9 Top Success Principles

The Success Principles offers practical and detailed principles to help anyone lead a more successful and fulfilling life. Author Jack Canfield draws upon stories and anecdotes from people who have achieved ambitious goals and experienced what it’s like to be highly successful.


1-Enough complaining, no more excuses: You are responsible for the course of your life.
Are you ready to ditch your unfulfilling daily routine and start living your dream life? Then let’s get started!
The first thing you need to understand on your journey to personal and professional success is that you are the director of your own life.

2-Finding your purpose in life will help you better define what success means to you.
What if you’re not sure what personal success would look like for you? Relax – you’re not alone.
Slow down and take some time to contemplate. One of the first steps toward personal success is to examine your reason for being: why are you here on earth? The life purpose exercise can help you discover this.

3-When you visualize your dream, you should be able to see it, smell it and feel it, as if it was real.
How do you push beyond your comfort zone toward achieving your vision? Two practices – affirmation and visualization – can help you.
Affirmation starts when you state your goal as if it has already been realized, in a complete sentence. The most effective affirmations are in the first person, are positive and to the point.

4-To succeed, be persistent, never give in to “no” and don’t forget to practice, practice, practice.
Now that you’re well on your way to achieving ultimate success, you’ll need to prepare yourself for potential obstacles and, if you depend on others, possible rejection.
Rejection is just a speedbump on the road to success. If someone says “no,” just keep trying until someone says “yes,” while keeping in mind your next step.

5-Clear your slate of unfinished business or projects: do it, delegate it, delay it or dump it.
Now that we’ve explored the fundamentals of success, let’s focus on some work you need to finish before you can really achieve your dreams.
First, you need to address unfinished business. Do you have any projects you’ve abandoned or left half-done? Do you need to clean your closet,or finish last year’s taxes? These small things can take valuable energy from achieving your larger goals.

6-We are our worst enemies when it comes to believing in ourselves. Think positively!
Once you’ve taken care of unfinished business, you’ll hopefully feel like you’re already making significant progress toward your goals. Now, let’s make sure that your thoughts are in order, too.
Face it: you’re often your own biggest enemy. Most of us harbor negative thoughts about ourselves, so-called limiting beliefs, where we fixate on the things we think we can’t do. This mentality can be very damaging, as this one example shows.

7-Building a support team chock-full of successful people can help you reach your goals.
Having personal resolve is crucial on your path to success, but you can’t walk that path on your own. Highly successful people always have others to inspire or mentor them along the way.
One thing you can to do is to create a support group. You can do this by gathering a so-called mastermind group, a supportive circle of people with whom you can share ideas and challenges.

8-Support others, and they will support you in return. Create meaningful, honest relationships!
To get the most benefit out of your support network, you must first lay a solid foundation of honesty and appreciation to build meaningful relationships.
Telling the truth can be scary. But we must tell the truth if we are to create and foster our connections with others.

9-Being a “wealthy” person means so much more than just having a lot of cash in the bank.
If so, you need to redefine what wealth means to you. Most of us think that wealth is only about money, our assets or possessions. However, it’s much more than that: wealth also contains intellectual, human and civic facets.