Principles of Execution

The Secret Of Arnold Schwarzenegger Success – Perseverance

  

 Genius is perserverance in disguise. by Mike Newlin

You must read, you must perservere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark. by Giovanni Boccaccio

 The accomplishments of Arnold Schwarzenegger are no secret. No one would have expected the Austrian born bodybuilding world champion to go on and be anything but that – a world champion of bodybuilding.

My Father’s Work Ethic

 By these things examine thyself. By whose rules
am I acting; in whose name; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial,
and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions? By Jackie Mason

At my father’s funeral, his brother in-law Rev. Reed, who leads a church in Baltimore, preached his eulogy. After listening to the sharing from family and friends, dad's golfing buddies, and others Rev. Reed stated that someone should write a book about an ordinary hard-working man who raised an extraordinary family. My uncle, Samuel Jackson, called my father “one of the hardest working men I’ve ever known.” He was amazed at the level of strength my dad had and could not understand how someone could work so hard and provide so much. You see, my dad and mom took care of my cousins with the six of us during the summers when we were teenagers.

Warning: Following Benjamin Franklin's Productivity Secrets Will Increase Your Effectiveness

 

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." Dale Carnegie 

His Life

* Born on January 17, 1706 (or according to O.S. January 6, 1705) [Link to Old Style below. Very interesting.] Died April 17, 1790.

* Benjamin is the eighth child of his father’s second wife, the tenth boy, and the last boy among seventeen children. (Four from the first wife of Josiah Franklin, and thirteen from the second wife.)

Set Goals, Get Results

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” By Zig Ziglar

Her Challenges:

• Her mother was an unmarried teenager.
• Lived with her grandmother during her first six years. Her grandmother was so poor that at times her dresses would be made out of potato sacks.

Jack Welch Style Of Leadership

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Kenneth Hartley Blanchard

 

Effective Communication Skills

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein, physicist.

Accomplishments:

• He delivered two or three speeches a day for General Electric Theater as a tour guide for its 139 plants.

Are You Getting The Results You Want?

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”  Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

Accomplishments:

• He created one of the most prestigious and innovative auto companies the world has ever known.

Are You A Systematic Problem Solver?

“We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.” Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

• He never attended college because of his mother’s illness and an accident in which he lost a number of teeth while playing hockey in high school.

Keen Observation Helped Him Build An Empire

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius

 He was a connector of people and always treated his employees as the most important part of his business life.