Enthusiasm is Key

FRIDAY Book Study: we will study this one power packed book throughout the year, each week diving into business, mindset, and personal development principles. Og Mandino’s University of Success: The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book.

Please make sure you read and study this chapter, there are soooo many nuggets in this lesson. CLICK HERE for the book in pdf format.

LISTEN TO LESSON 19 (SEMESTER FOUR)

TODAY’S THOUGHT

NO MATTER HOW CAREFULLY YOU PLAN YOUR GOALS THEY WILL NEVER BE MORE THAN PIPE DREAMS UNLESS YOU PURSUE THEM WITH GUSTO.

TODAY’S TAKEAWAYS

• There is a big difference between the person who perseveres and the person who quits – which is Enthusiasm!!!
• You can lose your enthusiasm for anything unless you know how to keep those flames of ambition constantly burning inside you.
• The first ingredient that is absolutely necessary for a successful, efficient, and competent salesman or individual is enthusiasm.
• You will win or lose depending upon your willingness to pay the price to regularly engage in thinking and planning time and . . . to use your mind power to develop a truly positive mental attitude and eliminate the negative.
• No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.
• To become enthusiastic for achieving a desirable goal, keep your mind on your goal day after day.
• The more worthy and desirable your objective . . . the more dedicated and enthusiastic you will become.
• The emotions are not always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
• Success is achieved by those who try, and where there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful by all means try.
• DO IT NOW and immediately get into action.
• Feelings, moods and emotions will follow action. If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastically.

TODAY’S INSTRUCTOR:
W. CLEMENT STONE

W. Clement Stone, (May 4, 1902- Sept. 3, 2002). An American businessman and philanthropist made a fortune in insurance but became better known for promoting his philosophy of success and for his support of political and social causes.

He espoused what he called P.M.A. (positive mental attitude) as the key to achievement and wealth. A major contributor to the 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns of Richard M. Nixon, he also supported philanthropic causes such as mental health and youth welfare. Following the Watergate Scandal (1972–75), Stone’s large contributions to Nixon were sometimes cited as an example of the need for campaign finance reform.

Stone’s father died when he was three years old, leaving the family impoverished, and at the age of six the boy began selling newspapers. By age 13 he had his own newsstand, and three years later he moved to Detroit to help his mother in an insurance agency. He dropped out of school, although he later received a diploma from a YMCA high school. In 1922 he opened his own agency in Chicago, the Combined Insurance Company of America, selling accident and life insurance, and by 1930 he had employed some 1,000 agents across the U.S. Over the years he bought additional companies, merging them with Combined, and in 1982 he merged his company with the Ryan Insurance Group, renaming the new firm Aon Corp. in 1987.

In 1951, Stone founded the interfaith group “The Washington Pilgrimage”, which later became the “Religious Heritage of America”. It successfully advocated the Eisenhower administration to add the “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.

With Napoleon Hill he developed a lecture series and the magazine Success Unlimited, and the two also wrote the book Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960). Among Stone’s other books was The Success System That Never Fails (1962). He expected his employees to join with him in beginning each day with “I feel happy! I feel healthy! I feel ter-r-r-ific!”

TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS BOOK STUDY

• I may read and record a portion of the chapter or just pick out a few nuggets each week. So, to really obtain the full benefit and get the most out of this book you may want to purchase your own copy, here is the link to Amazon
• Highlight, underline, star, mark up this book however you want with things that resonate with you.
• Take this study slowly and with intention, that’s why we are doing only ONE chapter each week, so we can ponder, think and study on this content until the next chapter.
• Do the chapters in order (all of these suggestions are from the author)