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The Real Secret of
Success
By Brian Tracy
More than 5,000 years ago, in the ancient mystery
schools of Egypt, the mental and spiritual laws and
principles of success were taught to students who
dedicated their entire lives to learning in what was
called the "Esoteric Arts."
One of these "secrets" was the Law of Attraction,
which said that your mind is a magnet and that you
invariably attract into your life people and
circumstances in harmony with your dominant
thoughts, especially your dominant thoughts
emotionalized.
Today we say, "Like attracts like" and "Birds of a
feather flock together." From ancient times, it was
known that your mind sends out vibrations, like
radio waves, that are picked up by the minds of
other people who are tuned into the same rate of
vibration.
The force that determines the sending power of your
mental vibrations is the amount of emotion, positive
or negative, that you put behind a thought. If there
is something that you intensely desire, something
that excites you and enthuses you, you will send out
powerful, high-frequency vibrations that can travel
large distances in split seconds and cause your
phone to ring from someone you have not heard from
for months or even years.
Because your mind is so powerful, especially when
backed by emotionalized thoughts, you must handle it
carefully, like a child handling a gun. The Law of
Attraction is neutral. It works on both positive and
negative thoughts. It brings into your life whatever
you are thinking about on a regular basis with
either fear or desire.
When the book, "The Secret" came out, along with the
movie, I was happily surprised to see that the first
half of the movie comes from my audio program and
seminar, "The Psychology of Achievement" which was
produced initially in 1981. We videotaped the live
seminar which explains the Law of Attraction along
with thirty-one other laws, plus how this law is
applied in every area of life, and then distributed
the video seminar world wide, including New Zealand,
where the Author of The Secret comes from.
The weakness in The Secret is that it is "necessary
but not sufficient." Of course, it is important that
you think positive thoughts and that, by so doing,
you will attract positive people and circumstances
into your life. But it is not enough.
In response to The Secret, I decided to write a book
which is called "Flight Plan -- The Real Secret of
Success." In this book, I explain that life is very
much like a long distance flight. When the plane
takes off, it will be off course 99% of the time.
But nonetheless, the plane will eventually arrive at
its destination, even thought it was off course most
of the time.
In my experience, the real secret of success
consists of three major factors: First, you must be
absolutely clear about your destination. By this I
mean that must have clear, written, specific,
measurable goals, committed to paper and organized
into specific, step-by-step plans of action.
Before you can set your goals, you must know exactly
who you are and what you want. You must do a
thorough analysis of yourself, your life, your
hopes, your dreams, your ambitions, and where you
want to be sometime in the future. Then, you create
a "Flight Plan" to get you from wherever you are
today to wherever you want to be in the months and
years ahead.
The second part of Flight Plan is that you must
"take off!" You must have the courage to step out in
faith with no guarantee of success. You must be
prepared to launch in the face of your fears, doubts
and natural reluctance to break out of your comfort
zone. "To achieve something that you have never
achieved before, you must be prepared to do
something that you have never done before." (Les
Brown).
Once you have launched toward your goal, like an
airplane, you will meet with unexpected turbulence,
headwinds, updrafts and downdrafts, lightning,
storms and every sort of mechanical problem. You
must be prepared to make continual "course
corrections" as you move toward your goal.
Perhaps the most important quality for success is,
and always has been, the quality of persistence. You
must resolve in advance to persist in the face of
any difficulty or problem that you experience. You
must resolve in advance that you will never give up.
You must resolve in advance that you will view every
temporary setback or difficulty as merely a signal
that you need to make a "course correction" as you
move inevitably toward your goal.
This is a great time to be alive. The very best days
of your life lie ahead of you. The highest income of
your life is still to come. The greatest experiences
of your life are still to be experienced.
There is very little that you can not accomplish if
you will file your flight plan. Determine exactly
what it is that you want to achieve, take off toward
your goal with no guarantees of success, and then
make continual course corrections until you finally
succeed. If you resolve to do these things, nothing
can stop you from creating an extraordinary life.
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