Creating Success Part 1 - Information

In this first part of the Creating Success Trilogy, I develop the ground floor of success. The basis of Success is Information.

If you think about it, information is what enables us to function in the everyday world, no matter where, or when. From birth we are handed huge volumes of information to consume and integrate into our thought patterns. The human child goes through 15 to 20 years of absorbing information to be able to function as adults in our complex society. 

Our access to information determines what kind of life we have and how much wealth we accumulate. Kids in rich families don’t get the same information as kids in poor families. They’re taught different things and to think in different ways than poor kids. The information we have access to determines our expectations and affects our choices. The information we are exposed to even affects what questions we ask and predetermines the answers.

The reason that there are so many unhappy people in the world is because they know that something is wrong but they don’t know what it is. They can’t define the problem or the solution. The quality of information available to the average (non-affluent) person is limited, narrow, obsolete, opinionated hearsay. 

The daily conversation of the working class is filled with one-liners from the most popular sitcoms. Social standing is dependent on the advanced art of the best comeback to witty statements. In this environment nothing is accurate or original. You don’t get points for originality. This is where the problem starts. 

Everybody is in the same boat, and it’s leaking. The average person can’t step out of their world temporarily and look at it objectively. They keep getting the same information presented in the same way which gives the same answers. I believe it’s called a treadmill.

It’s quite amazing to me that there is so much information available to anyone with a computer and a connection to the internet. Before the internet era, getting information meant having access to libraries. The elite university libraries were where the really neat books were. Of course access was limited to upper class kids. The rest didn’t even know those books existed.

Now, we have a vastly different problem. There is so much information available that we’re totally overwhelmed. “There just isn’t enough time, and I have people I need to text.” “So, how do I know what’s important anyway”? “Is it going to make me popular”? “Will it help me get the right job”? 

People have been trained to accept information “bursts”. They don’t seek information, they’re hit with it, sometimes with consent and sometimes not.

So, the real value of information is not comprehended. The simple truth is that Information tells us about the nature of anything we care to look at. What it looks like, how it functions, what qualities it possesses, how it fits in with everything else, what it affects and how it is effected. It also enables us to look at the very abstract idea of meaning. 

What does what I am looking at “mean”. Meaning is the hidden gem in information. Meaning is what elevates and transforms information into knowledge.

The more competent the source of the information, the more we can trust the picture the information is revealing to us. Accurate information in problem solving produces positive results. Failure to use accurate information usually brings negative or disastrous results. And here is the point of separation between the upbringing of rich and poor kids. 

The information shared in daily contact between rich parents and their kids is filled with information about being successful. How you talk, what you wear, what you do, how you recognize business opportunities, how you make money, how you use it, how you relate to those you hire. Years of exposure to this eventually build a world view ideally suited to being successful and wealthy. The total information/belief system is complete.

Contrast this with the upbringing of the poor (economically challenged). Visualize the dinner table (or couch) of a poor family. The information shared is about not being able to pay which bill this week, intermingled with comments about something stupid on the TV. “And you had better graduate so you can get a good job”. They’re not easy to find these days”.” Look what they’ve done to this country”. “All my buddies say we’re in for bad times, I don’t know what we’re going to do”! ”I’m just too old”.

The information available to these two groups couldn’t be farther apart. The rich group can’t imagine what the problem is? “If they’re poor, it’s their own fault”. The poor group can’t imagine why the rich treat them so badly. “Can’t they see what we’re going through? They're making life hard for us!”

What separates the rich from the poor is what separates the successful from the unsuccessful. Accurate, complete, relevant, timely, meaningful Information. No matter what you are trying to do, then you owe it to yourself to use good information. 

Start with a conscious effort to see how good the information is you normally rely on. Develop the habit of accepting only the best information upon which to base your views and decisions. Don’t be influenced to accept inferior information by those around you. This step is the critical one. If you aren’t already doing this, then begin now.

When you are trying to solve a problem, define what you are looking for to the best of your ability. Then find the sources that contain the appropriate kind of information. Sources tend to specialize. Develop a method for analyzing the quality of information. 

One simple method involves posing the same question to multiple similar locations. Then compare the answers to get a sense of the quality. Pick the best one and use it. Academic sources can be useful for certain kinds of information because they tend to be more accurate and rigorous in their citations. They also have access to the latest research. Their information is shared more readily than with proprietary private research.

The information that you use determines your world view, which determines the options you have in life. If you are unsatisfied with your life, look at your bottom line to find the source of the problem and the solution.

The second part of the Creating Success Trilogy will explore Knowledge.

Ron Pettell 2011-2018

100,000 Volts Success

100.000 Volts Success

I’d like to talk about energy.  How do you get enormous amounts of energy and how do you keep it?

The benefit is that once you have it, you can use it to help you create an amazingly successful life and financially rewarding business.

High Voltage Passion can do anything. It will turn you into a Super Person. You can leap tall building in a single bound or stop a train with your bare hands. You’re invincible. You know that anything you try will be a success.. You feel incredible.  

How do you get it?

Excited, high-voltage emotions are the quickest way to get what you want. This is Passion!

When you get charged up enough, the out-come is action. You’re focused and it’s hard to distract you. When you’re after your desire, the juice flows. Then you do whatever it takes to get it. If you keep this charged up feeling, you eventually succeed.

There is a method to intentionally find and use this kind of energy in your daily life. This gives you enormous amounts of energy to accomplish your goals and live a passionate life.

This means focusing on those things and people in your life that excite you and you feel passionate about. Stop doing the things and people that drain you. Stop doing those things!

I know you find yourself in situations where you can’t do this, but it is possible to begin the process. Look for the small ways you can. Take small steps until you can make the larger changes. 

