Think Your Way to Success<\/p>\n
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I believe it is a well understood principle that proper planning leads to success.\u00a0 What this means from a practical standpoint was brought home to me recently.\u00a0 The book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill was recommended to me by two entirely different sources.\u00a0 If you are not familiar with the book it was written many decades ago and continues to be one of the all-time best sellers.\u00a0 Although it is a bit dated with some of its stories, it is dead on with its idea of setting goals and achieving success.\u00a0 The overall premise of the book is that your thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence and a burning desire to achieve your goal is what motivates you forward.<\/p>\n
Let me give you a practical application of this.\u00a0 When I first joined B2B CFO\u00ae <\/strong>I set the goal of a particular earnings level that would allow me be become a senior partner in the firm.\u00a0 I achieved this within my first year with the firm.\u00a0 I then established, by mistake, the goal of staying a senior partner which was tied to maintaining the same level of earnings.\u00a0 What I had inadvertently done was put a ceiling on my earnings potential by establishing the wrong goal.\u00a0 This became clear to me when I wanted to qualify for another role in the firm that now had a higher earning level attached to it.\u00a0 My desire was the new role, not necessarily the earnings, although that was nice too.\u00a0\u00a0 What I realized was that with the new DESIRE firmly in my mind I immediately achieved the goal.\u00a0 When I say immediately I mean it, within a month or two I had achieved what I needed to qualify.\u00a0 I have subsequently set a much higher goal for myself and am on track to achieving it, even though it is clearly a stretch goal for me.<\/p>\n Getting back to Think and Grow Rich, the author lays out 6 specific steps that cause all this to work together. He then gives example after example of how this works in action.\u00a0 The six steps are as follows:<\/p>\n It does sound a little farfetched but I challenge you to try it and see for yourself.\u00a0 I am a believer and will always have clear and written goals going forward.\u00a0 If you own a business in the Chicago Area, as a partner with B2B CFO\u00ae<\/strong> I am well positioned to help you plan your business success.\u00a0 If I can be of assistance to you, just let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Think Your Way to Success I believe it is a well understood principle that proper planning leads to success.\u00a0 What this means from a practical standpoint was brought home to me recently.\u00a0 The book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill was recommended to me by two entirely different sources.\u00a0 If you are not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n