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30 Days To Success! The Nine steps to success are taken from Og Mandino's Greatest Salesman in the World. A brilliant book on how to succeed in life. Follow these nine steps and be a success at Jesup High School. "The Nine Steps to Success" are taught in Sophomore World Cultures

Today I Begin a New Life!
  • Failure will no longer be my payment for my labor.
  • I will form good habits and become their slaves.

I Will Greet This Day With Love In My Heart!

  • I will make love my greatest weapon.
  • I will laud my enemies and they will become my friends.

I Will Persist Until I Succeed!

  • I am not delivered unto this world in defeat.
  • I will build my castle one block at a time.
  • I will remove from my vocabulary can't.

"The weakest living creature, by concentrationg his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.  Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind."

I Am Natures Greatest Miracle!

  • There is not another like me.
  • I will become better than I am.
  • I will not attempt to imitate others.

I Will Live This Day As If It Were My Last!

  • I will make this day my monument.
  • I will cherish each hour for it will never return.
  • I will avoid with fury the killers of time.

"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that youhave no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.  This applies to play as well as work.  A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.  You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.  No more busy work.  No more hiding from success.  Leave time, leave space, to grow.  Now. Now!  Not tomorrow!"

Today I Will Be Master Of My Emotions!

  • The tides advance the tides recede.
  • Today's dead flowers carry the seeds for Tomorrow.
  • I make my own weather.

I Will Laugh At The World!

  • No living creature can laugh except man.
  • I will laugh at myself for he is most comical who take himself too serious.
  • This too shall pass.

"Realize that true happiness lies within you.  Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.  Remember that there is no happiness in having or getting, but only in giving.  Reach out.  Share.  Smile.  Hug.  Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

Today I Will Multiply My Valus 100 Fold!

  • A field of clay touched with the genius of man becomes a castle.
  • I will liken myself to a piece of grain.
  • My worst moments are the beginning of my greatest.

I Will Act Now!

  • I will act now, I will act now, I will act now!
  • When I am tempted to quit I will repeat; I will act now.
  • I will command and I will obey my own command.

"I will act now.  I will act now.  I will act now.  Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.  With these words I can condition my mind to preform every action necessary for my success.  I will act now.  I will repeat these words again and again and again.  I will walk where failures fear to walk.  I will work when failures seek rest.  I will act now for now is all I have.  Tomorrow is the day resvered for the labor of the lazy.  I am not lazy.  Tomorrow is the day when the failures will succeed.  I am not a failure.  I will act now.  Success will not wait.  If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever.  This is the time.  This is the place.  I am the person."

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