The Nature of Success

The only thing standing between where you are and what you want is the will to try and the faith to believe. Faith defines the goal, while will serves as motivation to move you toward that purpose. Together the traits of faith and will form an unstoppable force for success. The will to act to achieve an end you believe in allows you to mix in ingredients that characterize achievement. These ingredients are defined in "The Nature of Success", a brief book of inspiration by Mac Anderson.

"The Nature of Success" combines ageless insights with remarkably beautiful photographs to both enlighten and encourage. This brief volume is one of many releases by "Simple Truths" an Illinois based company publishing concise works seamlessly merging, on printed pages and in video collages, the magnificence of nature with the timeless tenets of growth and achievement.

Every journey has a beginning and an end, and so it is with life. The stuff that fills the time between birth and death can be miraculous or mundane, exhilarating or dreary, triumphant or tragic - you get to choose. You may draw your selections from a buffet of judgments, contradictions and complaints or more appropriately from proven precepts and principles to advance in courage, in competence, and in wisdom.

You can choose a full and fulfilling life. The way is available to everyone, you just must select the right path.

Between a healthy share of stimulating quotes and breathtaking photographs Mac Anderson offers, in "The Nature of Success", tenets of truth to guide you and vignettes from personal experience illustrating how those success tenets have been applied. He writes about his successes and struggles in business and in life. Mac achieved notoriety as CEO of McCord Travel and as a key executive with Orval Kent Foods before realizing his true calling. He founded Successories, a company designing and distributing motivational products, and has gone on to become a passionate author and speaker focusing on leadership and growth.

Mac offers and expands on twenty-seven tips to fuel you on your path of growth and achievement. These tips include: the power of faith, riding the wave of passion, creating positive change, savoring the moment, and embracing change among others. H.G. Wells once pointed out, "We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment is a miracle and a mystery." Moving in the right direction is essential. Goals guide, but action is key; while change is inevitable, growth is optional.

Mac reminds us: Heroes are ordinary people who place their dreams above their fears. Everyone possesses the potential to be a hero. By facing challenges we discover our potential. To get what you have never had, you must do what you have never done. Your task in seeking this life is to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

As Saint Frances De Sales observed, "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." The nature of success is to face life with optimism and resolve, for you learn to achieve by achieving.

Find the courage to start small, then keep raising your aim. If you persist you will outgrow every challenge and lead a life of excellence few mere mortals know. You have within you a nature to succeed - embrace it.

Scott F. Paradis, author of "Promise and Potential: A Life of Wisdom, Courage, Strength and Will" http://www.promiseandpotential.com/ publishes "Insights" available for free at http://www.c-achieve.com/

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Most Successful Understand Human Nature

Regardless of the field of endeavor, there are certain common characteristics that are invariably needed. Each of us, in some manner, shape or form, sells something. Some sell a product, others a service, and the rest sell themselves. Many of the greatest motivators, sales persons, and successes of all time have often spoken of the fact that success is only very slightly related to any type of technical knowledge, but primarily a factor of how well someone understands human nature. However, in my more than three decades of training, developing leaders, and conducting attitude adjustment/ self help seminars/ programs, I have also realized that most of the material people receive on this topic generalizes to far too great a degree. This is because there is no one thing that motivates everyone, some people are far more open (or at least open up far more easily), some are more outgoing, different people have different comfort zones, and there are major differences in how people disseminate and absorb information. I have also come to learn that there are many people that I refer to as the "yes you to death" crowd, who will nod and agree, but rarely act on anything.

1. We can see how this works in family situations. Different siblings in the same family often have diametrically different personalities and attitudes. It is not uncommon to see one sibling who loves to argue but then always ends up doing what's needed or asked, while another is quite agreeable and rarely does what he agrees to. While not easy to do, the only way to effectively deal with this, and not compare one sibling to the other, and address each individual based on his or her own needs and quirks.

