This is the 2nd in a short series reviewing a bit of success literature I think everyone should read. Yesterday was Part I, in which I did a short review of Jack Canfield’s and Janet Switzer’s book, The Success Principles. Today’s book is just as powerful, only in a different way (by the way, just search amazon.com for books on Success if you want to read even more than what I’m reviewing here.

Today’s review:  Success is Not An Accident

The second book in my Thoughts on Success review is Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life, by Tommy Newberry.  I was glad to see Newberry emphasizing “choices” throughout his book. In fact, he starts each lesson in the book with the word “choose”:

Choose who you want to become;
Choose to write down compelling goals, etc.

It’s a good emphasis. Look down the halls of history and you’ll find that people thought of as successful made choices to do things that unsuccessful people weren’t willing to do.

Lack of success often results from people never learning to think through their choices. Such people experience only sporadic success, if any at all.

Most of us have heard the saying “first you’re born, then you pay taxes.”  I think a better (and more accurate) phrase is “First your born, then you have choices.”  The sooner one realizes this, the sooner he’ll be making substantive progress on the road to success.

By the way, one of the threads found in all three books is the need to write out clear goals. It’s amazing how many people do not do this. Writing goals works like magic. Do not hang on to a misguided belief that you don’t need to write goals – that you you’re your goals within your own head.

If that’s you, my response is this: If you think you’re successful without writing down your goals, you will be amazed at how much more successful you can be if you make sure your goals are written out.

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