Unlimited Power - Chapter 1

 

CHAPTER I:  THE COMMODITY OF KINGS

 

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

- Thomas Henry Huxley

Two words describe what this book is about: PRODUCING RESULTS!

To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more. The road to success is always under construction, and by applying the technology in this book, I was able to produce astonishing results in a very short period of time.

The power to magically transform our lives into our greatest dreams lies waiting within us all. It's time to unleash that power!

Power is a very emotional word for many people, and has a negative connotation for some people, but to me, ultimate power is the ability to produce the results you desire most and create value for others in the process.

Real power is shared, not imposed.

It's the ability to define human needs and fulfill them both your needs and the needs of the people you care about.

Although we're in an information age, information is not enough to produce the results we want.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Action is what unites every success.

For me, real "power" is the ability to act.

The results we get in life are determined by how we communicate to ourselves.

In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

What we picture and say to ourselves, how we move and use the muscles of our bodies and our facial expressions will determine how much of what we know we will use.

We all produce two forms of communication from which the experience of our lives is fashioned.

First, we conduct internal communications:

those things we picture, say, and feel within ourselves. The level of success you experience internally-the happiness, joy, ecstasy, love or anything you desire-is the direct result of how you communicate to yourself.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life- it is your interpretation of what is happening.

NOTHING HAS ANY MEANING EXCEPT THE MEANING WE GIVE IT through our internal communication.

Secondly, we experience external communications:

words. tonalities, facial expressions, body postures, and physical actions to communicate with the world.

Every communication we make-internal and external- is an action, a cause set in motion and that cause produces an effect.

You might think of the process of producing emotional states by managing your internal communication as being similar to a director's job.

To produce the precise results (s)he wants, the director of a movie manipulates what you see and hear.

Likewise, if you can learn to manipulate your internal movie, you will be able to create the external results you want in your life.

You're already producing results. They just may not be the results you desire.

Most of us think of our mental states and most of what goes on in our minds as things that happen outside our control.

But the truth is you can control your mental activities and your behaviors to a degree you never believed possible before.

If you're depressed, you created and produced the scene in the movie you call depression by the way you communicated to yourself internally with your mind and body. It takes specific actions to produce depression or ecstasy, or any emotional state. Learning to manipulate these actions will lead you to control of your emotions and your behavior.

You can run your brain as skillfully as Steven Spielberg runs his set.

Each chapter of this book deals with some aspect of how to run your brain.

People who have attained excellence follow a consistent path to success.

I call it the Ultimate Success Formula.

Here are the four steps:

THE ULTIMATE SUCCESS FORMULA

1) KNOW YOUR OUTCOME-precisely define what you want

2) TAKE ACTION

3) DEVELOP SENSORY ACUITY TO RECOGNIZE THE KINDS OF RESPONSES YOU'RE GETTING. ARE YOU GETTING CLOSER TO YOUR OUTCOME, OR FURTHER AWAY FROM IT?

4) DEVELOP FLEXIBILITY TO CHANGE YOUR APPROACH IF YOU'RE NOT GETTING CLOSER TO YOUR OUTCOME.

Steven Spielberg, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King. Jr., Ted Turner, Tina Turner, Pete Rose, and Dean Barbara Black of the Columbia University School of Law, are people that applied the Ultimate Success Formula in their lives, and who also shared what I believe are seven fundamental character traits that they have all cultivated within themselves that give them the fire to do whatever it takes to succeed.

7 FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTER TRAITS OF SUCCESS

1) PASSION-gives life power, juice, and meaning. There is no greatness without a passion to be great-great parent, athlete, scientist, artist, businessperson (see Chapter XI)

2) BELIEF-passion and belief provide the fuel toward excellence (see Chapters IV, V)

3) STRATEGY-a way of organizing resources (Chapters VII, VIII)

4) CLARITY OF VALUES-the fundamental ethical, moral, and practical evaluations we make about what's most important in our lives (Chapter XVIII)

5) ENERGY-people of excellence have all have the energy to take opportunities and shape them (Chapters IX, X)

6) RAPPORT-BONDING POWER-the ability to connect with people at the deepest levels of your heart (Chapter XIII)

7) MASTERY OF COMMUNICATION-the essence of what this book is about.

People who fail take the adversities of life and accept them as limitations; people who succeed have learned to turn those adversities into challenges that teach them strength.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures also have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission to others.

Every chapter of this book deals in some way with mastery of internal and external communication.

This book is divided into 3 parts:

Part 1: How to take charge of and run your own brain and body more effectively.

Part 2: Discover what you really want in your life and communicate more effectively with others.

Part 3: Discover what motivates us, what we can contribute on a larger, global scale.

What if there was a way to take action that greatly accelerated the learning process-what if you could learn in minutes what someone took years to perfect? - MODELING!-see Chapter II.