2. The greatest sales people of all time all are better at understanding and dealing with human nature than others. The successful sales person always is an effective listener, and a great questioner. He gets to know his potential client (or customer) before trying to sell anything. He asks questions that reveal what the other person wants or needs, and then carefully crafts his presentation to that individual. He avoid technical nuances unless asked, or unless the other person is extremely technically oriented. He realizes that it nearly always emotion that sells something, and while the great sales person also must possess excellent sales closing skills, he must package those skills for the individual customer. Great sales people do not just jump right into their presentation. Two very successful mutual fund salesman that I knew used far different techniques to achieve great results. One, who was the most successful at his company, one year gave to his clients, a leather bound book entitled, "Everything I know About Investing." After a beautiful and emotional cover page, the book then contained over 400 blank pages. The true message was that it was not his knowledge but his caring and his relationships that mattered. The other used quite a different technique which was also quite successful. He would come into the home of a potential client, do his fact finding and develop a relationship, and simply sit there until he got the business. That was how he demonstrated that he was there for them!

3. The greatest leaders of all time all had caring for their constituents, and providing value, as their primary goals. Their vision for their organization was always inclusionary, and they emphasized superb communication. I'm sure we all recall how effective, for example, President Clinton was, when he bit his lip and said the simple words, "I feel your pain," while maintaining eye contact. He understood that what's most important for most constituents is the belief that their leader cares about them.

Don't generalize, but rather listen. Don't express your view, full of your biases, prejudices and concerns. Rather, simply expand your own personal comfort zone, and try to see things as others do. Relate to their concerns after you are certain you understand them. This will make you a greater success in everything or anything you do!

Richard Brody has over 30 years consultative sales, marketing, training, managerial, and operations experience. He has trained sales and marketing people in numerous industries, given hundreds of seminars, appeared as a company spokesperson on over 200 radio and television programs, and regularly blogs on real estate, politics, economics, management, leadership, negotiations, conferences and conventions, etc. Richard has negotiated, arranged and/ or organized hundreds of conferences and conventions. Richard is a Senior Consultant with RGB Consultation Services, an Ecobroker, a Licensed Buyers Agent (LBA) and Licensed Salesperson in NYS, in real estate. Richard Brody has owned businesses, been a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Development, as well as a consultant. Richard has a Consulting Website ( http://tinyurl.com/rgbcons ); a blog ( http://tinyurl.com/rgbstake ); and can be followed on Twitter.

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Tune Into Nature!

Have you ever experienced a time in your life, when, for no apparent reason, you just felt down in the dumps? You may have tried to spend some quality time "just on yourself " in order to relax, or you may have tried going out to a restaurant with friends to enjoy a good meal and good company. Perhaps you have tried a range of other methods to overcome this feeling but no matter how hard you tried, your spirits remained low.

For the last couple of weeks, I have been stuck in front of my computer working on a project that is very important to me. My every waking hour was consumed by this project and although I imagined that I would feel elated after completing parts of the project, I was confused to find that instead, I was feeling rather depressed. I tried a range of methods to help cheer me up. I had a relaxing bath; cooked a scrumptious meal to enjoy with my family and even watched a light-hearted movie, but to no avail. It was only when I turned to meditation for a solution that the answer came to me: Tune into Nature!

The very next day, I grabbed my camera, a bottle of water and set off to spend a few hours walking in a nature reserve, even though it was pouring with rain. Within a couple of minutes I felt alive again. To be honest, I felt like a young school girl again and had to stop myself from hopping along the path singing: "I'm singing in the rain", a song I often used to sing when I was a child. Mind you, thinking about it now, I should have done just that! I think as adults we often try too hard to restrain our inner child and as a result dampen our own spirits, which only leads to depression and stress.

Interestingly, it has been shown that people who spend 40 minutes walking in a nature reserve, have a drop in both their systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels, but this does not happen when they spend a similar amount of time walking in a busy city centre.

It has also been found that when people spend time outdoors, particularly in places where there is running water, feelings of depression and stress are alleviated, energy levels are boosted and there is an increase in the amount of serotonin, the body's "feel good" hormone, which helps to create feelings of high spirits and elation.

If you feel a little low in spirit and know that you have spent too much time indoors, let your hair down, remove your shoes, let your inner child come out to play and...Tune Into Nature!

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