Rejection

19. Use Feedback to Your Advantage

20. Commit to Constant and Never-Ending Improvement

21. Keep Score for Success

22. Practice Persistence

23. Practice the Rule of 5

24. Exceed Expectations

II. Transform Yourself for Success

25. Drop Out of the "Ain't It Awful" Club ... and Surround

       Yourself with Successful People

26. Acknowledge Your Positive Past

27. Keep Your Eye on the Prize

28. Clean Up Your Messes and Your Incompletes

29. Complete the Past to Embrace the Future

30. Face What Isn't Working

31. Embrace Change

32. Transform Your Inner Critic into an Inner Coach

33. Transcend Your Limiting Beliefs

34. Develop Four New Success Habits a Year

35. 99% Is a Bitch; 100% Is a Breeze

36. Learn More to Earn More

37. Stay Motivated with the Masters

38. Fuel Your Success with Passion and Enthusiasm

III. Build Your Success Team

39. Stay Focused on Your Core Genius

40. Redefine Time

41. Build a Powerful Support Team and Delegate to Them

42. Just Say No!

43. Say No to the Good So That You Can Say Yes to the Great

44. Find a Wing to Climb Under

45. Hire a Personal Coach

46. Mastermind Your Way to Success

47. Inquire Within

IV. Create Successful Relationships

48. Be Hear Now

49. Have a Heart Talk

50. Tell the Truth Faster

51. Speak with Impeccability

52. When in Doubt, Check It Out

53. Practice Uncommon Appreciation

54. Keep Your Agreements

55. Be a Class Act

V. Success and Money

56. Develop a Positive Money Consciousness

57. You Get What You Focus On

58. Pay Yourself First

59. Master the Spending Game

60. To Spend More, First Make More

61. Give More to Get More

62. Find a Way to Serve

VI. Success Starts Now

63. Start Now! ... Just Do It!

64. Empower Yourself by Empowering Others

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Suggested Reading and Additional Resources for Success

About the Authors

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Index