Enemies of Success

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SUCCESS

-- By Keith Phillips

Enemies of

Know your nemeses


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until we identify and understand the attit

and conditions that threaten our success

ay's armies of life coaches and business gur

n seem to build their strategies on a fundameadvice from the 6th-century BC Chinese ge

Sun Tzu in his treatise, The Art of War

"Know your enemy."


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Lack of a clear goal:

hat often leads to failure," says entrepreneu

and consultant Joseph Ansanelli,

"is [the absence of] a well understood,small set of very important goals."

"If you don't know

where you're going,you'll wind up

somewhere else."

Yogi Berra


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Lack of a plan:

t's okay to dream of building castles in the air

t they won't become realities without a realist

step-by-step plan for putting them there.

"He who fails

to plan,

plans to fail."

Author unknown

we have space stations, but they didn't just h


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Lack of focus:

arious things can contribute to lack of focus,

luding low motivation, a poor work environme

r being distracted by matters of lesser priorit

ne reason so few of us achieve

what we truly want is that we

never direct our focus;

e never concentrate our power.

eo le dabble their wa throu h life."Anthony Robbins

Identify interferences and determine howto best deal with each.


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Laziness:

e a great idea and even a great plan for achi

e necessary dedication or aren't willing to pu

the idea and plan are doomed.

"Some people dream of success,

while others wake up and work hard at it."


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Rigidity:

hings undermine initiative and progress wors

ng on to the way things have been done in th

ut if you can open the doors,

maybe just a crack at first,

the ideas that have been

"A closed mind is not onlylosed to outside thoughts,

often closed to itself as well.

s closed to new thoughts andanything that threatens

the status quo.


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Lack of enthusiasm:

If an idea is like a spark,

enthusiasm is the wind

that whips it into a bonfirestrong enough to withstand

the rain of adversity.

"Success consists ofgoing from failure to failure

without loss of enthusiasm."

Winston Churchill


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Accepting defeat:

Very often, the battle is lost in the

before the real action even begi

Expect defeat, and you are already dhope to win, and you give yourself a

"Success seems to be

argely a matter of hanging on

after others have let go."

expect to win, and you increase yourexponentially.

Even the most seemingly impossible situ

overcome if approached positively, as a


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Complacency:

eatest danger often comes when things are r

othly and the pressure is off, because the na

tendency then is to not try as hard.

ere is a very fine line between

onfidence and complacency.

Dave McGinnis

possible to coast for a while, but valuable mbe lost; if left unchecked, things will grind to

in the first game against a team,

st thing you can do is fool yourself

thinking that the second game"


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Overconfidence:

The hare and the tortoise,

iant Goliath and the boy David,e Titanic you get the picture.

"Before you attempt

to beat the odds,

be sure you could survive

the odds you're beating."Larry Kersten


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Procrastination:

The most capable people in the world,

with the best ideas in the world

and all the financial backing in the world,will get nowhere until they take action.

"There are a million waysto lose a work day,

but not even a single way

to get one back."DeMarco and Timothy Lister


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Disunity:

efforts rarely come to full fruition without reas

consensus and compatibility, so work at buil

Honest differences of viewshonest debate are not disunity.

They are the vital process

of policy making."Herbert Hoover

en opposing ideas and interests emerge, ratstumbling blocks, they can be used as stepp


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Moral compromise:

redo of some seems to be "All is fair in love,

s, and life," but what works is not always wha

ries won immorally are shallow, usually short-

uccess is more permanent

hen you achieve it without

estroying your principles."

Walter Cronkite

ften have consequences that cancel any suer a man sows, that he will also reap" (Galat


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Failure to learn from mistakes:

ictory is very often decided according to wh

has learned the most from past mistakes.

e real test is not whether you

id failure, because you won't.

t's whether you let it hardenor shame you into inaction,

r whether you learn from it;

ther you choose to persevere "

Barack Obama

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