Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield has achieved what most of us would consider an unfathomable level of success. For starters, he is the co-creator of the New York Times #1 best-selling book series, Chicken Soup for the Soul®, which has more than 100 titles in print and over 100 million copies sold in 41 languages. He also has appeared on every major talk show in America, delivered training seminars to countless audiences around the world, and produced a highly popular syndicated newspaper column.

His latest book, co-authored with Janet Switzer, is titled, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. It outlines 64 principles the world's top achievers use to succeed in their careers, finances, relationships, businesses, and leisure pursuits. He asserts, “The fundamentals are the same for all people and all professions — even if you’re currently unemployed.”

Jack recently shared with Home Business® Magazine valuable insight on achieving success in both your life and home-based business.

Your first Success Principle is to “Take 100% responsibility for your life.” How does this principle apply to home-based entrepreneurs?
Jack Canfield (JC): I think it applies in several ways. The first is that entrepreneurs have to give up any kind of blaming, complaining, whining, or excuse-making and realize that being an entrepreneur — especially, a stay-at-home entrepreneur — puts the total responsibility for success on your shoulders, and that while blaming is an activity that feels good, it doesn’t produce any useful results.

In my book I write about the formula E+R=O, which stands for external Events, plus your Responses to them, equal the Outcomes that you get. If you don’t like the profits you make, the number of clients you have, or the number of sales you make, you have to give up blaming the economy, your competition, government regulations, or anything “out there.”

If you want a different outcome, you have to change your behavior, your communication, your work habits, your thinking, and your marketing, and so on. The problem is never out there. It is how you respond to what is going on out there.

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