“Success is a matter of Choice”

Monday 25th January 2010

For several years now I think. Mainly since being diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia in 2007 I’ve thought more about my past life than ever before, especially what will I do since my prognosis was only about 5 years; well that’s; what they told me. I have always been a very positive person, so despite the days or weeks that I am down Jane my wife will attest to my saying, “the glass is always half full” never half empty. So over the past three years I’ve been thinking, about what success is and what it means, also how do you achieve it.

I passionately believe that the life I have led up to now with all its ups and downs and trials and tribulations has been a good one. I have tried to do my best for my fellow man, I spent nearly 20 years on the New Brighton Lifeboat; I’ve brought up a family of children and step-children of seven and 11 grandchildren I’ve helped them overcome a lot of life’s headaches and I do hope that I will be able to carry on doing in the future years to come.

There is a great mystery or seems to be, by some people that to be successful you have to be rich and powerful; nonsense. I want to lay bare the thinking behind great achievement and try to expose some of these mysteries. I would say most of the successful people I’m going to talk about and in a few cases people that I have met and also known in my life have not started out in life with the best of everything; what do I mean the best of everything? A lot of them had no basis education some left school before or at the age of 15 with no qualifications; as I did some of them took a long time before they achieved success but success at what?

The definition of “Success” in the Oxford English Dictionary is: -
The achievement of an aim or purpose
The gaining of fame
The gaining of wealth
The gaining of social status
A person or thing that achieves success

In today’s ever changing world, success should not be left to a matter of chance; your success is down to your choice. If you think that success comes very easily, then please think again.

Your success will only come from what’s inside you, from your visions, dreams and desires, success comes from within you, identifying the; “from today forward, the here and now,” the future that you are truly wanting and desiring to build for you and your family.

We often are told “be glad of lot you’ve got” or “be glad of the hand you’ve been dealt”.

There are hundreds of thousands; probably hundreds of millions of people on the planet who don’t have a choice of their own, of getting out of the situation there in, that of course is not you!

Just reading this book gives you choice, choice to do what you want, choice to read what you want, choice to express in public your feelings, without fear of arrest and choice of many other things we take for granted, taken as our right to have them.