How to Succeed in Anything in Life

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You want to know the secret on how to succeed in life? Whether it's playing piano, losing weight, gaining muscle, making tons of money on the internet or whatever it is you want there is a definite secret to how to make it happen, how to succeed at it. Are you ready? Here is the secret...
You have to try!! You have to put forth the effort.

People come up to me all the time and say, "I'm frustrated. I'm not getting the kinds of results I wanted."

So, I ask them, "Did you try?"
They usually get all offended. "Of course, I try!" they exclaim. " I come to the gym every day...You see me here!! "
I nod my head wisely. "yep, I see you here all right."
They look at me and say, "And...?"
"Well," I reply, "I see you on the treadmill all right, but I also see you with a magazine in front of you....How can you say you're working out if you're reading a magazine? If you are walking on the treadmill so slowly that you can actually read, then you are not working out hard enough. No wonder you're not seeing the kinds of results in the gym that you want. You're not 'really' trying!"
I'm sorry if that sounds harsh to some people, but that's the truth. Trying means more than just showing up.

Trying means going all out, giving your everything into a particular project. It means putting in hard work, sweat, tears and in some cases blood.

That applies to anything. If you want to be a great piano player, then you need to try. You need to practice and practice and practice. At first, you are going to suck at anything new. That goes without saying, but so what? Everyone sucks in the beginning. Keep at it.

You want to lose weight? Get to the gym, put in the effort, the sweat, the time it takes to lose that weight. You want to be a great piano player? Find someone to teach you or find a good how-to book to or watch a DVD on how-to play piano and then practice and practice and practice some more.

Success depends on you trying. If you don't try, don't be surprised if you don't succeed.
Some people ask, "well, how long should I try for?"
Well, how bad do you want it? Keep trying until you get there. Try that. Don't stop until you reach the end.

If you want to lose fifteen pounds than keep working out until you get there. If you don't see results, then maybe you aren't trying hard enough. Put in more effort. If you are not sweating and out of breath then you are not working out hard enough!! Sorry, but it's the truth!

People these days want instant gratification. They want results right now. If they don't see results the first day or the first week, then they throw up their hands and say, "oh, what's the use! I give up!"
That's another thing. People give up too easily.

They see a fairly young guy like Justin Bieber and say, "look how young he is! He was able to become successful without any work at all!" They don't see the hours and hours and hours of practice that he went through to get to where he is.

They see Zack Zimmerman who became a billionaire before he was even twenty and people say, "look at him! He didn't have to try and look how rich he is!" They did not see the work and long hours of programming that he and his buddies went through. They tried. Sure, some people are simply more gifted as certain skills than other people, but even people who have natural gifts (playing piano, programming a new social network) must put in the effort. They may not succeed at everything they try, but they try at least and they succeed at some things when they do.

Success can come fairly quickly these days (it used to take people years, sometimes even an entire lifetime to achieve the kinds of success that Zack Zimmerman has achieved), but you still have to try.
There is no substitute for hard work! You want something? Then go after it and keep trying until you get there!!

Well, I'm Farley Drake and that's my two cents worth.
Farley Drake is a personal fitness trainer who has inspired people for the last ten years to lose weight and get into the best shape of their lives. He is also a writer who aspires to help people to reach for the stars in their own lives. There is no finish line in life. There are always more oceans to swim, more mountains to climb and more battles to be won.

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China's Xi Named to Military Post, Paving Way to Succeed Hu - Bloomberg

China ’s Vice President Xi Jinping, seen here, was appointed today as a vice chairman of the Communist Party’s military commission. Photographer: Ian Waldie/Bloomberg

Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Victor Chu, chairman of First Eastern Investment Group, talks about succession plans in China after the Communist Party central committee appointed Xi Jinping as vice chairman of its military commission. He speaks with Andrea Catherwood on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse." (Source: Bloomberg)

China’s Vice President Xi Jinping was appointed today as a vice chairman of the Communist Party’s military commission, strengthening his position to be the next leader of the world’s most-populous nation.

The 57-year-old Xi was named to the commission, which controls the country’s 2-million strong armed forces, at a meeting of the party’s central committee in Beijing which ends today, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

The title, bestowed upon President Hu Jintao in 1999 when he was vice president, would enable Xi to solidify ties with the People’s Liberation Army ahead of a 2012 party congress that will choose the new leadership. Hu chairs the military commission and is party general secretary.

“According to party tradition, Xi Jinping as the heir apparent, as the next general secretary, should be able to get on to the military commission at least two years before the change of power,” said Willy Wo-Lap Lam, an adjunct professor of history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “He will have enough time to learn the ropes of the commission.”

China’s leaders gathered behind closed doors at a Beijing hotel on Oct. 15 for a four-day meeting that was also called to discuss a new five-year economic plan for the world’s second- biggest economy.

Boosting Demand

The central committee said China would continue boosting domestic demand to continue China’s economic growth and to “actively participate” in global economic governance, Xinhua reported. China’s economy expanded 10.3 percent in the three months ending in June from a year earlier. Consumption as a percentage of the economy is less than 40 percent, compared to about 70 percent in the U.S.

The party plenum was closed to foreign media. Security guards at the Jingxi Hotel wouldn’t allow journalists to take pictures of the building on Oct. 15, saying it was a military district. Rows of Audi A6 sedans were seen parked inside the hotel grounds.

Many of China’s biggest state-run companies and top bankers are represented in the central committee or its roster of alternate members, including China Construction Bank Chairman Guo Shuqing and PetroChina Co. Chairman Jiang Jiemin, according to a 2007 membership list.

Growing Military

As a vice chairman of the military commission, Xi will have more say over the world’s second-biggest defense budget after the U.S., according to figures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Xi held a staff job in the People’s Liberation Army in the early 1980s that included service at the commission, according to his official biography.

Xi, the son of a former vice premier, was previously party chief in eastern China’s Zhejiang province and in neighboring Shanghai. He was also in charge of organizing the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and last year’s celebrations marking 60 years of Communist Party rule. Xi served as Shanghai’s party secretary for a year after the previous incumbent, Chen Liangyu, was fired and later imprisoned for 18 years for corruption.

Xi holds a doctorate in law and a chemical engineering degree from Beijing’s Tsinghua University, Hu’s alma mater, according to his biography. He is married to a popular singer.

‘Princeling’

Chinese scholars refer to Xi as a “princeling” because he’s the son of a prominent official. His father, Xi Zhongxun, who died in 2002, was responsible for making southern China’s Guangdong province a centerpiece for economic opening in 1979. His recommendations were ratified at the time by paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, according to his official biography.

In 1980, China made the Guangdong fishing village of Shenzhen, which abuts Hong Kong, a special economic zone. It is now a Chicago-sized metropolis with a per-capita income of more than $10,000 a year.

The elder Xi was a vice premier from 1959-62 before falling out of favor with Chairman Mao Zedong, who established the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Like many elite youths, Xi Jinping was sent to the countryside during China’s 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution.

“I ate a lot more bitterness than most people” during the Cultural Revolution, Xi said in a 1996 interview cited in China Parenting Magazine. In the interview, Xi said he was imprisoned four times and called names such as “son of a bitch” and “reactionary student.”

--Michael Forsythe, Yidi Zhao. Editors: John Brinsley, Mark Williams

To contact Bloomberg staff on this story: Michael Forsythe in Beijing +8610-6649-7580 or mforsythe@bloomberg.net;

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Bill Austin at billaustin@bloomberg.net

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