The Success Principles Workbook

An Action Plan for Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Jack Canfield, Dr Brandon Hall, Janet Switzer

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780008401207
• eBook ISBN:
  9780008401214
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Success

The essential companion to the million-copy bestseller The Success Principles, providing readers a practical, step-by-step workbook to transform their lives.

The Success Principles, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Canfield?co-creator of the blockbuster Chicken Soup for the Soulseries?has inspired more than one million readers to achieve their dreams and fulfill their purpose. But knowledge is nothing without action. Now, with The Success Principles Workbook, Canfield challenges his readers?longtime fans, as well as new ones?to put the principles into action, to get the very most out of his central lessons.

The Success Principles Workbook focuses on the original book's core 17 principles – from 'Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life' to 'Surround Yourself with Successful People' – and provides step-by-step instructions, incorporating self-discovery exercises, 'Make-It-a-Habit' worksheets and journalling, to keep readers on a path to success.

Whether you want to fulfil your professional and personal goals, boost your confidence, solve everyday obstacles or work to achieve your deepest purpose, this indispensable book will provide the clarity you've been seeking to give you the future you've always wanted.

Part One

The Fundamentals of Success

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

JIM ROHN

Motivational Philosopher

Chapter

1

Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life

The moment I take responsibility for everything in my life is the moment I gain power to change anything in my life.

Affirmation Based on a Quote by

HAL ELROD

In ancient days, architects and builders had few measuring tools. As a result, the most important step when building a structure was the placement of the very first block of stone. All the remaining stones were placed based on this first stone: the cornerstone.

The cornerstone of all the success principles is this one: Take 100% responsibility for your life. Everything else rests upon fully understanding and applying this principle. If you are really finally ready to begin to do what it takes to go achieve your next level of success, happiness, and the fulfillment you desire, then I want you to fully commit yourself to the study and application of this principle.^*

If there were an easier way to have the life of your dreams, believe me, I would tell you. Really. I learned this first principle myself more than 30 years ago, and it has made all the difference in the success that I and the hundreds of thousands of my students have achieved.

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

To take 100% responsibility for your life and your results means that you accept the fact that you are the one in charge of all the results you produce. When you fully realize that you—not your circumstances and not other people—are responsible for your success or lack of success, your life will dramatically shift. When you realize that it is your actions or lack of action, your thoughts and beliefs, and the pictures that you create in your mind, then you will have taken the most important step you can take toward a life of freedom, abundance, and fulfillment. When you realize you always have a choice in every moment about what you think and how you act, you will have reclaimed your power—the power to create the life you truly want.

There is an important formula that captures the simple essence of this truth.

E + R = O

EVENT + RESPONSE = OUTCOME

The essence of this formula is that everything you are currently experiencing (your current Outcomes) are the result of how you Responded to earlier Events in your life. And if you don’t like your current outcomes (your health, your weight, your income, your total savings, the quality of your possessions, the quality of your relationships, your level of happiness, your golf score, your job, your sales numbers, where you live . . . everything you currently have and are experiencing), then you have to change the way you are responding to the events that show up in your life!

Let me give you an example.

Let’s say you are given a $4,000 bonus at the end of the year. That’s an event. One response, after taxes are taken out, is to invest the remaining $3,200. The outcome of that is that one year later you have an additional net worth of $3,394. If your response is to spend your bonus, you have no additional net worth. Same event . . . two different outcomes.

Here’s another example. Someone offers you a large piece of chocolate cake at the office party. One response is to eat it. The outcome from that would be to put on more weight. The other response would be to politely refuse it, saying you are cutting back on your sugar intake, and the outcome from that is you maintain your body weight.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

LOU HOLTZ

Legendary College Football Coach and ESPN Analyst

There are only three responses (R’s) that you have any control over—your thoughts, the visual images that you create in your mind, and your behavior, which includes what you say (or don’t say) and your actions (what you do or what you don’t do). That is all you have control over.

You might be asking, “What about feelings? Aren’t they a response?” Actually 99% of feelings are an outcome of how you think about something. If you reject me, in order for me to feel sad or angry, I have to first think a thought like, No matter what I do, nobody ever accepts and includes me; I am going to be alone forever.

One of the greatest differences between successful people and those who would merely like to be is how they respond to the events and opportunities in their lives. Here is another example of the same event, with different responses producing different outcomes.

Event	+ Your Response	= Outcome
Your spouse forgets your birthday.	You tell yourself, “S/he forgot my birthday. That means s/he doesn’...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: Best Practices for Using Your Workbook
• I. The Fundamentals of Success
• II. Transform Yourself for Success
• III. Build Your Success Team
• IV. Create Successful Relationships
• V. Success and Money
• Your Life Success Journal
• Suggested Reading and Additional Resources for Success
• About the Authors
• Praise for The Success Principles™ Workbook
• More Inspiring Titles From Jack Canfield
• About the Publisher