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Winner Takes All Exceptional People Teach Us How to Find Career and Personal Success in the 21st Century This page intentionally left blank Winner Takes AH Exceptional People Teach Us How to Find Career and Personal Success in the 21st Century Noelle Nelson PERSEUS BOOKS Reading, Massachusetts Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nelson, Nolle C. Winner takes all : exceptional people teach us how to Fino career and personal success in the 21st century / Noelle Nelson, p. cm. Includss bibillographical references and index, ISBN 0-306-46005-X 1. Success—Psychological aspects, 2- Succsss in business, I. Title. BF637.S8N42S 1999 158.1--dc21 99-12706 CIP ISBN 0-306-46005-X © 1999 Noelle Nelson Perseus Books is a member of the Perseus Books Group Find us on the World Wide Web at http://www.perseusbooks.com 10 9 8 7 6 5 43 A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher Printed in the United States of America To Suzy and Frank Cross, the original Winners in my fife This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii QUIZ: ARE YOU A 21ST CENTURY WINNER? 1 INTRODUCTION 5 How to Use This Book 9 Notes 11 CHAPTER ONE: BELIEVE IN A POSITIVE FUTURE When I Look into the Future, What Do I See? 13 Discover Your Beliefs about the Future ... 15 Challenge Your Beliefs, 24 How to Develop Beliefs that Work for You 33 Personal Success Log 1: Your Beliefs 33 Notes 36 CHAPTER TWO: CREATE A NEW FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS Who Am I? What Do I See in Me? 37 vii viii CONTENTS Success Relies on Your Inner Qualities 39 Building Competence 43 How to Create and Develop Your Personal "Who I Am" as a Solid Foundation for Your Success in the Future , 53 Personal Success Log 2: Your Inner Qualities 54 Notes 56 CHAPTER THREE: BE WILLING TO DREAM What Inspires Me? What Future Calls to Me? 57 You Gotta Have a Dream 57 Finding Your Dream 61 How to Dream a Dream for Yourself that Will Pull You into a Successful Future 70 Personal Success Log 3: Your Dreams 71 Notes 74 CHAPTER FOUR: HARNESS THE POWER OF YOUR DREAM How Do I Make My Dream Real? How Do I Make It Come Alive? 75 Make a Workable Choice 76 How to Develop a Workable Choice for Your Dream 90 Personal Success Log 4: Your Workable Choice 90 Notes 91 CHAPTER FIVE: ENGAGE THE POWER OF YOURSELF How Does My Dream Fit with Who I Am? How Do I Commit to It? 93 Make a Wise Choice 93 Make an Empowered Choice 103 Make a Committed Choice 108 How to Develop a Chosen Dream that Works for You 109 Personal Success Log 5: Your Wise, Empowered, and Committed Choice 110 Notes 112 CHAPTER SIX: BE RESOURCEFUL What Are the Resources Available? How Am I Going to Achieve My Dream? 113 Recognizing Resources 114 How to Find the Resources that Will Work for You 132 Personal Success Log 6: Your Resources 132 Notes 134 CONTENTS ix CHAPTER SEVEN: DEVELOP A WINNER'S ATTITUDE What Will Get You There, What Will Hold You Back? 135 What a Winner's Attitude Is Made Of 136 What You Can't Take with You (Negativity) 149 ASpecial Note on Fear 161 How Winners Deal with Negative Attitudes 162 How to Develop Your Winning Attitude 163 Personal Success Log 7: Your Attitude 163 Notes 164 CHAPTER EIGHT: BE FLEXIBLE, BE WILLING TO CHANGE Where Am I Relative to Where I Want to Be? What Adjustments Do I Need to Make? 167 Periodically Evaluate Where You Are Relative to Your Dream 168 Actively Seek and Welcome Feedback 171 Be Willing to Change 174 Run Systems Checks on Your Beliefs and Attitudes 177 Be Willing to Dream New Dreams 185 How to Use Flexibility to Continually Create and Re-Create Your Success 187 Personal Success Log 8: Your Flexibility 187 Notes 188 CHAPTER NINE: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Once a Winner, Always a Winner? 189 Learning to Trust Success 191 Staying Open to New Possibilities 193 Using Winner's Resources 194 Not Everybody Succeeds: Who Doesn't Make It? 195 No Longer a Bugaboo: Age Becomes Valuable and Profitable 196 All You Need Is Enough 197 Creating Your Success Knowingly 198 Conclusion 199 RECOMMENDED READING 201 INDEX 203
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