No Pain No Gain

Found a great book at the library which unfortunately I won't be able to scribble in or highlight for future reference, so....thought this would be a good way to store the information for further reflection & also to share it with any other interested parties :) enjoy...

No Pain No Gain

Martin's Law of Progress:
Desire/Pain = Progress. "Progress only occurs when the pain of effort is overcome by the force of desire."


If you look for the angles that are not immediately obvious to others, you create a world of opportunity that most are oblivious to.

If you continue to think on a small scale, the ideas that you conceive will be dwarf like. If you think on a large scale your ideas can become giants.

It is impossible for a bumblebee to fly. Thankfully the bumblebee doesn't know this! Up to this point there are many things that you have considered 'impossible' for you to achieve. Now it is time to re-examine these.

All of the great inventions from the light bulb to the motor car had to be pictured in someone's mind long before they could be seen by the human eye.

Enjoying the fruits of success are as important as achieving them. Without reward it would be pointless to make the sacrifice necessary to obtain those fruits.

There are six great pillars of fear that every person suffers from. The difference between the successful and non-successful people lies in the ability of the former to understand these fears and develop methods of overcoming them.
*Fear of death
*Fear of aging
*Fear of sickness
*Fear of poverty
*Fear of criticism
*Fear of rejection
Think about this-If you cannot overcome your fears, your own self-doubt and lack of confidence will paralyze your chances of success for life.

Any great step taken by mankind has only occurred when an individual has shaken off the shackles of self-doubt, looked the impossible square in the eye and refused to give up until lady success handed over the goods.

The road to success only begins with planned management of your thoughts, transferred into a definite plan of action and pursued with a single minded persistence.

Money can be made from infinite sources. It is the ability of the individual to set in motion and follow through the principles of success that really count.

Find your own role model and read everything you can find about them. If it wasn't for the great achievers of the past, there would be few great achievers today. Sometimes it takes just one individual to conquer the impossible before others follow in their footsteps. What is deemed impossible today may be totally realistic tomorrow.

Turn your disadvantage into an advantage.

Thoughts are great things. Accept the challenge to step outside the narrow tracks that confine you and dare to think great thoughts. A thought has no boundaries except for the ones that you set for them.

All something-for-nothing people, societies & cultures have failed on an extraordinary scale. The principles of success state that all achievements must be earned to have any real value.

Ask nothing of yourself and you will get it every time.

You'll miss all of the opportunities that you do not take.

Investing in yourself can produce dividends unmatched by any other system.

Remember, people are more persuaded by the depths of your beliefs than anything else you tell them.

Thoughts=Mental Attention
Plans=Mental Intention
First think. Then plan. Then do. Then don't EVER QUIT!

98% of people never become successful. Look around you. How many people do you meet in the normal course of business that sweep you off your feet with motivational inspiration? Successful people will always be a minority party.

One of the most exciting principles within the Law of increasing returns is that money has a magnetic pull towards other money of similar amounts.
If you possess several hundred rands in capital and you're working in units of R100, this is your trading unit.
When you put your capital to work you invested or traded units will earn you units of similar size.
Once you understand the principles of magnetic pull the only way to share in its workings are to progress your capital as far up the unit ladder as possible.

If you stand still, you cannot ask yourself the question: "Why am I not getting anywhere?"

You must first position yourself in the face of opportunity before you can expect to share in its fruit.

Man will always be two things: his own greatest asset and his own greatest limiting factor.

In every setback there is an equivalent seed of success.

Human faith mixed with persistence is greater than any force that wishes to contain it.

There will always be more people looking for help than the help available. Help yourself.

The world will lay down a red carpet for 'yes' people.

There is one sure fire way of upsetting everyone that you know. Become a success story. People hate to see in others what they would like to see in themselves.

You have got to think a lot of yourself first before others will think anything of you at all.

There will always be at least 10 more reasons to feel negative to every reason to feel positive. This is one of the fundamental reasons why it is easier to embrace negativity and accept its fruit of failure.

You are exactly what you tell people you are. Unless their experience of you tells them different.

When receiving advice from someone, look at them very carefully as the true value of that advice can be judged by what is standing in front of you.

Those without money have plenty of good ideas. Those with money are always in search of ideas. ....There are a lot of ways to access other people's money.

The seeds of success can only grow in a fertile mind watered frequently by positive thoughts. Conversely the weeds of negativity will choke your mind in the blink of an eye.

Never forget: The world largely consists of the average man. Therefore the trick is not to be the average man.

Work with your brains every time and employ others to use their hands to build your brain child. Herewithin lies your greatest restriction to wealth. Brain power pays infinitely more dividends than hand power.

The rich and famous experience as many set-backs, failures and disappointments as the rest of us, the only difference being that it costs them more.

A major reason why most people aren't successful is that they have never been able to control the vehicle that will take them there: themselves.

You simply cannot defeat anyone that will not accept defeat. You cannot beat anyone who won't quit.

The highest level of success can only be built by digging deep and secure foundations. Those foundations must be built from within.

Self-doubt is the most deadly cancer to success. For even a successful person who lets self-doubt enter his mind, the fall from grace will be swift and dramatic.

Anything obtained free of charge has no real value to the receiver.Acquire specialist knowledge and you will have a commodity to sell.

Wealth is the accumulation of the credit balance left between your income and expenditure. The wider the gap, the harder you push your foot down on the wealth accelerator. Once a large sum has been accumulated your capital will accelerate in relation to the law of increasing returns.

