10 Amazing Success Lessons from MichaelJordan:
1. Make It Happen
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it
would happen, others make it happen."
In order to succeed you're going to have to kick
down the door and make it happen on purpose.
You're not going to "luck up" and succeed,
success won't come with the passage of time. If
you're going to succeed, you're going to have to
roll up your sleeves, put your head down, and
make it happen at all costs.
2. Passion
"Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to
play it, but I'll still love the game."
You must have passion in order to succeed. If
success is to be yours, it will be yours while you
are following your passion. You won't succeed
doing something you despise, you won't even
succeed doing something that you like doing, you
will succeed when you do what you love, what
you're passionate about.
3. Try
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something.
But I can't accept not trying."
How can you succeed if you never try? How can
you go to your grave knowing that you never
tried? You may not know what paths will work
best for you, the only way to discover the right
path, is to try. Try and try, until you discover your
difference. Try until you learn where you can be a
success
4. Work
"I'm not out there sweating for three hours every
day just to find out what it feels like to sweat."
If success is to be yours, you can rest assured
that you're going to have to work at it. To be the
best you have to give your best. You have to
work harder than the rest. While people are
resting you have to be working. Success is a
game, you have to play hard, you have to out-
smart the competition, you have to put in the
work. Jordan said, "I've always believed that if
you put in the work, the results will come."
5. Fail
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been
trusted to take the game winning shot and
missed. I've failed over and over and over again
in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Never fear failure; fear not trying, fear not giving
your best, fear losing focus, but never fear failure.
Failure is the path to success. Failure is the sign
that you're headed in the right direction.
To succeed twice as fast, fail twice as much. Fail
often, fail daily, and soon you will succeed.
Jordan said, "I've never been afraid to fail."
6. Go Around
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be
roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had
them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If
you run into a wall, don't turn around and give
up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or
work around it."
Obstacles are what prepare you for success. How
can you go to the 10th grade unless you pass the
5th grade? The 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grades
are obstacles to the 10th grade. They are there
to keep you out until you're "ready" to proceed.
They are there to ensure you don't arrive
prematurely; they are there to ensure that when
you arrive, you are ready. Obstacles aren't a bad
thing; they're the training grounds to success.
7. The Mind
"My body could stand the crutches but my mind
couldn't stand the sideline."
If you go there in your mind, it's only a matter of
time before you go there in body. You have to see
it; if you can see it, if you can perceive it, then
you will find away to get it. The question is "How
bad do you want it?" If you don't "want it," you
won't get it! If you can live without it, you will. To
succeed you have to be hungry; you have to
thirst for success
8. Perspective
"Always turn a negative situation into a positive
situation."
Every negative situation contains the seed for a
great outcome, but you must recognize it. To
succeed you must turn negative situations into
positive ones. You can't focus on the negative,
you must see the positive, it's the only way up
the ladder of success.
You must see the positive, you must become
positive, in order to experience success.
9. Loyalty and Responsibility
"The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and
responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and
peace."
Success demands loyalty and responsibility! Are
you loyal to your duties, do you faithfully
complete the critical tasks that are requisite to
your success?
Are you consistent? To succeed, you must be
loyal to your passion; you must give it your all.
10. Expectations
"You have to expect things of yourself before you
can do them."
Jordan said, "If you accept the expectations of
others, especially negative ones, then you never
will change the outcome."
In life you will get what you accept and what you
expect. What are you expecting? What are you
accepting? When you change the answers to
these questions, you will change your life.
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