7 Rules of Achievement

From Vision to Action . . . The Complete Guide To Programming Your Internal Success Mechanism

Tom Terwilliger

• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781600377372
• eBook ISBN:
  9781600379116
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Success

"Terwilliger's latest personal growth and development system . . . will help you program for success the most important piece of equipment you own—your brain!" ( Flex Magazine).
 
"Tell me your goal and I will tell you WHY you are likely NOT to achieve it! The way in which you have pursued goals in the past has very likely created the exact opposite blueprint of the one needed to achieve what you want. Those negative blueprints may be exactly what are keeping you from living your dreams." With these words, motivational speaker and author Tom Terwilliger lays out his success philosophy and challenges you to fulfill your long-held desires.9
 
7 Rules of Achievement is a life-changing book that will help you finally create the new and empowering architecture needed to achieve whatever you want—including abundant wealth, a joyful and fulfilling relationship, a sexy, strong and healthy body, and the ability to lead and inspire. Even before completing the seven rules, you will immediately begin to feel unstuck and compelled to start moving towards even your most ambitious dreams.
 
"Terwilliger's love for people and his desire to help them succeed is evident throughout the book along with the rules needed to do it." —T. Harv Eker, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

CHAPTER Five
What Resources Do I Have?
What Resources Do I Need?

In one of my favorite movies, The World’s Fastest Indian, the real-life character of New Zealander, Burt Munro, played by Anthony Hopkins, passionately pursues what may very well be his last chance to achieve his lifelong dream of traveling to the United States and running his almost 50-year-old Indian motorcycle on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. If you haven’t seen the movie, Burt Munro is a loveable, authentic, and somewhat eccentric 70-year-old man who lives in a 30-foot-square cinderblock shack, the majority of which is devoted to his bike repair shop.

His passion is a 1920 Indian motorcycle which he has spent the better part of his life turning into a high-speed machine. After discovering that he has heart disease, he becomes determined to achieve his lifelong dream of setting a world land-speed record in his bike’s class. The only place he can do that is halfway across the globe at the Utah salt flats.

There is an emotional scene in the movie when, after overcoming massive odds and obstacles to get to Utah, he is told in a condescending way by the event officials that neither he nor his bike are qualified to run in the event and he might as well turn around and go home. Your heart immediately goes out to the old man as the wind is taken right out of his sails. Although visibly frustrated, disappointed, and even angry, Burt was not even close to being ready to give up on his dream. Burt was a fighter who believed in his goal but he was also a master at recognizing and utilizing resources where others would have said there are none. With that skill, he immediately turned to a friend he had made earlier that day and wasn’t shy about asking for help. As fate would have, it his new friend had some pull and was able to persuade the officials to give Burt and his Indian an unofficial test run. That test run led to an official timed run and, ultimately, to the setting of a world record. Because he was able to recognize and marshal the resources needed to succeed, Burt was able to attract dozens of new friends who were willing to go out on a limb for him, built the world’s fastest Indian, and achieved his lifelong dream.

Do you know how to recognize what you have and what you will need to succeed?

The Jack Of All Trades

Imagine for a moment that you’re a jack of all trades, a builder who does it all. You’re a master carpenter, brick layer, mason, and electrician, and you have been given the task of completing construction of a new school house for the local community.

Good gig, right?

The job had already been started by the community members themselves who, after driving a few nails and laying some bricks, found it to be a little more than they could handle. And you’ve been assigned the task of completing it. The rewards are many — from financial, to recognition in the community, to the ability to send your children (all seven of them) to the school for free.

After signing the work agreement and contract, and then jumping up and down celebrating your victory, what’s the first thing you need to do to get started? Do you just show up the next morning and start hammering away? No … of course not!

Do you think it might be a good idea to first assess where that job was left off? How much work did the community members get done? What did they screw up that needs to be redone? In other words, where exactly is the job now in reference to the completed project and what needs to be done?

You might also want to know what resources are at your disposal:

How many bricks are remaining?

How much lumber, and what type, is available?

How many nails, and what type, are available?

How many bags of cement are still unused?

What types of tools are at your disposal?

What if you have never built a school house before? What might you need? How about a blueprint, plan, or manual? How else would you be able to finish the job or achieve the community’s desired outcome?

