Programming Your Life For
Success
Following The 5+5=5 Plan
Success Strategies
By John Di Lemme
Reprinted from Moving
Forward Magazine * July/August 2006 issue
www.movingforwardmag.com
Special thanks to Babatunde for his support in reprinting this article
Anyone with rudimentary math
skills knows that five + five does not equal five, so please let me
explain. Starting with the question,
“How many times has one heard that you should have a long-term goal and be
focused for the entire length of that long term? Focusing on a typical five-year plan in the
equation, the answer five is a five-year goal and the 5+5 is the underlying
principle to attaining that goal. The
application of this principle will prove essential in achieving your five-year
plan in life.
Speaking with numerous people on a daily basis, I hear their frustration about the goals they have set and the lack of progress they have made. It is said, “A mountain is built one pebble at a time and climbed on step at a time.”
but we need to be conscious of our associations
and what we are reading, listening to, and feeding our minds on a daily basis." -John Di Lemme
The first “5” in the
equation represents the five people that you call your closest friends and
associates. I suggest that you make a
list of those five people. Then take a
good look at them to see if they either have goals similar to yours or are
progressing towards the achievement of a goal similar to your five-year
vision. A major key to unlocking the
secrets to your future is to be 110% of the fact that you will ultimately
become who you associate with in life.
For example, if you have
dreams of becoming healthy, wealth and your associates are overweight smokers
that complain about working even one-minute of overtime, I can predict the odds
of you being healthy and wealth are slim to none. Millions of people never attain their dreams
because their “friends” serve as “cement shoes” as they walk towards their
goals in life. As you set your goals, surround yourself with
people who are the same path in life that you are on. If you truly internalize this mind-set, you
can and will achieve success.
The second “5” in the
equation is to take a personal inventory of the last five books you have
read. Just for fun to illustrate this
point, the next time one of your friends complains about something, ask them
what were the last five books they have read.
You will get one of two answers:
“I don’t remember” or “I don’t have the time to read.” The last five books that you have read will
determine where your focus and direction is in life. The average person reads one book a year
after high school, which is the #1 reason why 95% of people are “dead broke at
age 65.”
Even the greatest computer
in the world needs to be programmed in order to perform its functions. We are all designed for greatness, but we
need to be conscious of our associations and what we are reading, listening to
and feeding our minds on a daily basis.
This will decide the level of greatness that we all can reach.
Decide today to focus on
your five-year goal and realize that your five friends and the five books/CDs
that you listen to will determine if you hit your “Why,” ultimate goal or
not. Success is simple but not easy,
because it takes the ability to grow, search and learn to enjoy every day as
you progress towards your 5-year goal.
5+5=5, try it. You can actually
predict your results…5+5 = Your 5-Year Dream.
Go for it!
John Di Lemme, a Scorpio, is a world renowned motivational speaker, author, strategic business coach and mentor to the millionaires. You can find out more about him at www.findyourwhy.com
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