My Nine Success Secrets

by Jerry Montero

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Summary: This distilled wisdom presents nine universal principles applying across all life domains, not merely business or professional contexts. Beginning with love as foundational quality for activities and relationships, the framework advocates living each day as if it were your last, embracing present-moment existence where past proves unimportant and future remains unknown while personal mastery shapes destiny. Honesty and complete responsibility for thoughts, words, and actions precede bold, reachable goal-setting requiring immediate action rather than procrastination. Differentiation from crowd behavior avoids mediocrity while standing independently prevents external pressures swaying foundational convictions. Persistence combined with simplicity marks true genius, requiring enjoyment of process rather than destination fixation. Continuous learning through reading, training, and skill development extends throughout life. Physical and mental health through exercise, nature enjoyment, nutritious eating, and avoiding recreational drugs preserves essential vitality. Finally, refusing self-seriousness while maintaining humor keeps minds young, creative, and laughing toward achievement, recognizing that genuine success encompasses balanced living beyond mere financial accumulation.

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These nine success secrets apply to anything you do in life, not just to doing business offline or online.

First: LOVE is the foundation of everything--love for whatever you do and for others. "To be a genius means to do what you love doing." --Johann Sebastian Bach

Second: Living and dying from moment to moment is the key to happiness: live each day as if it were your last. Your past is unimportant, your future no one knows; you are the master of your destiny.

Third: Be honest and take responsibility for everything you think, say, and do.

Fourth: Focus on your goal, which has to be bold but reachable, and take action. The time for action is today, not tomorrow.

Fifth: Be different. Doing what everybody is doing leads to mediocrity. If you can stand alone, then no fad, no arm-twisting, no peer pressure will sway the foundation of your being.

Sixth: Never give up: be convinced you will succeed and you will. But keep it simple--simplicity is the mark of a true genius. And smell the flowers: life is not a race and the journey is as important as the destination.

Seventh: Never stop learning. Read, get training, develop skills until you're ready to kick the bucket. Look, listen, learn, laugh, live, love.

Eighth: Without good physical and mental health you can do little in life. Exercise. Enjoy nature. Eat to live. Keep away from junk food and recreational drugs: coffee, tobacco, alcohol, cocaine, meth, etc. These drugs are sapping people worldwide of their energy and are killing them daily.

Ninth: Don't take yourself too seriously. Learn to laugh at yourself; if you do you will be laughing all the way to the bank in no time. Sense of humor is the elixir that will keep your mind young and creative. ;)