Most people never succeed in life, because most people never decide to succeed in life. They never make up their minds, with passion and certainty, and claim success! They never, like the Founders of the greatest nation on earth, made a declaration of their own independence from poverty and or mediocrity and the tyranny of control! Many just go through life living in silent despair, hoping that someday, things will get better. So sad… and such a waste of Life.

Surely, you want success or you wouldn't be reading this article. But have you decided that you will be successful, not matter what? No matter the cost? No matter the sacrifice? No matter the toil and the labor and the physical and emotional challenges involved? Success is forever hidden from the man or woman who fails to decide their own positive destiny.

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America made a bold Declaration of Independence from Britain.  This was not an announcement. It was not an affirmation. It was a powerful Declaration resulting from a fearless decision that would alter the history of the world…forever.

These men decided that they would in deed pay the price for sovereignty and freedom and success and independence. They decided long before they were in combat with “the enemy,” that they would pay any price. And they decided that they would lay down their lives if needed in the fight to bring their decision… their declaration into the forefront of reality.

Decision derives from the Latin decisio, which means a cutting off. The verb is decidere, which means to cut off (de = fff, caedere = to cut). This is where we get words like, scissors, incision and caesarean section. To decide is to cut off, to severe, to separate.

If you truly desire to be successful, you must cut, or severe, or separate yourself from poverty, from ignorance, from laziness and from any tyrannical powers in your life. You must decide that the fight for freedom and success is worth it. You must decide that you too will pay any price, that is honest, legal and ethical. And you too must decide that you will, with certainty, become successful, however that is defined in your own life.

So many approach their opportunities like toe-dippers. They hope to be successful as they stick their toes into the waters of opportunity. If it's cold, they don't get in. If it's hot, they don't get in. They only get in if it's comfortable, and if ever it becomes uncomfortable, they get out long before they have an opportunity to become successful. This is the approach of the masses, and this is why the masses are the masses. This is not the way to approach success.

Success sounds like this: “I don't care what the water feels like. I don't care how long I gotta be in there. I'm gettin' in and I aint gettin' out til I get what I want. 

Og Mandino, author of the Greatest Salesman in the World, said it best when he declared, “I will persist until I succeed.” This was his bold declaration and powerful decision. It did not matter that he was a drunk. It did not matter that he was unemployed. It did not matter that he could not pay his bills and meet his obligations. It did not matter that he was mentally and emotionally scarred from having killed so many people in World War II. It did not matter that his wife left him and took his only child from him. And it did not matter that he was roaming the streets considering suicide. All that mattered was his decision and declaration…. I WILL PERSIST UNTIL I SUCCEED.

It was that decision that led Og into a library where he would read the first of many books on the topic of success. And it was that decision that fueled his fight to become something and someone of significance. And it was that decision that led him to become a successful, best-selling author of more than 21 books.

After having earned my first million in my network marketing business, industry rookies would often ask me, “Was there ever a single moment where you knew for sure you were going to be successful?” My answer, was always yes, which brought an additional inquiry. “How did you know you would be successful?” My response….”I decided that I would be… no matter what.”

If you've not decided, with passion, boldness and certainty, that you will, no matter what, become successful, I hope you will do so now. Step away from the masses. Separate yourself from mediocrity. Cut yourself from despair. Sever yourself from poverty. Detach yourself from ignorance. And sunder yourself from your fears and excuses. Step into your greatness by making a bold, new decision and create your own liberating declaration of independence. And be willing from the start to pay the price, any price, that will be exacted from you during your journey.

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