The Five Secrets Of Success According to John Izzo

In life, these are the five secrets you must discover before you die according to Dr. John Izzo:

TO BE TRUE TO YOURSELF

TO LEAVE NO REGRETS

TO BECOME LOVE

TO LIVE THE MOMENT

TO GIVE MORE THAN YOU TAKE

The Tenth Scroll: Guide me, God

Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?

Are not our cries a form of prayer? Henceforth, I will pray, but my cries for help will only be cries for guidance.

Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. Never will I seek delivery of gold, love, good health, petty victories, fame, success or happiness. Only for guidance will I pray that I may be shown the way to acquire these things, and my prayer will be answered.

The guidance I seek may come, or the guidance I seek may not come, but are not both of these an answer?

I will pray for guidance, and I will pray as a salesman in this manner:

Oh, Creator of the world, help me. For this is the day I go out into the world, naked and alone. And without your hand to guide me, I will wander far from the path which leads to success and happiness.

You have taught the lion and eagle how to hunt and prosper. Teach me how to hunt with words and prosper with love so that I can be a lion among men and an eagle in the marketplace.

Help me to remain humble through obstacles and failures, yet hide not from mine eyes the prize that will come with victory.

Assign me tasks to which others have failed, yet guide me to pluck the seeds of success from their failures. Confront me with fears that will temper my spirit, yet endow me with courage to laugh at my misgivings.

Guide me in my words, that they may bear fruit, yet silence me from gossip that none be maligned.

Discipline me in the habit of trying and trying sgain yet show me the way to make use of the law of averages. Favor me with alertness to recognize opportunity yet endow me with patience to concentrate my strength.

Bathe me in good habits that the bad ones drown.

Yet grant me compassion for weaknesses in others. Suffer me to know that all things shall pass; yet help me to count my blessings of today.

Expose me to hate, so it not be a stranger, yet fill my cup with love to turn strangers into friends.

But these entire things be only if Thy will. I am a small and a lonely grape clutching the vine , yet Thou hast made me different from all the others. Verily, there must be a special place for me. Guide me. Help me. Show me the way.

Let me become all you planned for me.

Help this humble salesman.

Guide me, God.

The Ninth Scroll: I Will Act Now

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, and my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless followed by action.

I will act now.

My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear. Now I know that to conquer fear, I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish.

I will act now.

I will not avoid the tasks of today and charge them to tomorrow for I know that tomorrow never comes. Let me act now for it is better to act and fail than not to act and flounder.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

Henceforth,I will repeat these words again, and again, and again, each hour, each day, every day, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing and the actions which follow become instinctive. With these words, I can condition my mind to perform every act necessary for my success. With these words, I can condition my mind to meet every challenge which the failure avoids.

I will act now.

When I awake, I will say them and leap from my cot while the failure sleeps yet another hour.

I will act now.

When I enter the marketplace, I will say them and immediately confront my first prospect, while the failure ponders on his possibility of rebuff.

I will act now.

When I faced a closed door, I will say them, and knock while the failure waits outside, trembling with fear.

I will act now.

When I am tempted to quit and begin again tomorrow, I will say them, and immediately act to connsummate another sale.

Only action determines my value in the marketplace and to multiply my value, I will multiply my actions. I will walk where the failure fears to walk and work when the failure rests. I will call on ten who can buy my goods while the failure makes plans to call on one.

I will act now.

For now is all I have.

I hunger for success. I thirst for happiness and peace of mind. Lest I act, I will perish in a life of failure, misery and sleepless nights.

Success will not wait. If I delay, she will become bethrothed to another and lost to me forever.

This is the time. This is the place. I am the man.

I will act now.