2 Secrets to all success - Self esteem (Part 1)
posted in Wealth, Manifesting, T Harv Eker, Success |The 2 secrets to all successes are shared by Bill Bartmann. He is one of the richest Americans and he built his wealth from scratch. He was only a high school drop but he created novel financial instruments that are still being used on Wall Street. Harvard Business School uses him as a case study. He has been included in the Forbes Magazine list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, named as “One of the Top 100 Entrepreneurs of the Last 100 Years” by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Allbusiness.com and Apple Computer. Bill has transformed his life from a failure to a success story, and has done so for countless other people. Now he spends a lot of his time traveling and speaking to share what he learnt about life and success.
He talked about the secret to success. Like most secrets in life, there is no secret or the secret is so simple and obvious that many chose not to believe them. To be successful, you need to take risks. There is no success that doesn’t require taking risk. You need to take risks in business, investment, or even in relationship. Most people are afraid to take risk because they are afraid of failure. They are afraid to fail because they are afraid of what others will think of them. They are afraid of what others will think of them because they have low self esteem.
So the first secret to success is to raise your self esteem. Think about it. If you have a high self esteem, you are not afraid of what others think of you, failure doesn’t bother you, you take more calculated risks and eventually you will be successful.
Can you think of any successful people who don’t have a high self esteem? Most people think that they will have high self esteem when they are successful. The truth is exactly the opposite. You will be successful if you have a high self esteem.
Your brain has survival instincts. It is there to protect you. Naturally, you won’t do anything that will hurt yourself. Your brain simply won’t let you do that. It is not going to do anything that is harmful to you. What if your brain tells you that failure is harmful? You will not take the risk or finish the tasks or project you started. Your brain tells you that if you don’t take risk or doesn’t finish a task or project, you are not failing. Not doing or not finishing is different from failing.
To counter that you need to build your self esteem. High self esteem is when you think you are capable of doing anything. I repeat - high self esteem is when you think you are capable of doing anything. It is a state of mind that you believe that you can do anything if you put your mind to.
Tomorrow we will talk about how to raise your self esteem.
