Planning for Success

1. Planning for Success

2. Why Plan for Success • Success does not just like teeth in the mouth; • It must be planned for; • Planning makes control circumstances rather you being controlled by circumstances; • Unless you do something about your situation nothing your desires will not be fulfilled; • Some people just sit and wish for things to happen – you will wait for a long time.

3. Ingredients of planning • Desire for success • Vision • Goals • Strategy • Plan • Implementation • Monitoring

4. Importance of a vision • It makes us have fore test of the future we desire; • It brings about focused attention; • It helps to avoid diffusion of mental and emotional energy; • It brings about self control • It bring about motivation • It enables to have hope in the future

5. Without a vision people perish • A story of F- in concentration camp • He heard voice in his dream that of his freedom on March 30 1945; • As days drew near it become clear this would be possible; • On March 29 he became ill and ran a high temperature; • On March 30th the day of his liberation, he became delirious and lost consciousness; • On March 31st, he died.

6. Conclusion of Dr. Vicktor E. Frankl • “To all outward appearances, he had died of typhus. But those who know the connection between the state of mind of a man - his courage and hope, or lack of the – and state of immunity f his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause my friend’s death was that as the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed. This lowered his body’s resistance against the latent typhus infection. His faith in the future and his will to leave had become paralyzed and his body fell victim to sickness”.

7. 2. Areas goals must cover

8. Six areas goals must cover • You must have goals in the following areas; • Spiritual life: spiritual growth and intimacy with God • Physical Aspect: many people do not plan how long they want to leave • If want to leave long, you have to take care of your health; 4. Emotional Aspect: inner stability; to achieve EQ. • What negative emotion dominates your mind; is worry, anger, do you want to be peaceful, self-controlled. 5. Social life (family, friends, community, etc); • How do you want to be remembered when you are dead by your spouse, children, friends and community at large.

9. Areas Goals Must Cover 6. Intellectual development – what you read; • You need to develop your mind • Reading improves your thinking; it makes you sound intelligent*. • Should also read extensively in each area of your goals so that you have adequate knowledge. • Investigate before you invest.

10. Key quotes on the importance of reading • “The reason I see far is because I stand on the tall shoulders of those who came before me: Sir Isaac Newton; • You can become a genius if only you can pick on one subject and spend 15 minutes per day on it: Einstein; • It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts and pour their souls in ours; thank God for books: William Ellery Channing; • The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man;

11. Key quotes on the importance of reading • nothing else that man builds last. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilization grow old… but in the world of books are volumes that live on still as young and fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead: Clarence Day; • Everyman who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself; to multiply ways in which he exits, to make his life full, significant, and interesting. • The most highly paid people in America read two three hours pay day, the least paid do not read at all, Brian Tracy.

12. 5.Career goals: where do you want to be at particular point in life; • Determine where want to be at a particular stage of your life; • Determine what it takes to reach their; • Make sure you acquire the requirements. 6. Financial goals: how much wealth do you want to create at what point in life? • What strategies will you use to create wealth? • You need to acquire the knowledge, skills and values for wealth.

13. Importance of Discipline 2Tim 2:3

14. Why you need discipline to achieve your goals • It will not be easy to achieve your goals in life; • Because you have already established a pattern of behavior; • You are leaving your comfort zone; • How many people have planned to achieve something and they do not go any where.

15. What is Discipline? • discipline referred to systematic instruction given to a disciples to train them as students in a craft or trade, or to follow a particular code of conduct or "order". • Military discipline refers to the regulation the behaviors of members of any military, involving rules that govern goal orientation and behavior inside and outside the institution

16. Definition of Discipline (Cont’d) • Self-discipline refers to the training that one gives oneself to accomplish a certain task or to adopt a particular pattern of behavior, even if one would rather be doing something else. • Thus, self-discipline is the assertion of willpower over more base desires, and is usually understood to be synonymous with self control

17. How to be disciplined • You need a why: • He who has strong why to live for can bear with any how. • The beginning is the most difficult part; • An example of the Boeing 747 plane; • Start by under performing • Eat that frog; • Be accountable to somebody;

18. Why discipline? • To achieve any of your goals in life, you will need to be disciplined? • Why: • There are two opposing forces: your current state or status quo and your desired end; • Remember Newtonian: A body in motion, will continue in motion until acted upon by an outside force.

19. How to remain be disciplined • Your goal is to turn discipline into a habit. • Remember discipline is built with consistently performing small acts. • Discipline starts with dealing with negative thoughts – control of them; • If you already mentally defeated, the job of failing is made easy for you.

20. Dealing with Failure

21. Definition of Failure • According the American Heritage online dictionary failure is defined in the following ways: • The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends: the failure of an experiment. • One that fails: a failure at one's career. • The condition or fact of being insufficient or falling short: a crop failure. • A cessation of proper functioning or performance: a power failure.

22. Definition of Failure • The act or fact of failing to pass a course, test, or assignment. • A decline in strength or effectiveness. • The act or fact of becoming bankrupt or insolvent. • Nonperformance of what is requested or expected; omission: failure to report a change of address

23. Causes of Failure • Lack of education or information • Lack of self discipline • Lack of self discipline • Lack of persistence. • Being negative. • Being risk averse • Wrong selection of associates

24. Negative Attitude Towards Failure • Many people get paralyzed by failure; • They resolve not to do something again for fear of the pain they went through • They get traumatized by fear; • Instead of thinking that there is something wrong with the plan that failed; • They think there is something wrong with them

25. The three failure factors • There are three factors that make people think that they are failures; • These are • Identified by Dr. Martin Seligman • These are: (1) Permanence, (2) pervasiveness and, (3) Personal • Permanence: they think the problem or failure is permanent

26. The three failure factors • Pervasiveness – thinking that a problem and failure affects or controls their whole life; • Personal – They look at problem as personal defect; • Instead of seeing a problem as challenge to which needs a change in approach; • When you fail there might something with wrong with the plan and not with the self

27. Positive Attitude Towards Failure • Failure is feedback that there was something wrong with plan; • It time to change revise the plan and/or change the strategy; • Many people have failed so many times before they succeeded; • Here are some quotations about failure.

28. Examples of People who persisted in the failure

29. COLONEL SANDERS • Colonel Sanders at aged 65, in a beat up car and $100 check from social security takes off to sell his mothers fried recipe. • Do you know how many doors he knocked at before succeeded – 10, 100, 500, no 1,000; • He succeeded in spite of age, poverty and rejection • He founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC, which is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky. • He is the official face you see on KFC logo.

30. Some examples of persistence • School Report the mother received. • Thomas Edison did 10,000 experiments before he discovered a light bulb; • In 1914 at the age 67, he lost his factory from fire: he said “there is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up, thank God we can start a new”. • Conducted 17,000 experiments in his 80s • He ended up co-founding one the largest companies in the word today, General Electric

31. Abraham Lincoln • February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), • the sixteenth President of the United States • He was an expert in failing but did not give up; • At 21 he failed in business; • At 22 he was defeated in a legislative elections; • At 24 he failed in business again; • At 26, his sweetheart died; • At 27, he had a nervous breakdown; • At 34 he lost a congressional race; • At 45, he lost his a senatorial race; • At 47, his efforts to be vice president flopped; • At 49 he lost a senatorial race • At 52, he became the elected president of the United States of America.

32. Quotes about persistence by great men • Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. • Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent (Thomas Watson 1874-1956) • Watson also said if you want to succeed increase your failure rate; • Soichiro Honda said success is 99% failure; • Most people give up when they are about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard mile. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown (Rose Paro) .