Creating Success from the Inside Out: Develop The Focus and Strategy To Uncover the Life You Want

A Disclaimer

Before we get into this any more, I want to be really clear about one point: I'm not here to give you a "How-To" guide to riches and fame. Anybody who tries to offer you his or her step-by-step "E-Z Guide" to achieving wealth is usually selling something of little value. In fact, the value is almost the inverse of the cost of the information: in other words, the more expensive the course, the less real-world value it often has.

On the other hand, there are loads of real information resources available, most of them inexpensive or even free. Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, Conrad Hilton's Be My Guest, Michael Gerber's The E-Myth, former GM head Alfred Sloan's book, My Years with General Motors, Kenneth Blanchard's The One Minute Manager, Collins and Porras Good to Great, and Dan Peña's Building Your Own Guthrie are just a few examples. If I were teaching a college course on success, I'd make them all required reading. One more I rely on constantly is the Bible. In it I've found the true keys to success, which are all based on giving. It has never failed to give me the guidance I've needed, even through some of the roughest, bleakest times I've faced.

I've found the Bible to be an incredible "user's manual" in my life. For example, in "I Samuel," this kid David had to take lunch to his brothers. He was around 14 or so, and had acne. (Yeah, I know, you never knew the Bible talked about stuff like that!) His brothers were soldiers, and they happened to be in a standoff ...