Give yourself permission to do this. It’s perfectly OK to take care of yourself; then you have much more energy to take care of others. This is especially important for mothers.

You have to reprogram your thoughts and habits. For most people, life is usually run on autopilot. You train yourself to be aware and recognize when certain things and people really make you feel good and excite you. Train yourself to discover what you are totally passionate about and find ways to start living it.

This is the critical point; you have to notice the things and people that have juice. If you want to be very successful, this is where to focus your attention. You have to basically put everything else on hold.

This is not out of a feeling of superiority or ego. You can still have empathy, but if you listen to others and ignore yourself, you will hesitate or stop. Most people don’t realize how they hold each other back.

They frequently have good intentions, but out of ignorance, do damage. They don’t know that they don’t know. Focus on high energy success and you will be an example that they can follow. Transform yourself and show them that it can be done.

How do you keep it?

Once you get that high voltage passion, you have to learn how to hang on to it. There are so many things that cause you to lose it.

Like doing things you dislike or hate, or having your friends and family tell you that you’re wrong. Every person you’re around affects you either positively or negatively.

One of the biggest causes of lost energy is your work. It’s such a big deal because you spend so much time doing it and it’s a big part of who you are. Most people are doing work that is unsatisfying or worse. It’s a huge drain. You can balance this in the evening and weekends, but it does have to balance or come out ahead in your favor.

This is where you make or break your life. If you can’t change the work you do, then you must be in control of the rest of your life. Unfortunately, this rarely happens because it’s usually under the control of your sub-conscious. Life is lived in a reactive, unconscious way. The negative, unconscious thought patterns from your unfulfilling day job carries over to your home life.

The easiest way to lose your high-energy, passionate feeling for life is to live unconsciously on autopilot. You will not have any control of your life and merely react to the events and people around you.

Eventually, you won’t have any energy at all. You’ll get old……then die.

It’s critical, critical, critical that you wake up and take control of your life. You can be OK. You can be more than OK. You can be fabulously, incredibly, passionately, successfully alive! 

You can have a happy life and be financially rewarded. You can have it all; you are Super Person.

Juicing Up Success

So, in preparation for this article, I have been savoring success everywhere I can find it. I looked at pictures, articles, books, blogs and advertisements about the luxuries that come with success and wealth.

I can feel the electricity. It's tingling, exciting and luxuriously soothing at the same time. What a great feeling! I could really get used to this.

So much to see and do..... Ferrari Spider,  Rolex Oyster Special Edition, Private luxury Island in the Seychelles Islands, the 118 WallyPower Super Yacht that will do 70 mph even in rough seas, Glengoyne 40 year old limited highland single malt, the most beautiful and sexy woman (or man) who wants my attention, and on......All the success symbols.

I like to feel the luxuries that life can bring us when we are successful in making money. All of the toys and things that are so much fun! They confirm for us that it's really true. We are successful. Life is good. We're on the right track. We're doing the right thing.  We have white-hot passion.

This is the unique and exhilarating feeling that overcomes us when we succeed. All of our senses delight in the pleasures of owning, having, seeing, hearing, smelling and thinking about our success. 

All of our sensations combine and a wave of emotion passes through us. We are finally overcome with tears. Thank you so very much.

Success is Exhilarating!   

Imagine that you’re on stage with 10,000 loyal fans in front of you screaming their lungs out. What an incredible feeling? The audience is totally juicing you. They are focusing their complete attention and emotions. 

You are getting massive bursts of raw energy in sync with the music. You are getting 100,000 volt juice. What a rush!

Things That Juice Up Success   

I have been paying attention to things that give us a charged feeling. The things that give juice are the things that have juice. The things that excite us are the things that are successful.   I think that everyone recognizes this on some level.

Everyone appreciates quality; it’s a measure of success. We know that things that are high-quality are successful. We can feel it. We can feel the energy that went into its creation. Success, Quality, Energy and Feeling are all connected.

This happens with possessions as well as relationships
If your stuff and relationships can't juice you, it is much harder to be successful.   There is no energy there to help you. It's like having a car that always breaks down. It deflates you.

It can still be done, but it is much harder and therefore there is more opportunity for discouragement and abandoning the pursuit of success.

Critical Steps in Getting and Keeping 100,000 Volts Success

Step 1: Recognition 

Be conscious and aware at all times. Understand how you make choices. Know yourself.

Take a look at what you have and who you know.  See how they are affecting you. Decide whether they are helping you or holding you back from success.

Step 2: Choose Your Relationships

Everyone is affected by the things and people around them.
Choose relationships and stuff that have juice. Start to make changes where needed. Some relationships take longer than other to change.

Be conscious in all your new choices. Make sure they will take you where you want to go. Pay attention to the juice. Take control of the decision. You will have to live with it.

Step 3: Don’t Let Go of the Energy

Be aware of your energy. Know when you have it and when something is trying to take it away.

Take steps to correct the cause. If you can’t stop it, move away. If you can’t move away, then just be still and don’t react to the negative situation. 

Focus on keeping your energy, your excitement and passion.
When you can, run…..and have fun! 

Choose the World You Want To Live In

You can have high-voltage energy to create the happy, fulfilling and financially rewarding life you deserve.

Be conscious. Choose the people and things that juice you up. The longer you hang on to the passion, the stronger it gets. The universe loves to give you energy if you don’t waste it.

Think, feel and surround yourself with success.  If everything around you is successful, you will be also.

Cultivate the 100,000 volt feeling and you will have the energy to transform yourself and create a passionate, exciting, and financially rewarding life for yourself and your family. 

You will be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

You can do it!   You can do it!     You can do it!