Success Principles I learned from Watching American Idol
1) Dreams don’t come true, just because you have them.Work is always involved.
There is the famous Clement Stone quote – “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” However there are steps between conceiving and achieving and every step requires work, belief and overcoming obstacle
2) Everyone is not and is never equal in terms of talents and abilities.
Some people really can’t sing, and some people can really sing. But everyone is equal in ability to create a success if they work at it. If you really want to be a singer and have no natural talent – understand the obstacles and work and heart ache you will have to go through. But if you will go through the challenges and take the lessons, take the disciplining, then you can achieve success. You never win at anything if you quit at the first sign of resistance, or criticism.
Another famous quote – quitters never win and winners never quit. Cliche but true.
3) Comparisons are useless and destructive.
You always work on what you can control, and you can only control you and your results and your reactions. To say he or she is a better singer or luckier or smarter or stronger has no value.
What can you do?
What are you prepared to do?
Compare only what can be done with what you are doing. Not the other competitor. The view from the top is always fine, no matter how long it takes to get there.
4) Complaining about a bad call, an unluckily break,a bad judge, an unseen obstacle, can never help.
Success is always about focus, focus on the goal and the plan. The task at hand. You only have so much energy at any given moment, use it wisely, do not let it dissipate in despair and complaints.
And no matter who you are there will always be someone doing whatever you want to do, faster, with more money or more talent or more grace or more dumb luck. So what its not about them, its about your drive to goal. Focus is all
5)Be flexible on the time frame, but not the goal.
You might not win American Idol say, or might not even pass the first audition, but in terms of an over journey to a goal – that is irrelevant. It is merely an experience, an event in a series of events toward your goal.
The winner of American Idol is rarely after the one who makes it ‘big’. That requires work an persistence. Not just singing ability an ht luck of the voting pool that year.
6) A sure test of if you really want to success: – what happens when you are told you will never be successful in that particular endeavor? If you quit You lose.
You may re adjust your goal, or re asses your journey, and maybe even go for a slightly different target. Maybe signing really isn’t your thing – so pick something else. OR may that’s all you want to do – sing. Then take Simon’s advice to heart. Submit to lessons and disciple and really learning your craft. Success is always there, if you make a viable plan, work the plan and listen those who have traveled this journey before you.
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7) winning on TV isn’t winning in real life.
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