COVER STORY life. Let’s address: 1. Being on purpose – loving what you do. 2. Success principles that work: “Defi-nitely not the same s---different day.” 3. How to stop the “negative you” from sabotaging your success. 4. Nothing can limit your growth, only small ideas. 5. Goals to success: If you want to thrive, you need them. 6. Persistence and determination: How “small” people do big things. 7. If a man is right his world will be right..you are your own best invest-ment. 8. Being magnanimous...the more you give the more you get. It is a universal principle of success. 9. The evolution of a truth...never let the bastards get you down. Key Component #1: Being on purpose and loving what you do Benjamin Disraeli, a politician of the 19th century, was quoted as saying that “success is just an ordinary man with an extraordinary attitude.” The single most important thing that you can do to ensure your potential for success in both career and life is to identify and then focus on your life’s purpose. Tolstoy’s “The death of Ivan Ilyich, ” reveals how living a life devoid of pur-pose is the same as existing in a world without meaning. Tolstoy’s story forces us to consider how painful it is to be at the end of the road, only to reflect on a life lived devoid of benchmarks for achievement, and how the finality of death seals any possibility of creating future meaning. If, when we approach the end of our lives, we find that there are no purpose-related outcomes— the pain experienced is found in the reali-zation that it is too late to rectify the situation. It was as if the famous Dan-ish philosopher Kierkegaard had Ilyich in mind when he wrote: “This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness … they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, be-cause they are already disintegrated before they die.” “What is it about my life, abilities and talents that can create the most positive impact in the world?” Bitterly, most people have been so conditioned to be afraid to fail in life that they never take the chance to grow to their full potential. You see, you can fail just as easily at doing what you don’t want to do, so you might as well fail at something that you love. If you are genuinely serious about being suc-cessful, then you must answer these questions first. Ask yourself: • What does the world need that my talents can provide? • What is it about my life, abilities and talents that can create the most pos-itive impact in my world? Answer these questions with honest sincerity, and you have the nucleus of what should evolve into a dynamic and enthusiastic life purpose. It is our expe-rience that this newly empowered you usually comes to the table with a couple of friends, called “personal satisfaction” and “unbridled success.” It is a cer-tainty that you must do this to step out www.Cndoctor.ca 8 Chiropractic and Naturopathic Doctor January/February 2022 Photo: © Jacob Lund / Adobe Stock
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