THE IMPORTANCE OF PURPOSE

THE BIGGEST RISK IN LIFE IS IN NOT RISKING.

Your dreams exist in your mind, but they need to be brought to life through action. You will know when you are on the right path, for then, things will begin to happen. The right doors will open. The right people will come into your life, and the situations and circumstances that surround you will seem to support everything you do.

Ramon's principles for success:  To always be honest, and grateful, to have a good attitude to do the best job you know how, to communicate well, and to always keep things simple, giving more than you were being paid for. 

Get into the habit of writing down whatever it is that you want to accomplish. Define each plan in terms of how you are going to achieve your objectives. Writing it all down in outline form, you can would take each topic and break it down to the smallest detail, then determine what resources will be needed to accomplish your plan. 

Success has more to do with choices than anything else - the freedom to choose what it is you want to do in life and having the resources to pursue those choices, whatever those resources might be.

If you really love what you're doing, you'll never work another day in your life. It really isn't a matter of finding the one thing that's perfect, but finding whatever seems best at the time.

If someone didn't know exactly what they wanted to do, they they could begin by making a list of various things that had always interested them. Jot down whatever occurs to you. Through a process of elimination, determine which thing or things appeal to you to most. 

Another way is to not focus on the job at all, but rather focus on the activities and conditions you most like to surround yourself with. If you wish to improve in life, you must first place yourself in an improved environment. If you wish to succeed, you will need to associate with people who think on a higher level, who have higher principles, and who communicate in a truly positive way; in other words, people with higher ideals.

One of the major elements of success is helping other people get what they want. In order to do that, you have to make sure that they win, and that they feel they have won, according to their own individual perceptions of winning. 

Happiness in not having what you want, but wanting what you have. If you focus on the bad, it becomes your reality.

Since your thoughts produce your feelings, if your thoughts are bad, then your feelings will be bad, and the quality of your life will also be bad.

Success is about knowing what you need to do, and when you need to do it.  Results are all that matter. Excuses don't count. Integrity is vital to your success, that any kind of long-term success is impossible without it. 

There is tremendous power in being predictable in a positive way. It isn't so much what happens but how we feel about what happens that makes the difference.  We are totally responsible for ourselves and everything that happens to us. 

You are creating your destiny each day with every act you commit or fail to commit. Effort should be made to choose the destiny you really want.

The next step is to do something each day that will bring you a little closer to your objective, however inconsequential an act it may appear to be. The important thing is to keep moving ahead, with your eye on the target.  Never, never, never give up.

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.

"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.

"You better pray that will come out of the carpet!"

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.

""If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.

"Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.

"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.

"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

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