The advantage that successful people have over the rest of us is that they dare to think on a bigger scale. There's less competition in the league of big thinking, because there are less people there. The most competitive marketplace to operate in is that of small returns. Everyone's there.

Stop focusing on your limitations. Start concentrating on your potential.

You simply cannot grow a business to large proportions without other people becoming involved.

Most people are too busy working to make money.

The benefits of two or more people motivated individuals inspiring each other is immeasurable.

If negative people come in your way, run! Remember, negativity and depression are the common denominators that bind the poor and unsuccessful together. These people are easy to spot. They want to discuss inflation, price rises, bad weather, aches and pains, old age, and hard times. If these people come your way, run.

A lot of success stories occur when an individual has a good support mechanism in place. The mechanism is constructed of people who are your mental bakers, those who pick you up when you fall on your face and encourage you to carry on. No man is an island, so its important but difficult to build such a base.

Failure in any venture means only one thing: You are not doing it right! Change the plan, change the approach. Change everything, but experiment until you do get it right.

There are always more people wanting to ride on the back of a successful person, than any person can possibly carry.

Many people work long and hard throughout their lives and in the final analysis have little or nothing to show for it. The choice is yours: Make others rich or let others make you rich.

There's nothing more common than educated men who are unsuccessful and uneducated men who are.

The search for success is a fabulous journey, which if achieved, ends up with man finding himself.

You can achieve an ordinary level of success by targeting objectives that are accessible to you; or you can choose a more elusive target and shoot for the stars.

When all the ideas that you can think of amount to nothing, don't lose hope. Use someone else's idea and add something.

Every misfortune carries with it an equivalent benefit.

Ideas are a cheap commodity. They're everywhere and most people will freely tell youe very idea in their head if asked. The people who take an idea and put it into a plan of action are the only ones that really count.

Just because you're down, doesn't mean you've got to like it.

You must stay lean, mean & moody in your quest for success. Get in touch with that hard-done feeling. The road to success is paved with distractions. Avoid these pitfalls at all costs:
a) Frequent holidays b) Luxury goods c) High living d) Free spending = WIll reduce your opportunities to multiply your capital.

All success is based upon rising above the system that keeps you down.

Never underestimate the power of words. Words for the basis of all communication between people and the effect of badly chosen words can be immediately detected in the reaction of those that we speak to.

You must have faith in your ability, faith in your resolve to do the things that are right and important to you, faith in the controlling of your destiny to arrive at the point you want to arrive at.

One thing that every man knows how to do is quit.

To really see, you must open your mind, not your eyes.

If your level of success is greater than your expenditure than the scales will tilt in your favour as you will always be prepared for tomorrow's opportunity or disaster.

All success lies beyond the comfort zone.

If you don't truly desire success, something terrible happens-nothing.

The hard road to success only comes to an end at the intersection where the tough road to staying successful begins.

Syndromes: Any of these conditions can seriously affect your chances of success
1) Classic syndrome: It's the two steps forward, three steps back. An individual gets an idea, gushes with enthusiasm, pushes forward, encounters a setback, feels negative, looks for a way out and quits. The full circle is complete, but our man is a little worse off for the experience.
2) When my ship comes in syndrome
3) Something for nothing syndrome
4) Too old syndrome
5) Whatever happens happens syndrome: It applies to those who feel that life's a bitch and then you die. Shoot these people on sight.
6) In the hands of the gods syndrome: Applies to those who can't or wont take charge of their situation and would rather pray for luck than exert themselves on a positive plan of action to create their own good fortune.
7)I am not qualified syndrome
8)Don't get the breaks syndrome: It's another classic quitters phrase. The principles of success clearly state that quitters will achieve nothing, because nothing can be achieved by quitting.
9)My time will come syndrome: Is spoken by those who's time will run out waiting. Make your time come by putting your ideas into plans then action.
10)All words no action syndrome: Last night I made many resolutions, however this morning I went my same old way. Words cost nothing. Be known for your actions and before your words will carry great weight.
11)Only happens to me syndrome: Some people believe that destiny has chosen them to be the sole beneficiary of everything negative.
12)Always been unlucky syndrome: There is no such thing as luck. It is merely an expression. If you place yourself in the face of opportunity often enough you will command your share of it. Conversely you cannot hope to win if you don't have a ticket. Lady luck sides with the industrious.
13)I am only average syndrome
14)Some day soon syndrome:It refers to the hypothetical day that will never come otherwise it would have a date placed on it. If the day ever does come the people who chant this statement will never be ready for it anyway.
15)If I had confidence syndrome: Confidence is about placing a worth upon yourself and finding reasons through achievement to value the person that you are.
16)Whats the point syndrome: This applies to those who have never seen the point, wouldnt know what the point was if it hit them over the head and even if they discovered the point wouldnt know what to do with it anyway.

It is only the size of your commitment that will bring back to you the fruits that you desire, whether it be in business or relationships.

All of the people who really love their jobs have lost sight of what the end result should be.

Sales increase only at a reate equivalent to the products exposure to customers. The better the product, pricing or promotion the faster the acceleration.

The self-restrictive forces of fear can incapacitate an individual. Discipline yourself to implrment giant steps that will catapult your life into a new phase.

Spring clean your life frequently. Nothing will set your mind working like a large intake of new stimuli.

A mountain is only great in size when you stand in front of it and contemplate it. The greatness diminishes largely as you progress upwards.

The race for success is rarey won by the swift, but by those who keep on going.

If you give ten people a spade each, nine of them will start digging for worms. Will you be the one who will dig for gold?