Thank You for My Success

There is not one single successful person in the world that would say that they have never faced any challenges. So congratulations, you’re in good company!!! Many people think in order to be successful, you have to have all the lucky breaks – wrong! Your unlucky breaks can be the very catalyst to success.

Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, none of them grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth. Yet they are enormously successful. So thank your hard times and struggles.

Thank all the bullies from schoolmates to family, for putting you down and telling you that you can’t succeed. Know that was the real encouragement you needed in life to become stronger. They helped with discipline and determination.

Congratulate yourself for all the times you went against the grain. Although it may have caused punishment or caused you to be ostracized, you listened to your inner voice. You showed conviction in what you believed.

Send a real thank you letter to all the companies who would not hire you because you were over qualified or didn’t have enough experience to fill the position. You didn’t need the job anyway! It wasn’t the right opportunity to allow you to successfully display your skills and talents so that you could thrive in the position.

Appreciate the financial hardship, the bankruptcy, the utilities being turned off, loss of job, the divorce, and your house going into foreclosure all at the same time. And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse…it didn’t. It didn’t get worse because you decided it was time to change. It was time to make a difference in your life.

All these so-called unlucky breaks in life are the very things we need to be successful. Life is the school we can’t drop out of, get an incomplete or withdraw, well until we die at least. Life provides us with all the learning tools we need to succeed.

Without challenges, hardship and pain, we might become too complacent and never advance. We might become comfortable with the same ole, same ole and never put our best foot forward. So send a thank you letter to every perceived negative event and thank it for your success.