Now imagine you have done all that. You have taken an inventory of all the resources now at your disposal, and you have a sound plan for achieving your objective of finishing the school house. You are now ready to begin construction, right? NO! All you have done so far is gathered enough information to get the project started, if that. You’re not likely to make much progress without first estimating the additional resources you will need to complete the task. I say “estimating” because it is unlikely that you will be able to anticipate every possible obstacle or challenge you will face along the way and therefore ALL the resources you will need. What you must do is gather or gain access to the resources you know for sure you will need.

What do you think would happen along the way to completing this community school house if you did not at least attempt to identify and have at your disposal the necessary resources?

Have you ever driven by a new home construction site that looked like it was coming along nicely, only to notice a few months later that construction had come to a screeching halt? If so, you may have witnessed firsthand what happens when a builder fails to anticipate the resources needed to finish the job.

Is it possible that to finish the school house you will need to have access to additional resources above and beyond what you now have?

How many more nails will you need?

How much more lumber will you need?

How much more cement and how many more bricks will you need?

Do you have the necessary tools? If not what tools will you need?

Like that partially built school house, you already have many of the building blocks in place to start moving toward your desired outcome. It is likely, however, that more resources will be required to fully finish the job.

Identifying in advance the skills, resources, and beliefs you will need to achieve your desired outcome will massively improve the speed at which you move toward your goal and likelihood that you will reach it.

You’re Either Growing Or You Are …

This valuable information will serve not only as a geographical guide, but also as a learning and resource development guide. Every single goal or outcome you set for yourself should require you to learn something new, to develop new skills, or to take an old skill to a new level. There is a universal law that applies to the learning of new things in the pursuit of achievement: “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.” It’s true for every single living organism on the planet. If a flower isn’t growing or blooming, it’s on its way out. It’s the same with us.

If we’re not learning, developing, and growing, we’re dying. How many people do you know who never learn anything new, never take on new challenges, and never grow, who are also great goal achievers? None! It doesn’t happen. In general, people who are not always growing are not very happy either.

People who are consistent, ambitious, goal achievers are always taking on new challenges, learning new things, and always, always, always finding new ways of growing or expanding themselves. And they are generally very passionate about their lives and goals.

By constantly setting new and more ambitious objectives and goals, they force themselves to become the person they need to be to achieve those goals. By taking full responsibility for their life and their results, they put themselves on the path of personal growth and development that knows no bounds.

Once you have developed the new skills, acquired the knowledge, and reshaped the beliefs needed to achieve your objective, you will have laid the foundation and ground work to building a magnificent new school house with the ability to continue to learn and grow without bounds. You will have become an unstoppable goals achievement machine.

Finding the resources and developing the skills needed to achieve your desired outcome is only a matter of determining what they are and then getting to work on them.

Let’s take for example, a young man whose goal was to become “the top fitness trainer in New York.” He started out by setting an appointment to meet with the owner and athletic director for one of the top clubs in town. After persuading the club owner to spend the time, they sat down together and talked about a trainer position at the facility. After looking over the young man’s resume’ and discovering that he had no formal training, experience, or education in the fitness industry the club owner could have said, “Are you kidding me? Get out of here, kid, you’re wasting my time.” But instead of dashing the young man’s dream, he said, ”Based on your current level of inexperience, I can’t hire you right now,” and then took the time to suggest the following:

1. Start by getting into the gym for some first-hand experience with the equipment and environment. Really get into the training for your own personal experience and conditioning. In a short time, you will be better equipped to relate that experience to your clients and prospects.
2. Seek out one of the top 10 personal trainer certifications, purchase the materials and begin formally educating yourself in the areas of anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, and whatever else passing the certification will require. Study, study, study!
3. Set a specific date for your certification exam. Continue to study and pass it.
4. Hire a really good trainer for a short while and develop a mentoring relationship with that person. Ask a ton of quest...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• What Other People Are Saying
• Foreword
• Contents
• Introduction: Break the Rules and Pay the Price
• Who’s At The Helm?
• You Want … WHAT?
• Why Would You Do Such A Thing?
• Where Am I?
• What Resources Do I Have? What Resources Do I Need?
• The Yardstick and the Terrain
• Predicting The Future—The Big IR.
• The Bridge To Achievement
• Conclusion Believe, Then Achieve!
• About The Author
• Bibliography
• Resources