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Plan For Success, Not Failure
When I was younger, there was a restaurant on Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan that used to offer people a percentage off the price of their meals equal to a person’s age, on the person’s birthday each year. So, on your twenty-fifth birthday, for instance, you would get a 25% discount on your meal. On your fiftieth birthday, you would get a 50% discount on your meal.
Not surprisingly, this particular restaurant was extremely popular with older people on their birthdays. In fact, elderly people came from all over town on their birthdays each year. I don’t mean to be crass, but it sort of felt like eating in a nursing home. There would be wheel chairs, walkers and so forth scattered all over the dining room, and in line. The hostesses in the restaurant always had to speak loudly to people when they came in. Sometimes the old people would doze off at their tables. The place was always packed.
One time we visited my grandmother the day after her birthday, and she declared that she had been to this restaurant with several friends the evening before to celebrate her birthday, and that she had gotten a massive discount on her dinner, since she was so old. Because the restaurant kept giving discounts that increased the older people got, it made getting older a little more fun. “ I wonder if they would actually give you money back when you are 101, or if the meal is just free on your 100th birthday?” I asked her. “ I will let you know when I turn 101,” she said. She was quite serious and, after making this statement, went about her business.
While my grandmother did not live to be 101, she lived well into her 90s and I remember being very impressed with her when she said she “would let me know”. She had shown great spirit and made it clear that she was making plans to live, rather than making plans to die, as many elderly people do. My grandmother was out and about every day, working outside of the house and being quite active with friends, going places and doing things. She enjoyed life, and she planned on continuing to do so.
I would like to contrast my grandmother with some other people I have known throughout the years. I have known people who retired and then died within a year or two. The husband of a woman I know had worked at General Motors, in an auto plant. He retired at the age of 65. Up until the time he retired, he had been very responsible, someone that most people would look up to. After he retired, though, he became very depressed and felt like he had no purpose, as if his life were over.
He sat on the roof of their small house in Warren, Michigan drinking at least a case of beer a day for around 9 months, and soon he was dead. He died, I think, because he had planned to die.
I have known numerous people throughout their lives that say things like: I’m washed up. No one likes me. I could never do that. That is not something I could do. I am not good at that sort of thing. I am going to fail. I am going to die by the time I am 35. My mother got that disease and I am probably going to get it too. When people make statements like this, they are essentially “planning to fail” or planning for some other negative outcome. When you plan to fail, you are putting yourself in a place wherein success is unlikely, if not impossible. It is as simple as that. When you plan to succeed, your odds of succeeding are far greater.
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],When you are getting ready to move into a new house, you will typically make all sorts of preparations for the house before you even move in.
Whenever I have seen a couple getting ready to buy a new house, most of the time they go out and start looking for all of these things weeks before they even move into the new house. Why? Because they are planning. They are not living in the house yet;  However, they believe they soon will be, so they start making plans for their new life.
You need to plan your life and your career around succeeding. Instead of making plans to fail, to be average and so forth, make plans to succeed and to be the absolute best at everything you can possibly be. If you are not living up to your potential, start making plans to fully realize that potential. If you are having financial problems, start making plans to become rich. If you are having relationship problems, start making plans to have a great relationship. If you are sick, start making plans to be well. If you are depressed, start making plans to be happy.
The most important thing you can do for yourself is to consistently plan to be happy and not sad. Successful and not unsuccessful. Satisfied and fulfilled, not unfulfilled.  Alive and not dead . It is just as easy to make plans to succeed as it is to make plans to fail, but the former is a lot more fun and rewarding. You need to do everything you can to ensure that you are planning for the best things in your life, instead of planning for the worst things.
Several years ago I purchased a lot of very expensive exercise equipment. I was not in good shape at the time. I could not really afford the exercise equipment at the time either, and it was a bit of a financial stretch for me.  Why did I buy all of this equipment?  I purchased it because I was planning on becoming healthy and fit. Moreover, I knew that there was no way that I would let all of this expensive equipment sit around without being used.  Because the equipment was there, I used it, and this has made a major difference in the quality of my life.
I am not saying you need to run out and purchase exercise equipment in order to be healthy or happy. This was just something that worked for me. What you should definitely do, though, is make your own plans to be healthy. Planning to be healthy and to be well is something that can make a giant difference in your life and career.
Have you had negative things happen to you? Have you heard people say negative things about you? You should never allow these things to take hold of you and determine who you are, and what you think you are capable of achieving. Instead, you need to think forward and think of positive, inspiring things. Plan for being the person you want to be, not the person others may have made you feel like when they have put you down for reasons having more to do with them than you.  You should never agree with those negative voices. Only agree with positive voices. Plan for health, success and happiness.
