To achieve excellence both in your personal and professional life, means you must have some important traits and characteristics,

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Achieving Excellence through positive thinking

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Achieving Excellence means you must have :
Optimism
Optimism is power. This is a secret that was discovered by all those who
managed to succeed against great odds. Nelson Mandela, Ernest
Shackleton, Eleanor Roosevelt—all admitted that what got them through
tough times was an ability to focus on the positive. They understood what
Claude Bristol called “the magic of believing.” Yet great leaders also have
an unusual ability to face up to stark reality, so creating a single powerful
attribute: tough-minded optimism.
Optimistic people tend to succeed not simply because they believe that
everything will turn out right, but because the expectation of success
makes them work harder. If you expect little, you will not be motivated
even to try.
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Achieving Excellence means you must have:
A definite aim, purpose, or vision
Success requires a concentration of effort. Most people disperse
their energies over too many things and so fail to excel and be
outstanding in anything.
In the words of Orison Swett Marden: “The world does not
demand that you be a lawyer, minister, doctor, farmer, scientist,
or merchant; it does not dictate what you shall do, but it does
require that you be a master in whatever you undertake.” So to
be successful, you must have higher aims and goals and
relentlessly pursue their realisation.
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Achieving Excellence means you must have:
Willingness to work
Successful people are willing to engage in drudgery in
the cause of something marvelous. The greater part of
genius is the years of effort invested to solve a problem
or find the perfect expression of an idea. With hard work
you acquire knowledge about yourself that idleness never
reveals.
A law of success is that, once first achieved, it can create
a momentum that makes it easier to sustain. As the
saying goes, “Nothing succeeds like success.”
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Achieving Excellence means you must have:
Discipline
Enduring success is built on discipline, an appreciation
that you must give yourself orders and obey them. Like
compound interest, this subject may be boring, but the
results on the long term can be amazing. Great
achievers know that while the universe is built by atoms,
success is built by minutes after minutes; they are
masters when it comes to their use of time.
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Achieving Excellence means you must have:
An integrated mind
Successful people have a good relationship with their
unconscious or subconscious mind. They trust their
intuition, and because intuitions are usually right, they
seem to enjoy more luck than others. They have
discovered one of the great success secrets: When
trusted to do so, the Non-rational mind solves problems
and creates solutions.
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Achieving Excellence means you must have:
Non-stop reading
Look into the habits of the successful and you will find that they are
usually great readers. Many of the leaders and authors covered here
in this article attribute the turning point in their lives to picking up a
certain book. If you can read about the accomplishments of those
you admire, you cannot help but lift your own sights. Anthony
Robbins remarked that “success leaves clues,” and reading is one of
the best means of absorbing such clues.
Curiosity and the capacity to learn are vital for achievement, thus the
saying “leaders are readers.” The person who seeks growth, Dale
Carnegie said, “must soak and tan his mind constantly in the vats of
literature.”
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Achieving Excellence means you must have:
Risk taking
The greater the risk, the greater the potential success. Nothing
ventured,nothing gained. Be action oriented.
Realising the power of expectation
Successful people expect the best and they generally get it, because
expectations have a way of attracting to you their material equivalent.
Since your life corresponds pretty much to the expectations you have of it, the
achiever will argue, why not think big instead of small?

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Achieving Excellence means you must have:
Mastery
Advanced beings can turn any situation to their advantage. They are “masters
of their souls, captains of their fate.”
When other parties are involved, they will seek solutions in which gains are
maximised for all. In the words of Catherine Ponder:
“You do not have to compromise in life, if you are willing to let go of the
idea of compromise.”

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Achieving Excellence means you must have:
Well-roundedness
Achievements will mean little if you lack the capacities to love, listen, and learn
which are vital for our own well-being, and without them it is difficult to have the
fulfilling relationships that we need to both renew us and inspire achievement.
Persistence
Your success in achieving anything you want or changing your mindset will depend
on how persistent you are in planning your actions and carrying them out , learning
from mistakes and how determined you are to keep going when all those around you
highlight your failures.

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Achieving Excellence means you must have:
Some lessons can be learned from the following Famous Failures (For Persistence)
Chester Carlson took four years and rejections from IBM, GE and RCA before the Haloid
Company took his invention and renamed their company Xerox after it.
James Dyson took five years and 5,127 prototypes to invent the world’s first bag-less vacuum
cleaner. Before he manufactured it he nearly became bankrupt, due to the worldwide
patent fees. He is now probably Britain’s first billionaire inventor.
Thomas Edison had 7,000 failed attempts to design a latex rubber plant and 11,000 failed
experiments before he invented the electric light bulb. When he died he had 1,052 patents
in his name.
Walt Disney went to 312 banks before he secured backing for his cartoon animations. He
was also bankrupt seven times.

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Achieving Excellence means you must have:
And just one more lesson that can be learned from the following Famous Failures (For Persistence)
Abraham Lincoln failed in business 1831 and :
Ran for legislature and lost 1832
Failed in business again 1834
Sweetheart died 1835
Had a nervous breakdown 1836
Lost his second political race 1838
Defeated for Congress 1843
Defeated for Congress again 1846
Defeated for Congress yet again 1848

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Some help
Answering the following questions can also be very helpful :
How can I most easily let go of the past?
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What must I do to create a happy and inspiring future ?
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Some help
Answering the following questions can also be very helpful :
What must I do to remember to let go of less-than-useful feelings?
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What else do I Need to do to develop these skills?
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