My father, who has built a successful real estate business in North Carolina often sends me inspirational clippings he gathers along the way. We recently had a discussion about success and the different ways to approach it. He pulled this out -- made me a copy of it and I would like to share it with you. This is from the creator of the Holiday Inn Hotels. There is a substantial amount of quality in the points he shares. He keeps his eye focused on the goal and the light.
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It was a fateful trip from Memphis to Washington D.C.that formed one of the world's greatest hotel chains. Kemmons Wilson, a real estate dabbler from Memphis, took his family on the trip in the 1950's and found that hotels made the excursion next to intolerable. The prices were high, the rooms semlled, no special rates for kids and the service was reprehensible. On that trip, Kemmons vowed to his wife that when he retruned to Memphis, he would start a hotel chain that would revolutionalize the industry. Kemmons made good on his promise -- he founded the Holiday Inn Hotels.
Kemmons has taken time to write down his secrets for success to share with you. They are:
1. Work only half of a day; it makes no difference which half. It can be the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.
2. Work is the master key that opens the doors to all opportunities.
3. Mental attitude plays a far more important role in a person's success or failure than mental capacity.
4. Remember that we all climb the ladder of success one step at a time.
5. There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree. One way is to sit on an acorn and wait; the other is to climb it.
6. Do not be afraid of taking a chance. Remember that a broken watch is exactly right at least twice every 24 hours.
7. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
8. Eliminate from your vocabulary the words "I doin't think I can" and substitute, "I know I can."
9. In evaluating a career, put opportunity ahead of security.
10. Have confidence in yourself.
11. A person has to take risks to achieve.
12. People who take pains never to do more than they get paid for, never get paid for anything more than they do.
13. The more steam you put into your work, the louder you can whistle when your work is done.
14. Opportunity comes often. It knocks as often as you have an ear trained to hear it, an eye trained to see it, a hand trained to grasp it, and a tead trained to use it.
15. You cannot procrastinate -- in two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
16. Sell your wristwatch and buy an alarm clock.
17. A successful person realizes his peronal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.
18. Do not worry. You can't change the past, but you can sure ruin the present by worrying over the future. Remember that half the things we worry about never happen, and the other half are going to happen anyway. So why worry?
19. It is not how much you have but how much you can enjoy that makes happiness.
20. Believe in God and obey the Ten Commandments.
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