Success Principles I learned from Watching American Idol

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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.

Building the Dream

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It is worth the time to build, to create, to play with the dream. Your dream.

If nothing will fail and money is not a concern – what would you do? How would you live? Where would you live? With who (whom?) would you live?

Goals are the concrete foundations you need to allow the dream. You can write down the steps to goals, you can chart a path to goals – but why are you doing all that work?

The dream.

Your dream.

If there is no emotionally charged dream for you – you will drift and never work hard enough.You need a dream to direct the work muscles.

Freedom is a dream. Free from what you ask? – well what ties you down?

Money is not a dream, its a goal – but what you may use the money for is the dream.

Money all by itself turns ugly and corroded. It turns in on itself, and makes you turn in on yourself. Power is ego run amok. Power leads to the abyss. Its not a pleasant (or short) fall when you get there.

But money buys (in the western world) dreams. Money can buy freedom. Money can buy you the right not to worry about money. The right for your family not to worry about money and get on with the important things in life.

Money also buys disaster of course. Unless you have a dream. Money does not t have to a goal for your dream. What is you dream?

The dream, something that’s working years for, something that motivates you, deep inside, something that charges you up emotionally. If its all glitter and no emotion – it wont last. It wont drive you.

So?

If all was possible – Where would you live? What kind of house? How many. Do you need a house? If you have or want a family they will certainly want shelter. What kind? Where.

A few details to consider for your house.

How much land is around your house? Is there an ocean or mountains? Do you have horses? Goats? Chickens? sculpted grounds – wild land.

Inside your house. Is it in a warm country? Does it need windows? Is it in temperate lands. How many rooms? Wheres you secret hideaway inside the house where you can just.Sit?

How wide are the corridors? Enough for two people to pass by comfortably – 6 feet? Wide enough for two people to pass comfortably and have side tables and flower arrangements? 9 feet? Alcoves in the hallway?

Are the rooms big enough so you can walk behind the furniture? Or is everything against the wall? Your taste. Your dream

Do you have a shack on the Western Hebrides? Lanai? Fiji? A boat?

A mobile home instead?

A floating home?

Where would you live?

Who would you live with? What kind of relationship do you want with your friends. Your spouse? Your children. In an ideal world. (that you can create).

What work would you do? You will have to do something to stay sane. But not 24/7. Not in your dream.

Travel?

Work for charities? Make movies? Make music. Finance a sick person? Finance homeless people. One person. End poverty on your street, in your town, in your country? Or pick a country end poverty there.

HOW MUCH WILL THIS ALL COST?

Write that down.

Now find a way to make that money appear.

And have your dream

Here is the way Frank Kern approached it for instance

and here’s how he did it, again just as a for instance

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Success Principles I learned from Watching American Idol

Building the Dream

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