What would have happened to the people below if they had simply given up, and had not planned for great things in their lives? The Vice President of Columbia Pictures told this actor that he was never going to make it in the business. The actor? –  Harrison Ford His first book was rejected by 12 publishing houses and sixteen agents. –  John Grisham A band was turned down by a recording company that said, “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out” – The recording company was talking about  The Beatles.
This vocalist was told that “He couldn’t sing at all.” –  Enrico Caruso This visionary was fired from a newspaper because he “lacked imagination and had no original ideas” –  Walt Disney This author was told by Publishers that “anthologies don’t sell” and that the book was “too positive”. The book was rejected a total of 140 times. The book?  Chicken Soup for the Soul . It now has 65 different titles and has sold over 80 million copies all over the world. This young man was told by a teacher he was “too stupid to learn anything”. –  Thomas Edison This man failed the sixth grade. –  Winston Churchill He wasn’t able to speak until he was almost 4 years old, and his teachers said he would “never amount to much”. –  Albert Einstein
Was cut from the high school basketball team, went home, locked himself in his room and cried –  Michael Jordan Producer told her she was “unattractive” and could not act -  Marilyn Monroe This book was rejected 18 times before it was published. It then sold over one million copies the first year. The book was  Jonathan Livingston Seagull  by Richard Bach. Auditioned for  All My Children  and got rejected –  Julia Roberts Received 30 rejections and the author threw this book in the trash. Luckily his wife fished it out of the refuse and encouraged her husband to resubmit the manuscript. The book was  Carrie  – the author  Stephen King
I have heard different versions of stories like this many, many times. These sorts of stories are inspirational because they show that success often has more to do with planning to achieve something great, than simply trying once, then giving up after listening to others’ negative opinions. Nothing is more important than having incredible faith in what we can achieve, and then preparing to do great things.
Maybe you have failed at certain things before. Plan to succeed the next time. Maybe your family members have a history of getting some horrible disease when they reach a certain age. Plan to be the one who does not get the disease. Whatever it is, the best possible thing you can do is plan for the very best outcome.

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Plan for Success - Not Failure

  • 1. Plan For Success, Not Failure
  • 2. When I was younger, there was a restaurant on Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan that used to offer people a percentage off the price of their meals equal to a person’s age, on the person’s birthday each year. So, on your twenty-fifth birthday, for instance, you would get a 25% discount on your meal. On your fiftieth birthday, you would get a 50% discount on your meal.
  • 3. Not surprisingly, this particular restaurant was extremely popular with older people on their birthdays. In fact, elderly people came from all over town on their birthdays each year. I don’t mean to be crass, but it sort of felt like eating in a nursing home. There would be wheel chairs, walkers and so forth scattered all over the dining room, and in line. The hostesses in the restaurant always had to speak loudly to people when they came in. Sometimes the old people would doze off at their tables. The place was always packed.
  • 4. One time we visited my grandmother the day after her birthday, and she declared that she had been to this restaurant with several friends the evening before to celebrate her birthday, and that she had gotten a massive discount on her dinner, since she was so old. Because the restaurant kept giving discounts that increased the older people got, it made getting older a little more fun. “ I wonder if they would actually give you money back when you are 101, or if the meal is just free on your 100th birthday?” I asked her. “ I will let you know when I turn 101,” she said. She was quite serious and, after making this statement, went about her business.
  • 5. While my grandmother did not live to be 101, she lived well into her 90s and I remember being very impressed with her when she said she “would let me know”. She had shown great spirit and made it clear that she was making plans to live, rather than making plans to die, as many elderly people do. My grandmother was out and about every day, working outside of the house and being quite active with friends, going places and doing things. She enjoyed life, and she planned on continuing to do so.
  • 6. I would like to contrast my grandmother with some other people I have known throughout the years. I have known people who retired and then died within a year or two. The husband of a woman I know had worked at General Motors, in an auto plant. He retired at the age of 65. Up until the time he retired, he had been very responsible, someone that most people would look up to. After he retired, though, he became very depressed and felt like he had no purpose, as if his life were over.
  • 7. He sat on the roof of their small house in Warren, Michigan drinking at least a case of beer a day for around 9 months, and soon he was dead. He died, I think, because he had planned to die.
  • 8. I have known numerous people throughout their lives that say things like: I’m washed up. No one likes me. I could never do that. That is not something I could do. I am not good at that sort of thing. I am going to fail. I am going to die by the time I am 35. My mother got that disease and I am probably going to get it too. When people make statements like this, they are essentially “planning to fail” or planning for some other negative outcome. When you plan to fail, you are putting yourself in a place wherein success is unlikely, if not impossible. It is as simple as that. When you plan to succeed, your odds of succeeding are far greater.
  • 9.
  • 10. Whenever I have seen a couple getting ready to buy a new house, most of the time they go out and start looking for all of these things weeks before they even move into the new house. Why? Because they are planning. They are not living in the house yet; However, they believe they soon will be, so they start making plans for their new life.
  • 11. You need to plan your life and your career around succeeding. Instead of making plans to fail, to be average and so forth, make plans to succeed and to be the absolute best at everything you can possibly be. If you are not living up to your potential, start making plans to fully realize that potential. If you are having financial problems, start making plans to become rich. If you are having relationship problems, start making plans to have a great relationship. If you are sick, start making plans to be well. If you are depressed, start making plans to be happy.
  • 12. The most important thing you can do for yourself is to consistently plan to be happy and not sad. Successful and not unsuccessful. Satisfied and fulfilled, not unfulfilled. Alive and not dead . It is just as easy to make plans to succeed as it is to make plans to fail, but the former is a lot more fun and rewarding. You need to do everything you can to ensure that you are planning for the best things in your life, instead of planning for the worst things.
  • 13. Several years ago I purchased a lot of very expensive exercise equipment. I was not in good shape at the time. I could not really afford the exercise equipment at the time either, and it was a bit of a financial stretch for me. Why did I buy all of this equipment? I purchased it because I was planning on becoming healthy and fit. Moreover, I knew that there was no way that I would let all of this expensive equipment sit around without being used. Because the equipment was there, I used it, and this has made a major difference in the quality of my life.
  • 14. I am not saying you need to run out and purchase exercise equipment in order to be healthy or happy. This was just something that worked for me. What you should definitely do, though, is make your own plans to be healthy. Planning to be healthy and to be well is something that can make a giant difference in your life and career.
  • 15. Have you had negative things happen to you? Have you heard people say negative things about you? You should never allow these things to take hold of you and determine who you are, and what you think you are capable of achieving. Instead, you need to think forward and think of positive, inspiring things. Plan for being the person you want to be, not the person others may have made you feel like when they have put you down for reasons having more to do with them than you. You should never agree with those negative voices. Only agree with positive voices. Plan for health, success and happiness.
  • 16. What would have happened to the people below if they had simply given up, and had not planned for great things in their lives? The Vice President of Columbia Pictures told this actor that he was never going to make it in the business. The actor? – Harrison Ford His first book was rejected by 12 publishing houses and sixteen agents. – John Grisham A band was turned down by a recording company that said, “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out” – The recording company was talking about The Beatles.
  • 17. This vocalist was told that “He couldn’t sing at all.” – Enrico Caruso This visionary was fired from a newspaper because he “lacked imagination and had no original ideas” – Walt Disney This author was told by Publishers that “anthologies don’t sell” and that the book was “too positive”. The book was rejected a total of 140 times. The book? Chicken Soup for the Soul . It now has 65 different titles and has sold over 80 million copies all over the world. This young man was told by a teacher he was “too stupid to learn anything”. – Thomas Edison This man failed the sixth grade. – Winston Churchill He wasn’t able to speak until he was almost 4 years old, and his teachers said he would “never amount to much”. – Albert Einstein
  • 18. Was cut from the high school basketball team, went home, locked himself in his room and cried – Michael Jordan Producer told her she was “unattractive” and could not act - Marilyn Monroe This book was rejected 18 times before it was published. It then sold over one million copies the first year. The book was Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. Auditioned for All My Children and got rejected – Julia Roberts Received 30 rejections and the author threw this book in the trash. Luckily his wife fished it out of the refuse and encouraged her husband to resubmit the manuscript. The book was Carrie – the author Stephen King
  • 19. I have heard different versions of stories like this many, many times. These sorts of stories are inspirational because they show that success often has more to do with planning to achieve something great, than simply trying once, then giving up after listening to others’ negative opinions. Nothing is more important than having incredible faith in what we can achieve, and then preparing to do great things.
  • 20. Maybe you have failed at certain things before. Plan to succeed the next time. Maybe your family members have a history of getting some horrible disease when they reach a certain age. Plan to be the one who does not get the disease. Whatever it is, the best possible thing you can do is plan for the very best outcome.